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Book SynopsisThis open access book illustrates how interdisciplinary research develops over the lifetime of a scholar: not in a single project, but as an attitude that trickles down, or spirals up, into research. This book presents how interdisciplinary work has inspired shifts in how the contributors read, value concepts, critically combine methods, cope with knowledge hierarchies, write in style, and collaborate. Drawing on extensive examples from the humanities and social sciences, the editors and chapter authors show how they started, tried to open up, dealt with inconsistencies, had to adapt, and ultimately learned and grew as researchers. The book offers valuable insights into the conditions and complexities present for interdisciplinary research to be successful in an academic setting.
This is an open access book.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Karin Bijsterveld & Aagje Swinnen
Introduction
Part I—Moving Concepts: What Theory Can Do
Harro van Lente
Reversing the Gaze on Expectations in Technology: The Philosopher Ortega y Gasset and Innovation Studies
Joseph Wachelder
A Modernization Perspective on Dutch Universities in the 19th Century: Theoretical Sociology Challenging Historiography
Karin van Leeuwen
Constitutional Reform in the Postwar Netherlands: Law in History
Ferenc Laczó
Rethinking Eastern Europe in European Studies: Creating Symmetry through Interdisciplinarity
Paul Stephenson
Gift and Reciprocity in the Aftermath of the 2003 Heatwave: Using Social Theory to Understand Public Confusion in Response to Solidarity Day in France
Elsje Fourie
Freeing the Frog in the Well: Borrowing from History to Understand Contemporary Japanese Development Aid to Ethiopia
Part II—Refolding Methods: How Twists Require Tweaks
Aagje Swinnen
Examining Personal and Cultural Narratives of Aging: Literary Gerontology Revisited
Emilie Sitzia
Museology and Its Others: Analyzing Exhibition Storytelling through Narratology, Space analysis, Discourse analysis, and Ethnographic Research
Karin Bijsterveld
Spatial Rituals and Ritualized Space in Dutch Postwar Homes for the Elderly: Anthropology in History
Kathleen Gregory, Paul Groth, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Sally Wyatt The Mysterious User of Research Data: Knitting Together Science and Technology Studies with Information and Computer Science
Part III—Cascading Collaborations: With Artists, Style, and Skill
Flora Lysen
Interdisciplinary Anticipations: Art-Science Collaboration at the Maastricht Brain Stimulation and Cognition Laboratory
Patricia de Vries
The Artificial Womb: Speculative Design Meets the Sociotechnical History of Reproductive Labor
Peter Peters, Ties van de Werff, Imogen Eve, and Jos Roeden
Doing Collaborative Research on Symphonic Orchestra Audiences: Interventionist Ethnography of Music Practices
Jessica Mesman
Alignment and Alienation: Emergency Staff and Midwifery Scholars as Co-Researchers
Valentina Mazzucato, Bilisuma Dito, and Karlijn Haagsman
‘Doing’ Teamwork as ‘Doing’ Family: Researching Transnational Migrant Families through Interdisciplinary Collaboration
