Introducing Relational Political Analysis

Peeter Selg is Professor of Political Theory at Tallinn University, Estonia. Andreas Ventsel is a Senior Research Fellow in Semiotics at Tartu University, Estonia.

• Introduction: political semiotics as a theory, methodology and method of relational political analysis.- Chapter 1: The ‘Relational Turn’ in the Social Sciences.- Chapter 2: Relational approach to the political: power, governance, and democracy.- Chapter 3: Three concepts of semiotics.- Chapter 4: A framework of political semiotics: political logic of the semiosphere.- Chapter 5: Political semiotics and the study of the political: power, governance and democracy.- Chapter 6: Political semiotics as a constitutive explanation and abductive research logic.- Chapter 7: From methodology to methods and applications: introducing political form analysis.- Chapter 8: Application of relational political analysis: political semiotic explanation of the constitution of digital threats.- Conclusion: The Subject and Agenda for Relational Political Analysis.

“It is more than an introduction, since it makes an in-depth analysis of different theoretical traditions to, in the end, present a synthesis that constitutes an important contribution to the literature on this subject.” (Farid Samir Benavides‑Vanegas, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Vol. 34, 2021)