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Mr. Nicolae-Sorin Drăgan

Doctor

Researcher - UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA, FARMACIE, STIINTE SI TEHNOLOGIE "GEORGE EMIL PALADE" DIN TARGU MURES

Researcher | Teaching staff | Scientific reviewer | Consultant

Ph.D. in Communications Science at the FCRP, SNSPA, Bucharest (RO). Representative for Romania in the IASS/AIS Executive Committee - member of the IASS-AIS Executive Board (from September 2019). Founder and (co)organizer of the series of International Conference Semiosis in Communication, Bucharest (RO). Coordinator for International Cooperation of Applied Semiotics and Communication Laboratory, Research Center, FCRP (RO).

Web of Science ResearcherID: W-5450-2018

Curriculum Vitae (26/09/2024)

Expertise & keywords

Relational Approach of Strategic History Narratives Call name:
PRG1716 2023 - 2027

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: University of Tartu

Project partners: University of Tartu (); Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics ()

Affiliation: University of Tartu ()

Project website: https://www.rashina.ut.ee

Abstract:

In the past couple of decades there has been talk of a “cultural turn” in political and sociological sciences. Cultural factors are crucial also in another turn – the “narrative turn” in International Relations, and in social and political science in general. It means that culture and narratives are emphasised as crucial in the construction of a political actor’s identity and the course of their future activities. In international relation, narrative approaches often proceed from a constructivist paradigm which stresses the interaction of the intersubjective (often incompatible) views in the dynamics of foreign policy. International politics arise from mutually constitutive relations of multiple social actors and their shared understandings. It is not only states that are considered main actors, but the role of non-state institutions and of the audience in forming international relation has grown considerably in today’s media ecology. That is why the project relies on discourse-semiotic transmedia analysis of strategic narratives and, on a more conceptual level, on relational ontology.

Strategic narratives function to justify (geo)political aims, forge international alliances, and shape public opinion in domestic and foreign audiences as well as creating new conflicts and polarisations of target audiences. History narratives are not strategic per se, but are made strategic by the context in which they occur. We focus on the history narratives spread in the messages by the Russian Federation’s strategic actors and important mediators and channels linked with these. It means that the project does not concentrate only on the states’ grand strategies, but considers it equally important how the debating of narratives around a state’s identity, its conception of order, and the policies it wishes to pursue shape which ideas become accepted.

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