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From: Nicholas Rush Smith <nrsmith.ccny at gmail.com>
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] Reminder: IMM 2024 Awards Call for Nominations – Deadline March 30
Date: March 22, 2024 at 1:05:00 AM GMT+11
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Dear Colleagues,

The Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Related Group of the American Political Science Association requests nominations for two awards to be given at the upcoming APSA Annual Meeting: the Charles Taylor Book Award and the Hayward R. Alker Best Student Paper Award. Details on eligibility criteria and submission procedures are below. The deadline to submit nominations for both awards is March 30.

-Nick Smith, IMM Executive Committee



The Charles Taylor Book Award 2024

The Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Related 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.

This Award commemorates Charles Taylor’s contributions to interpretive thought in the political and social sciences. In “Interpretation and the Sciences of Man” (1971), Taylor critiqued aspirations to model the study of politics on the natural sciences, and explained how “interpretation is essential to explanation” in the human sciences. This essay, along with Taylor’s Philosophical Papers, and many other articles, book chapters, and volumes, have inspired scholars employing and developing interpretive methodologies and methods in the study of politics.

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.

Selection Criteria:

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 behavioralist research, instead addressing how ideas, beliefs, values, and preferences are always embedded in a social world, which is constituted through humans’ linguistic, affective, institutional, and practical relations with others.

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’s 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.

The Group will announce and present the Award at the annual APSA conference during its business meeting or reception.

Selection Process:

To be considered for the 2024 award, please do the following:

1. Mail one copy of the nominated book to each member of the award committee (listed below) so as to be received by March 30, 2024.

2. Email the committee chair Farah Godrej, godrej at ucr.edu<mailto:godrej at ucr.edu>, notifying of the nomination.

Members of the award committee for 2024 are:

Farah Godrej (chair), Department of Political Science, University of California, Riverside

Mail to: 3782 Latrobe St, Los Angeles, CA 90031, United States

Kevin Funk, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University

Mail to: 23-15 29th Street, Apt. 1A, Astoria, NY 11105, United States

José Ciro Martínez, Department of Politics & International Relations, University of York

Mail to: Department of Politics and International Relations, University of York,

York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom

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Recent award winners:

2023: Farah Godrej, UC Riverside, Freedom Inside? Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State (Oxford UP, 2022)

Honourable Mention: José Ciro Martínez, University of York, States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan (Stanford UP, 2022)

2022: Mona El-Ghobashy, NYU, Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation (Stanford UP, 2021); and, Anastasia Shesterinina, University of Sheffield, Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia (Cornell UP, 2021).

2021: Thea Riofrancos, Providence College, Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador (Duke UP, 2020)

Honorable Mentions: Diana S. Kim, Georgetown University, Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia (Princeton UP, 2020); and, Robert Nichols, University of Minnesota, Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory (Duke UP, 2020)

2020: Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago, Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria (University of Chicago Press, 2019)

Honorable Mention: Nicholas Rush Smith, City College-CUNY, Contradictions of Democracy: Vigilantism and Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Oxford UP, 2019)

2019: Matthew Longo, Leiden University, The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen After 9/11 (Cambridge UP, 2018)

Honorable Mentions: Timothy Pachirat, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Among Wolves: Ethnography and the Immersive Study of Power (Routledge, 2018); and, Lee Ann Fujii, University of Toronto, Interviewing in Social Science Research: A Relational Approach (Routledge, 2017)

All winners since 2010, with links to books and citations, on the IMM website: https://connect.apsanet.org/<wbr>interpretationandmethod/the-<wbr>charles-taylor-book-award/<https://connect.apsanet.org/interpretationandmethod/the-charles-taylor-book-award/>

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The 2024 Hayward R. Alker Best Student Paper Award

The annual Hayward R. Alker award recognizes the student conference paper that best employs or analyzes interpretive methodologies and methods for the study of politics. This award is named to honor the memory of Hayward R. Alker, former President of the International Studies Association and John A. McCone Chair in International Security at the School of International Relations, University of Southern California. Alker passed away on August 24, 2007. From his humanistic critique of mainstream political science, to the role he played in the development and promotion of interdisciplinary, historically grounded, linguistically and hermeneutically-informed approaches to political science, Hayward Alker was a tireless champion of interpretive methodologies. His commitment to nurturing and encouraging graduate students and young scholars makes this award a doubly appropriate way to honor his contributions.

Selection Criteria:

Papers must come from PhD students in political science, and must have been presented at a political science association conference (e.g. American Political Science Association, Western Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association, other regional or state meetings, as well as other associations such as European Consortium for Political Research, International Political Science Association, or International Studies Association and its regional meetings) in the academic year preceding the award. Authors must be enrolled as PhD students at the time of the paper’s conference presentation.

The award is given to papers presented during the academic year preceding the year of the submission deadline. The 2024 Alker Award will be given to conference papers presented between September 15, 2022, and September 14, 2023. Nominated papers should be identical to the version presented at the conference; subsequent revisions are not eligible.

Reflecting Hayward Alker’s eclectic approach to political studies, the award will be given to a paper studying any aspect of political life that either (1) engages interpretive methodological issues or (2) reports the results of empirical research conducted using interpretive research methods. Interpretivism may be understood as an approach to research that explicitly foregrounds and embraces the interpretive processes inherent to all inquiry and data analysis. Interpretive epistemologies attend to the ways individuals and collectives form ideas, arguments, or worldviews, seeking to understand how actors and researchers make sense of their social and political world, and how these modes of being and knowing impact behaviors, political outcomes, and the production of knowledge. In explaining how things—ideas, events, actors, bodies, institutions, laws, movements, physical artifacts—are made meaningful in specific research settings, interpretive scholars are acutely interested in the historical, individual, and social contingencies that constitute any given fact, data set, or theoretical frame. Thus, rather than assume categories or subjects exist empirically in a static form, interpretivists seek out context-specific meanings and prioritize lived experiences. For more background on interpretive methodologies and methods, please visit our website:

https://connect.apsanet.org/<wbr>interpretationandmethod/imm-<wbr>conference-group-apsa/<https://connect.apsanet.org/interpretationandmethod/imm-conference-group-apsa/>

Submission Process:

Deadline: March 30, 2024

To be considered for APSA 2024 award, nominated papers must be received no later than March 30, 2024. Please review the selection criteria carefully to confirm eligibility prior to submission.

Authors may self-nominate. We also encourage chairs of panels as well as discussants to nominate outstanding papers from their conference sessions.

One copy of the nominated paper should be emailed as a pdf or Word file to the chair of the award committee, along with a short statement (no longer than one paragraph) stating how the nominated paper speaks to interpretive methodologies and/or methods. Please include the date and name of the conference where the paper was presented.

Members of the award committee for 2024 are: Eleanor Knott (Chair) at the London School of Economics, Be Stone at Rhodes College, and Kira Tait at the University of California – Santa Cruz.

Please send nominated papers to Eleanor Knott at e.k.knott at lse.ac.uk<mailto:e.k.knott at lse.ac.uk>

The award will be announced and presented at the 2024 American Political Science Association conference during the business meeting or reception of the Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Related Group. The award committee is under no obligation to make an award for a year in which submissions do not merit such recognition.

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Recent award winners:

2023. Be Stone (PhD Candidate The City University of New York), “The Gendered Meanings and Uses of Collective ‘Addictions’ in U.S. Public Policy: A Case Study of the ‘Welfare Addict’” presented at the 2022 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Montreal.
2022. No award given.

2021: Rahardhika Utama (PhD candidate, Northwestern University) for “Politics of Memory, Underdevelopment, and Remnants of Political Violence in the Sumatra Rubber Belt” presented at the Southeast Asia Research Group Mini Conference II, August 2020.

2020: Devon Cantwell (Ph.D. candidate, University of Utah) for “Decision 2030: An Empirical Analysis of City Climate Action Planning and Decision-Making,” presented at the 2019 meeting of the Western Political Science Association in San Diego.

2019: Zainab Alam (Ph.D. candidate, Rutgers University, New Brunswick) for “Do-it-Yourself Activism in Pakistan: The Fatal Celebrity of Qandeel Baloch,” which was self-nominated and presented at the International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP) Conference in April 2018 and at the North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (NAAIMS) Conference in September 2018.

All winners since 2010, with links to books and citations, on the IMM website: https://connect.apsanet.org/<wbr>interpretationandmethod/the-<wbr>hayward-r-alker-best-student-<wbr>paper-award/<https://connect.apsanet.org/interpretationandmethod/the-hayward-r-alker-best-student-paper-award/>


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Nicholas Rush Smith
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City University of New York - City College
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