What Political Science Can Learn From the Humanities: Blurring Genres
- Submitting institution
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The University of East Anglia
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 182634573
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Palgrave
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-51696-3
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2021
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- Yes
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This book recovers the methods of the Arts and Humanities for the use of Political Scientists and Area Studies specialists. It emerged from an AHRC seminar series planned by Hodgett (PI) (AH/N006712/1) (2016-18) and R.A.W. Rhodes (CI) (University of Southampton) the Blurring Genres Research Network (including the UK Council for Area Studies Associations, the Political Studies Association, Cabinet and Home Offices, the Western Political Studies Association US). It organized a research field previously unstructured, investigating examples of blurring genres between the disciplines in pursuit of remaking theory and practice. Hodgett led the organisation of seven research seminars (at three UK universities, and the University of California, Berkeley), brought together international experts working on interpretive approaches to Political Science, with scholars on Area Studies exploring modern governance. The book emerged from the seminar series developing these interdisciplinary themes examining a range of arts-based methodologies not normally seen in Political Science -notably narratives and the visual arts. The novelty of these themes, especially the visual arts in the study of politics, using photographs, cartoons or comics explains why this book has commanded attention. Hodgett sought many contributors and co-edited the book with Rhodes as well as jointly writing the introduction. Her own chapter breaks boundaries considering recent developments in literary criticism as a novel way to understand perceptive policymaking on economic development. The book disrupts boundaries between the Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences seeking newer interpretations of political studies. It persuades readers that the Arts and Humanities give us new research tools and ways of telling political tales offering a fresh range of methods such as autoethnography; while speaking to innovative fields including photography, architecture and design. Hodgett and Rhodes presented the book’s precepts at PSA 2019 challenging existing disciplinary boundaries and setting the agenda for further research.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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