Overview

This book introduces relational thinking to political analysis. Instead of merely providing an overview of possible trajectories for articulating a relational political analysis, Peeter Selg and Andreas Ventsel put forth a concrete relational theory of the political, which has implications for research methodology, culminating in a concrete method they call political form analysis. In addition, they sketch out several applications of this theory, methodology and method. They call their approach “political semiotics” and argue that it is a fruitful way of conducting research on power, governance and democracy – the core dimensions of the political – in a manner that is envisioned in numerous discussions of the “relational turn” in the social sciences. It is the first monograph that attempts to outline an approach to the political that would be relational throughout, from its meta theoretical and theoretical premises through to its methodological implications, methods and empirical applications. 

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Author:   Peeter Selg ,  Andreas Ventsel
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9783030487799

ISBN 10:   3030487792
Pages:   319
Publication Date:   22 September 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: political semiotics as a theory, methodology and method of relational political analysis Chapter 1: The ‘Relational Turn’ in the Social Sciences Chapter 2: Relational approach to the political: power, governance, and democracy Chapter 3: Three concepts of semiotics Chapter 4: A framework of political semiotics: political logic of the semiosphere Chapter 5: Political semiotics and the study of the political: power, governance and democracy Chapter 6: Political semiotics as a constitutive explanation and abductive research logic Chapter 7: From methodology to methods and applications: introducing political form analysis Chapter 8: Application of relational political analysis: political semiotic explanation of the constitution of digital threats Conclusion: The Subject and Agenda for Relational Political Analysis

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It is more than an introduction, since it makes an in-depth analysis of different theoretical traditions to, in the end, present a synthesis that constitutes an important contribution to the literature on this subject. (Farid Samir Benavides-Vanegas, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Vol. 34, 2021)

Author Information

Peeter Selg is Professor of Political Theory at Tallinn University, Estonia. Andreas Ventsel is a Senior Research Fellow in Semiotics at Tartu University, Estonia.

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