![]() ![]() ![]() Part 3 explores the implications of our analysis beyond the academy for policymakers. Part 2 illustrates the approach ‘in action’ with several case studies including, a thick description of the court politics of a British prime minister, and a personal essay on being a university manager. Part 1 provides both a recap of interpretive theory and its extension to cover the different genres in the Humanities. Explore the skies to restore serenity to the world below. Grow your unique town among the clouds, and fly it across a wide-open landscape. So, we give ourselves license to poach in the humanities for theories, topics, and methods relevant to political studies. Summary: Airborne Kingdom the sky city builder. It is about opening a conversation with the humanities that enlarges our organizing perspective and broadens our toolkit. It is not about replacing but adding to the political scientists’ toolkit. It takes us out of our comfort zone by asking us what we want to know and providing new ways of finding out. We believe the task of blurring genres – of learning from the humanities – is an exciting challenge for political scientists. The task is to recover the meaning of games, dramas, and texts and to tease out their consequences. They draw on ‘analogies drawn from the humanities’ within which ‘society is less and less represented as an elaborate machine or quasi-organism and more as a serious game, a sidewalk drama, or a behavioural text’. ‘Social scientists have turned away from a laws and instances ideal of explanation towards a cases and interpretations one’. As Clifford Geertz argued ‘there has been an enormous amount of genre mixing in intellectual life’. It stresses the recovery of meaning, and it blurs genres. An anti-naturalist interpretivism is widespread in the humanities. The phrase ‘blurring genres’ refers to poaching the humanities for any theory and method useful in the study of politics. This book is the fourth and latest in our joint publications. With Mark Bevir, I developed an interpretive approach to the study of politics and government. ![]()
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