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Interpretive Political and Social Science
Interpretive Political and Social Science
January 11, 2021
Authoritarian Apprehensions
Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria
Lisa Wedeen
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
How has the Syrian regime been able to bear the brunt of the challenges raised against it? And, what can we learn about the seductions of authoritarian politics more generally …
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Interpretive Political and Social Science
October 15, 2020
Interpretive Social Science
An Anti-Naturalist Approach
Mark Bevir and Jason Blakely
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
In Interpretive Social Science: An Anti-Naturalist Approach (Oxford University Press, 2018), Mark Bevir and Jason Blakely make a case for why interpretivism is the most philosophically cogent approach currently on …
Interpretive Political and Social Science
June 3, 2020
Against the Grain
A Deep History of the Earliest States
James C. Scott
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
We are schooled to believe that states formed more or less synchronously with settlement and agriculture. In Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Yale University Press …
Interpretive Political and Social Science
March 30, 2020
Elucidating Social Science Concepts
Frederic C. Schaffer
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
For the third installment in our special series on interpretive political and social scientific research, Frederic C. Schaffer joins us to discuss his Elucidating Social Science Concepts: An Interpretivist Guide …
Interpretive Political and Social Science
November 29, 2019
Everyday Exposure
Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley
Sarah Marie Wiebe
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
In a foreword to Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley (University of British Columbia Press, 2016), the public philosopher James Tully writes that, “Every once …
Interpretive Political and Social Science
August 19, 2019
Interpretive Research Design
Concepts and Processes
Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Dvora Yanow
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
This episode is the first in a new series, New Books in Interpretive Political and Social Science, which will feature works on interpretive research design and practice alongside recently published …