Blurring Genres Network: Recovering the Humanities for Political Science and Area Studies

该项目将建立一个新的学者和政策制定者网络，他们将探索理论和实践中的创新，恢复艺术和人文学科的研究方法，并鼓励英国和其他地区的政治学家、区域研究学者和政策制定者使用这些方法。该网络将调查不同学科之间模糊流派或跨越边界的例子，以寻求对现代政府理论、政策和实践的制定和重塑的洞察。它将考虑英国及其他国家政府决策的实用性，寻求将这些见解应用于叙述性政策分析等方面。该网络将把致力于政治学解释性方法的国际学者与区域研究专家聚集在一起，调查跨学科研究团队在探索现代治理时可以为传统研究方法带来什么附加值。对于历史学家、政治学家、社会学家、人类学家和哲学家以及政策制定者来说，对叙事和元叙事(关于叙事的叙事)的使用的研究将特别重要。该网络将共同思考在现代政府实践中日常决策的实施中创造、演变和讲述的故事。该项目的目的是从艺术和人文学科中恢复方法论，供政治学家和跨学科领域(或国家)研究专家使用。此外，模糊流派网络将鼓励分享为今后的政策制定和创新学术工作提供信息所需的最佳做法；例如，通过发展叙述性政策分析。新的网络将鼓励美国、英国、中国、澳大利亚、加拿大、巴西和其他地方的学者之间的跨学科研究，采取国际和比较的方法，让政策制定者参与。模糊流派网络将组织一个研究领域，到目前为止，该领域一直是杂乱无章的，缺乏区域会议、出版物或直接相关的专业协会。它将帮助英国的学者在这一新兴的国际和跨学科研究领域引领世界。它将把国际上许多学术团体(英国地区研究协会理事会、英国政治研究协会和美国西方政治学会)与以前从未合作过的英国高级政策制定者聚集在一起，从而创建一个新的、独特和实用的网络。

This project will put in place a new network of scholars and policy-makers who will explore innovations in theory and practice that recover the research methods of the Arts and Humanities and encourage their use by Political Scientists, Area Studies scholars and policy-makers in the UK and beyond. The network will investigate examples of blurring genres, or crossing boundaries, between the disciplines in pursuit of insight into making and remaking theory, policy and practice in modern government. It will consider the practicalities of government policy-making in the United Kingdom, and beyond, seeking to apply the insights in, for example, narrative policy analysis. The network will bring together international scholars working on interpretive approaches to Political Science, with experts on Area Studies, to investigate what added value interdisciplinary research teams can bring to traditional research approaches when exploring modern governance. Particularly significant will be the study of the use of narratives and meta-narratives (narratives about narratives) for Historians, Political Scientists, Sociologists, Anthropologists and Philosophers, as well as for policy-makers. The network together will contemplate the kind of stories created, evolved and recounted in the implementation of everyday policy-making in the practice of modern government. The aim of the project will be to recover methodologies from the Arts and Humanities for the use of Political Scientists and interdisciplinary Area (or country) Studies specialists. Furthermore, the Blurring Genres Network will encourage sharing of best practice necessary to inform future policy-making and innovative scholarly work; for example, by developing narrative policy analysis. The new network will encourage interdisciplinary research between scholars in the United States, the UK, China, Australia, Canada, Brazil and elsewhere with an international and comparative approach involving policy-makers. The Blurring Genres Network will organize a research field that, to date, has been unstructured, lacking regional conferences, publications or directly relevant professional associations. It will assist scholars in the United Kingdom to lead the world in this emerging field of international and interdisciplinary research. It will bring together a number of learned societies (UK Council of Area Studies Associations, Political Studies Association UK and the Western Political Science Association USA) internationally with senior UK policy-makers which have not worked together before so creating a new, unique and practical network.