Foucauldian Discourse Analysis in the Qualitative Social Research

GGS Workshop

Instructor: Ahmet Görgen
Date: November, 23, 2015, from 16:00 to 19:00
Location: Raum C001, Philosophikum II, Haus C, Karl-Glöckner-Straße 21C, 35394 Giessen
ECTS: –
Objective
The topic of this workshop is devoted to “Foucauldian Discourse Analysis in the Qualitative Social
Research”. In the first part, instruction will be based on the discourse analysis and later the workshop
will focus on the Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA) as the main topic. In line with the focus
question, through the importance and limitations of the FDA, an example of the FDA will be
presented, and practiced by the participants to improve their knowledge about how to analyse the
discourses from a Foucauldian perspective. Participants will get detailed knowledge of the FDA. They
will also see the examples of the analysis as well as the practice of the analysis on an interview
extract during the workshop.
Content
This workshop is designed to teach the participants about the Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA)
in Qualitative Social Research. The aim of this workshop is to introduce discourse analysis essentially
and explain the basic premises of the FDA with its practice. With the introduction of the topic by the
focus questions, discourse analysis and the approaches to the discourse analysis different from FDA,
such as Critical Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis, Interactional Sociolinguistics, Discursive
Psychology and Bakhtinian Research, will be shortly explained. Furthermore, the basic premises of
the FDA as well as its importance and limitations will be elucidated to give a better idea of this
particular methodology. Subsequently, major methods for analysing discourses from a Foucauldian
perspective, such as Ian Parker’s version, Kendal and Wickham’s version and Carla Willig’s version
will be introduced to the participants about the importance and limitations to make them clear
which one would be better for them to use in their future research projects. Carla Willig’s version will
be comprehensively explained, because the sample analysis will be performed by using this particular
methodology. The remaining part of the workshop will be devoted to a sample FDA on an interview
extract by using Carla Willig’s version of the FDA in six steps, including discursive constructions,
discourses, action orientation, positionings, practice and subjectivity. The workshop will finish with
the further discussions on the interview analysis.
Target group
Students, Doctoral and Postdoctoral students
Course language
English
Registration
By November 16, 2015 via e-mail at info@ggs.uni-giessen.de