Analyzing Discourse and Foucauldian Regimes of Power/Knowledge
with the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse and related perspectives
ICQI 2016
The Twelfth International Congress of Qualitative
Inquiry will take place from May 18-21, 2016 at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (USA), see http://icqi.org/
Session Organizers:
Prof. Dr.
Reiner Keller
Prof. of Sociology, Department of Philosophy and
Social Sciences
University of Augsburg, Germany
Prof. Dr.
Peter Stücheli-Herlach
Prof. of Organizational Communication, School of
Applied Linguistics
Zurich University for Applied Sciences, Switzerland
The session will
discuss empirical research on discourses and regimes of power/knowledge in
different social areas, using the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD).
This perspective on discourses and their analysis draws on Foucault, Berger and Luckmann and the
interpretative paradigm of sociology including symbolic interactionism and "communicative
constructivism". In comparison to the
Foucauldian tradition, SKAD focuses more on
social actors and societal arenas of discursive disputes. In comparison to Berger & Luckmann, it expands analysis of societal processes of
knowledge construction in institutional contexts and in public or semi-public
arenas. Integrating both, it re-orientates discourse research towards questions
of social relationships of knowledge and politics of knowledge – following
knowledges, their production and power effects through societies. In doing so,
SKAD takes also into account research questions concerning situational analysis
and organizational discourse as well as the challenges of applied research in
the field. The session invites researchers using the SKAD framework to present
their work and/or to discuss further perspectives.
Please submit your
abstract (max. 350 words, including first and last name, current institutional
affiliation and email-address) by 10th October 2015 to
Professor
Keller is currently Chair of the Sociology
of Knowledge Section, German Sociological Association, and co-editor of the
Journal for Discourse Research/Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung.
Professor Stücheli-Herlach is Leader of several transdisciplinary
projects of applied discourse analysis.
Qualitative
Methods Works in English:
Keller, Reiner.
2011. The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD). Human Studies 34:43-65.
Keller, Reiner. 2012. Entering Discourses: A New Agenda for Qualitative Research and Sociology
of Knowledge. Qualitative Sociology Review VIII(2):46-75.
Keller, Reiner. 2012.
Doing Discourse Research: An Introduction for Social Scientists. Translated
by Bryan Jenner. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Keller, Reiner & Peter Ullrich. 2014.
Comparing Discourse Between Cultures. A Discursive Approach to Movement
Knowledge. In: Baumgarten, B., Daphi, P., Ulrich, P. (Hrsg.) (2014)
Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research. Hampshire: Palgrave, S.
113-139 (mit P. Ullrich).
Some Further Qualitative Methods Works in
German:
Keller, Reiner. 2008. Michel Foucault. Konstanz: UVK
Keller, Reiner 2009 [1998]. Müll - Die gesellschaftliche Konstruktion
des Wertvollen. 2nd ed. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag [Waste - The Social
Construction of Value. Public Debates on Waste Problems in Germany and France 1965-1995]
Keller, Reiner. 2011 [2005]. Wissenssoziologische Diskursanalyse - Grundlegung eines
Forschungsprogramms. 3 Ed. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag [The Sociology of Knowledge
Approach to Discourse. Outline of a Research Program]
Keller,
Reiner. 2013. Das Interpretative Paradigma. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag [The
Interpretative Paradigm]
Keller, Reiner et al. (Eds.) 2005. Die diskursive Konstruktion von
Wirklichkeit. Konstanz: UVK[The Discursive Construction of Reality]
Keller,
Reiner et al. (Eds.)
2010 [2001/2003]. Handbuch
Sozialwissenschaftliche Diskursanalyse. 2 Volumes. 4th ed. Wiesbaden.
VS-Verlag [Handbook of Discourse Research in the Social Sciences]
Keller, Reiner et. al. (Eds.) 2011: Diskurs – Macht – Subjekt. Wiesbaden: VS
Verlag [Discourse – Power -Subject]
Keller, Reiner & Inga Truschkat
(Eds.) 2012: Methodologie und Praxis der
Wissenssoziologischen Diskursanalyse. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag [Doing SKAD:
Methodology and Practice]
Keller, R. et al. (Eds.) 2012: Kommunikativer Konstruktivismus. Wiesbaden:
VS-Verlag [Communicative Constructionism]
Stücheli-Herlach,
Peter. 2013. Die sprachliche Struktur eines „Kommunikationswunders“: Schritte
der diskursanalytischen Rekonstruktion politischer Öffentlichkeit – am Beispiel
der Schweizerischen Europafrage. In: Imhof, K., Blum, R., Bonfadelli, H.,
Jarren, O. (Hrsg.) (2013). Stratifizierte und segmentierte Öffentlichkeit (S.
64-78). Wiesbaden: Springer.
Viehöver, Willy, Reiner Keller &
Werner Schneider (Eds.) 2012: Wissen -
Diskurs - Sprache. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag