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Mehtap Söyler

@mehtapsoyler.bsky.social
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Assoc. Prof of Political Science (IKCU), Associate at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), IPSA RC01 Concepts&Methods Board Member

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Mehtap Söyler @mehtapsoyler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*Naming as a normative act: the political stakes of choosing a label (crisis, resilience, decline), who is authorized to apply it, and what follows politically. *Whose norms train the model: the normative assumptions in text-as-data and machine learning. *Reflexivity in multi-method research
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Mehtap Söyler @mehtapsoyler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Suggested themes: *Concept formation and measurement decisions, e.g., calibration thresholds, coding decisions in regime indices. *Conceptual travel as normative labor: what is gained or lost when concepts cross regions and languages, e.g., legitimacy reinterpreted between the Global North and South
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Mehtap Söyler @mehtapsoyler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This panel invites papers on the normative dimensions of concept (mis)formation, the political stakes of contested concepts, and what gets lost, or added, when concepts travel across regions and languages. Who decides what a concept carries, and on what authority? What follows our choices?
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Mehtap Söyler @mehtapsoyler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
First day here on Bluesky :)Join me in Rome 🇮🇹 I'm convening an open panel in the RC01 Concepts & Methods track at the IPSA World Congress, July 2027. Deadline: 4 Nov 2026. #PoliSky #IPSA2027#AcademicSky Reposts🙏 Panel call: wc2027.ipsa.org/wc/panel/for... Submission via: wc2027.ipsa.org/wc/home 🧵
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Foregrounding Normativity: Concept (Mis)Formation, Travel, and Method in Political Science
Technicality in methods often disguises the normativity of methodological choices and of concept formation itself. Behind this apparent neutrality lies real normative weight, e.g., who is included in ...
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