{"id":1001,"date":"2020-02-13T18:22:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T18:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/interpretationandmethod\/?page_id=1001"},"modified":"2024-01-22T23:37:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T23:37:25","slug":"the-charles-taylor-book-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/interpretationandmethod\/the-charles-taylor-book-award\/","title":{"rendered":"The Charles Taylor Book Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Conference Group of the American Political Science Association invites nominations for the Charles Taylor Book Award, which it gives annually to recognize the best book in political science that employs or develops interpretive methodologies and methods.<\/p>\n

This Award commemorates Charles Taylor\u2019s contributions to interpretive thought in the political and social sciences. In \u201cInterpretation and the Sciences of Man\u201d (1971), Taylor critiqued aspirations to model the study of politics on the natural sciences, and explained how \u201cinterpretation is essential to explanation\u201d in the human sciences. This essay, along with Taylor\u2019s Philosophical Papers<\/em>, and many other articles, book chapters, and volumes, have inspired scholars employing and developing interpretive methodologies and methods in the study of\u00a0politics.<\/p>\n

The Award will go to a book exploring any aspect of political life that addresses problems and topics in interpretive methodologies, or reports the results of empirical research using interpretive methods. Thus, the book might engage with the philosophy of interpretive political and social science, reflect upon methodological issues arising from interpretive research, and\/or take the form of an empirical study that pursues interpretive research.<\/p>\n

Eligible books will distinguish themselves as contributions to interpretivist thought in one or more of the following ways. First, they will treat knowledge, including scientific knowledge, as historically situated and enmeshed in relationships of power. Second, they will approach the world as socially made, so that the categories, presuppositions, and classifications that refer to particular phenomena are understood to be manufactured rather than natural. Third and relatedly, they will eschew the individualist orientation that characterizes rational choice and behaviorist research, instead addressing how ideas, beliefs, values, and preferences are always embedded in a social world, which is constituted through humans\u2019 linguistic, affective, institutional, and practical relations with others.<\/p>\n

Nominations are welcome from anyone. Authors may nominate their own work, as may readers and publishers. The nominated work may be either a single- or multi-authored book or an edited volume. To be eligible, books must have been published during the two-calendar-year period prior to the year of the APSA meeting, as determined by the printed book\u2019s copyright date. To be eligible for the 2024 Charles Taylor Award, the nominated book must bear a copyright date of either 2022 or 2023. A book that was nominated for the 2023 Charles Taylor Award cannot be nominated again for the 2024 Award. The award committee is under no obligation to make an award if submissions do not merit such recognition.<\/p>\n

The Group will announce and present the Award at the annual APSA conference during its business meeting or reception.<\/p>\n

Selection Process<\/b>:<\/p>\n

To be considered for the 2024 award, please do the following:<\/p>\n

1. Mail\u00a0one copy\u00a0<\/b>of the nominated book\u00a0to\u00a0each<\/u>\u00a0member of the award committee\u00a0<\/b>(listed below)\u00a0<\/b>so as to be received by March 30, 2024<\/b>.<\/p>\n

2. Email the committee chair Farah Godrej,\u00a0godrej@ucr.edu<\/a>, notifying of the nomination.<\/p>\n

Members of the award committee for 2024 are:<\/b><\/p>\n

Farah Godrej (chair), Department of Political Science, University of California, Riverside<\/p>\n

Mail to<\/u>:\u00a03782 Latrobe St, Los Angeles, CA 90031<\/span>, United States<\/p>\n

Kevin Funk, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University<\/p>\n

Mail to<\/u>: 23-15 29th Street,\u00a0Apt. 1A, Astoria, NY 11105<\/span>, United States<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Ciro Mart\u00ednez, Department of Politics & International Relations, University of York<\/p>\n

Mail to<\/u>: Department of Politics and International Relations, University of York,\u00a0York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Previous recipients of the Charles Taylor Book Award:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

2023:<\/strong> Farah Godrej, UC Riverside, Freedom Inside? Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State<\/a> (Oxford UP, 2022).<\/p>\n

2023 Honorable Mention:<\/span> Jos\u00e9 Ciro Mart\u00ednez, University of York, States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan<\/a> (Stanford UP, 2022)<\/p>\n

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2022<\/strong>: Mona El-Ghobashy, New York University, Bread and Freedom: Egypt\u2019s Revolutionary Situation<\/a><\/em> (Stanford University Press, 2021); and, Anastasia Shesterinina, University of Sheffield, Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia<\/a> <\/em> (Cornell University Press, 2021). Citation<\/a>. The 2022 Announcement is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

2021: <\/strong>Thea Riofrancos (Providence College), for <\/span>Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador<\/em><\/a> (Duke University Press).<\/span> Citation<\/a>. The 2021 Announcement is available\u00a0<\/span>here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

2021 Honorable Mentions:<\/span> Robert Nichols (University of Minnesota), for Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory<\/em><\/a> (Duke University Press), Citation<\/a>; and Diana S. Kim (Georgetown University), for Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia <\/a><\/em>(Princeton University Press), Citation<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

2020<\/strong>: Lisa Wedeen (University of Chicago), for\u00a0Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology,\u00a0Judgment, and Mourning in Syria<\/i>\u00a0<\/a>(University of Chicago Press, 2019). Citation<\/a>. The 2020 Announcement is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2020 Honorable Mention<\/span>: <\/span>Nicholas Rush Smith (City College of New York), for <\/span>Contradictions of Democracy: Vigilantism and Rights in\u00a0Post-Apartheid South Africa<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>(Oxford University Press, 2019). <\/span>Citation<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

2019<\/strong>: Matthew Longo (Leiden University), The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9\/11<\/a> <\/em>(Cambridge University Press, 2018). Citation<\/a> and photos (1<\/a> and 2<\/a>). The 2019 Announcement is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2019 Honorable Mentions<\/span>: Lee Ann Fujii (late of University of Toronto), for Interviewing in Social Science Research: A Relational Approach<\/a> <\/em>(Routledge, 2018); Timothy Pachirat (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), for Among Wolves: Ethnography and the Immersive Study of Power<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>(Routledge, 2018). Citation<\/a> and photo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2018<\/strong>:\u00a0Bernardo Zacka (MIT), for\u00a0When the State Meets the Street: Public Service and Moral Agency<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Harvard University Press, 2017). Citation<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0photo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2018 Honorable Mentions<\/span>: Shiri Pasternak (Trent University) for Grounded Authority: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake Against the State<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(University of Minnesota Press, 2017). Citation<\/a>; Stefanie Fishel (University of Alabama) for The Microbial State: Global Thriving and the Global State<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(University of Minnesota Press, 2017). Citation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2017<\/strong>:\u00a0Sarah Wiebe, University of Hawaii, for\u00a0Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley<\/em><\/a> (Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2016). Citation<\/a> and photo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2016<\/strong>: Daniel Kato, Queen Mary University of London, Liberalizing Lynching: Building a New Racialized State<\/em><\/a> (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015). Citation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2015<\/strong>: Davina Cooper, University of Kent, for Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces <\/a>(Duke University Press, 2014). Citation<\/a> and photo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2014<\/strong>: Paul Amar, UC-Santa Barbara, for The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism <\/a>(Duke University Press, 2013).\u00a0 Citation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2013<\/strong>: Sharon Sliwinski, University of Western Ontario, for\u00a0Human Rights in Camera<\/a> (University of Chicago Press, 2011). Citation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2012<\/strong>:\u00a0 No books considered.<\/p>\n

2011<\/strong>:\u00a0 No award presented.<\/p>\n

2010<\/strong>:\u00a0 Michael Loriaux, Northwestern University, for European Union and the Deconstruction of the Rhineland Frontier<\/a> (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Citation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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