Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] ethnographic approaches in political science
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> From: Martina.Avanza@???
> Date: 08 novembre 2010 10.45.59 GMT+01.00
> To: giannipiazza@???,giovanni.semi@???,tommaso.vitale@???,tommaso.vitale@???,roberto.biorcio@???
> Subject: etnografia e scienze politiche
>
> Cari colleghi d'Oltralpe,
>
> vi sarei grata se poteste diffonder questo call for papers
> per un PANEL su "ethnographic approaches in political
> science" che organizzo per il prossimo congresso ECPR
> (Reykjavik 25-27 agosto 2011).
> Sperando di incontrarvi presto, magari in Islanda, cordiali
> saluti
> Martina Avanza
>
>
> link per il panel:
> http://www.ecprnet.eu/conferences/general_conference/reykjavik/panel_details.asp?panelid=316 >
> Section ID: 38
> Section Title: Social roots of political processes
> Panels: Bringing ethnography back in: ethnographic
> approaches in political science.
>
> Panel Chair(s)
> Name: Martina Avanza (martina.avanza@???) - Panel
> Chair
> Institution: LAUSANNE, Université de
>
> Name: Alexandre Lambelet () - Panel Co-Chair
> Institution: FLORIDA STATE University
>
> Name: Kathleen Blee (kblee@???) - Panel Discussant
> Institution: PITTSBURGH, University of
>
> Panel Abstract
>
> As wrote in 'The Chronicle of Higher Education' of September
> 22, 2009 , we can observe a renewal in the use of
> ethnographical method in political science. As illustration
> of this renewal, we can cite the books 'New Perspectives in
> Political Ethnography' edited by J. Auyero, L. Joseph and M.
> Mahler (2007) , 'Political Ethnography : What Immersion
> Contributes to the Study of Power' published by E. Schatz
> (2009) , or the thematic issues of several established
> journal such as Contemporary Ethnography ('Ethnography of
> the Far Right', 2, 2007 edited by K. Blee), Revue
> Française de Sciences Politiques ('Enquêter en milieu
> difficile', 1, 2007) and Tsantsa, the Suisse ethnological
> review ('New Political Arenas. International and
> Non-governmental Organizations, Foundations, Think Tanks',
> 14, 2009). Trough the discussion of the results produced by
> this method, the Panel would assess the intellectual added
> value of this method but more specifically, would like to
> explore its potentialities. If the question of the
> reflexivity is over-present since the 1960’s and the
> post-modernist turn, what can we say about the use of
> participant observation for the study of politics? Does the
> participant observation (i.e. immersion in a community or a
> cluster of related subject positions) give some other light
> on classical objects of political sciences? How can
> ethnography contribute to our understanding of political
> systems by addressing the social roots of political
> processes? More specifically, if "many important political
> phenomena lend themselves poorly to quantification" (G.
> Kasza, 'Perestroika : For an Ecumenial Science of Politics',
> PS : Political Science and Politics, 3, 2001), what kind of
> specific knowledge can produce the participant observation?
> This panel would like to come back to some classical objects
> of the political science (political participation ;
> political attitudes and behaviours ; voting patterns ;
> public policies ; political parties, social movements,
> unions and interest groups ; etc) to highlight the added
> value of observing the practices of the social actors. We
> will favour papers that address theoretical as well as
> methodological questions, but that are always connected to
> case studies.
>
> Martina Avanza
> Université de Lausanne
> Institut d'Etudes Politiques et Internationales, CRAPUL
> http://www.unil.ch/iepi >
> You can also find me here:
> Iris, EHESS, Paris
> http://iris.ehess.fr/document.php?id=687
