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The Interpretive Methodologies and Methods (IMM) Related Group of the American Political Science Association (APSA) is pleased to announce that the 2023 Charles Taylor Book Award for the best book in political science that employs or develops interpretive methodologies and methods has been awarded by the selection committee of Anastasia Shesterinina (chair), Mona El-Ghobashy and Ido Oren … Read more

The latest New Books in Interpretive Political and Social Science episode, hosted by the IMM’s Nick Cheesman, is now online! Please visit: https://newbooksnetwork.com/mobilizing-in-uncertainty. The episode features Anastasia Shesterinina speaking on her book Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia (Cornell University Press, 2021). For more, please see the New Books page, here.

The IMM is pleased to share that the latest New Books in Interpretive Political and Social Science episode is now online: https://newbooksnetwork.com/rethinking-comparison The episode features Erica Simmons and Nicholas Rush Smith on their book Rethinking Comparison: Innovative Methods for Qualitative Political Inquiry (Cambridge University Press, 2021). For more, please see the New Books page, here.

The IMM is pleased to share upcoming events as part of the 2022 Interpretation, Method, and Critique seminar series hosted by the Australian National University’s IMC Network. The series will feature five outstanding speakers: Edward Schatz (Toronto), 12pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT) on 11 March: “How I studied anti-Americanism: Reflections on interpretivism, eclecticism and coherence” … Read more

The IMM’s Nick Cheesman and the New Books in Interpretive Political & Social Science podcast welcome Cecelia Lynch to explore her book, Interpreting International Politics (Routledge, 2014). For more details and to listen, please visit https://newbooksnetwork.com/interpreting-international-politics. For previous episodes, please see the New Books in Interpretive Political and Social Science Podcast page.

IMM is pleased to share the agenda of related panels, the methods café line-up, and business meeting information for APSA 2021. Please see the IMM@APSA page or a PDF of the events listing here.

Episode 8 of the New Books in Interpretive Political and Social Science Podcast, hosted by the IMM’s own Nick Cheesman, is now available! This is a special episode featuring a discussion of Natasha Behl’s Gendered Citizenship: Understanding Gendered Violence in Democratic India (Oxford University Press, 2019). You can listen to the episode here and find previous episodes and read … Read more

Episode 7 of the New Books in Interpretive Political and Social Science Podcast, hosted by the IMM’s own Nick Cheesman, is now available! This is a special episode featuring a discussion of Lee Ann Fujii’s Interviewing in Social Science Research: A Relational Approach (Routledge, 2018) with two of her mentees, Jessica Soedirgo and Aarie Glas. You can … Read more

The next Methods Clinic will be held on April 16, 2021 at 4pm Central European Time (GMT+1)/8am Mountain Time (US). The clinic will explore “Interviewing” and feature two guest discussants: Dr. Nadia E. Brown (Perdue University) and Prof. Robin Harper (York College, CUNY). Advance registration is required. To register, please visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrdOuvqT8pHNcaNG33aSr444gpunqFlXN2 After registering, you will … Read more

The IMM is pleased to share Edward Schatz’s new book, Slow Anti-Americanism: Symbolic Politics and Social Movements in Central Asia (Stanford University Press, 2021). In this book that links social movements to symbolic politics, Schatz considers how changing symbolic depictions of the United States recombine the raw material available for Islamist, human rights, and labor … Read more