[Interpretationandmethods] collegial request for literature suggestions

[Patrick Thaddeus Jackson]

Bob:

Send it to me :-) I'm Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International  
Relations and Development and we're always on the lookout for  
interesting things that don't fit the usual models. The submission  
address is jird at fdv.uni-lj.si. Information about the journal at http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jird/index.html 
.

PTJ

On Jun 17, 2008, at 5:39 PM, Bob Press wrote:

> 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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>

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Editor-in-Chief, Journal of International Relations and Development
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