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PERFECTION AND WORKING WOMEN FOUCAULDIAN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF A PAKISTANI MORNING SHOW

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2020(V-I).16      10.31703/gpr.2020(V-I).16      Published : Mar 2020

Perfection and Working Women: Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of a Pakistani Morning Show

Abstract

    This paper explores how the individuals (women) constitute their own subjectivity through neo-liberal discourses in Pakistan. This paper examines the media discourses on perfection in Pakistan based on the claim that such discourses may function to spread neoliberal thinking in society. Foucault notion of neo-liberal governmentality provides a theoretical basis for this work. This is an empirical study aimed at investigating discourse featuring in the Pakistani Morning show (Good Morning Show with Nida Yasir).This paper discusses the morning show in a way to reveal how technologies of neoliberal globalization produce and reproduce discourses in subjectivity.

    Neo-liberal Globalization (NLG), Discourse Analysis, Subjectivity

    (1) Samina Noor
    PhD Scholar, Department of Political Science, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Razia Musarrat
    Professor, Department of Political Science, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Muhammad Ilyas Ansari
    Assistant Professor, Department of Politics & IR, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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    APA : Noor, S., Musarrat, R., & Ansari, M. I. (2020). Perfection and Working Women: Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of a Pakistani Morning Show. Global Political Review, V(I), 135-144. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2020(V-I).16

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    CHICAGO : Noor, Samina, Razia Musarrat, and Muhammad Ilyas Ansari. 2020. "Perfection and Working Women: Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of a Pakistani Morning Show." Global Political Review, V (I): 135-144 doi: 10.31703/gpr.2020(V-I).16

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    HARVARD : NOOR, S., MUSARRAT, R. & ANSARI, M. I. 2020. Perfection and Working Women: Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of a Pakistani Morning Show. Global Political Review, V, 135-144.

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    MHRA : Noor, Samina, Razia Musarrat, and Muhammad Ilyas Ansari. 2020. "Perfection and Working Women: Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of a Pakistani Morning Show." Global Political Review, V: 135-144

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    OXFORD : Noor, Samina, Musarrat, Razia, and Ansari, Muhammad Ilyas (2020), "Perfection and Working Women: Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of a Pakistani Morning Show", Global Political Review, V (I), 135-144

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    TURABIAN : Noor, Samina, Razia Musarrat, and Muhammad Ilyas Ansari. "Perfection and Working Women: Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of a Pakistani Morning Show." Global Political Review V, no. I (2020): 135-144. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2020(V-I).16