interpellation

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Noun	1.	interpellation - (parliament) a parliamentary procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policyparliamentary law, parliamentary procedure, rules of order, order - a body of rules followed by an assemblyparliament - a legislative assembly in certain countries
	2.	interpellation - the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interruptsinterposition, interjection, interpolationdisruption, interruption, gap, break - an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account"

interpellation

the process by which individuals become social subjects. According to ALTHUSSER (1971), people are actually the ‘bearers of structures’ rather than ‘autonomous subjects’. Yet, if capitalist relations of production are to be reproduced, each person must be constituted as an independent individual. This is the function of IDEOLOGY. Individuals are constituted or interpellated as subjects by ‘hailing’ or addressing them as, for example, ‘the people’.

In this way, the capitalist state is able to address individuals in terms of a democratic discourse as autonomous subjects, while recruiting them into a political process whose real function is the preservation, co-ordination and reproduction of the conditions for successful capital accumulation.

interpellation

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Synonyms for interpellation

noun (parliament) a parliamentary procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policy

Related Words

parliamentary law
parliamentary procedure
rules of order
order
parliament

noun the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts

Synonyms

interposition
interjection
interpolation

Related Words

disruption
interruption
gap
break