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[ecrea] Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Conference Group Call for Papers APSA 2011

Wed Dec 01 20:54:22 GMT 2010




Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Conference Group

 Call for Papers APSA 2011

Closing date: December 15, 2010



2011 Program Chair: Ido Oren, University of Florida (<(oren /at/ ufl.htm)>(oren /at/ ufl.edu) <mailto:(oren /at/ ufl.edu)> )

This Conference-related Group provides a forum for the discussion of methodologies and methods related to interpretive research, as well as issues arising from their location within contemporary political science.

Interpretive methodologies and methods are informed by philosophical traditions such as hermeneutics, phenomenology, pragmatism, and symbolic interaction. Notwithstanding their differences, these traditions presuppose that the meaningfulness and historical contingency of human life sets the social realm apart from nature. Although diverse in their modes of accessing and analyzing data, research processes in the interpretive tradition are typically characterized by an empirical and normative prioritizing of the lived experience of people in research settings (what Clifford Geertz referred to as "experience-near" research), a focus on the meaning(s) of acts, events, interactions, language, and physical artifacts to multiple stakeholders, and a sensitivity to the historically-contingent, often-contested character of such meanings.

We call for papers, panel, and roundtable proposals that explore interpretive methodological issues or that apply interpretive methods (e.g., political ethnography, ethnomethodology, discourse analysis) in ways that demonstrate their "comparative advantage" for empirical research across the subfields of political science. Proposals that reflect on how political science itself is situated in the webs of meaning and historical context that it studies will be especially welcome.


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