Stanley, L. orcid.org/0000-0003-3882-8682 and Jackson, R. (2016) Introduction: Everyday narratives in world politics. Politics, 36 (3). pp. 223-235. ISSN 0263-3957
Abstract
Political science and international relations scholarship increasingly places substantive emphasis on, to put it broadly, the power of discourse in shaping world politics. This Special Issue develops a research agenda that seeks to consolidate a set of data collection and analysis strategies that can be used in studying the way in which elite-driven discourses are legitimated and challenged – in other words, an agenda for studying everyday narratives in world politics. In doing so, the Special Issue makes a threefold contribution: it analyses how key themes with world politics are reproduced and narrated; it demonstrates the need to go beyond ‘methodological elitism’ in understanding narratives, legitimacy, and world politics; and it highlights some of the methodological and practical issues in researching everyday narratives. In this introductory article, we situate the Special Issue within a critique of constructivist methodology broadly conceived, conceptualise everyday sites of politics, and finally, provide an overview of the articles in the issue.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2016. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Politics. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | constructivism; discourse; everyday; narratives |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 17 Jun 2016 12:25 |
Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2017 11:32 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263395716653423 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0263395716653423 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:100919 |