Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration : : Theory and Practice across Disciplines / / Scott Frickel, Mathieu Albert, Barbara Prainsack.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter RUP eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Jimi,; Albert, Mathieu,; Cassidy, Angela,; Croissant, Jennifer,; Downey, Gregory J.,; Feinstein, Noah Weeth,; Frickel, Scott,; Fukuda, Chisato,; Ilhan, Ali O.,; Kuper, Ayelet,; Leahey, Erin,; Lee Kleinman, Daniel,; Light, Ryan,; McBee, David,; Mody, Cyrus C. M.,; Nowotny, Helga,; Panofsky, Aaron,; Paradis, Elise,; Peterson, Sigrid,; Prainsack, Barbara,; Riesch, Hauke,; Sacco, Timothy,; Smith-Doerr, Laurel,; Vardi, Itai,
• TeilnehmendeR: Albert, Mathieu; Cassidy, Angela; Croissant, Jennifer; Downey, Gregory J.; Feinstein, Noah Weeth; Frickel, Scott; Fukuda, Chisato; Ilhan, Ali O.; Kleinman, Daniel Lee; Kuper, Ayelet; Leahey, Erin; Light, Ryan; McBee, Dave; Mody, Cyrus C.M.; Nowotny, Helga; Panofsky, Aaron; Paradis, Elise; Peterson, Sigrid; Prainsack, Barbara; Reisch, Hauke; Sacco, Timothy; Smith-Doerr, Laurel; Vardi, Itai; adams, jimi
• HerausgeberIn: Albert, Mathieu,; Frickel, Scott,; Prainsack, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: The American Campus
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (249 p.) :; 10 figures, 7 tables

Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financial resources toward collaborations between faculty in different disciplines. In theory, interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions between different departments, allowing more in...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue: The Messiness of Real-World Solutions
• Introduction: Investigating Interdisciplinarities
• Part I. Interdisciplinary Cultures and Careers
• 1. New Directions, New Challenges: Trials and Tribulations of Interdisciplinary Research
• 2. The Frictions of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
• 3. Epistemic Cultures of Collaboration: Coherence and Ambiguity in Interdisciplinarity
• 4. Interdisciplinary Fantasy: Social Scientists and Humanities Scholars Working in Faculties of Medicine
• Part II. Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity
• 5. Some Dark Sides of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Behavior Genetics
• 6. A Dynamic, Multidimensional Approach to Knowledge Production
• 7. Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Change in Six Social Sciences: A Longitudinal Comparison
• Part III. Changing Context of Interdisciplinary Research
• 8. "An Electro-Historical Focus with Real Interdisciplinary Appeal": Interdisciplinarity at Vietnam-Era Stanford
• 9. Interdisciplinarity Reloaded? Drawing Lessons from "Citizen Science"
• 10. One Medicine? Advocating (Inter)disciplinarity at the Interfaces of Animal Health, Human Health, and the Environment
• Notes on Contributors
• Index