[Interpretationandmethods] collegial request for literature suggestions

[Bob Press]

Dear colleagues:

I will be writing a paper as described in the attached abstract at the
August annual meeting of the American Political Science Association and am
soliciting your suggestions on relevant literature to reference in the
paper. I am fairly new to interpretive literature, though I do have (1)
Interpretation and Method by Dvora Yano and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and (2)
Rethinking Social Inquiry by Brady and Collier, which I was inspired to
purchase after meeting them at last year's APSA. And I appreciate Dvora's
consistent response to other queries from me and others.

 

I do not have much time to do a full literature review because I am revising
two articles from my Liberia research and preparing classes to teach and
research to carry out in Sierra Leone for ten months starting in September
on a Fulbright, focusing on human rights and reconciliation.

 

So I might add if anyone has insights on how to teach a practical course on
reconciliation and ideas for a national workshop on the same in Sierra
Leone, which emerged from a civil war only in 2002, I would welcome that as
well.

 

Currently I am writing about human rights activism in Liberia, a small,
often un-mobilized, peaceful resistance that fits none of the models one
usually finds in the repression/resistance literature. Wish me luck. Any
suggestions on where to submit it would be most welcome; so far reviewers
tend to be uncomfortable with what doesn't fit the usual models.

 

Cheers,

Bob Press

 

 

Robert Press
Assistant Professor
University of Southern Mississippi
Department of Political Science,
  International Development, and
  International Affairs
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Hattiesburg, MS. 39401-0001
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[mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu] On Behalf Of
Larry Chappell
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 3:41 PM
To: interpretation and methods group
Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] New List Member

 

I have read and admired Polanyi's work for many years. His importance for
work in the social sciences is not as widely recognized as it should be. The
notion of "tacit knowledge" is especially valuable for a theory of
interpretation. Many social scientists commit what Whitehead called "the
fallacy of the perfect dictionary" by assuming that all we know and
understand can be reduced to a series of comprehensive and perspicuous
propositions about political reality. Polanyi is a good counterpoint to that
fallacy.



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Hi All!

 

My Ph.D. is in political science (UCSB 1984).  I'm very interested in
Michael Polanyi's philosophy of science and social science.  Is anyone else
out there interested in him?

 

 

I've been out of academia for years.  Can anyone suggest some journals that
are interested in publishing articles on interpretation methods?

 

Bill Kelleher

 

 







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