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Image Mia Liinason

Mia Liinason

Research Responsible | Professor

Image Mia Liinason

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

Author

  • Mia Liinason

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.

Department/s

  • Gender Studies
  • Lund University

Publishing year

2012-03-29

Language

English

Pages

151-164

Publication/Series

Theories and Methodologies in Postgraduate Feminist Research : Researching Differently

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Gender Studies
  • Other Social Sciences

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9781136728433
  • ISBN: 9780203817339