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Introducing Relational Political Analysis

Political Semiotics as a Theory and Method

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Authors:
  1. Peeter Selg

    1. School of Governance, Law and Society, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

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  2. Andreas Ventsel

    1. Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

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  • Brings the “relational turn” in the social sciences to bear on semiotic approaches to power, politics, and governance
  • Creates a relational research program for political semiotics, tying the relational framework to concrete methods and examples of analyses
  • Relevant for any student or scholar working on the complexity of contemporary social problems, from those in social theory, (post-)structuralism, relational or processual sociology, and political sciences

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology (PSRS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Political Semiotics as a Theory, Methodology, and Method of Relational Political Analysis

    • Peeter Selg, Andreas Ventsel
    Pages 1-14

  3. The “Relational Turn” in the Social Sciences

    • Peeter Selg, Andreas Ventsel
    Pages 15-40

  4. Relational Approach to the Political: Power, Governance, and Democracy

    • Peeter Selg, Andreas Ventsel
    Pages 41-106

  5. Three Concepts of Semiotics

    • Peeter Selg, Andreas Ventsel
    Pages 107-135

  6. A Framework of Political Semiotics: Political Logic of the Semiosphere

    • Peeter Selg, Andreas Ventsel
    Pages 137-171

  7. Political Semiotics and the Study of the Political: Power, Governance, and Democracy

    • Peeter Selg, Andreas Ventsel
    Pages 173-214

  8. Political Semiotics as a Constitutive Explanation and Abductive Research Logic

    • Peeter Selg, Andreas Ventsel
    Pages 215-245

  9. From Methodology to Methods and Applications: Introducing Political Form Analysis

    • Peeter Selg, Andreas Ventsel
    Pages 247-275

  10. Application of Relational Political Analysis: Political Semiotic Explanation of the Constitution of Digital Threats

    • Peeter Selg, Andreas Ventsel
    Pages 277-307

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 309-319
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About this book

This book introduces relational thinking to political analysis. Instead of merely providing an overview of possible trajectories for articulating a relational political analysis, Peeter Selg and Andreas Ventsel put forth a concrete relational theory of the political, which has implications for research methodology, culminating in a concrete method they call political form analysis. In addition, they sketch out several applications of this theory, methodology and method. They call their approach “political semiotics” and argue that it is a fruitful way of conducting research on power, governance and democracy – the core dimensions of the political – in a manner that is envisioned in numerous discussions of the “relational turn” in the social sciences. It is the first monograph that attempts to outline an approach to the political that would be relational throughout, from its meta theoretical and theoretical premises through to its methodological implications, methods and empirical applications. 

Reviews

“It is more than an introduction, since it makes an in-depth analysis of different theoretical traditions to, in the end, present a synthesis that constitutes an important contribution to the literature on this subject.” (Farid Samir Benavides‑Vanegas, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Vol. 34, 2021)

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Governance, Law and Society, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Peeter Selg

  • Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

    Andreas Ventsel

About the authors

Peeter Selg is Professor of Political Theory at Tallinn University, Estonia.

Andreas Ventsel is a Senior Research Fellow in Semiotics at Tartu University, Estonia.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Introducing Relational Political Analysis

  • Book Subtitle: Political Semiotics as a Theory and Method

  • Authors: Peeter Selg, Andreas Ventsel

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48780-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48779-9Published: 22 September 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48782-9Published: 23 September 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48780-5Published: 21 September 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2946-4110

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-4129

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 319

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sociological Theory, Social Theory, Political Sociology, Semiotics, Political Theory

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