Postdisciplinary Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9781032338064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 276 str.

Tomas Pernecky

Opis

Postdisciplinary Knowledge is the first book to articulate postdisciplinarity in philosophical, theoretical and methodological terms, helping to establish it as an important intellectual movement of the 21^st century. It formulates what postdisciplinarity is, and how it can be implemented in research practice.

Spis treści

An unintroduction to postdisciplinarity  PART I Being. Thinking. Doing.  1 At the periphery lies the centre: women artists and the legacy of surrealism – the case of Ithell Colquhoun and Camille Billops  2 Undisciplined thinking: disobedience and the nature of design  3 Transscape theory for designing the invisible  4 Desire as a way of knowing  5 White leaves in front of my window  6 Knowledge as play: centring on what matters  PART II Doing. Thinking. Being.  7 Do, learn, do  8 DIY (do-it-yourself) postdisciplinary knowledge  9 Q-methodology, William Stephenson and postdisciplinarity  Part III Thinking. Being. Doing.  10 On walls and webs: contemplating postdisciplinarity  11 The university as a maquila: whose voices, whose ideas, whose knowledges?  12 After the love has gone: generalists, specialists and post-professional healthcare  13 Postdisciplinarity: imagine the future, think the unthinkable

O autorze

Tomas Pernecky is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Culture and Society at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand. He is mainly interested in the way social realities are constructed, and the implication and possibilities this denotes for different peoples. His research is broad and multifaceted, ranging from the philosophy of science to specific areas of phenomenology, social constructionism, post-existentialism, sustainable leadership and a host of conceptual, theoretical and methodological issues examined in the context of events, tourism and leisure. Tomas has been officially recognised by receiving the 2014 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the subsequent nomination by AUT for the 2015 Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award (TTEA). He is the author of Epistemology and Metaphysics for Qualitative Research (2016).