1st Edition

Establishing Shared Knowledge in Political Meetings Repairing and Correcting in Public

By Hanna Svensson Copyright 2021
258 Pages 120 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 120 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 120 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book investigates the ways in which participants in political activities use micro-practices for solving issues of speaking, hearing and understanding as fundamental for the activities they engage in. Based on extensive video recordings of public meetings within a political grassroots project in the field of urbanism, it adopts a conversation analytic and ethnomethodological approach to... Read more

1. Introduction: action, institutionality and public political meetings

2. Repairing interaction

3. Repairing for others: claiming a trouble of understanding

4. Repairing a possible trouble of hearing for others

5. Correcting for others

6. Conclusion: repair, knowledge and institutions

Biography

Hanna Svensson is Associate Researcher at the University of Basel, Switzerland.