Past events
13
May
2022
A meta-categorical framework for relational policy theory: re-imagining the Multiple Streams Framework
Tripartite theoretical frameworks and metaphors are common in policy theory. We argue that these frameworks have been misapplied, being construed ontologically...
29
Apr
2022
Vision and method in global historical sociology
Historical sociology is a long-established interdisciplinary field concerned with incorporating temporality in the analysis of social processes. Global...
22
Apr
2022
Access and Ethics in Prison Research
How do the requirements of “scholarly” research—including and especially ethics reviews by institutional bodies—serve to shape and constrain the access that...
18
Mar
2022
Three Faces of Revolution: Egypt and Other Places
The Arab uprisings of 2010-11 renewed scholarly interest in revolutions as a conceptual category. At the same time, ‘democratic transition’ was also widely...
11
Mar
2022
How I Studied Anti-Americanism: Reflections on Interpretivism, Eclecticism, and Coherence
How can social science research do justice to polysemy, ambiguity, dynamism, recursivity, indeterminacy, and contingency while making substantive, coherent...
31
Jan
2022
ANU Online Summer School in Political Analysis 2022
ANU Online Summer School in Political Analysis (SSPA)
January 31st - February 18th 2022
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 15 JANUARY 2022
Advanced and foundational...
19
Nov
2021
Telling the truth about empire? A note on methodology
In the fourth talk for the 'Rethinking Interpretive Methods" series, hosted by the Interpretation, Method and Critique Network at ANU, April Biccum will...