SKAD spotlight session at ICQI 2015 (Urbana-Champaign)
Given the interest in the SKAD spotlight sessions in 2014, I will organize another SKAD spotlight session for the next Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in May 2015, at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (US), known as the ‘Denzin conference’ (for general information see http://www.icqi.org/). Those of you who would like to present and discuss their work (using SKAD) are welcome to send me a title and a short abstract (no longer than 350 words, english) by September 10th 2014 . The programm will be build up upon evaluation of the proposals.
The session will discuss empirical research using the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD). This perspective on discourses and their analysis draws on Foucault, Berger and Luckmann and the interpretative paradigm of sociology including symbolic interactionism. In comparison to the Foucauldian tradition, SKAD focuses more on social actors and societal arenas of discursive disputes. In comparison to Berger & Luckmann, it expands analysis of societal processes of knowledge construction in institutional contexts and in public or semi-public arenas. Integrating both, it re-orientates discourse research towards questions of social relationships of knowledge and politics of knowledge - following knowledges, their production and power effects through societies. SKAD developed in German Social Sciences since the early 2000s and is now used in Anglo-Saxon contexts too. It is widely considered as a fresh analytical perspective on discourse research issues, referring in its concrete ‘ways of doing’ to qualitative research design and interpretative analytics. The panel presents researchers using the SKAD framework in their work.
Please have a look at the SKAD blogspot page: http://kellersskad.blogspot.de/p/blog-page.html
References:
Keller. R. (2011): The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD), in: Human Studies 2011, 34 (1) S.43-65
Keller, R. (2012). Entering Discourses: A New Agenda for Qualitative Research and Sociology of Knowledge. In: Qualitative Sociology Review 2012, Vol. VIII Issue 2, S.46-55
Keller, R. (2013): Doing Discourse Research. London: Sage