New publication (in German): 

"Knowledge relations and knowledge policies:  Analyses of the discursive construction of reality and its consequences "

 

 

Source: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-48453-8

Overview

Editors:

• Martin Blessinger,
• Moritz Hillebrecht,
• Reiner Keller,
• Lena Schürmann,
• Georg Tiroch

•     addresses conflicts of interpretation in various fields and current social debates
•     provides insight into current topics, issues, and developments in sociological discourse research
•     illustrates the breadth and connectivity of discourse research

 

 

 

New publication (in German): 

"Knowledge, Self and Society: The Research Perspective of Interpretative Subjectivation Analysis" written by Saša Bosančić and edited by Reiner Keller and Boris Traue

 

 

Source: link.springer.com/book/9783658478681

Overview

Authors:

• Saša Bosančić

Editors:

• Reiner Keller,
• Boris Traue 

• Saša Bosančić posthumously receives the Thomas A. Herz Prize for Qualitative Social Research
• The book offers orientation in the complex field of subject and subjectivation research
• Interpretative subjectivation analysis as power-critical social analysis

 
The manuscript for this book was submitted by Saša Bosančić as his habilitation thesis at the University of Augsburg in February 2020. In early summer of the same year, the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences habilitated him with the venia legendi in sociology. The German Sociological Association posthumously awarded the manuscript the Thomas A. Herz Prize for Qualitative Social Research at its Bielefeld Congress in fall 2022.

 Upcoming Events

 

 

 

DNC6 (6th DiscourseNet Congress) - Discourse and the imaginaries of past, present and future societies: media and representations of (inter)national (dis)orders at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels), 7-10 July 2025

https://discourseanalysis.net/en/dnc6-6th-discoursenet-congress-discourse-and-imaginaries-past-present-and-future-societies-media

 

Call for Papers: Ad-hoc-group „Digitale Diskurstransitionen und algorithmische Macht/Wissen-Regime.“ [Digital discourse transitions and algorithmic power/knowledge regimes] at the Congress of the German Sociological Association (DGS) 22-26 September 2025

https://discourseanalysis.net/de/de/call-papers-ad-hoc-gruppe-digitale-diskurstransitionen-und-algorithmische-machtwissen-regime-dgs 

 

 

 

Autumn School Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse University of Augsburg | September 15 to 17 2025

 

 

Following the high interest and success of the last six international workshops with participants from different countries and all world regions, there will be another introductory workshop in English on the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) at the University of Augsburg in September 2025. The organiser invites novice as well as experienced academics from a wide range of disciplines, including but not limited to sociology, ethnology, political science, cultural studies, linguistics, education, and other humanities, to explore the potential of this approach to studying discourses in the context of their own projects and research. Please note that the English Autumn School SKAD gives priority to participants without a German language background. German speakers are invited to register for our German language Summer School WDA.

The workshop will discuss the following topics:

·         What is at stake when using SKAD in discourse research?

·         SKAD theory: discourses & dispositifs – and how to conceptualise them

·         Research questions and conceptual tools in SKAD

·         The methodology of interpretive analytics

·         Getting into the field: methods of data collection and analysing data

·         Getting out of the field: from data analysis to comprehensive diagnostics

·         Discussion of participants’ research

·         Special interest session

Further information on the Autumn School, registration process and general conditions of participation can be found here.

 

 

 

 

Working Group SKAD

 

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

we (Reiner Keller, Annette Knaut and Dennis Puorideme) are pleased to announce the start of an English-language working group on the sociology of knowledge approach to discourse (SKAD) within the framework of DiscourseNet (see https://discourseanalysis.net/group/46). We would like to invite anyone who is interested to participate. To start with, we are initially planning a two-hour online meeting via Zoom every two months, depending on interest. We suggest Wednesday, 19 March at 6 p.m. Central European Time as the first date. We hope that this is possible for participants from different time zones; time schedules might be modified later. The first meeting will be about organisational matters and general considerations for further action. We also offer to discuss the theoretical foundations of SKAD. This can be continued in follow-up meetings. On the other hand, there should be the opportunity to present and discuss your own past, present or maybe future SKAD-related work, as well as questions of data analysis and the further development of the approach. There will be room for open questions and discussions. Further suggestions for content are very welcome.

 

We are planning a real-life meeting to discuss further possibilities for collaboration at the upcoming DiscourseNet conference in Brussels in July 2025.

 

We look forward to your registration with the group (via the DiscourseNet website) and will be happy to keep you informed about our activities. If you are interested in participating in the first online meeting, please let us know. We will send you a zoom link in a timely manner.

 

 

Best regards,

 

Reiner Keller, Annette Knaut and Dennis Puorideme

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DiscourseNet website: https://discourseanalysis.net/group/46