Interdisciplinarity in the Scholarly Life Cycle: Learning by Example in Humanities and Social Science Research

ISBN-13: 9783031111105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 337 str.

Karin Bijsterveld; Aagje Swinnen

Opis

This open access book illustrates how interdisciplinary research develops over the lifetime of a scholar: not in a single project, but as an attitude that trickles down, or spirals up, into research. This book presents how interdisciplinary work has inspired shifts in how the contributors read, value concepts, critically combine methods, cope with knowledge hierarchies, write in style, and collaborate. Drawing on extensive examples from the humanities and social sciences, the editors and chapter authors show how they started, tried to open up, dealt with inconsistencies, had to adapt, and ultimately learned and grew as researchers. The book offers valuable insights into the conditions and complexities present for interdisciplinary research to be successful in an academic setting.

This is an open access book. 

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

 

Karin Bijsterveld & Aagje Swinnen

 Introduction

 

Part I—Moving Concepts: What Theory Can Do

 

Harro van Lente

Reversing the Gaze on Expectations in Technology: The Philosopher Ortega y Gasset and Innovation Studies

Joseph Wachelder

A Modernization Perspective on Dutch Universities in the 19^th Century: Theoretical Sociology Challenging Historiography

Karin van Leeuwen

Constitutional Reform in the Postwar Netherlands: Law in History

Ferenc Laczó

Rethinking Eastern Europe in European Studies: Creating Symmetry through Interdisciplinarity

Paul Stephenson

Gift and Reciprocity in the Aftermath of the 2003 Heatwave: Using Social Theory to Understand Public Confusion in Response to Solidarity Day in France

Elsje Fourie

Freeing the Frog in the Well: Borrowing from History to Understand Contemporary Japanese Development Aid to Ethiopia

 

Part II—Refolding Methods: How Twists Require Tweaks

 

Aagje Swinnen

Examining Personal and Cultural Narratives of Aging: Literary Gerontology Revisited

Emilie Sitzia

Museology and Its Others: Analyzing Exhibition Storytelling through Narratology, Space analysis, Discourse analysis, and Ethnographic Research

Karin Bijsterveld

Spatial Rituals and Ritualized Space in Dutch Postwar Homes for the Elderly: Anthropology in History

Kathleen Gregory, Paul Groth, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Sally Wyatt

The Mysterious User of Research Data: Knitting Together Science and Technology Studies with Information and Computer Science

Part III—Cascading Collaborations: With Artists, Style, and Skill

 

Flora Lysen

Interdisciplinary Anticipations: Art-Science Collaboration at the Maastricht Brain Stimulation and Cognition Laboratory

Patricia de Vries

The Artificial Womb: Speculative Design Meets the Sociotechnical History of Reproductive Labor

Peter Peters, Ties van de Werff, Imogen Eve, and Jos Roeden

Doing Collaborative Research on Symphonic Orchestra Audiences: Interventionist Ethnography of Music Practices

Jessica Mesman

Alignment and Alienation: Emergency Staff and Midwifery Scholars as Co-Researchers

Valentina Mazzucato, Bilisuma Dito, and Karlijn Haagsman

‘Doing’ Teamwork as ‘Doing’ Family: Researching Transnational Migrant Families through Interdisciplinary Collaboration

 

O autorze

Karin Bijsterveld is Full Professor of Science, Technology and Modern Culture at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Her work focuses on themes at the intersection of science and technology studies and sound studies. She has taught extensively on how to do interdisciplinary research.

​Aagje Swinnen is Professor in Aging Studies at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She has published on representations of aging in literature, photography, and film; meanings of literary approaches in dementia care; and ways in which professional artists understand and give meaning to creativity in the later stages of their career.

Blurb

This open access book illustrates how interdisciplinary research develops over the lifetime of a scholar: not in a single project, but as an attitude that trickles down, or spirals up, into research. This book presents how interdisciplinary work has inspired shifts in how the contributors read, value concepts, critically combine methods, cope with knowledge hierarchies, write in style, and collaborate. Drawing on extensive examples from the humanities and social sciences, the editors and chapter authors show how they started, tried to open up, dealt with inconsistencies, had to adapt, and ultimately learned and grew as researchers. The book offers valuable insights into the conditions and complexities present for interdisciplinary research to be successful in an academic setting.

Karin Bijsterveld is Full Professor of Science, Technology and Modern Culture at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Her work focuses on themes at the intersection of science and technology studies and sound studies. She has taught extensively on how to do interdisciplinary research.

​Aagje Swinnen is Professor in Aging Studies at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She has published on representations of aging in literature, photography, and film; meanings of literary approaches in dementia care; and ways in which professional artists understand and give meaning to creativity in the later stages of their career.