The lively process of interdisciplinarity

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ID8360432
AuthorsHenry Buller (0000-0001-5652-4434, University of Exeter, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume41
Issue4
Pages395-403
Publication date2009-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArea (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0004-0894 • E-ISSN: 1475-4762
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1475-4762.2008.00856.x
OpenAlexW2146524596
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited20

Food chain research offers particular opportunities for the development of interdisciplinary problematics and approaches. For example, the issue of ‘quality’ cannot be interpreted solely from natural or from social science perspectives but rather requires a consilient and interdisciplinary vision. Suggesting a ‘ground upwards’ approach, building upon transitional objects and networks of practice and drawing upon a recently completed research project involving natural and social science research teams, this paper considers the practice and performance of interdisciplinarity as a lively process of knowledge creation that operates within what Luhmann calls ‘forums of articulation’ through which epistemologically mobile socio‐natural entities are defined and explored

Articulation (sociology) · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Natural (archaeology) · Natural science · Political science · Process (computing) · Quality (philosophy) · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Innovation, Technology, and Society · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy

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