Colleagues:

The DEADLINE for submission of paper/panel/roundtable proposals for  
the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association  
is SEPTEMBER 10.

If you do interpretive research, please consider submitting a proposal for a
paper, a full panel, or a roundtable to Section 6, which I am co-chairing
with Ron Schmidt. The WPSA 2008 annual meeting will be held in San
Diego, March 20-22, in a beautiful setting.

The website for submissions: http://www.csus.edu/org/wpsa/

The domain statement for the Section is copied below.

Thanks,

Peri Schwartz-Shea

Interpretation & Method
WPSA Domain statement

Interpretation and Method, a WPSA section since 2005, provides a forum for
discussion of method and methodology related to interpretive research.
Panels range from the practical to the philosophical, from the
particularities of specific methods to strategies for effectively developing
and conducting interpretive research to issues in the philosophy of (social)
science.  Panels are especially welcome that explore the intersections
between interpretation and various fields of scholarship (e.g.,
interpretation and IR, interpretation and public policy, interpretation and
comparative policy, and so on).

Interpretive methods are informed, explicitly or implicitly, by
presuppositions deriving from phenomenology, hermeneutics, and some critical
theory and related to pragmatism, symbolic interaction theories, and
ethnomethodology.  Their concerns often overlap with such other approaches
as feminist theories, critical race theory, and critical legal studies.
Although diverse in their modes of accessing and analyzing data, research
processes in the interpretive tradition are united by an empirical and
normative prioritizing of the lived experiences of people in research
settings.



-- 
Peregrine Schwartz-Shea
Associate 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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