International relations in France writing between discipline and state
Why is the French International Relations (IR) discipline different from the transnational-American discipline? By analysing argument structures in research articles across time, this book shows how the discipline in France is caught between the American character of the discipline and the French st...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge
2013.
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : 2013. |
| Edición: | 1st edition |
| Colección: | Worlding beyond the West ;
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628159406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction and method
- Introduction
- The paradoxical case of French IR
- Inter/national: French versus transnational-American IR
- How the argument is construed
- Chapter overviews including methods and sources
- 2 Theory: legitimate forms of expression
- Towards a political sociology of legitimate forms of expression
- The meta-IR debate: proposal for a structure
- A heuristic model of variables in national IR disciplines
- Form and the domestic internal-external dynamic
- Archaeology: socially dependent knowledge production
- Domestic-external variables: contents and dynamics
- Moving from content to form
- Social science between science and literature, university and the public sphere
- Genre as sociological structure: contrastive rhetoric and composition studies
- Conclusion
- 3 Less Lego: French IR origins and arguments in a comparative perspective
- The differentiation of academic from societal discourses
- Discourses on the "international
- Institutional origins of French IR
- Media for academic knowledge production in French political science
- French versus Scandinavian integration into transnational-American IR
- Sixty years of IR research practice compared
- Justification of data sets, methods of selection
- Findings
- Conclusion
- 4 Close readings: dissertational patterns versus Lego science
- Theory: linguistic turn/turn to practice/epistemology
- Contrastive rhetoric
- Contrastive studies on the French language
- Characteristics of the "dissertation
- The dissertation versus the modern social science research article
- Examples of standardisation including style manuals
- Progressive Lego convergence: transnational-American examples
- Close reading of French research practice.
- Referencing through allusions
- Concluding sections
- Absent or weak thesis statements
- Thesis statements with qualifiers
- Identifications of theoretical ramifications
- Conclusion
- 5 Writing like a state
- High culture as state in practice
- The continuity of the French state as aristocratic Republicanism
- The reproduction of literary Cartesianism
- The political sociology of a genre
- 6 Conclusion: French IR and social science writing between state and discipline
- The troubled methodological origins of IR as a discipline
- Future perspectives
- Notes
- References
- Index.
