Beyond Interdisciplinarity examines the broadening meaning of core
concept across academic disciplines and other forms of knowledge.
In this book, Associate Editor of The Oxford Handbook of
Interdisciplinarity and internationally recognized scholar Julie
Thompson Klein depicts the heterogeneity and boundary work of
inter- and trans-disciplinarity in a conceptual framework based on
an ecology of spatializing practices in transaction spaces,
including trading zones and communities of practice. The book
includes both "crossdisciplinary" work (encompassing multi-,
inter-, and trans-disciplinary forms) as well as "cross-sector"
work (spanning disciplines, fields, professions, government and
industry, and communities). The first section of the book defines
and explains boundary work, discourses of interdisciplinarity, and
the nature of interdisciplinary fields. In the second section,
Klein examines dynamics of working across disciplines, including
communication, collaboration, and learning with concrete examples
and lessons from research projects and programs that transcend
traditional fields. The closing chapter examines reasons for
failure and success then presents gateways to literature and other
resources. Throughout the book, Klein emphasizes the roles of
contextualization and historical change while factoring in the
shifting relationship of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity,
ascendancy of transdisciplinarity, and intersections with other
constructs including Mode 2 knowledge production, convergence, team
science, and postdisciplinarity. The conceptual framework she
provides also includes the role of boundary objects, agents, and
organizations in brokering differences and creating for platforms
for change. Klein further explains why translation, interlanguage,
and a communication boundary space are vital to achieving
intersubjectivity and collective identity. They foster not only
pragmatics of negotiation and integration but also reflexivity,
transactivity, and co-production of knowledge with stakeholders
beyond the academy. Rhetorics of holism and synthesis compete with
instrumentalities of problem solving and transgressive critiques.
However, typical warrants today include complexity,
contextualization, collaboration, and socially-robust knowledge.
Crossing boundaries remains complex, but this book guides readers
through the density of pertinent literature while expanding
understandings of crossdisciplinary and cross-sector work.
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