Call for Submissions
The
Discursive Construction of Reality IV
Interdisciplinary perspectives on a
sociology of knowledge approach to discourse research
sociology of knowledge approach to discourse research
Location: University of Augsburg, Germany
Date: March 21, 2019 (begins ~ 1:30 pm) – March 22, 2019
(ends ~ 6:00 pm)
Conference organizers: Prof. Dr. Reiner Keller, Dr. Saša Bosančić
Concept
Over the last decade, the
research programme outlined by the sociology of knowledge approach to discourse
(SKAD) has spread to many disciplines in social science. A common interest in
discourse research has resulted in a widely distributed community that
prevalently, but not exclusively, uses qualitative research designs to examine
forms of 'discursive construction of reality'. Corresponding studies may be
found in sociology, but also in neighbouring disciplines such as political
science, historical science, educational science, theology, linguistics, and
criminology, among many others. This approach to discourse research combines
social constructionist and interpretive-pragmatic schools of thought with the
theoretical concepts and lines of investigation of discourse in the tradition
of Michel Foucault, with the intention of analysing knowledge relations and
policies in society. 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.
Following the Augsburg conferences in 2013, 2015,
and 2017 on interpretive and sociology of knowledge discourse research with
over 120 participants and 40 contributions from different disciplines in each
year, the upcoming conference would like to 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.