@inbook{da4b8d59946545c780d32c1d78363e51,
title = "Language, Marxism and the Grasping of Policy Agendas: Neo-liberalism and political voice in Scotland{\textquoteright}s poorest communities",
abstract = "This chapter conceives an agenda of interventionist research focusing upon the emotional vulnerability of Scotland{\textquoteright}s poor communities to exploitation by purveyors of neoliberalism. The point is, rather, that an awareness of linguistic change, informed by Volo{\v s}inov{\textquoteright}s Marxism and the Philosophy of Language, was the trigger for a broader investigation of ongoing processes of change and development in Scottish economy, politics and society. This investigation made it possible to grasp – in a way that would probably not otherwise have been possible – what was going on in a key moment of policy change and in the associated implementation frameworks. On this basis, it was possible to respond, and to help to enable others to respond, timeously.",
author = "Charles Collins",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1163/9789004251434_017",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789004211759",
series = "Historical Materialism Book Series",
publisher = "Brill Academic Publishers",
pages = "336--356",
editor = "Colin Barker and Laurence Cox and John Krinsky and {Gunvald Nilsen}, Alf",
booktitle = "Marxism and Social Movements",
address = "Netherlands",
}