Interdisciplinarity: Giving up Territory

Lyon, Arabella

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“…So I agree with Lyon (1992) that more fluid metaphors can lead to new understandings, but suggest that perhaps the notion of academic disciplines as 'rivers' that she suggests contains some of the same restrictions as 'territories' since they are also mostly clearly bounded. What we see in the data presented here is that 'confluence' is perhaps more common than the flow.…”

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“…She argues that territorial metaphors emphasize two-dimensional space with defined boundaries and this presents problems for inter-, multi-, and trans-disciplinarity (Lyon 1992). Interdisciplinary work results from the shifting of boundaries.…”

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“…In an attempt to escape territorial metaphors, Lyon (1992) exchanges them for river metaphors. She argues that territorial metaphors emphasize two-dimensional space with defined boundaries and this presents problems for inter-, multi-, and trans-disciplinarity (Lyon 1992).…”

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Disciplinary and interdisciplinary affiliations of experienced researchers

Brew

2007

High Educ

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This article reports on a study of senior academics' views of their disciplinary and interdisciplinary affiliations. It questions the idea that academics have a firm and fixed disciplinary identity from which they then act and suggests that academic work in the contemporary university challenges and changes how individuals view their disciplinary affiliation. The article provides empirical data that lends weight to critical questioning of anthropological metaphors, which have tended to dominate discussions of disciplinarity. It suggests that contemporary understandings of disciplinary and interdisciplinary identity need more fluid metaphors and models; ones that can capture the shifting and questioning uncertainties that give expression to the rhetorical and reflexive nature of academics' disciplinary affiliations. The article explores the implications of a dominant emphasis on disciplinary relationships for understanding disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity and examines the practical implications for structures and systems that are designed to enhance and evaluate research and teaching within higher education.

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Brew

2007

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“…However, like other critics of Fish's position (Lyon 1992;Nowachek 2009), we do not see outsidedness as essential for critical engagement; moreover, we see distinctions between disciplines as fluid, permeable, and sbifting horizons rather than redrawn, even blurred, demarcations. Arabella Lyon (1992: 682) prefers using tbe metapbor of the river or current to spatially describe interdisciplinarity, which "more easily allows for tributaries or nomadic discourses tban tbe territorial metaphor.…”

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The Twain Shall Meet

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Potter²

2012

Pedagogy

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“…Personally, I thrive being part of interdisciplinary research teams without ever losing my disciplinary (anthropology) identity. At the same time, I realize that the interdisciplinary gaze, dating back to the 1960s (Heilbron & Gingras, 2015), has met both with honors and with criticism (see Lyon, 1992;Jacobs & Frickel, 2009;Smith, 2016). The anthropologist Clifford Geertz (1983) spoke of crossing disciplinary borders and intellectual deprovincialization in social sciences.…”

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Erased or Surviving Despite Challenges? The State of Anthropology in Poland

Goździak

2020

Open Anthropological Research

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Two years have passed since Jarosław Gowin, the Polish Minister of Science and Education, has signed a new law known as the Constitution for Science (Konstytucja dla nauki) or simply Law 2.0 (Ustawa 2.0). Law 2.0 declared that ethnology and anthropology are no longer independent fields of scientific inquiry, but are part of a new discipline: the study of culture and religion. In this essay, I analyze the effects of this law on ethnology and anthropology in Poland. I look at how the law affected anthropological research, especially its financing, and training, including enrollment of students. I place this discussion withing the broader context of reforms aimed at Polish higher education.

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Interdisciplinarity: Giving up Territory

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Disciplinary and interdisciplinary affiliations of experienced researchers

Disciplinary and interdisciplinary affiliations of experienced researchers

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Erased or Surviving Despite Challenges? The State of Anthropology in Poland

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