Introduction

Conjectures on Undisciplined Research

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20041208
AutoresDebra A Castillo (Cornell University), Puri (0000-0002-1700-1865, University of Pittsburgh), Shalini Puri
Ano2016
Páginas1-26
Data de publicação2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoTheorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/978-1-349-92834-7_1
OpenAlexW2561688696
ISBN9781349928347
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas71

This introduction explores what happens to fieldwork when it shifts discipline, shifts form, shifts audience, shifts medium, shifts end point, and shifts traditions of interaction: in short, when information gleaned from the field is routed back into an undisciplining form of inquiry. It situates the project of fieldwork in the humanities in relation to the histories of cultural studies, anthropology, area studies, and postcolonial studies. In contrast with these areas of study, fieldwork in the humanities often involves disciplinary isolation and professional incomprehension. We argue for the value of combining textual study with lived experience in transforming our scholarly practices, opening the conversation without asking that these fieldwork-inspired practices become standardized, prescriptive, or paradigmatic

Contrast (vision) · Conversation · Discipline · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Isolation (microbiology) · Point (geometry) · Relation (database) · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Communication · Computer Science · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics