Counterdiscursive

Quick meaning: Counterdiscursive is an adjective meaning (social sciences) Opposing or countering a discourse, or institutionalized way of thinking.

Meaning

(social sciences) Opposing or countering a discourse, or institutionalized way of thinking.

Example Sentences

Postcolonial analyses of cultural production study counterdiscursive practices in cultures affected by the imperial enterprise, such as the legacy of subjugation and resistance of the black populations of the Americas.

All of their texts, which were written during the 1980s and 1990s, share an oppositional and counterdiscursive impulse through which they express the possibility of a community different from that offered by the dominant culture.

Overcompensating for anti-fat rhetorics by emphasizing the relative health and beauty of fatness, is I guess, a rather inevitable step in fighting for the rights of oppressed groups by performing counterdiscursive fat perfection.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include antidiscursive, counterpublic, counternormative, antinormative, countercolonial, counterhegemonic.

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