CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Banovic, Antonia |
|---|---|
| Title | INFECTED FROM OUTSIDE OR ROTTING FROM WITHIN? METAPHORS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CORRUPTED BODY POLITIC IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS |
| Summary | Over the past two decades corruption has become a new star of public concern. Politicians, policy makers, bureaucrats, governments, international organizations, CEOs, all have emphasized the need to be more transparent and open in the fight against the 'cancer' of corruption. While these anti-corruption crusaders flatter themselves with the concise operational concept and precision of technocratic measures, they nevertheless use highly problematic language to talk about corruption, that reveals yet another face of this multifarious phenomenon. Metaphors, and more precisely — performativity of medicinal metaphors in the discourse of corruption, will present departing point of this paper in which I will analyze interplay of body natural and body politic in today's discourse of corruption. The first part will introduce theory of metaphor and review its applications in the field of international relations. After identifying lacunae in existing analysis, I will then propose theoretical upgrade with the concept of performativity. The second chapter will focus on short genealogy of the notion of body politic and its materialization through the performativity of metaphors of the diseased body politic. Final chapter will attempt to analyze the contemporary discourse of corruption through the reading of today's medical paradigms and the work of metaphors in the contemporary political order. |
| Supervisor | Astrov, Alexander |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/banovic_antonia.pdf |
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