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Title
What political science can learn from the humanities : blurring genres / edited by R.A.W. Rhodes, Susan Hodgett.
ISBN
3030516970 electronic book
9783030516970 (electronic bk.)
9783030516963 hardcover
3030516962
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-51697-0 doi
Call Number
JA71 .W53 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
320
Summary
This book asks, 'what are the implications of blurring genres for the discipline of Political Science, and for Area Studies?' It argues novelists and playwrights provide a better guide for political scientists than the work of physicists. It restates the intrinsic value of the Humanities and Social Sciences and builds bridges between the two territories. The phrase blurring genres covers both genres of thought and of presentation. Genres of thought refers to such theoretical approaches as post structuralism, cultural studies, and especially interpretive thought. Part 1 explores genres of thought, focusing on the use of narratives. Specific examples include the narratives of post-truth political cultures; narratives in Canadian general elections; autoethnography as a new research tool; and novels as a way of understanding economic development. Part 2 emphasises genres of presentation and focuses on the visual arts. The chapters cover: photography in British political history, the architecture of American statehouses and city halls, design, comics, and using the creative arts to improve policy practice. This book is interdisciplinary and should have an appeal beyond political science to area studies specialists and others in the humanities. It is an advanced text, so it is aimed primarily at academics and postgraduates. R. A. W. Rhodes is Professor of Government (Research) at the University of Southampton, UK, and Director of the Centre for Political Ethnography. Susan Hodgett is the founding Professor of Area Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK.
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Print version: 9783030516963
1. Blurring Genres: An Agenda for Political Studies
2. Narrative ecologies in post-truth times: Nostalgia and conspiracy theories in narrative jungles?
3. It's the Way You Tell It: Conflicting Narratives in the 2011, 2015, and 2019 Canadian Federal Elections
4. Novels and Narratives: The Pursuit of Forms and Perceptive Policymaking
5. Autoethnography as Narrative in Political Studies
6. Autoethnography in collaborative research
7. Photography in British Political History
8. Architectural Power
9. Design and Politics
10. Persuasive Comics
11. Political Science and the Arts as Allies and Strange Bedfellows: a chapter in five parts.
