Saša Bosančić
Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences
University of Augsburg, Germany
The workshop will discuss the theoretical groundings and the methodology of empirical research on discourses and regimes of power/knowledge in different social areas, using the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD). This perspective on discourses and their analysis draws on Foucault, Berger & 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 reorientates discourse research towards questions of social relationships of knowledge and politics of knowledge – following knowledges, their production and power effects through societies. In doing so, SKAD takes also into account research questions concerning situational analysis and organizational discourse as well as the questions of subjectivation.
If you are working with SKAD (or a SKAD-related approach) or if you are planning in doing so, there will be an opportunity to present and discuss your project during the workshop. It will also be possible to discuss your empirical data. If you are interested in presenting and discussing your work please write to sasa.bosancic@phil.uni-augsburg.de
The workshop language will be English.