The Morphology of the Labour Party's One Nation Narrative: Story,Plot and Authorship |
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| Authors: | JOHN GAFFNEY AMARJIT LAHEL |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Professor of Politics at Aston University, Co‐director of the Aston Centre for Europe;2. Research Fellow in Politics and International Relations at Aston University |
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| Abstract: | By applying narrative theory to the party political texts emerging within the UK Labour Party after 2010, which make up the corpus of One Nation discourse, we can grasp the underlying significance of this ideational revision of Labour Party and leftist thought. Through an identification and analysis of the sequence of texts and their constitution as a “story” that interpolates an underlying “plot,” we can see how a revision of Labour's “tale” offers to leadership a new party discourse appropriate to it, mediating—if not reconciling—the problematic duality of narrative authorship by both party and leader. |
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| Keywords: | Ed Miliband Labour Party One Nation Blue Labour narrative theory |
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