
Interdisciplinarity
Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 12. September 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-1-138-84334-9 (ISBN)
Description
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. It examines the current preoccupation with interdisciplinarity, notably the ascendance of a particular discourse in which it is associated with a transformation in the relations between science, technology and society. Contributors address attempts to promote collaboration between, on the one hand, the natural sciences and engineering and, on the other, the social sciences, arts and humanities. From ethnography in the IT industry to science and technology studies, environmental science to medical humanities, cybernetics to art-science, the collection interrogates how interdisciplinarity has come to be seen as a solution not only to enhancing relations between science and society, but the pursuit of accountability and the need to foster innovation.
Interdisciplinarity is essential reading for scholars, students and policy makers across the social sciences, arts and humanities, including anthropology, geography, sociology, science and technology studies and cultural studies, as well as all those engaged in interdisciplinary research. It will have particular relevance for those concerned with the knowledge economy, science policy, environmental politics, applied anthropology, ELSI research, medical humanities, and art-science.
This volume offers a new approach to theorising interdisciplinarity, showing how the boundaries between the social and natural sciences are being reconfigured. It examines the current preoccupation with interdisciplinarity, notably the ascendance of a particular discourse in which it is associated with a transformation in the relations between science, technology and society. Contributors address attempts to promote collaboration between, on the one hand, the natural sciences and engineering and, on the other, the social sciences, arts and humanities. From ethnography in the IT industry to science and technology studies, environmental science to medical humanities, cybernetics to art-science, the collection interrogates how interdisciplinarity has come to be seen as a solution not only to enhancing relations between science and society, but the pursuit of accountability and the need to foster innovation.
Interdisciplinarity is essential reading for scholars, students and policy makers across the social sciences, arts and humanities, including anthropology, geography, sociology, science and technology studies and cultural studies, as well as all those engaged in interdisciplinary research. It will have particular relevance for those concerned with the knowledge economy, science policy, environmental politics, applied anthropology, ELSI research, medical humanities, and art-science.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 s/w Abbildung, 1 s/w Zeichnung
1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
456 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-84334-9 (9781138843349)
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Persons
Andrew Barry is Professor of Political Geography at the University of Oxford.
Georgina Born is Professor of Music and Anthropology at the University of Oxford.
Georgina Born is Professor of Music and Anthropology at the University of Oxford.
Content
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