COMMENTARY ARTICLE Discourses, discursive processes, intertextuality, and identities

摘要

The focus on the shared processes of racialization presented by Van Sterkenburg and Knoppers is timely. Given the nature of power and the prevalence of sport, a focus on the shared and intersected processes of discursive action across levels and contexts offers a functional way to move beyond data that is otherwise situated and context-bound. Discourses rely on the subtle and not so subtle deployment of other intersected discourses that together function to construct and deploy (or put into action) an intricate and integrated pattern of meanings and narratives that, in turn, produce and reproduce knowledge and social categories (a cyclical process hereafter termed re/production). Similarly, these re/produce local and wider forms of power and privilege related to the identities embedded in the discursive formations enacted. But a focus on process requires a more thorough consideration of what is involved and that it is action and achievement-oriented; that is, process involves the invoking, deployment, and achievement of discourses as they are put into discursive action. Two elements overlooked by Van Sterkenburg and Knoppers are central to this process of discursive action and usefully account for the interconnectivity across the levels of analysis: identities and intertextuality.