Dialogical Networks: Using the Past in Contemporary Research

1. Introduction2. Reporting Political Arguments3. Reflection 1: The First Steps - From 'Context Selection' to Dialogical Networks4. On the Emergence of Political Identity in Czech Mass Media: The Case of Democratic Party of Sudetenland5. On Dialogical Networks: Arguments about the Migration Law in Czech Mass Media in 19936. On Membership Categorisation: 'Us', 'Them'and 'Doing Violence' in Political Discourse7. Reflection 2: On Historical Contextualisations in Dialogical Networks Project8. The War on Terror and Muslim Britons' Safety: A Week in the Life of a Dialogical Network9. Reflection 3: Continuities, Novelties and Dissociations10. Practical Historians and Adversaries: 9/11 Revisited11. A Day in the Life of a Dialogical Network -- The Case of Czech Currency Devaluation12. Reflection 4: Multiplication and Emergent Meanings13. Conclusion

"This book brings together two decades of work by the authors on dialogical networks, showing how the concept of the dialogical network developed through series of connected case studies and clarifying the concept through historical analysis. Identifying the key characteristics of dialogical networks and showing that knowledge of them, though formulated in the abstract, is affected by historical contingencies, it demonstrates that work on dialogical networks required the work of a practical historian, connecting contemporary work to what foregoing studies. As such, this volume represents an original study of how doing history is a part of research and sheds light on the ways in which people use the past in their social activities"--

"This book brings together two decades of work by the authors on dialogical networks, showing how the concept of the dialogical network developed through series of connected case studies and clarifying the concept through historical analysis. Identifying the key characteristics of dialogical networks and showing that knowledge of them, though formulated in the abstract, is affected by historical contingencies, it demonstrates that work on dialogical networks required the work of a practical historian, connecting contemporary work to what foregoing studies. As such, this volume represents an original study of how doing history is a part of research and sheds light on the ways in which people use the past in their social activities"--