Outside the lines : issues in interdisciplinary research / [edited by] Liora Salter and Alison Hearn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salter, Liora, Author.

Contributor:

Salter, Liora.

Hearn, Alison.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interdisciplinary research.

Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston : Published for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada by McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Contributors to this collection address the ways in which interdisciplinarity is defined, positioned, and handled by researchers, universities, and critics, and examine such topics as "myths" of interdisciplinarity, postmodern critiques of interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and research grant allocation, women's studies, Canadian studies, environmental studies, and "emerging" disciplines. The collection combines a theoretical examination of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity as forms of knowledge production and organization with practical information about the basic difficulties and conundrums involved in the practice of interdisciplinary research.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Disciplines; 2 Interdisciplinarity; 3 The Experience of Interdisciplinarity; Perseverance, Pictures, and Parts; ""Agency"" and ""Agencies,"" or Interdisciplinarities I Have Known; On Finding One's Way in the Uncharted Swamps of Interdisciplinarity; 4 The Practice of Interdisciplinarity; Computer Music and Acoustic Communication: Two Emerging Interdisciplines; (Re)producing Interdisciplinarity: Social Studies of Medicine at McGill; Thirty-Five Years on the Beaver Patrol: Canadian Studies as Collective Scholarly Activity

Falling between Schools: Some Thoughts on the Theory and Practice of Interdisciplinarity5 Bridging Two Cultures; Easier Said Than Done: Biologists, Ergonomists, and Sociologists Collaborate to Study Health Effects of the Sexual Division of Labour; Surveying an Interdisciplinary CASM; Interdisciplinarity and the Ethics of Health Science Research on Human Subjects in Canada; 6 Evaluating Interdisciplinarity; An Interdisciplinary Committee within a Disciplinary Research Funding Structure: The Experience of the First Two Years

Networks of Centres of Excellence: Opportunities for Interdisciplinarity7 Changing the Map; 8 Charting New Territories; 9 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibligraphical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85412-7

9786612854125

0-7735-6621-X

OCLC:

929121365