Sustaining Interdisciplinary Collaboration

A Guide for the Academy

Regina Bendix, Kilian Bizer, Dorothy Noyes (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

2017
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04089-4 (ISBN)

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At once a slogan and a vision for future scholarship, interdisciplinarity promises to break through barriers to address today's complex challenges. Yet even high-stakes projects often falter, undone by poor communication, strong feelings, bureaucratic frameworks, and contradictory incentives. This new book shows newcomers and veteran researchers how to craft associations that will lead to rich mutual learning under inevitably tricky conditions. Strikingly candid and always grounded, the authors draw a wealth of profound, practical lessons from an in-depth case study of a multiyear funded project on cultural property. Examining the social dynamics of collaboration, they show readers how to anticipate sources of conflict, nurture trust, and jump-start thinking across disciplines. Researchers and institutions alike will learn to plan for each phase of a project life cycle, capturing insights and shepherding involvement along the way.

Regina F. Bendix is a professor of cultural anthropology and European ethnology at the University of Göttingen. She is coeditor of the journal Narrative Culture. Kilian Bizer is a professor of economic policy and director of the Center for European Governance and Economic Development Research as well as the Institute for Small Business Economics at the University of Göttingen. Dorothy Noyes is a professor in the departments of English and comparative studies at the Ohio State University. She is the author of Humble Theory: Folklore's Grasp on Social Life.

TitleCopyrightContentsPreface1. The Interdisciplinary Project as Social Form2. Zones, Exchanges, Boundaries, Communities: Thin and Thick Interdisciplinarity3. From Cool Phenomena to Hot Problems Slogans and Stances in the Research Group4. Building Trust and Respecting Suspicion5. Sociability in Social Research: Ritual, Play, and Ambiguity6. Holding Up and Folding Up7. Toward a Sustainable Interdisciplinarity: RecommendationsCodaNotesReferencesIndex

Erscheinungsdatum	06.05.2017
Zusatzinfo	1 black & white photograph, 1 line drawing
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-252-04089-9 / 0252040899
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04089-4 / 9780252040894
Zustand	Neuware