Working group Post-Positivism: Fieldwork, Process Tracing and Conflict Qualitative and Fieldwork Working Group Add to calendar 2021-10-20 16:00 2021-10-20 18:00 Europe/Rome Post-Positivism: Fieldwork, Process Tracing and Conflict Outside EUI premises YYYY-MM-DD Print Share: Share on Facebook Share on BlueSky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email Scheduled dates Oct 20 2021 16:00 - 18:00 CEST Outside EUI premises, Organised by Department of Political and Social Sciences The next session of the Qualitative and Fieldwork Working Group focuses on a post-positivist perspective and on the question of how fieldwork and process tracing interact with this epistemology. It discusses how we can consequently prove causal relations and mechanisms. This session features a short presentation on the topic by Professor Regina Bateson, University of Ottawa. Following the presentation, the floor will then be open for a discussion and Q&A.Participants are invited to read Professor Bateson’s latest work in preparation for the class: Voting for a Killer: Efraín Ríos Montt’s Return to Politics in Democratic Guatemala. Related events