The Interpretation, Method and Critique (IMC) Seminar Series promotes and celebrates work in interpretive and critical methodologies and methods in the social sciences. It is interdisciplinary and welcoming of all research that places intersubjective meaning-making at the centre of social scientific inquiry, or that identifies with one or more traditions in critical theory and praxis.
Seminars are on Fridays, 12 - 1pm, Australian Eastern Time (Standard/Daylight) unless otherwise indicated.
Some past IMC seminars videos are available online.
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- Nick Cheesman
Past Events
Rethinking comparison: Innovative methods for qualitative political inquiry (Erica Simmons, Nick Rush Smith)
Erica Simmons (Wisconsin-Madison), Nick Rush Smith (CUNY)
Qualitative comparative methods – and specifically controlled qualitative comparisons – are central to the study of politics. They are not the only…
Misunderstanding ethnography: Evidence in law, journalism and political ethnography (Sharon Batt, David Forrest, Anastasia Shesterinina, Dvora Yanow, Nick Cheesman)
Sharon Batt (Dalhousie), David Forrest (Oberlin), Anastasia Shesterinina (Sheffield), Dvora Yanow (Wageningen), Nick Cheesman (ANU)
In Interrogating Ethnography: Why Evidence Matters (2018), law professor and lawyer Steven Lubet mounts a concerted attack on ethnography for relying…
Promoting (reflexive) methodological pluralism: An autoethnographic account of mapping the political science research on judicialization (Leila Kawar)
Leila Kawar (Michigan)
Promoting methodological pluralism has been a major theme of discussion across multiple political science subfields. But, notably, qualitative…