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Thomas Jacobs
Professeur
My theoretical expertise is discourse analysis, hegemony, and in particular Discourse Theory. Empirically, I am focused on strategies and the strategic communication in politics, business, the public sphere, and society as a whole.
2023
Jacobs, Thomas. Capitalism, Institutions and Social Orders: The Case of Contemporary Spain. In: Science & Society, Vol. 87, no.3, p. 420-426 (2023).
2023
Jacobs, Thomas ; Gheyle, Niels ; De Ville, Ferdi ; Orbie, Jan. The Hegemonic Politics of ‘Strategic Autonomy’ and ‘Resilience’: COVID‐19 and the Dislocation of EU Trade Policy. In: JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 19, no. 1, p. 3-19 (2023). doi:10.1111/jcms.13348.
2022
Jacobs, Thomas. Review of Giuliana Elena Garzone, Mara Logaldo, and Francesca Santulli, eds, Investigating Conflict Discourses in the Periodical Press. In: Journal of European Periodical Studies, Vol. 7, no.2, p. 69-70 (2022).
2022
Couvreur, Sjorre ; De Ville, Ferdi ; Jacobs, Thomas ; Orbie, Jan. The good geopolitical trade actor? The European Union’s discursive justification of the Anti-Coercion Instrument. In: Perspectivas - Journal of Political Science, Vol. 27, no.1, p. 56-70 (2022). doi:10.21814/perspectivas.4489.
2021
Jacobs, Thomas. Institutions and Political Strategy in Post-Marxist Discourse Theory: A Reply to Pedro Rey-Araújo. In: Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 33, no.1, p. 154-161 (2021). doi:10.1080/08935696.2020.1847018 (Accepté/Sous presse).
2022
Jacobs, Thomas. Hegemony, Discourse, and Political Strategy : Towards a post-Marxist understanding of contestation and politicization (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture), John Benjamins: Amsterdam, 2022. 9789027211620. 233 p. doi:10.1075/dapsac.97.
2023
Jacobs, Thomas. From sender-message-receiver to reception, discourse, and narrative: an appreciation of the Récits judiciaires de l’Europe series from the perspective of communication science. In: Antoine Bailleux, Elsa Bernard, Sophie Jacquot, Quentin Landenne, Les récits judiciaires de l'Europe - Diffusion, réception et coproduction (Recit Judiciaire de l'Europe; Tome III), Larcier, 2023, p. 23-39. 978-2-8027-7278-1.
2023
Jacobs, Geert ; Jacobs, Thomas. Political Discourse as Institutional Communication. In: Piotr Cap, Handbook of Political Discourse, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, p. 317-327. 9781800373563. doi:10.4337/9781800373570.00030.
2023
Sjorre Couvreur ; Ferdi De Ville ; Jacobs, Thomas ; Jan Orbie. The good geopolitical trade actor? The European Union’s discursive justification of the Anti-Coercion Instrument. In: Annette Bongardt and Francisco Torres, Globalization and EU Trade Policy at the Time of Crises : Governance and Sustainability Challenges, Almedina: Coimbra, 2023, p. 189-212. 9789894011637.
2021
Jacobs, Thomas ; Jacobs, Geert. Chapter 3. “It is, perhaps more than ever before, a matter of participation” : Ontological tension and boundary work in a free trade blog. In: Jana Declercq, Geert Jacobs, Felicitas Macgilchrist, Astrid Vandendaele, Participation, Engagement and Collaboration in Newsmaking : Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, John Benjamins: Amsterdam, 2021, p. 43-66. 9789027209474. doi:10.1075/dapsac.94.c3 (Accepté/Sous presse).
2024
Patriarche, Geoffroy ; Wiard, Victor ; Chapellier, Daphné ; Jacobs, Thomas. Comment les citoyens théorisent-ils la mésinformation comme problème démocratique ?. Journée COMMnet d’inspiration "Intégrité de l’information" (Bruxelles, 11/06/2024).
2024
Wiard, Victor ; Patriarche, Geoffroy ; Jacobs, Thomas ; Chapellier, Daphné. Linking disinformation and democracy: results from a qualitative audience study. EDMO BELUX Lunch lecture (Brussels, 18/03/2024).
2024
Wiard, Victor ; Patriarche, Geoffroy ; Chapellier, Daphné ; Jacobs, Thomas. “It’s A Very Small Country After All!” A Qualitative Perspective On The Reception Of Dis-/Misinformation In Belgium And Luxembourg. EDMO Scientific Conference 2024 (Amsterdam, du 26/02/2024 au 27/02/2024).
2023
Jacobs, Thomas. Hasta la victoria siempre! A discourse-theoretical typology of left-wing political strategy. Discourse Theory: Ways Forward (Brussels, du 22/03/2023 au 23/03/2023).
2023
Jacobs, Thomas. Hegemony, Discourse, and Political Strategy. IAMCR conference: Inhabiting the planet: Challenges for media, communication and beyond (Lyon, du 09/07/2023 au 13/07/2023).
2023
Jacobs, Thomas. Hegemony, Discourse, and Political Strategy.. DNC5ALED congress: Discourses and their impacts on a world of multiple crises (Valencia, du 25/07/2023 au 28/07/2023).
2023
Jacobs, Thomas. Populism and Political Strategy. Global Studies programme of Ghent University (Ghent, 17/03/2023).
2023
Jacobs, Thomas. Triangulating and combining qualitative and quantitative methods in social science. Opening the black box of interpretation and coding: comment faire des choix epistemologiques et methodologiques en SIC (Brussels, du 01/06/2023 au 02/06/2023).
2022
Jacobs, Thomas. From sender-message-receiver to reception, discourse, and narrative. Les récits judiciaires de l'Europe (Lille, 28/05/2022).
2021
Jacobs, Thomas. Discourse Theory as a Framework for the Analysis of Political Strategy. Post-Marxism, Hegemony, and the Discursive Reproduction of Society. Hegemony, Crisis, and Intervention: New Perspectives on Emancipatory and Radical Democratic Discourse (Bremen, du 22/09/2023 au 25/09/2023).
2021
Geert Jacobs ; Jacobs, Thomas. On the discourse of free trade: engagement and conflict in an era of social media, populism, and fake news. English for Specific Purposes (Université Paris 2 Panthéon Assas, du 15/12/2021 au 16/12/2021).
2023
Wiard, Victor ; Patriarche, Geoffroy ; Jacobs, Thomas ; Chapellier, Daphné. Deliverable 3.2.4. Folk theories of info-democratic disorders: an in-depth qualitative audience study in Belgium and Luxembourg (), 2023. 105 p.
2021
Jacobs, Thomas ; Tschötschel, Robin. Bringing agency back in: the missing link between identity, knowledge, and mediated discourse, 2021. 33 p.