Advancing Methods for Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences – serie

mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This book provides a practical guide to a novel framework combining three diverse traditions within the field of discourse studies: Poststructuralist Discourse Theory, Critical Discourse Studies and Corpus Linguistics.

This book explores the potential of relational research as a creative and participatory endeavor to produce knowledge. Bringing together insights from social construction, intersectional feminist frameworks, decolonial practices, queer theories, and queer worldmaking, it prompts researchers to reimagine the theoretical underpinnings and methodological choices that shape their work. In doing so, it aims to foster a community of practice where scholars collectively navigate the complex terrain of contemporary research to promote knowledges that are multiple and inclusive.This edited collection invites researchers to embrace creativity and intentional relationality. These invitations embrace knowledge as co-created and hope to develop methods to address contemporary global challenges, such as climate change, the surge of populism, and the enduring legacies of colonialism, racial, gendered, and sexual marginalization. It advocates for alternative methodologies to produce useful knowledge in action, and provides practical frameworks to do so.This book is the perfect resource for students and researchers interested in imagining new ways of putting into action the insights from decolonial, inclusive, and interdisciplinary relational research methods and methodologies.

This book is an extremely concrete and practical A-Z guide about how to design, undertake and communicate the results of a mixed methods approach to critical discourse analysis (MMCDA) in the social sciences, addressing an important gap in the existing social sciences methodological literature. Focusing on research related to political studies and international relations, and organized around detailed discussions of the processes used, lessons learned, and research outcomes of 3 award-winning MMCDA research projects in a number of different subfields in political science and international relations (as well as discussions about the potential relevance of and considerations around the use of AI in MMCDA research), the goal of this book is to give readers everything they require to design, conduct, and communicate an MMCDA research project on their own topics of investigation.