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Professor Stuart Price

Job: Professor of Media and Political Discourse

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and Media

School/department: Leicester Media School

Research group(s): Media Discourse Centre

Address: ºÚÁÏÍø, The Gateway, Leicester, UK, LE1 9BH

T: +44 (0)116 207 8683

E: sprice@dmu.ac.uk

W: /mediadiscourse

 

Personal profile

Stuart Price is Professor of Media and Political Discourse and Director of the Media Discourse Centre. He is co-editor of Media, Power and the Covid-19 Pandemic (2022), editor of Journalism, Power and Investigation (2019), co-editor of the book series ‘’ and the author of a number of monographs, book chapters and articles on Media, Communication and Politics. Stuart has taught in schools, FE, and the HE sector.

Recent work includes: an analysis of managerialism in universities, entitled ‘UK Universities during Covid-19: catastrophic management, ‘business continuity’, and education workers’ (in Media, Power and the Covid-19 Pandemic, 2022); a study of Spain’s Feminist General Strike, called ‘8M and the Huelga General Feminista, 2019-2020: feminist engagement with state, capital and Spain’s ‘clase política’ ’ (Routledge Companion to Political Journalism, 2021), and another chapter on Spain entitled ‘Resistance and Revolution: working-class intransigence, the libertarian tradition, and the Catalan crisis’ in Working-Class Resistance (Fishwick and Connolly, 2019).

He is the editor, with Dr Ruth Sanz Sabido (Canterbury Christ Church) of two collections: Contemporary Protest and the Legacy of Dissent (2015) and Sites of Protest (2016), and (again with Sanz Sabido) of two Special Journal Issues on, respectively, Discourse and Protest, and the Spanish Civil War. He contributed to Sanz Sabido’s documentary on memories of the Spanish Civil War, entitled Herencias 36.

Besides the analysis of the strategic uses of security and ‘resilience’ discourse, which began with the publication in 2011 of Worst-Case Scenario?, Stuart’s research interests include investigative journalism, conceptions of state and corporate power, masculinity and film, news discourses, the mediation of the UNSDGs, and political protest and unrest (most recently the Capitol ‘invasion’ of 2021, and the fall of Kabul later the same year).

Other published work includes Brute Reality, a study of the ‘war on terror’ (Pluto Press, 2010), and Discourse Power Address, a study of ideology and public rhetoric (Ashgate, 2007, and Routledge, 2017). Popular Media and Communication, a collection of papers edited with Professor Karen Ross of Northumbria University, appeared in 2008.

Stuart’s other publications include Communication Studies (1996, Longman), the A-Z Media and Communication Handbook (1997, Hodder and Stoughton) and the first comprehensive student textbook in the field, Media Studies (1993/98, Longman).

Stuart is a member of the , and the . He teaches Media Discourse (Events), Global Dissent, and contributes to the postgraduate Investigative Journalism MA.

Research group affiliations

Media Discourse Centre, the Meccsa Social Movements Network, and the Media and Communication and Cultural Studies Network.

Publications and outputs

Price, Stuart and Harbisher, Ben (2022) Media, Power and the Covid-19 Pandemic: framing public discourse (Routledge)

Price, Stuart (2022) ‘UK Universities during Covid-19: catastrophic management, ‘business continuity’, and education workers’ (in Media, Power and the Covid-19 Pandemic, 2022)

Price, Stuart (2021) ‘8M and the Huelga General Feminista, 2019-2020: feminist engagement with state, capital and Spain’s ‘clase política’ ’ (in Routledge Companion to Political Journalism, 2021)

Price, Stuart (2019) [editor] Journalism, Power, and Investigation: global and activist perspectives, Routledge.

Price, Stuart (2019) ‘State, Hierarchy and Executive Power: journalists under duress’, in Price, S [editor] Journalism, Power, and Investigation: global and activist perspectives, Routledge.

Price, Stuart (2017) ‘’, in Fishwick, A and Connolly, H [editors] Working-Class Resistance (2017), Rowman and Littlefield

Price, Stuart (2017) ‘’, in Television & New Media, Vol 19, Issue 2

Price, Stuart (2017) (Ashgate, 2007).

Price, Stuart (2017) ‘’, In: Sanz Sabido, Ruth [editor] Representing Communities, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 55-75

Sanz Sabido, Ruth and Price, Stuart (2017) ‘’, in Papaioannou, T, and Gupta, S [editors], Media Representations of Anti-Austerity Protests in the EU: Grievances, Identities and Agency, Routledge, pp. 143-162

Sanz Sabido, Ruth, and Price, Stuart (2016) ‘The Ladders Revolution: Material struggle, social media and news coverage’, Critical Discourse Studies, 13:3, 247-260

Price, Stuart (2016) ‘The ‘Borderless State’ ISIS, Hierarchy and Trans-spatial Politics’, In: Price, S and Sanz Sabido, R [editors] Sites of Protest London: Rowman and Littlefield

Price, Stuart (2015) ‘’, in Price, S and Sanz Sabido, R [editors] Contemporary Protest and the Legacy of Dissent London: Rowman and Littlefield

Price, Stuart (2015) ‘Calls to Order: ‘Anarchy’, Riots and State Repression’, in Price, S and Sanz Sabido, R [editors] Contemporary Protest and the Legacy of Dissent London: Rowman and Littlefield.

Price, Stuart (2011) , London: Zed Books

Price, Stuart (2011) ‘’, in: Ross, K. ed. The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media, John Wiley

Price, Stuart (2010) , London: Pluto Press

Price, Stuart (2008) ‘Displacing the gods? Agency and power in adaptations of ancient history and myth’, in Adaptation in Film and Performance, vol 1/2.

Price, Stuart (2008) ‘Missiles in Athens, tanks at Heathrow: urban security and the materialisation of ‘global’ threat’. Social Semiotics, 18 (1) pp. 1-16

Price, Stuart (2007) Alignment, utterance and agency: the Delphic Oracle and speech-act theory. In: Hendrickson, K.E. and Pappas, N.C.J eds. Interpreting the Past Athens: ATINER pp. 29-36.

Price, Stuart (2007) ‘State, agency and power in contemporary film and television’, in Pasadesos, Y. and Dimitrakopoulou, D. eds. Mass media research: International approaches. Athens: Atiner. pp. 173-182.

Key research outputs

Price, Stuart (2019) [editor] Journalism, Power, and Investigation: global and activist perspectives, Routledge.

Price, Stuart (2019) ‘State, Hierarchy and Executive Power: journalists under duress’, in Price, S [editor] Journalism, Power, and Investigation: global and activist perspectives, Routledge.

Price, Stuart (2017) ‘’, in Fishwick, A and Connolly, H [editors] Working-Class Resistance (2017), Rowman and Littlefield

Price, Stuart (2017) ‘’, in Television & New Media, Vol 19, Issue 2

Price, Stuart (2017) London and New York: Routledge (Ashgate, 2007).

Price, Stuart (2017) ‘’, In: Sanz Sabido, Ruth [editor] Representing Communities, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 55-75

Price, Stuart (2011) , London: Zed Books

Price, Stuart (2011) ‘’, in: Ross, K. ed. The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media, John Wiley

Price, Stuart (2010) , London: Pluto Press

Research interests/expertise

Critical Security Studies

Critical Discourse Analysis

Political Communication

Theories of the ‘Event’

Conceptualisations of Public Order

‘War on Terror’

Memory, War and Narrative

Areas of teaching

Media Discourse: Events

Global Dissent

MA Investigative Journalism

Qualifications

University of Exeter PhD in Discourse & Address in Mediated Texts (passed with no corrections)

University of London Institute of Education: MA in Film & Television Studies  

Avery Hill College, London: PGCE in English, Drama & Social Education    

Liverpool University: MA in Victorian Literature & Society

University College Swansea: BA (Hons) English Literature - 2/1

Courses taught

Media and Communication BA (Hons)

Media Discourse: Events

Global Dissent

MA Investigative Journalism

Honours and awards

Writing Fellowship, 2006, ºÚÁÏÍø

Faculty Research Leave, 2009, ºÚÁÏÍø

University Research Leave, 2012 and 2017

Membership of external committees

Member of Academic Board, 2007-2010

Membership of professional associations and societies

Chair of Media Discourse Group, ºÚÁÏÍø (2008 – present)

Member of the Meccsa Social Movements Network

Member of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (2000 – present)

Member of the Media Group, Political Studies Association (2004 – present)

Professional licences and certificates

PGCE in English, Drama and Social Education

Forthcoming events

The Mediation and Incorporation of Sustainability: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Social Movements [Harbisher and Price, forthcoming, Rowman and Littlefield International].

Policing, Protest and the Mediation of Dissent during the Covid-19 Pandemic [Harbisher and Price, forthcoming, 2022, Rowman and Littlefield International].

Conference attendance

2018

July, ‘Damage to Catalonia? State Power and Notions of Democracy, 1937 to 2017’, at Protest, Politics and Activism in the 21st Century’, Nottingham

March, ‘The Catalan Crisis’, in Legality/Illegality, ºÚÁÏÍø, Cultural Exchanges

2017

March Interview with Dorothy Byrne and Greg Palast: ‘Journalism and the Public Good’

February, Public Lecture: ‘One Solution: Revolution?’

2016

May, Paper: ‘Protest and Austerity in Spain’, CURA, ºÚÁÏÍø

March, Public lecture: ‘Corbyn, Cameron, HaHaHa’, ºÚÁÏÍø

January, Paper: ‘Corbyn, Cameron and the Media’: Meccsa, Canterbury

2015

January Paper – ‘The Legacy of Dissent: Class, Gender and Austerity’, Meccsa, Newcastle

2014

March ‘Memory and Ideology in the Spanish Civil War’, with Dr. Ruth Sanz Sabido, Professor David Deacon, and Mr. Lee Solomon

March ‘Anti-Fascism on Film’, Conference

2013

June   Paper - ‘Democracy and the Dictatorship of the Markets: public protest, iconic space and online mobilisation in the UK and Spain’, Protest and the Media, Westminster University

June            Paper - ‘Truth-Claims in A Story-World: gendered identity and

modes of address in UK ‘lifeworld’ commercials’ Console-ing Passions, ºÚÁÏÍø

June            Keynote Lecture - ‘Presenting Your Research to an Audience’,

Research Student Conference, ADH and Technology, De Montfort

May            Invited Keynote Lecture - ‘Worst-Case Scenario? Security

planning, ‘contingency’ and the state’, Coventry University

April           ‘Governance, the Scenario, and Public (In) Security’, Faculty

of Letters, University of Lisbon

April  ‘Spartans! What is Your Profession?’, Adaptations Conference, Sunderland University

March         Lecture series - ‘Public Protest in Europe’, San Pablo CEU,

Madrid

February     Professorial Lecture - ‘ENOUGH! Calling Time on Corporate Fantasies’, ºÚÁÏÍø Cultural Exchanges

February     Paper - ‘Sanctions, Attitudes and Modes of Address’, Dickens

Conference, Adaptation Studies, De Montfort

January       Open Lecture - International Event: De Montfort ADH

January       Paper - ‘These Fascists Came from Outside’: University of Ulster, Meccsa

2012

June ‘A Visit from Mr. Clegg’, Media Discourse Group, ºÚÁÏÍø

April ‘England’s Anarchic August Revisited’, Leicester Secular Society

March ‘The Realities of Power’, Public lecture, States of Independence

March Public lecture - ‘Danger: Hierarchy at Work’, De Montfort

January ‘Calls to Order’: Meccsa National Conference, Luton

2011

December Invited Paper - ‘The Pretext of Command’, Leicester Media Discourse Group, Leicester University

September ‘Gendered Identity and the death of bin Laden’, 10th Anniversary of Meccsa Women’s Network, De Montfort

July Paper - ‘Discursive vs. Visual Evidence’, British Sociological Association, Leicester

July Paper – ‘Command and Utterance’, Media and Communication  Research   Seminar, De Montfort

January Paper - ‘Events, Non-events, and the manipulation of contingency’, Meccsa, University of Salford

2010

October Paper - ‘9/11 as an Event’, Westminster University

May Paper - ‘Wisdom after the Event: the temporal/spatial location of Election 2010’, Media Discourse Group, ºÚÁÏÍø