Abstract
In view of the recent criticisms of Janar Mihkelsaar the authors explicate their position on what political semiotics is and why it is important for both semiotics and the social sciences. Some further research trajectories are also discussed in moving from semiotic theory of hegemony to fully developed subdiscipline of political semiotics that would be part of the “relational turn” in political analysis more generally.
Acknowledgements
We thank Piret Peiker for carefully reading and commenting the earlier versions of this paper. Writing this paper was supported by the Estonian Research Council with the personal research funding granted to the project PUT1485 A Relational Approach to Governing Wicked Problems, and Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Turku, Finland.
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