Human migration, mobility and forced displacement after the Pandemic
Webinar/Online
Professor Alan Gamlen in discussion with Professor Tracy Beck Fenwick on Human migration, mobility and forced displacement after the Pandemic. Alan will be updating his predictions and questions from a paper published near the beginning of the pandemic, for the International Organisation…
A meta-categorical framework for relational policy theory: re-imagining the Multiple Streams Framework (Nick Turnbull)
Seminar
Tripartite theoretical frameworks and metaphors are common in policy theory. We argue that these frameworks have been misapplied, being construed ontologically when they are, in fact, categories of questions. The ontological reading generates a theoretical obstacle in presupposing an assumption of…
Vision and method in global historical sociology (George Lawson)
Seminar
Historical sociology is a long-established interdisciplinary field concerned with incorporating temporality in the analysis of social processes. Global historical sociology examines the transnational and global features of these processes. It is premised on two interrelated dynamics: first, the…
Access and Ethics in Prison Research (Farah Godrej)
Seminar
How do the requirements of “scholarly” research—including and especially ethics reviews by institutional bodies—serve to shape and constrain the access that researchers can gain to prisons? How does it shape the researcher’s engagement with their incarcerated research participants?…
Three Faces of Revolution: Egypt and Other Places (Mona El-Ghobashy)
Seminar
The Arab uprisings of 2010-11 renewed scholarly interest in revolutions as a conceptual category. At the same time, ‘democratic transition’ was also widely used to analyze post-authoritarian polities. However, faced with the daunting complexity and breakneck speed of regional events, analysts began…
How I Studied Anti-Americanism: Reflections on Interpretivism, Eclecticism, and Coherence (Edward Schatz)
Seminar
How can social science research do justice to polysemy, ambiguity, dynamism, recursivity, indeterminacy, and contingency while making substantive, coherent truth-claims? In this talk, Edward Schatz reflects on the entirely messy processes that helped to produce his recent book Slow Anti-Americanism…
Telling the truth about empire? A note on methodology (April Biccum)
Seminar
In the fourth talk for the 'Rethinking Interpretive Methods" series, hosted by the Interpretation, Method and Critique Network at ANU, April Biccum will present on: "Telling the truth about empire? The contribution of a critical interpretivist approach". In the last few…