The idea that research should become more interdisciplinary has
become commonplace. According to influential commentators, the
unprecedented complexity of problems such as climate change or the
social implications of biomedicine demand interdisciplinary efforts
integrating both the social and natural sciences. In this context,
the question of whether a given knowledge practice is too
disciplinary, or interdisciplinary, or not disciplinary enough has
become an issue for governments, research policy makers and funding
agencies. Interdisciplinarity, in short, has emerged as a key
political preoccupation; yet the term tends to obscure as much as
illuminate the diverse practices gathered under its rubric. This
volume offers a new approach to theorising interdisciplinarity,
showing how the boundaries between the social and natural sciences
are being reconfigured. It examines the current preoccupation with
interdisciplinarity, notably the ascendance of a particular
discourse in which it is associated with a transformation in the
relations between science, technology and society. Contributors
address attempts to promote collaboration between, on the one hand,
the natural sciences and engineering and, on the other, the social
sciences, arts and humanities. From ethnography in the IT industry
to science and technology studies, environmental science to medical
humanities, cybernetics to art-science, the collection interrogates
how interdisciplinarity has come to be seen as a solution not only
to enhancing relations between science and society, but the pursuit
of accountability and the need to foster innovation.
Interdisciplinarity is essential reading for scholars, students and
policy makers across the social sciences, arts and humanities,
including anthropology, geography, sociology, science and
technology studies and cultural studies, as well as all those
engaged in interdisciplinary research. It will have particular
relevance for those concerned with the knowledge economy, science
policy, environmental politics, applied anthropology, ELSI
research, medical humanities, and art-science.
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