Why interdisciplinarity? : Interdisciplinarity and women's/Gender studies in Europe

Summary, in English

Some years ago, I was asked to be a junior researcher in a European research project about interdisciplinarity. I was delighted, of course, and excited about the opportunity to explore the problems and possibilities of interdisciplinarity. On the afternoon of the same day, I had a meeting with two experienced academics. I told them I had been invited to take part in a research project and both enthusiastically congratulated me on my luck. They were eager to know about my collaborators, and following that, they wanted to know about the research topic. When I told them that I was supposed to investigate possibilities and obstacles for interdisciplinarity, they both sighed. “It’s a dead end,” one of them said. The other one fell silent. At the time, I thought their reactions simply refl ected their personalities, but when I recall this conversation now, I can see that their reactions are actually indicative of the kind of everyday life in the academy to which all scholars can relate.

• Författare: Mia Liinason
• Avdelning/ar: Genusvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet
• Publiceringsår: 2012-03-29
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 151-164
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Theories and Methodologies in Postgraduate Feminist Research : Researching Differently
• Dokumenttyp: Del av eller Kapitel i bok
• Förlag: Taylor & Francis
• Ämne: Gender Studies; Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
• Aktiv: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISBN: 9780203817339; ISBN: 9781136728433