[Interpretationandmethods] ECPR 2009 Joint Session Call forAbstracts

[Bob Press]

Dear Dvora:

 In preparing my paper for the American Political Science Association panel
on interpretive methods, I sent a request out for suggestions for literature
to review but the abstract it was based on got cut. So here is another
attempt to solicit comments from colleagues. My paper will deal with the
human rights activism in Liberia during the civil war there for which I used
in-depth interviews. I will argue that no data of events of repression and
resistance (which is lacking anyway) could dig out the story of what
happened and why without interviews. I am looking for literature that backs
up interpretive field research. I have  Interpretation and Method; and
Rethinking Social Inquiry.

Thanks.

Bob

 

Robert Press
Assistant Professor
University of Southern Mississippi
Department of Political Science,
  International Development, and
  International Affairs
118 College Drive #5108
Hattiesburg, MS. 39401-0001
(O) 601-266-4311; Secretary: 601-266-4310
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From: interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
[mailto:interpretationandmethods-bounces at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu] On Behalf Of
Dvora Yanow
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 2:38 PM
To: interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] ECPR 2009 Joint Session Call
forAbstracts

 

Dear Colleague:

We are delighted to announce that our proposed workshop, 'Studying the
Political through Frame Analysis,' has been accepted for next year's
European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions, to be held
in Lisbon, 14 - 19 April 2009.  A summary of the workshop, as well as a
fuller description with references, is attached (and also available at
http://www.ecpr.org.uk/lisbon/academic_programme.html , Workshop #19).

In brief, frame analysis has a long history in the political sciences. It
looks at the way framing processes enable meaning-making by highlighting
particular views of political and other social realities, while
simultaneously occluding or downplaying other views. As the literature
suggests, framing holds great promise as an analytic concept and approach or
method, and the Workshop potentially draws together political scientists
from a wide range of fields and subject areas.  Papers for the Workshop can
theorize a range of topics, from the understanding of frames and framing
processes themselves, to "re-framing," to the similarities and differences
among frames, stories, narratives, metaphors, and the like. For example,
frame analysis often involves a study of the uses of political language,
specifically, and political symbolism, more widely, overlapping in important
ways with work on metaphor analysis, narrative research, and discourse
analysis.

We would ask your help in bringing this Call for Abstracts to the attention
of potentially interested persons, and we invite you to propose an abstract
yourself along the lines of the attached description. We are hoping to bring
together a group of scholars working on policy frames and framing grounded
in empirical research from various perspectives (including, for example,
public policy, IR, and social movement studies), thereby leading to engaged
discussion and debate that will help advance the methodology of frame
analysis.

The ECPR Joint Sessions workshops are more like a set of co-located
week-long seminars than like the usual conference, and so our selection
process will also be different.  We will choose around 20 abstracts from
those we receive; full papers will be expected one month before the
workshop, to be circulated to all participants for reading beforehand. Over
the 5 days of the workshop, each participant will present her/his paper,
followed by detailed discussion by all group members.  This structure
provides an excellent opportunity for in-depth discussion on a focused
topic.

This means that we will be facing some difficult decisions about which
proposals to accept.  We will base our judgment on the character of the
content (theoretical concepts, empirical applications, methodological
advancements) at the same time that we try to achieve a balance among
topics, disciplinary backgrounds, approaches, and senior and junior
researchers.  We want also to encourage doctoral students to consider
submitting proposals.

The deadline for submitting 500-word abstracts is 1 December 2008. Please
indicate there how your proposed paper engages the theme of the workshop as
described in the attached.

More details are available on the ECPR Joint Sessions website:
http://www.ecpr.org.uk/lisbon/index.html .

Either of us would be more than happy to field any questions you might have.

With best wishes,

Dr. Merlijn van Hulst
School of Politics and Administration
University of Tilburg
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel: +31 (0)13 466 8198
Fax: +31 (0)13 466 8149
M.J.vanHulst at uvt.nl


Prof. dr. Dvora Yanow
Strategic Chair in Meaning and Method
Faculty of Social Sciences
Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel: +31 (0)20 598 6740
Fax: +31 (0)20 598 6765
d.yanow at fsw.vu.nl

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