ABSTRACT
The method that needs to study events must be a method appropriate to the study of significance. In order to approach the study of events, however, human must give up on the standard methods naturalist and interpretivist that operate within the social sciences as both tend toward obscuring and neutralising the significance that characterises events in general and especially those that concern human in the social sciences. The brief account Michel Foucault gives of the 'procedure of analysis' is instructive for human in highlighting what is at stake in evental approaches to the study of events, at least initially. Dramatisation expresses the novelty of events within and through novelty-bearing analyses is to highlight the twofold nature of evental approaches as processes of discovery and creation. Events, understood in an evental way, are real world dramas that can only be approached through their dramatisation.
