Interpretive Methodologies & Methods

Martínez argues that the state is best understood as the product of routine practices & actions, becoming a stable truth in citizens lives. States of Subsistence unpacks how the state endures through forms, sensations & practices amid the unglamorous and unspectacular day-to-day.

Drawing on more than a year working as a baker in Amman, Martínez probes the practices that underpin subsidized bread, offering an immersive examination of social welfare provision.

The honorable mention for this year's Charles Taylor Book Award goes to "States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan" by Prof. Jose Ciro Martinez!

Godrej's study is the first to explore the political implications of yoga and meditation programs in prisons and offers an ambitious reimagining of the concept of "resistance" that considers people's interior lives as a crucial arena for liberation.

Congrats to Prof. Farah Godrej on winning the 2023 Charles Taylor Book Award for her recent pub entitled "Freedom Inside? Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State."

Dr. Frederic Schaffer (@FC_Schaffer), the author of Elucidating Social Science Concepts, will be conducting a workshop for Aarhus University on doing interpretive research. Registration info below!

We have an exciting lineup of virtual events this week: ISA-GIRS #VirtualEngagement, Negotiating Author-Friendly Book Contracts #ResearchSupport, Getting Started on a Diversity Statement #AcademicCareers. To learn more and register visit: ow.ly/rFSE50KKFJT

If you're attending #APSA2022 and want to meet up with some IMM folks, join @MichWeitzel and Nick Cheesman today, 18:00 at the William Grey Terrace (421 Rue Saint Vincent)!

We're one week from #APSA2022 and a great lineup of interpretive #polisci panels! We start on 9/14 with a short course entitled "Ethnography and Interpretive Methods in the Study of Belonging and Migration," led by Osman Balkan (@osmanchego) and Yuna Blajer de la Garza

The deadline for panel and paper submissions to #ISANE2022 may have passed, but applications are still being accepted for the Pedagogy and the Interpretive and Relational Research Methodology workshops! CC: @isanet

Check out the newly updated IMM bibliography, updating the 2011 and 2015 bibliographies with new award-winning interpretive work! connect.apsanet.org/interpretation…

Looking forward to the next instalment of the IMC seminar series featuring Professor George Lawson @GeorgeLawsonIR who will be speaking on "Vision and Method in Global Historical Sociology" @politicsANU @InterpretiveMM politicsir.cass.anu.edu.au/events/vision-…

A new episode of New Books in Interpretive Political & Social Science is up! Erica Simmons & Nicholas Rush Smith discuss their new book, "Rethinking Comparison: Innovative Methods for Qualitative Political Inquiry." Check it out at newbooksnetwork.com/rethinking-com…

Know of any great interpretive work on human rights (hint: there's a ton)? Nominate them for an award!

EVENT: On April 20th, #EcoJ welcomes @r_gov11, @UW. Interested in ethnography, multispecies relations, fascism and India? Register to attend in-person or virtually: tinyurl.com/EcoJGov @FletcherSchool @TuftsUniversity #EnvHum #EnvHist #Ethnography #EcoJGov

For more info on the Hayward R. Alker Award, visit: connect.apsanet.org/interpretation… For more info on the Charles Taylor Award, visit: connect.apsanet.org/interpretation…

There's still time for IMM award nominations! The Hayward R. Alker Award: Best student conference paper utilizing interpretive methodologies + methods. The Charles Taylor Award: Best poli sci book utilizing interpretive methodologies + methods. DL is 4/15/22 for both awards!

If you're at #WPSA2022, make sure you check out the Methods Cafe, once again hosted by @BrentJSteele1! You're guaranteed to experience some great discussions!

Bruyneel confronts the chronic displacement of Indigeneity in the politics & discourse around race in American political theory & culture, arguing the influence of settler-colonialism undermines efforts to understand Indigenous politics & hinders conversation around race itself.

Another new interpretive methods book is "Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States" by Kevin Bruyneel (@kbruyneel).