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 

 

 

 

Conference ›The Discursive Construction of Reality VI - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discourse Research in the Sociology of Knowledge‹ 

 

Conference at the University of Augsburg, Germany | March 27th – 28th, 2025

Over the last decades, the research program outlined by the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) has spread to many disciplines in social science. SKAD discourse research, drawing upon Michel Foucault’s work, symbolic interactionism and sociology of knowledge, is interested in exploring processes of ‘discursive construction of reality’, social relations of knowledge and knowing, and politics of knowledge and knowing – the manifold ways of discursive meaning making. Bearing these core tenets in mind, the original approach has nonetheless been successfully amended, expanded, and occasionally modified to meet the demands of different fields of study and forms of data. Corresponding studies may be found in sociology, but also in neighbouring disciplines such as cultural studies, political science, historical science, educational science, theology, linguistics, and criminology among many others.
Following the series of Augsburg conferences in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2023 on interpretive and sociology of knowledge discourse research with over 120 participants and 40contributions from different disciplines each year, the upcoming conference will continue in the spirit of an interdisciplinary discussion about the foundations and applications of SKAD and SKAD-inspired discourse research, as well as related perspectives (such as subjectivation research, situational analysis, ethnography of discourses and dispositifs).

The conference will be held in German and English. There will also be online access to presentations and participation for those unable to travel to Germany. There will be no fees. Cold and hot drinks will be available on site for a small contribution.

Social Events at the conference
Besides an optional dinner with traditional Swabian and Bavarian cuisine on the first day of the conference we invite you to our closing party on March 28th after the end of the conference in a local club location.

 

Organisation: Prof. Dr. Reiner Keller, Martin Blessinger, Claudia Foltyn and Amira Malik

 

Further information you can find here. 

The conference is supported by the Sociology of Knowledge Section of the German Sociological Association and the Society of Friends of the University of Augsburg.