ICQI
2016 WORKSHOP
"Doing
Discourse Research”
Thursday, 19th
May 2016
Prof. Dr. Reiner Keller
Professor for Sociology, Department of Philosophy and
Social Sciences
University of Augsburg, Germany
reiner.keller@phil.uni-augsburg.de
http://kellersskad.blogspot.de/
The
Twelfth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry will take place at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from May 18-21, 2016. For
registration, please visit the congress' website at http://icqi.org/
Discourse
Studies today cover a large field across the social scienes, ranging from work
inspired by Foucault, Critical Discourse Analysis through Hegemonics Analysis,
Corpus Lingustics and more interpretive approaches. The present workshop on
“Doing Discourse Research” will introduce participants to the main positions in
the heterogeneous field of discourse research (including Foucauldian
perspectives, CDA, Hegemonics and the Sociology of Knowledge approach to discourse
SKAD). As there is no one best way to discourse research, each of the positions
mentioned allows for dealing with particular questions in critical inquiry into
discourses. The first part of the workshop therefore discusses the relationship
between theoretical groundings, analytical potential and methods of doing
discourse research in these diverse approaches. Second, the workshop will
present in more detailed ways the proceedings of the sociology of knowledge
approach to discourse developed by Reiner Keller. SKAD draws on Berger &
Luckmann's sociology of knowledge, but includes major Foucauldian concepts and
research interests. Integrating both, it re-orientates discourse research
towards questions of social relationships of knowledge and politics of
knowledge, referring in its concrete ‘ways of doing’ to qualitative research
design and interpretative analytics.
Workshop Schedule
8.30 - 9. 45 Part 1: The arena of discourse studies
·
Discourse Research - which approach, what for?
·
How to find good questions?
·
The analytical process: Deconstruction, reconstruction
or co-construction?
·
Multiple ways of doing and multiple outcomes
·
SKAD and the arena of discourse research
Break
10.00 - 11.30 Part 2: How to do it: The example of
SKAD
·
Looking for discourses and ‘dispositifs’: Texts and
beyond
·
Strategies for analyzing data
·
Getting Lost/Getting Found: From analysis to story
telling.
Professor
Keller is currently Chair of the Sociology of Knowledge Section, German
Sociological Association, member of the executive committee of the German
Sociological Association, Author and Editor of many books and book series on
discourse research, and co-editor of the Journal for Discourse
Research/Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung.
Publications include:
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. Forthcoming. The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse. New
York: Springer [translated from the original German version, 4th edition 2015]