[IMCnetwork] New work in interpretive methods! (Shameless plug)

[April Biccum]

Dear IMCers,

Our network is 158 members strong! 😊

Let’s use this space to promote new work in interpretive methods. If you have something coming out which uses interpretive methods, please let me know and let’s circulate.

To that end, attached is the book flyer, ToC and introduction to an anthology of historians in the book series Yearbook for the Global History of Development, examining the continuities between empire and development.

Graduate students often ask me how do we do history in interpretive methods. There are many areas of political science that engage with history, including historical IR and interdisciplinary spaces like global historical sociology.

One way for interpretive political scientists to engage with history is learn more about the methodological questions that historians grapple with. That includes questions of how to periodize and understand historical change.

Some of these issues are addressed in the volume’s introduction.

More soon!
April

Dr. April R. Biccum
Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial International Relations
School of Politics and International Relations
The Australian National University
April.biccum at anu.edu.au<mailto:April.biccum at anu.edu.au>
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I’m writing to you from the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri People whose sovereignty was never ceded
I pay my respects to their elders past,  present and emerging

Most Recent Publications:

Forthcoming, “The Colonial Origins of Global Citizenship”, in Yearbook for the History of Global Development.

2025, “Conceptualising a case, casing a concept? Two faces of Global Citizenship”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10361146.2025.2454559

2024, “What do you need to know to live in the world? Global educational reform and the democratisation of knowledge”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767724.2024.2312834

2023 “Telling the truth about Empire? A word on methodology”
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajph.12928

2023 “Interpretive methods in the Digital Age”
https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/52557/chapter/425773673


Websites:

http://politicsir.cass.anu.edu.au/research/projects/interpretation-method-critique

https://anu-au.academia.edu/AprilBiccum

 http://gloknos.ac.uk/people-partners/associated-members/april-biccum


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