Thomas Jacobs

Thomas Jacobs est Chargé de Cours en Information et Communication à l’UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles, et co-directeur d’Engage — Research Center for Publicness in Contemporary Communication, depuis mars 2024. Thomas s’intéresse à la dimension discursive de la communication politique. Il travaille sur la théorie de l’hégémonie, le poststructuralisme, la stratégie politique, et l’école d’Essex en analyse de discours. Du point de vue empirique, il se concentre sur les dynamiques politiques et les politiques économiques externes de l’Union européenne. Ses recherches ont été publiées dans des journaux comme Contemporary Political Theory, Critical Discourse Studies, Critical Review, Rethinking Marxism, et International Journal for Social Research Methodology, et il a contribué au Routledge Handbook of Critical European Studies et au Handbook of Political Discourse. Sa première monographie, Hegemony, Discourse, and Political Strategy, est parue chez John Benjamins en 2022. Auparavant, il faisait partie du Ghent Institute for International and European Studies (Ghent University) et du Centre for Ideology and Discourse Analysis (University of Essex). Sa thèse doctorale, intitulée Winning Hegemony, a gagné le Prix Els Witte pour la meilleure thèse doctorale de Belgique et des Pays-Bas en 2021. Il fait partie du conseil d’administration de DiscourseNet. Il enseigne en anglais, français, et néerlandais.

Cours enseignés :

pdf Analyse van de media-instellingen (POLS1115)

pdf Communication science (POLS1114)

pdf Corporate communication and public relations (COMU1211)

pdf Théories de la participation et communication (COMU2205)

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Thomas Jacobs is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles and co-director of Engage, since March 2024. Thomas is mainly interested in the discursive dimension of political communication. He particularly works on hegemony theory, poststructuralism, political strategy, and the Essex School of Discourse Analysis. On an empirical level, his work focuses on the political dynamics and the external economic policies of the European Union. Thomas’s research has featured in journals such as Contemporary Political Theory, Critical Discourse Studies, Critical Review, Rethinking Marxism, and the International Journal for Social Research Methodology, and he has contributed to the Routledge Handbook of Critical European Studies and the Handbook of Political Discourse. His first research monograph, Hegemony, Discourse, and Political Strategy, was published by John Benjamins in 2022. He was previously attached to the Ghent Institute for International and European Studies (Ghent University) and to the Centre for Ideology and Discourse Analysis (University of Essex). His doctoral dissertation, entitled Winning Hegemony, won the Els Witte Award for best doctoral dissertation in Belgium and the Netherlands in 2021. He is a board member of DiscourseNet. He teaches in English, French, and Dutch.