This chapter discusses methodology and politics, and expresses that there are ways to locate politics when people focus less on facts and more on interpretation and narrative, and on how people think about power and politics. The chapter also expresses that for the importance of political responsibility and of how by recasting and re-emphasising the politics of responsibility in an intersubjective world it becomes possible to address the current failures of the political leaders and systems. It focuses on how power and responsibility feature as core elements of politics. The chapter explores the three elements in finding politics: the relationship between knowledge and power; political responsibility or the politics of responsibility; and the significance of narratives or meaning. It describes three kinds of responsibility: a liability model, an indirect model that emphasizes the complicity, and an ontological model grounded in the long-term survival as human beings.
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