Wednesday, April 10, 2019

New anthology on SKAD


The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse: Investigating the Politics of Knowledge and Meaning-making., 1st Edition (Hardback) book coverThe Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse:

Investigating the Politics of Knowledge and Meaning-making


Edited by Reiner Keller, University of Augsburg, Germany, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, University of Bremen, Germany and Wolf J Schünemann, Hildesheim University, Germany



Includes articles on the following topics:

  • The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse in an interdependent World
  • The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse. An IntroductionSituating SKAD in Interpretive Inquiry
  • The Social Construction of Value. A Comparative SKAD Analysis of Public Discourses on Waste in France and Germany
  • SKAD Analysis of European Multi-Level Political Debates
  • Legislation and Discourse. Research on the Making of Law by Means of Discourse Analysis
  • A SKAD Ethnography of Educational Knowledge Discourses 
  • Using SKAD to Study Chinese Contemporary Governance – Reflections on our Research Process
  • Using SKAD to Analyse Classification Practices in Public Health: Methodological Reflections on the Research Process
  • Self-Positioning of Semi-Skilled Workers – Analyzing Subjectification Processes with SKAD
  • Dangerous or Endangered? Using the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse to Uncover Subject Positions of Sex Workers in South African Media Discourse 
  • Guidance on transitions. Reconstructing the rationalities of the European discourse on career guidance services using the sociology of knowledge approach
  • Using SKAD to Investigate Cooperation and Conflict over Water Resources
  • Studying Discourses Ethnographically: A Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Analysing Macro-Level Forces in Micro-Settings 
  • From Analysis to Visualisation. Synoptical Tools from SKAD Studies and the Entity Mapper