drSamuel Bennett
- sbennett@amu.edu.pl
- (+48) 61 829 1023
Collegium Heliodori, room 210
Websites / Profiles:
Degrees
- B.A. in International Relations, University of Sussex, 2003
- M.A in Peace and Development Studies, Universitat Jaume I, Spain 2005
- PhD in Linguistics, Poznań, 2015
Research interests
- Critical Discourse Studies
- Populism and Far-right discourses
- Immigration and Integration
- Social media and social movements
- European identity and values
- DEMOS: Democratic Efficacy and the Varieties of Populism in Europe. Horizon 2020 EU Project (Researcher)
- MEDIVA: Media for Diversity and Migrant Integration (Researcher)
- Colonial Forgettings Colonialism and decolonising education
Teaching experience
- English as a Foreign Language
- Human Rights
- British and American Life and Institutions
- Communication in the European Union
Grants and funding awarded
- ESSE Type A Research Bursary, 2013
- Conference attendance grant, British Sociological Association, Birmingham, June 2013
- Conference attendance grant, University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, November 2013
- Erasmus+ STA, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, March 2019
- Erasmus+ STA, Vrije University, Brussels, Belgium, April 2022
- Erasmus+ STA, University of Malta, Valletta, Malta, October 2022
Other Professional Experience
- Assistant Editor, Journal of Language & Politics
- LANCOM Research Group organiser
- Teaching Assistant, European Consortium for Political Research Methods School:
- Ljublijana 2015
- Budapest 2016
- Critical Discourse Analysis methods workshop, Tomas Bata University, Zliń, Czechia, 8-9 March 2019
Papers read at international conferences, congresses and workshops
- 6th Global Conference: Pluralism, Inclusion, Citizenship, Prague, March 2011
- Poznań Linguistic Meeting, May 1st-3rd, 2011
- Young Linguists Meeting, Poznan, May 2012
- MEDIVA International Workshop, Utrecht, May 2012
- MEDIVA National Workshop, Instytut Spraw Publicznych, Warsaw May 2012
- Race, Migration and Citizenship: Post-colonial perspectives, British Sociological Association, Birmingham, July 2013
- Discourse, Gender and Sexuality: South-South Dialogues, Wits University, Johannesburg, November 2013
- Political Linguistics III, Warsaw, May 2014
- Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD), Budapest, September 2014
- Laws, walls and crises, University of Helsinki, April 2016
- Mediatisation and Politicisation of the Refugee Crisis in Europe Workshop, European University Institute, Florence, April 2016
- Forging Linguistic Identities: Language in the Nation, the Region & the World, Towson University, Baltimore, March 2017
- Towards the development of the mediatization research, Wroclaw, December 2017
- Co-organiser, Political Discourse in Poland: Current Changes and Challenges, Poznań, May 2018
- 27th PASE Conference "Language, art, literature: In search of identity", Łódź, June 2018
- Europe in Discourse II: Agendas of Reform,Athens, Greece, September 2018
- In the Name of the People: Representing the People in Twenty-first Century Politics, Pamplona, November 2018
- DiscourseNet 23, Bergamo, June 2019
- European Consortium for Political Research General Conference, online, August 2020
- Plenary lecture, Approaches to Language, Migration and Identity, Sussex University/online, June 2021
- Futures of Populism Workshop, Glasgow Caledonian University, May 2022
- Critical Approaches to Discourse Across Disciplines 2022, University of Bergamo, July 2022
- Plenary presentation, Europe in Discourse III, Hellenic American University, September 2022
Guest lectures
- Negotiating community and belonging: Migrant discourses of (local) integration, Orebro University, December 2015
- Seminar: Media, Migration and Migrant Integration: Analysing Discourses and Practices, Orebro University, December 2015
- Deserving and Undeserving Migrants: Neo-liberal Discourses of Citizenship in the United Kingdom, University of Helsinki, April 2016
- Immigration and Integration: Public sphere discourses and media practices, Georgetown University, Washington DC, March 2017
Publications:
Bennett, Samuel. 2022. “Designing Qualitative Discourse Analysis Research with Twitter.” In The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design, edited by Uwe Flick, 886–902, London: SAGE.
Bennett, Samuel. 2022. ‘Mythopoetic Legitimation and the Recontextualisation of Europe’s Foundational Myth’. Journal of Language and Politics. John Benjamins.
Zappettini, Franco, and Samuel Bennett. 2022. ‘Reimagining Europe and Its (Dis)Integration: (De)Legitimising the EU’s Project in Times of Crisis’. Journal of Language and Politics. John Benjamins.
Bennett, Samuel. 2021. "‘Crisis’ as a discursive strategy in Brexit referendum campaigns" in Franco Zappettini and Michał Krzyżanowski (eds.) "Brexit" as a Social and Political Crisis Discourses in Media and Politics. London: Routledge, pp.449-464.
Bennett, Samuel et al. 2020. Populist communication on social media. DEMOS Working paper.
Bennett, Samuel, and Cezary Kwiatkowski. 2019. "The Environment as an emerging discourse in Polish far-right politics", in Bernhard Forchtner (ed) The Far Right and the Environment: Politics, Discourse and Communication. London: Routledge, pp. 237-253.
Bennett, Samuel. 2019. "Standing up for ‘real people’: UKIP, the Brexit, and discursive strategies on Twitter", in Zienkowski, Jan, and Ruth Breeze (eds.) Imagining the Peoples of Europe: Populist discourses across the political spectrum. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 230-256.
Bennett, Samuel. 2019. "‘Crisis’ as a discursive strategy in Brexit referendum campaigns", Critical Discourse Studies 16(4): 449-464.
Bennett, Samuel. 2019. "Values as tools of legitimation in EU and UK Brexit discourses", in Koller, Veronika, Susanne Kopf, and Marlene Miglbauer (eds.) Discourses of Brexit. London: Routledge, pp. 17-32.
Bennett, Sam. 2018. Constructions of Migrant Integration in British Public Discourse: Becoming British (London: Bloomsbury)
Bennett, Sam. 2018. “New ‘Crises’, Old Habits: Online Interdiscursivity and Intertextuality in UK Migration Policy Discourses", Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies 16(1): 1-21.
Bennett, Sam. 2017. “Whose line is it anyway?: The diffusion of discursive frames in Pride movements of the South.” Journal of Language and Politics 16(3): 345-366.
Bennett, Samuel. 2015. Book review: P. Bayley and G. Williams (eds.) (2012). European Identity: What the Media Say. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Journal of Language and Politics, 14(2), pp. 309-313
Bennett, Samuel. 2015. “Performing Citizenship and Integration in the UK”, in Gozdecka, Dorota and Magdalena Kmak (eds.), Europe at the Edge of Pluralism. Cambridge: Intersentia, pp 115-129.
Bennett, Samuel. 2015. “Constructions of Community in a Local Newspaper Over Time”, in: Krzyżanowska, Natalia and Karolina Nowak, (eds.). Urban Transitions. Torun: Adam Marszalek, pp. 171-193
Bennett, Samuel, Jessika Ter Wal, Artur Lipinski, Malgorzata Fabiszak and Michal Krzyzanowski. 2012. “The representation of Third Country Nationals in European news discourse: Journalistic perceptions and practice. Journalism Studies
Bennett, Samuel. 2011. “Above, below and between the Lines: A Critical Analysis of the Interplay between Articles and Online Comments on Immigration in the UK Media”, in Jovanović Maldoran, Srdjan (ed.) Citizenship, Inclusion or Exclusion. Oxford: Inter-disciplinary Press.
Bennett, Samuel, Jessika ter Wal, Artur Lipinski, Małgorzata Fabiszak and Michał Krzyżanowski. 2011. Media Content. MEDIVA thematic reports, 2011/02. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/19730
Other media dissemination work:
- Interview on language and migrant integration. Refugee Radio, Brighton.
- Bennett, Samuel, 2015. While Europe squabbles, others drown. Krytyka Polityczna
- Bennett, Samuel. 2014. Time to muzzle neoliberal rhetoric and find a new language to promote immigration
- Bennett, Samuel. 2014. It’s not just the anti-immigration voices that have lost the argument. It’s the left too.
- Bennett, Samuel. 2019. Horizontal and Vertical Populism: The case of UKIP and Brexit. Demos blog.