Interpreting the Political: New Methodologies

ISBN-13: 9780415131940 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 192 str.

Terrell Carver; Matti Hyvarinen

Opis

This volume explores the way that interpretations are constructed and pursued in political action. Each article in this collection develops a methodology appropriate to a substantive problem in politics. The collection is broad in its geographical scope, ranging from Ireland to South Africa, the USA to Finland. Collectively the authors redefine the notion of the political by considering the socio-linguistic construction of the self and identity, looking at: the symbolic power of national anthems; discourses of sexual politics; the politics of political science textbooks; and the role of the researcher in fieldwork. Written to a practical brief, with no purely methodological chapters, each contribution addresses issues in highly contextualized circumstances.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction, Terrell Carver, Matti Hyvärinen; Chapter 2 Identity and narrative in prime-time politics, Terrell Carver; Chapter 3 Rhetoric and conversion in student politics, Matti Hyvärinen; Chapter 4 Sex and discourse, Véronique Mottier; Chapter 5 Aspects of Irish political culture, Valerie Bresnihan; Chapter 6 Mapping women, mapping the self, Marja Keränen; Chapter 7 Dimensions of the political, Kari Palonen; Chapter 8 Reading politically, Klaus Sondermann; Chapter 9 Invention and community, Josef Bleicher; Chapter 10 The simulation syndrome, James Der Derian;

O autorze

Terrell Carver is a Professor of Political Theory, University of Bristol., Matti Hyvarinen is Research Fellow at the University of Tampere, Finland. Moving between political science and sociology, he has researched and published on social movements, including two books on the Finnish student movement, using autobiographical methodology and theories of rhetoric. He is currently working on the conceptual history of Finnish political culture.