Interpretive Methods as a Window into Individual Experiences and the Pandemic

Author(s):  
Shawn R. Coon ◽  
Amy Aldous Bergerson
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1993 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-40
Author(s):  
S. Fazel ◽  
Khazeh Fananapazir

Because it precludes the acceptance of Messengers of God after the Islamic dispensation, the concept of the finality of prophethood (khatm al-nubuwwa) is the major theological barrier between the Bahá’í Faith and Islam. This article surveys the philological, theological, and historical interpretations of the terms Prophet and Seal, and offers an approach based upon the Bahá’í writings to their meaning that reconciles the “Seal of the Prophets” doctrine with progressive revelation. In addition the related problem. of the finality of Islam is analyzed. The article argues the need for a multiplicity of interpretive methods in addressing problems of religious pluralism.


Author(s):  
Sunil Bhatia

This chapter documents the ethnographic context in which the interviews and participant observation were conducted for the study presented in this book. It also situates the study within the context of narrative inquiry and develops arguments about the role of self-reflexivity in doing ethnography at “home” and producing qualitative forms of knowledge that are based on personal, experiential, and cultural narratives. It is argued that there is significant interest in the adoption of interpretive methods or qualitative research in psychology. The qualitative approaches in psychology present a provocative and complex vision of how the key concepts related to describing and interpreting cultural codes, social practices, and lived experience of others are suffused with both poetical and political elements of culture. The epistemological and ontological assumptions undergirding qualitative research reflect multiple “practices of inquiry” and methodologies that have different orientations, assumptions, values, ideologies, and criterion of excellence.


Human Affairs ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 240-252
Author(s):  
Tereza Škubalová

Abstract This paper explores the epistemology and methodology for describing sexual/erotic desire in women. Culture provides a variety of discourses which create possibilities for individual agents to think, experience and act. This paper outlines the dominant discourses of sexuality. The main focus is on the emerging psychodynamic understanding of erotic desire as a cultivated way of experiencing and expressing intersubjective embodied desire. The story of a female research participant has been selected to illustrate the journey from undifferentiated physical and mental experiences of desire to the peculiar integration of both aspects in her lived experience. A combination of interpretive methods is employed.


Author(s):  
Serpil Oppermann

Key words: rhizomatic trajectory, third wave, postmodern ecocriticism, Deleuze and Guattari, interconnected approaches, ecocritical heterogeneity, multiplicity of theories  In its third wave, ecocriticism has become multicultural and transnational, and expanded rapidly in terms of epistemological positions and interpretive methods. Its very multiple directions and methodological and theoretical plurality may appear problematic. However, ecocritical theory and practice are not arbitrary or ‘ambivalently open’, but rather pursue a trajectory summed up by Deleuze and Guattari in the image of the rhizome. The quintessentially postmodern concept of the rhizome as an acentred, non-hierarchical system operating by variation and alliance permits us to recognise a cultivated kind of growth where others have seen only disciplinary crisis.  Palabras clave: trayectoria rizomática, tercera oleada, ecocrítica posmoderna, Deleuze y Guattari, enfoques interconectados, heterogeneidad ecocrítica, multiplicidad de teorías  En esta tercera oleada, la ecocrítica se ha vuelto multicultural y transnacional, y se ha expandido rápidamente en lo que respecta a posiciones epistemológicas y a métodos interpretativos. Sus múltiples direcciones y su pluralidad metodológica y teórica pueden parecer problemáticas. Sin embargo, la teoría y prácticas ecocríticas no son arbitrarias o “abiertas de forma ambivalente”, sino que más bien continúan una trayectoria que Deleuze y Guattari han resumido en la imagen del rizoma. El concepto postmodernista por excelencia del rizoma es un sistema no-jerárquico y sin centro que se rige por la variedad y la alianza y que nos permite reconocer un tipo de crecimiento cultivado donde otros sólo han visto una crisis disciplinaria.  


2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Austin Barrett ◽  
Andrew J. Mowen

This paper analyzed the effectiveness of an artistic place-based climate change interpretive program at Glacier National Park in Montana. Utilizing the framework of place-based climate change communication and the use of artistic interpretive methods, this study offered support for the efficacy of communicating climate change at a climate-impacted location. The survey instrument assessed emotional, intellectual, and stewardship response measures, as well as climate change response outcomes. Regardless of the artistic program format (live music or poetry), visitors responded favorably to all three of the interpretive outcome domain measures. Statistical comparisons found a number of differences between interpretive outcome measures in regard to motivation and visitor characteristics. By utilizing artistic approaches, this study offers support for the growing body of research about the power of place-based interpretive messaging to engage the public on the issue of climate change.


1996 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 15-18
Author(s):  
Christine O'Brien

ABSTRACTInterpreters have concentrated much of their attention on protected sites. A challenge exists for them to use their skills in relation to issues such as pollution and waste management. Examples of such a use of interpretive methods are presented.


2020 ◽  
pp. 001083672097242
Author(s):  
Jérémie Cornut ◽  
Nicolas de Zamaróczy

Practice theorists favor interviews and participant observations in their study. Using insights from anthropological works on bureaucratic texts, in this article we develop methodological tools to complement these interpretive methods of data collection. We suggest a way to trace practices by systematically looking through both the content of documents and their form. We probe this approach with an analysis of 408 diplomatic cables sent by the US Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2005–2009 and subsequently released by Wikileaks. We draw on these documents to tell two related stories about diplomatic practices: the first about epistemic practices and how the cables privilege certain voices and types of knowledge over others, and the second about diplomatic culture, where the cables serve as evidence of the powerful socialization processes that diplomats are subject to. This contributes to International Relations (IR) with a new approach for systematically analyzing written documents to uncover international practices.


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