Practising Interdisciplinarity

Convergences and Contestations

Babu P. Remesh, Ratheesh Kumar

• Publisher: Routledge India
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032195759
• eBook ISBN: 9781003849605
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Education General
• Index: Social Sciences

This book examines the epistemological, social and political dimensions of practising interdisciplinary approaches to enhance knowledge, pedagogy, and methodological aspects of research in the South Asian context. The volume sets the context by bringing together a range of ideas, questions and reflections on the concept of interdisciplinarity, the numerous waves of interdisciplinarity in contemporary history of knowledge, which were radically different from each other in their epistemological and political orientations. The book revisits the concept of interdisciplinarity and takes into cognizance the importance of the mutual shaping of knowledge and politics in our search for inclusive and sustainable future(s).

The book offers a blend of both conceptual and institutional discourses on interdisciplinarity and the personal experiences of leading practitioners, bringing together critical engagements from different vantage points on practising it. It will be of interest to researchers, scholars and practitioners of social sciences and humanities disciplines as well as interdisciplinary fields such as educational studies, development studies, women's studies, media studies, cultural studies, urban studies, labour studies, legal studies, public health, disability studies, global/international studies and performing arts. It will also be useful for policy planners, development practitioners, activists and social organizers working in related fields.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• 1 Interdisciplinarity Matters: Convergences and Contestations of Interdisciplinary Trajectories
• 2 Interdisciplinarity: Unpredictable Transitions and Uncommon Encounters
• 3 Transitions in the Organisation of Knowledge: Notes on the Politics of Interdisciplinarity
• 4 Contextualizing Interdisciplinarity: The Possibilities and Challenges of Liberal Arts Spaces in India
• 5 Being Interdisciplinary: The Problem of Method and the Practice of Indian Philosophy
• 6 To Translation We All Belong
• 7 Education as a Discipline in India: Foundations and Histories
• 8 Indispensability of Interdisciplinarity in Studying Society: On Philosophy and Science in Sociology
• 9 Border Crossings between the Legal and the Social: On the Interface of Law, Sociology and Anthropology in India
• 10 Interdisciplinary Concerns in Researching Women's Work
• 11 Engaging with Interdisciplinarity through Disability Studies
• 12 Desires and Fears of Heterodoxies: Notes on Disciplining Media Studies
• 13 Media and Cultural Studies: Text, Subject, and Perception
• 14 ‘Belonging’ to the Discipline of International Relations: The Needs, Perils and Limits of Border-Crossings
• 15 A New “Discipline” or a “Conversational Community”: Reflections on Doing and Building Childhood Studies
• 16 Once Upon a Time, I Was an Economist!: Autobiographical Notes of a Researcher in Labour Studies
• 17 Positioning Emotions in an Interdisciplinary Perspective
• 18 Researching the ‘Urban Turn’: Interdisciplinary Methods to Study Cities and Regions
• 19 Multiple Personas of Social Scientists in Public Health: Challenges in Interdisciplinarity
• Index