Contenu
"The thesis of this book is that sociopolitical phenomena, including those that are represented, coded, even quantified as empirical data, should be approached with the same degree of close, particularist, context-sensitive attention and the same kind of ethical responsibility as that accorded to poetic (literary) texts. Such an approach not only dissolves naive binaries like objective/subjective and empirical/nonempirical but allows deeper awareness of their marginalized and subaltern dimensions. Drawing on resources from decolonial, poststructural, and critical theory, literary texts, historical narratives, DH analytics, and empirical social science, political theorist Andrew Davison challenges basic presuppositions about objectivity, originality, and data and demonstrates the intellectual and ideological value of inter-/transdisciplinary analytical techniques"--