Theory and Method in European Studies.
(with reservation for possible minor changes)
Textbooks
1. Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams (2008). The Craft of
Research, Chicago, Ill. , University of Chicago Press, (3. ed.), pp.29-66; 68-95;177-248.
2. Paul S. Gray, ed. (2007). The Research Imagination: An Introduction to Qualitative and
Quantitative Methods , New York: Cambridge University Press, pp.4-16, 34-54, 82-94, 80-
203; 326-340;
3. Silverman, David (1993). Methods for Analysing Talk, Text and Interaction . London: Sage
Publications, pp.1-20.
4. Jørgensen, Marianne and Loise Philipps (2002). Discourse Analysis as a Theory and
Method , London—Thousand Oaks—New Delhi: Sage Publications, pp.1-24; 60-96.
5. David Marsh and Gerry Stoker, eds. (2002). Theory and Methods in Political Science ,
Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 90-108, 249 – 270, 271-291.
6. Howard J. Wiarda, ed. (2010). Grand Theories and Ideologies in the Social Sciences.
Palgrave Macmillan.
Articles
Positivism, Constructionism, Hermeneutics.
 Abbott, Andrew. ”Seven Types of Ambiguity,”
Theory and Society , vol. 26, no. 2/3,
1997, pp. 357-391 (http://libhub.sempertool.dk.ludwig.lub.lu.se)
 Hobsbawm, Eric. ”Mass-Producing Traditions: Europe, 1870-1914,” in Hobsbawm,
Eric and Ranger, Terence (eds.). The Invention of Tradition.
Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1996, pp.263-307.
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Burr, Vivien. Introduction to Social Constructionism , London and New York:
Routledge, 1995, pp.1-17.
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Alexander J.Motyl. The social construction of social construction: implications for theories of nationalism and identity formation, Nationalities Papers , vol. 38, no. 1,
January 2010, pp.59–71.
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Jessica Wardhaugh, Ruth Leiserowitz and Christian Bailey, ”Intellectual Dissidents and the Construction of European Spaces, 1918–1988,” in Martin Conway and Kiran
Klaus Patel (eds.). EUROPEANIZATION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY,
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp.21-43.
 Ricoeur, Paul, “Metaphor and the Main Problem of Hermeneutics.” In: Ricoeur, Paul
Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action and
Interpretation . Thompson, John B. (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 165-
181.

Postmodernism

Morley, David (1996) ”Postmodernism. The Rough Guide,” in Cultural Structures and Communications, ed, by Games Curran, David Moleyand Valerie Walkerdine.
London-New York: 1996, pp. 50-65.
 Bauman, Zygmunt (1996) ”From Pilgrim to Tourist – or a Short History of Identity,” in Stuart Hall and Paul Du Gay, Questions of Cultural Identity , Sage Publications, pp.18-36.
Seminar ”Theory and methodology as applied in European Studies”
 Calhoun, Craig. ”European Studies: Always Already There and Still in Formation,”
Comparative European Politics (2003) 1, pp. 5–20 (available at http://libhub.sempertool.dk.ludwig.lub.lu.se).

Cini, Michelle ”The ‘State of the Art’ in EU Studies: From Politics to
Interdisciplinarity (and Back Again?), ”
Politics vol.
26(1), 2006,
PP
.38–46.
(available at http://libhub.sempertool.dk.ludwig.lub.lu.se).
 Borneman, John and Nick Fowler, ”Europeanization,”
Annual Review of
Anthropology , vol. 26, 1997, pp. 487-514 (available at http://libhub.sempertool.dk.ludwig.lub.lu.se).
 Rosamond, Ben. ”European Integration and the Social Science of EU Studies: the
Disciplinary Politics of a Subfield,”
International Affairs 83: 1, 2007, pp. 231–252
(available at http://libhub.sempertool.dk.ludwig.lub.lu.se
).

Wodak, Ruth. ‘Doing Europe’: the Discursive Construction of European Identities,
Richard C.M. Mole (ed.), in: DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY IN
EUROPEAN POLITICS, Palgrave Macmillan 2007, pp.70-95.
Seminar ”Content Analysis”

Neuendorf, Kimberly (2002). The Content Analysis Guidebook . Sage Publications,
London—Thousand Oaks—New Delhi, pp.1-27, 191-211.
 ”Chapter 13. Content Analysis,” in Paul S. Gray, ed. (2007), The Research
Imagination: An Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Methods , New York:
Cambridge University Press, pp.283-301.
Seminar ”Survey Research”
 ”Chapter 7. Survey Research,” in
Paul S. Gray, ed. (2007), The Research Imagination:
An Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Methods , New York: Cambridge
University Press. pp.121-147.
Memory Studies

Kansteiner, Wolf (2002), ”Finding Meaning in Memory: A Methodological Critique of Collective Memory Studies.” History and Theory 41 (2), 2003, pp.179–197.
(available at http://libhub.sempertool.dk.ludwig.lub.lu.se)
 Tom Buchanan (2010), ”Human Rights, the Memory of War and the Making of a
‘European’ Identity, 1945–75,” in Martin Conway and Kiran Klaus Patel (eds.)
EUROPEANIZATION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Palgrave Macmillan,
2010, pp.157-171


Leggewie, Claus. Seven Circles of European Memory, www.eurozine.com, published
2010-12-30, pp.1-19.
Seminar ”Analysis of Texts”

Bearman, P. and Stovel. K. ”Becoming A Nazi. A Model for Narrative Networks,”
Poetics (27) 2000, pp.69-90 (available at http://libhub.sempertool.dk.ludwig.lub.lu.se/)
 Inger SKJELSBÆK, ”Victim and Survivor: Narrated Social Identities of Women
Who Experienced Rape During the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina,” Feminism and
Psychology 16 (4), 2006, pp.373-403 (available at http://libhub.sempertool.dk.ludwig.lub.lu.se)
Seminar ” Ethnicity, Nationalism, Transnationalism, Class”

Zimmer, Oliver. Boundary mechanisms and symbolic resources: Towards a processoriented approach to national identity, Nations and Nationalism , 9(2), 2003, 173-193.
(available at http://libhub.sempertool.dk.ludwig.lub.lu.se)

Craig Calhoun, Nationalism and ethnicity, Annnual Review of Sociology , vol.19
(1993), pp.211-239. (available at http://libhub.sempertool.dk.ludwig.lub.lu.se/

Stephen van Evera, Hypothesis on Nationalism and the Causes of War, in Kupchan,
Charles A. (ed.) Nationalism and Nationalities in the New Europe, Ithaca and
London: Cornell University Press, pp.136-157.
 Orvar Löfgren, Materializing the Nation in Sweden and America,
Ethnos, vol.58, no.3-4, 1993., p.161-196.

Steven Vertovec. Conceiving and Researching Transnationalism, Ethnic and Racial
Studies, vol. 22, no.2, 1999, pp.447-462. (available at http://libhub.sempertool.dk.ludwig.lub.lu.se/

David Brown. Are There Good and Bad Nationalisms? Nations and Nationalism , vol.
5, no.2, 1999, pp.281-302. (available at http://libhub.sempertool.dk.ludwig.lub.lu.se/)
 John Goldsthorpe and Gordon Marshall, ”The Promising Future of Class Analysis: A
Response to Recent Critiques,”
Sociology vol.26, no.3, 1992, pp.381-400. (available at http://libhub.sempertool.dk.ludwig.lub.lu.se/

Savage, Mike, Gaynor Bagnall, and Brian Longhurst. “Ordinary, Ambivalent and
Defensive: Class Identities in the Northwest of England.” Sociology 35, no. 4 (2001):
875–92. (available at http://libhub.sempertool.dk.ludwig.lub.lu.se/)
Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu: Concepts and Theoretical Visions .
 Bourdieu, Pierre. “Participant Objectivation,”
Journal of Royal Anthropology
Institute 9 2003, pp. 281–94.

Brubaker, Rogers. Rethinking Classical Theory: The Sociological Vision of Pierre
Bourdieu, Theory and Society , vol.14, no.6, 1985, 745-775 (available at http://libhub.sempertool.dk.ludwig.lub.lu.se
)
Methods of visual analysis


Butler, Alison (2008), "Feminist Perspectives in Film Studies" in James
Donald & Michael Renov (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies, Los
Angeles, London etc: SAGE, pp 391-407.

Sturken, Marita & Lisa Cartwright (2009), Practices of Looking: An
Introduction to Visual Culture, Second Edition, Oxford & New York:
Oxford University Press, pp. 49-139, 265-305 (Chapters 2, 3 & 7).
Interview and participant observation
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Atkinson R. The Life story Interview. Sage, 1998.- P. 22-57.
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Truesdell, Barbara. Oral History Techniques: How to Organize and Conduct Oral
History Interviews // Indiana University, Center for the Study of History and Memory http://www.indiana.edu/~cshm/techniques.html

Davies, Charlotte Aull. Reflexive Ethnography: a Guide to Researching Selves and
Others, Routledge : 2002 (chapter 4).
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)
 van Dijk, T.A. 2001. Critical Discourse Analysis. In D. Schiffrin, D. Tannen and H.E.
Hamilton (eds) Handbook of Discourse Analysis . Oxford: Blackwell.
 van Dijk, T.A. 2007. The Study of Discourse: An Introduction. In Teun A.van Dijk
(Ed.), Discourse Studies. 5 vols. Sage Benchmarks in Discourse Studies. (pp. xixxlii). London: Sage, 2007.
Available at: http://www.discourses.org/OldArticles/The%20study%20of%20discourse.pdf
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Charteris-Black, J. 2006, Britain as a Container: Immigration Metaphors in the 2005
Election Campaign. Discourse& Society 17(6). 563-582
 de Gillia, R., Reisigl, M. and Wodak, R. 1999, The Discursive Construction of
National Identities. Discourse& Society , 10(1): 149-73.

Wodak, Ruth and van Leeuwen, T. 1999, Legitimizing Immigration Control: A
Discourse-Historical Analysis. Discourse Studies , 1 (1). pp. 83-119.
Narrative analysis

Roberto Franzosi (1998) "Narrative Analysis—Or Why (and How) Sociologists
Should Be Interested In Narrative" Annual Review of Sociology Vol. 24: 517-554 http://personal.psc.isr.umich.edu/yuxie-web/files/soc543-2004/Franzosi1998.pdf

Catherine Kohler Riessman (2001) "ANALYSIS OF PERSONAL NARRATIVES" in
Handbook of Interviewing, edited by J.F. Gubrium and J.A. Holstein, Sage
Publications, 2001.
http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~brooks/storybiz/riessman.pdf

Catherine Kohler Riessman (2005) Narrative Analysis. In: Narrative, Memory &
Everyday Life. University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, pp. 1-7. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/4920/2/Chapter_1_-_Catherine_Kohler_Riessman.pdf
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Anthias, Floya (2002) ‘Where do I belong? Narrating collective identity and translocational positionality,’ Ethnicities, vol.2, no. 4, pp. 491-514.