Transdisciplinary Research Across Knowledge Worlds
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This book argues that the time has come to embrace transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary teaching and research as essential to addressing today's complex challenges. It traces the shift from rigid "silo" thinking toward integrated approaches that connect sciences, humanities, and applied fields such as health, environmental policy, and technology. Drawing on cutting-edge scholarship, it explores emerging intersections and conceptual frameworks that redefine concepts of place, landscape, networks, welfare, and wellbeing. The book also explores tensions between global interconnectedness and persistent social, economic, and political divides, offering insights into how scholars can navigate and bridge these worlds.
Essential reading for scholars, educators, and advanced students seeking to navigate and contribute to the evolving landscape of interdisciplinary research.
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Stanley D. Brunn, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA. His research interests cover a broad array of topics within urban geography, economic geography, social geography, information/communications geography, geotechnology and cyberspace, time-space intersections, law, political, and environmental geography, geographical future, as well as disciplinary history.
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Chapter 1. Introduction (Stanley D. Brunn).- Chapter 2. Geography's Intersecting Paths of Science and Humanism: 1950s-1980s (John Pickles).- Chapter 3. Settlement of the Amish amongst the "English" (John A. Cross).- Chapter 4. Parallel Universes of the Two Koreas through Comparative Mental Mapping (HaeRan Shin).- Chapter 5. The Parallel World of the Roma: From the "Straw Road" to the Ghettos and the Architecture of Exclusion (Krasimir Asenov and Irena Nikolova).- Chapter 6. Kazakhs and Russians in Kazakhstan: Divided/United We Stand.Still (Nygmet Ibadildin).- Chapter 7. Seeking Togetherness at the Table: Missionaries Wrestling with Every-day Encounters with Parallel Worlds in Contemporary Capitalist Society in Cajamarca, Peru (Iain Ross).- Chapter 8. ?ba Talaiashke: Creolization and Pre-Christian Language in Choctaw Hymns (John DePriest).- Chapter 9. Parallel Universes: The Racial Divide in the Segregated United States (Allison Schlobohm, Stephanie Mahin, and Lori Boyer).- Chapter 10. The Currents of Spiritual Capital: Expanding Normative Understandings of Water, Victimhood, and Agency in Freedmen's Towns (Cassandra R. Davis, Simona Goldin, and Iheoma Iruka).- Chapter 11. The Norwegian Paradox: Exploring Climate Leadership, Indigenous Sámi Voices, and the Energy Economy (Karen S. Barton).- Chapter 12. Indigenous Geography and the World Wide Web (RDK Herman).- Chapter 13. Parallels and Intersections: Patriotism and Pandering on U.S. Com-memorative Postage Stamps since 1957 (Thomas L. Bell).- Chapter 14. Montserrat's Parallel Universes: Mapping Science, Policy and Society during a Volcanic Emergency (Omari Graham, Arlette Saint Ville, and Gabrielle Thongs).