Dangerously empty? Hegemony and the construction of the Irish entrepreneur
基于Jones和Spicer的企业家作为空洞能指的概念，分析2007-2010年爱尔兰危机期间政府如何通过企业家话语合法化市场逻辑和现有政治秩序，揭示其与霸权再生产的关系。
In this article we build on Jones and Spicer’s (2009) conceptualization of the entrepreneur as an empty signifier. We explore the function of the signifier ‘entrepreneurship’ within a social context marked by crisis: Ireland 2007–2010. In doing so, we show how its articulation by government acted to legitimize the continuation of market logics and, relatedly, the existing political status quo. Theoretically, we demonstrate the usefulness of Laclau and Mouffe’s conception of hegemony, which shares a Lacanian legacy with Jones and Spicer. This helps us to understand the contradictory nature of the signifier of the entrepreneur in Irish political and social discourse, along with its relationship to the reproduction of political hegemony.