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Please see below a call for collective contributions for the <b><i>VI EDiSo International Symposium</i></b> to be held in Spain on 28-30<span class="x_ContentPasted4"><sup>th</sup> of June, 2023, with the following theme: "Epistemology and knowledge production
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<span class="x_ContentPasted4">You can find the details on the call for papers, key dates and submission guidelines for the symposium, in the EDiSo's four working languages (i.e. Catalan, Portuguese, Spanish and English),
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https://simposioediso2023.wordpress.com</a>. I'm pasting below the English text with the rationale/theme of the symposium as
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I believe that it could be of interest to some colleagues in this mailing list.</span></span></div>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted4">The deadline for submitting collective contributions (panels, roundtables, data sessions, etc.) is the 16<span><sup>th</sup> of January, 2023.</span></span></div>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted4">Best regards,</span></div>
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<b><span class="x_ContentPasted3" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black">Espistemology and knowledge production in research on discourse and society: Interdisciplinarity, (re)appropriations and criticality<span class="x_ContentPasted3"> </span> </span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="x_ContentPasted3" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black">Knowledge production is always sociopolitically and discursively situated, tied to shifting forms of validation and legitimation. Currently, we see how, as grassroots anti-establishment
movements gain wide traction, their transformative ideas, communicative practices and forms of organisation become both a recognisable model of action for multiple collectives to enact reactions against shared struggles and an object of attention readily available
to institutional categorisation, documentation and governance. Under such conditions, socially-oriented research that is epistemologically tuned to the study of processes, semiotic practices and lived experiences is getting more attention from governmental
institutions of the State and beyond, including research funding organisations that are now calling for (and channelling resources to) research that better captures logics emerging from the so-called “civil society”.<span class="x_ContentPasted3"> </span> </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="x_ContentPasted3" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black">This is indeed having a particular impact on critical, interpretative and/or ethnographic traditions as they are then read as relevant ways of knowing despite them having been
historically marginalised against the background of hegemonic positivist research paradigms. As a result, scholars from a wider range of disciplines are nowadays encouraged to engage more and more with calls for interdisciplinary research programmes. These
create spaces for collaborative ways of conducting research that had previously been disfavoured under past pressures to knowledge compartmentalisation and disciplinary boundary-making. And yet, the recent push towards interdisciplinarity comes with its own
risks as long-standing hierarchies are now (re)enacted and negotiated through (re)defining, (re)appropriating and technifying notions of research and knowledge production.<span class="x_ContentPasted3"> </span> </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="x_ContentPasted3" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black">This is reflected, for example, in the proliferation of methodological frameworks that at first sight seem to promote/celebrate interdisciplinarity but which are nonetheless felt
by others as positivist recounts of previously well-estabished interpretivist perspectives. Simultaneously, we see how in many parts of the world critical research comes under attack for being ‘too political’ and ‘little applied’, including reactions to emerging
decolonial work, which is very often produced by marginalised and precarious scholars who are not invested in mainstream views of “valid” research.<span class="x_ContentPasted3"> </span> </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="x_ContentPasted3" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black">In this VI EDiSo International Symposium we would like to engage in discussions about the position(ing) of research on discourse and society under current conditions of exacerbated
nationalisms and interlocking crises. We would also like to explore alternative forms of knowledge production across paradigms that do not (de)epistomologise and (de)politicise language, discourse and communication scholarship. We welcome contributions that
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<li><span lang="EN-US" class="x_ContentPasted3" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black">What are the relevant institutional, socioeconomic, political and funding conditions that shape our knowledge production in the very local settings where we conduct our research?<span class="x_ContentPasted3"> </span> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-US" class="x_ContentPasted3" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black">What ideas and discourses about epistemology (i.e. ways of knowing) these conditions enable, with what consequences for ourselves and our research participants?<span class="x_ContentPasted3"> </span> </span></li><li style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" class="x_ContentPasted3" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black">What opportunities and risks come with trying to inhabit these spaces, with what possibilities for transformative action? </span></li><li style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" class="x_ContentPasted3" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black">What kinds of interdisciplinary conversations do we need to engage in to construct research proposals that get funded yet do not force
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