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Sustaining Interdisciplinary Collaboration : A Guide for the Academy /

Both a vision for future scholarship and a slogan for university restructuring, interdisciplinarity promises to break through barriers to address today's complex challenges. Yet even high-stakes projects often falter, undone by contradictory incentives, bureaucratic frameworks, communication br...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bendix, Regina (Author), Noyes, Dorothy (Author), Bizer, Kilian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The interdisciplinary project as social form
  • zones, exchanges, boundaries, communities : thin and thick interdisciplinarity
  • From cool phenomena to hot
  • Problems : slogans and stances in the research group
  • Building trust and respecting suspicion
  • Sociability in social research : ritual, play, and ambiguity
  • Holding up and folding up
  • Toward a sustainable interdisciplinarity : recommendations.