[Interpretationandmethods] collegial request for literature suggestions

[psshea at csbs.utah.edu]

Bob,

Off the top of my head, the two things that occur to me are:

Patrick Jackson's chapter in YSS that grapples with the methodology of  
the agency of both the researcher and the people being studied

James C. Scott's Domination and the Arts of Resistance:  Hidden  
Transcripts, 1992.

You may already be familiar with both of these.

Best,

Peri

Quoting Bob Press <bob.press at usm.edu>:

> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
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> Bob Press
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> From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
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> Larry Chappell
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> 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!
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> 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?
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> I've been out of academia for years.  Can anyone suggest some journals that
> are interested in publishing articles on interpretation methods?
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> Bill Kelleher
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Peregrine Schwartz-Shea
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