Call for Panel Contributions: Imaginaries in the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD)

Imaginaries in the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD)

Organisers: Reiner Keller (University of Augsburg) and Annette Knaut (Berlin)

The term “imaginary” denotes different meanings in different linguistic and sociocultural contexts. Its shape and value have been discussed in different academic, societal, cultural, historical and art contexts. At the crossroads of science studies and political science, especially Jasanoff’s interpretation had a huge impact within interpretive policy research. But systematic considerations within discourse studies are rare.

In this panel we want to discuss if and how concepts of “imaginaries” could be conceptualized within the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD), what role they play within social (power) relations of knowledge and knowing, and politics of knowledge and knowing, and how they could be researched empirically. The panel welcomes papers discussing theoretical or methodological questions of researching “imaginaries” within the context of SKAD, as well as topic-related empirical research. Contributions might address,

• Critical reflections of advantages and obstacles of using concepts of imaginaries in relation to discourse, knowledge and power;
• empirical studies using the concept (including, e.g., visual and/or multimodal representations of imaginaries);
• (critical) discussions of “imaginaries and their consequences” within the general SKAD-framework.
   

   

  Please submit your proposal (250 words max., including panel reference) at lat-est at February 27 2025 via https://resic1.limesurvey.net/274575?lang=en and please send us a pdf copy.

  For congress information, see https://discourseanalysis.net/DNC6.

  For questions related to your proposal, please contact

  reiner.keller@phil.uni-augsburg.de and annette.knaut@phil.uni-augsburg.de.