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<div>Colleagues,</div>
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<div>Please consider the invitation, below. This would be a hospitable
location for papers taking interpretive approaches to policy analysis.</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div>Dvora</div>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Interpretationandmethods] 2008 WPSA Section 6
Interpretation andMethod<br>
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<p><font size="2">Colleagues:<br>
<br>
The DEADLINE for submission of paper/panel/roundtable proposals for <br>
the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association <br>
is SEPTEMBER 10.<br>
<br>
If you do interpretive research, please consider submitting a proposal
for a<br>
paper, a full panel, or a roundtable to Section 6, which I am
co-chairing<br>
with Ron Schmidt. The WPSA 2008 annual meeting will be held in San<br>
Diego, March 20-22, in a beautiful setting.<br>
<br>
The website for submissions: <a
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href="http://www.csus.edu/org/wpsa/" target="_blank">http://www.csus.edu/org/wpsa/</a><br>
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The domain statement for the Section is copied below.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Peri Schwartz-Shea<br>
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Interpretation & Method<br>
WPSA Domain statement<br>
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Interpretation and Method, a WPSA section since 2005, provides a forum
for<br>
discussion of method and methodology related to interpretive research.
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Panels range from the practical to the philosophical, from the<br>
particularities of specific methods to strategies for effectively
developing<br>
and conducting interpretive research to issues in the philosophy of
(social)<br>
science. Panels are especially welcome that explore the intersections<br>
between interpretation and various fields of scholarship (e.g.,<br>
interpretation and IR, interpretation and public policy, interpretation
and<br>
comparative policy, and so on).<br>
<br>
Interpretive methods are informed, explicitly or implicitly, by<br>
presuppositions deriving from phenomenology, hermeneutics, and some
critical<br>
theory and related to pragmatism, symbolic interaction theories, and<br>
ethnomethodology. Their concerns often overlap with such other
approaches<br>
as feminist theories, critical race theory, and critical legal studies.<br>
Although diverse in their modes of accessing and analyzing data,
research<br>
processes in the interpretive tradition are united by an empirical and<br>
normative prioritizing of the lived experiences of people in research<br>
settings.<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
Peregrine Schwartz-Shea<br>
Associate Professor<br>
<br>
University of Utah<br>
Political Science Department<br>
260 South Central Campus Drive Rm 252<br>
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9152<br>
<br>
(801) 581-6300 phone mail<br>
<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="mailto:psshea@poli-sci.utah.edu" target="_blank">psshea@poli-sci.utah.edu</a><br>
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