Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences

ISBN-13: 9780415578929 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 294 str.

Andrew Barry;GEORGINA BORN;?Abar

Opis

The idea that research should become more interdisciplinary has become commonplace. According to influential commentators, the unprecedented complexity of problems such as climate change or the social implications of biomedicine demand interdisciplinary efforts integrating both the social and natural sciences. In this context, the question of whether a given knowledge practice is too disciplinary, or interdisciplinary, or not disciplinary enough has become an issue for governments, research policy makers and funding agencies. Interdisciplinarity, in short, has emerged as a key political preoccupation; yet the term tends to obscure as much as illuminate the diverse practices gathered under its rubric. This volume offers a new approach to theorising interdisciplinarity, showing how the boundaries between the social and natural sciences are being reconfigured.

Spis treści

 1. Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences  2. How Disciplines Look  3. Inter That Discipline!  4. Fields and Fallows: A Political History of STS  5. Unexpected Consequences and An Unanticipated Outcome  6. Consuming Anthropology  7. Where Natural and Social Science Meet? Reflections On An Experiment in Geographical Practice  8. Multiple Environments: Accountability, Integration and Ontology  9. Ontology and Antidisciplinarity  10. Logics of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Medical Humanities  11. Art-Science: From Public Understanding to Public Experiment