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Sustaining Interdisciplinary Collaboration: A Guide for the Academy
Regina F. Bendix
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Description for Sustaining Interdisciplinary Collaboration: A Guide for the Academy
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JNKS; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
At once a slogan and a vision for future scholarship, interdisciplinarity promises to break through barriers to address today's complex challenges. Yet even high-stakes projects often falter, undone by poor communication, strong feelings, bureaucratic frameworks, and contradictory incentives. This new book shows newcomers and veteran researchers how to craft associations that will lead to rich mutual learning under inevitably tricky conditions. Strikingly candid and always grounded, the authors draw a wealth of profound, practical lessons from an in-depth case study of a multiyear funded project on cultural property. Examining the social dynamics of collaboration, they show readers how ... Read more
At once a slogan and a vision for future scholarship, interdisciplinarity promises to break through barriers to address today's complex challenges. Yet even high-stakes projects often falter, undone by poor communication, strong feelings, bureaucratic frameworks, and contradictory incentives. This new book shows newcomers and veteran researchers how to craft associations that will lead to rich mutual learning under inevitably tricky conditions. Strikingly candid and always grounded, the authors draw a wealth of profound, practical lessons from an in-depth case study of a multiyear funded project on cultural property. Examining the social dynamics of collaboration, they show readers how ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252082375
SKU
V9780252082375
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About Regina F. Bendix
Regina F. Bendix is a professor of cultural anthropology and European ethnology at the University of Goettingen. She is coeditor of the journal Narrative Culture. Kilian Bizer is a professor of economic policy and director of the Center for European Governance and Economic Development Research as well as the Institute for Small Business Economics at the University of Goettingen. Dorothy ... Read more
Reviews for Sustaining Interdisciplinary Collaboration: A Guide for the Academy
Rarely, if ever, have we seen such a clear-eyed ethnography of the political economy of the Western academic workplace. This book should be required reading for anyone who professes to care not just about interdisciplinarity, but about the short- and long-term future of curiosity-driven knowledge as well. Buy a copy for yourself, and then buy one for every administrator in ... Read more