Interdisciplinarities
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"Research is never the 'plug and play' that conventional methods books describe. Affirming the messiness and contingency of real projects, this book places us in the joyful, vexing, fleshy life of the 'how' of research, offering lessons for new and veteran scholars alike'.
- Nicholas Blomley FRCS, Professor of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Canada
"This innovative and groundbreaking volume focuses on the messiness of how to do research and the various ways scholars approach their subject-matter, often making personal and idiosyncratic decisions in the process of doing . The reflective and exploratory mode of inquiry is vitally important, reminding us all of the embedded biases within what we like to think of as objective legal scholarship."
- Eve Darian-Smith , Professor and Chair, Global and International Studies, University of California, Irvine, USA
" Interdisciplinarities offers an entirely fresh perspective on socio-legal research methods. Stemming from a challenge given to a group of scholars, the authors at one level illustrate a wide variety of situated approaches to interdisciplinary research methods. More importantly, however, the work brings the researching body as subject and object into the very heart of the question of method. At times intensely personal, often inspirational, and always highly reflective and readable, the chapters collectively demystify and locate method in a way which will encourage us all to reflect on our own research experiences and practices."
- Margaret Davies , Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor, College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University, Australia
"There is not enough attention to "process" in publishing. We academics are all about the product:finished, polished, done. But interdisciplinarity is itself a process and in this fantastic volume authors write about their own processes, embodied and worldly, during a world-wide pandemic, while reflecting on the place of the body in law and legal studies. This brilliant volume should be read by those interested in law's interdisciplinarities but also by anyone who writes and has a body." - Bonnie Honig , Nancy Duke Lewis Professor, Political Science and Modern Culture and Media (MCM), Brown University, USA
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Didi Herman is Emeritus Professor at the University of Kent, UK. She is the author of, amongst other things: (2011)
An Unfortunate Coincidence: Jews, Jewishness and English Law,
Oxford University Press; (2003)
Globalizing Family Values: The Christian Right's International Activism
(co-author Buss, D), University of Minnesota Press.
Connal Parsley is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent, UK. His research spans the fields of critical jurisprudence, political theory and visual cultural studies. He is the translator of Roberto Esposito's
Categories of the Impolitical
(2015) Fordham University Press, and co-director of the AHRC Law and the Human network.
Content
1. Introduction.- 2. The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Abolition.- 3. Bodies, Medicine and Otherness.- 4. Researching Racialised Bodies in Higher Education: From Statistics to Storytelling.- 5. Exploring the Law/Bodies/Space Regulatory Conundrum.- 6. Reading the Body that was not Written.- 7. Working with an Example of the Body: Legal Thinking as Method in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies.- 8. Writing from Within the Body as a Research Process.- 9. Afterword.
