The Oxford Handbook of Grounded and Engaged Normative Theory

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-19-776689-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 612 Seiten, Format (B × H): 193 mm x 252 mm, Gewicht: 1182 g

The Oxford Handbook of Grounded and Engaged Normative Theory introduces readers to this burgeoning field of theory and methodology by exploring a range of empirical research practices that center lived experience to develop normative arguments. Theorists who work in this way demonstrate a commitment to expanding thinking about political theory to include those who have a stake in the concepts being studied. They consider the meanings that people make of their own experiences, political context, and histories in the struggle to be recognized by oppressors with epistemic authority. Undoing these histories depends on a commitment to epistemic inclusion, that is, a commitment to look for and attend to modes of knowing and sources of knowledge that are otherwise marginalized by the politics of knowledge or the norms of the discipline.

In the last decade, grounded and engaged normative theory has coalesced into a distinctive approach in political science. This Handbook offers a cohesive overview of the field's principles, origins, methodologies, substantive lines of inquiry, and applications. Contributors to the volume enrich theoretical and methodological discussions with chapters full of examples of how the authors themselves have done the work. By laying out multiple theoretical starting points and demonstrating diverse methodological approaches, this volume helps both practitioners and students to better understand what they can learn from and do in this dynamic field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ackerly, Brooke A.

Cabrera, Luis

Deveaux, Monique

Forman, Fonna

Fuji Johnson, Genevieve

Starblanket, Gina

Wiener, Antje

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Brooke A. Ackerly, Luis Cabrera, and Genevieve Fuji Johnson: Introduction

- Section I. Traditions, Foundations, Directions

- 2: Zethu Cakata and Thandiwe Ndaba: African Philosophies Embedded in African Eldership: Ubulungisa (Justice) and Ukubambisana (Cooperation)

- 3: Sungmoon Kim: Political Confucian Political Theory: Toward Engaged Political Theory

- 4: Brooke A. Ackerly: Feminist Roots of Grounded and Engaged Normative Theory

- 5: Paul Apostolidis: Grounding Critical Theory Through Critical-Popular Research

- 6: Margaret Kohn: The Hidden Pragmatist History of Grounded Normative Theory

- 7: Christine (Cricket) Keating and Natasha Behl: Methodological Gate-Opening: Participatory Theorizing and Decolonial Praxis

- 8: Desireé R. Melonas and Alex Melonas: Theorizing Soil: Grounded and Engaged Projects of Racial Terror Memorialization

- 9: Gina Starblanket, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, and Hokulani K. Aikau: On What Grounds? Exploring the Terrain of Scholarly "Engagement" with Indigenous Governance in Canada

- Section II. Methodologies

- 10: S. Laurel Weldon: Critical Pragmatism, Engaged and Grounded Normative Theory, and Methodology

- 11: Matthew Longo: Who's Afraid of Interpretative Methods? Rethinking Positivism and Political Theory

- 12: Jennifer C. Rubenstein: Normative Political Theory and Interpretive Methodology: Beyond the Improvement Project

- 13: Katerina Traut: Geographic Terrains of Struggle: Practicing Transformative Solidaristic Epistemic Politics with Historical Actors

- 14: Michelle Pidgeon: Understanding the Interconnections of Theory and Praxis Within Indigenous Research

- 15: Sarah Marie Wiebe: Engaged Theory, Contested Ground: Cultivating Care, Connections, and Community Through Sensory Research

- 16: Hans Asenbaum: Theorizing With Nonhumans

- 17: Lisa Herzog: How to Empirically Ground Theories of Economic Justice: The Good, the Bad, and the Indifferent

- 18: John Parkinson and Núria Franco-Guillén: When Quality Abounds: The Re-Grounding of Deliberative Theory in Big Data

- 19: Afsoun Afsahi and Richard Foster: An Experimental Approach to Deliberative Democracy and Inequality

- Section III. Global Justice

- 20: Heidi Brooks, Carin Runciman, and Trevor Ngwane: Decolonizing Normative Democratic Theory: Grounding Democracy From Below in South Africa

- 21: Rauna Kuokkanen: Indigenous Gender Justice and Self-Determination

- 22: Rebeccah Nelems: Engaged Theory: Collaboratively Weaving the Grounds of Global Justice

- 23: Manuela Lavina Picq: Love Beyond the State: Ancestral Marriage from a Kichwa Nation to the UN and Back

- 24: Marina Sitrin: Remaking Justice: Beyond Police, Prisons, and the State

- 25: Marco Grix and Krushil Watene: Pursuing Climate Justice: Practice-Centered Theory, Indigenous Communities, and Engaged Philosophical Inquiry

- 26: Daniel Luna: Ch'ixi and Visual Sociology as Grounded Normative Theory? Contributions and Challenges

- Section IV. Borders, Citizenship, and the Movement of Persons

- 27: Terry Macdonald and Adrian Little: Grounding the Normative Theory of Refugee Self-Representation

- 28: Alexandra Délano Alonso and Anne McNevin: Mutuality as Emergent Grounded Research

- 29: Amy Reed-Sandoval: Overturning Birthright Citizenship in a Post-Roe United States: A Specter of Dehumanization

- 30: Ethel Tungohan: Temporary Labor Migration: Borders, Belonging, and the Ethics of Care

- 31: Raquel Andrea González Madrigal: Centering Indigeneity and Critical Relational Methodology in Im/migration and Borders as Grounded Normative Political Theory

- Section V. Local Paths to Global Climate Justice

- 32: Aidan McGarry and Emiliano Treré: Grounded Normative Theory: Methodological Considerations on Visual Data and Communication During the California Wildfires, 2020-2021

- 33: Jan Wilkens: Grounded in a Changing Climate: Knowledge Production and Struggles for Just Climate Futures

- 34: Kyle Haines, Kristen Goodrich, Laurie Silvan, and Napoleon Gudino-Elizondo: Grounded and Engaged Research as a Cross-Border Bridge: Reflections From the Binational Tijuana River Watershed

- 35: Keally McBride: Grounding Marxist Research in California

- Section VI. Change in Norms

- 36: Farkhondeh Akbari and Jacqui True: International Norm Conflict and the Women, Peace, and Security Transnational Network

- 37: Maren Hofius: Practice-Based Ethics in International Relations Theory

- 38: Jason Ralph: Pragmatist International Relations as Grounded Normative Theory: Theory, Practice, Advocacy, and Activism in International Society

- 39: Matteo Bonotti and Steven T. Zech: Civility and Grounded Normative Theory

- 40: Carmen Wunderlich: Civilizing the Global Nuclear Order Through Access to Contestation

- 41: Hüsrev Tabak: Normative Changes and Harms: Anti-Gender/Anti-SOGI Normative Transformation in Turkey

- Section VII. Policy and Impact

- 42: Hendrik Wagenaar and Barbara Prainsack: Overcoming Hegemony: Grounded Normative Theory in Policy Analysis

- 43: Chris Tenove: Grounded Normative Theory Contributions to Understanding and Intervening in Public Policymaking

- 44: Farah Godrej: Powerful Institutions, Vulnerable Participants, and Transgressive Research: Lessons From Research in and Around Prisons

- 45: Tatiana Geron, Heather Van Benthuysen, and Meira Levinson: Enacting and Theorizing Civic Deliberation Through a Research-Practice Partnership

- 46: Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz: Unwalling Citizenship: The UCSD Community Stations

Über Autor(innen)

Brooke Ackerly is Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University.

Luis Cabrera is Professor of Political Science in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University in Brisbane.

Monique Deveaux is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, where she co-directs the Grounded & Engaged Theory (GET) lab.

Fonna Forman is Professor of Political Theory and Founding Director of the Center on Global Justice at UC San Diego.

Genevieve Fuji Johnson is Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University.

Gina Starblanket is an Associate Professor in the School of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria.

Antje Wiener, FAcSS MAE, is a Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of Hamburg and By-Fellow at Hughes Hall, Cambridge.