Colleagues,
Not sure how many people on this list will find this short course
relevant to their own interests but you may know some faculty and
graduate students in particular who are interested in producing more
rigorous interpretive work. Details below.
Thanks,
Peri Schwartz-Shea
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APSA 2008 ( Boston)*_/*
Short Course 22: Writing (Up) Interpretive Research:** * *
Preparing ‘Trustworthy’ Manuscripts *
Sponsor: Theory, Policy, & Society Conference
Related Group
Contact Person: Dvora Yanow, Strategic Chair in Meaning and
Method,
Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1081,
1081HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
E: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> P: 31-020-598-2653
Registration: No fee; preregistration for planning
purposes requested by
*August 1*; on-site registration is
possible
Time: 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM, Wednesday, 27 August
2008
Location: On the premises of the APSA Annual Meeting
Instructors: Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, University of Utah
Dvora Yanow, Vrije Universiteit,
Amsterdam
Researchers...produce claims in which the author figures more as a
claimant than judge. That is, each scientific article functions as a
judgment passed on claims made by colleagues....
Bruno Latour (2004, 78)*
This workshop explores issues raised in “writing up” interpretive
research (ethnography, participant-observation, conversational
interviewing, and the like). For example, what elements in a manuscript
foreshadow that it is based in an interpretive (or qualitative) approach
to data generation and analysis? How might one work with field notes
from observations, interviews, and/or documents in a written text? What
methods elements should be detailed in a methods section, and what needs
to be embedded in other parts of the text? How might one respond to
reviewers’ comments, in general, and specifically when reviewers ask
questions about dependent and independent variables and other criteria
that are less appropriate to this kind of research? What strategies can
be used to inform editors and reviewers about appropriate evaluative
standards? We will focus on preparing manuscripts for submission to
journals, but the content of the discussions should also be applicable
to book-length manuscripts, as well as to research proposals of various
sorts.
_Required reading_: Schwartz-Shea, Peregrine and Yanow, Dvora.
“Reading and Writing as Method: In Search of Trustworthy Texts.” In
/Organizational Ethnography: Studying the Complexity of Everyday Life/,
eds. Sierk Ybema, Dvora Yanow, Harry Wels, Frans Kamsteeg (London:
Sage, forthcoming 2009).
_Suggested readings_: Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, eds.,
/Interpretation and method: Empirical research methods and the
interpretive turn/. Armonk, NY: M E Sharpe, 2006, especially chapters
4, “Neither Rigorous Nor Objective? Interrogating Criteria for
Knowledge Claims in Interpretive Science,” and 5, “Judging Quality:
Evaluative Criteria and Epistemic Communities."
Full description available at
http://apsanet.org/imgtest/Short%20Course%2022.pdf
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Peregrine Schwartz-Shea
Professor
University of Utah
Political Science Department
260 South Central Campus Drive Rm 252
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9152
(801) 581-6300 phone mail
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