Practising Interdisciplinarity

This book examines the epistemological, social and political perspectives of practicing interdisciplinary approaches to enhance knowledge, pedagogy, and methodological research in the South Asian context.

1. Interdisciplinarity Matters: Convergences and Contestations of Interdisciplinary Trajectories - Ratheesh Kumar and Babu P. Remesh 2. Interdisciplinarity: Unpredictable Transitions and Uncommon Encounters- George Varghese K. 3. Transitions in the Organisation of Knowledge: Notes on the Politics of Interdisciplinarity- Shiju Sam Varughese 4. Contextualizing Interdisciplinarity: The Possibilities and Challenges of Liberal Arts Spaces in India- Shubha Ranganathan 5. Being Interdisciplinary: The Problem of Method and the Practice of Indian Philosophy- Samuel G. Ngaihte 6. To Translation we all Belong- Sowmya Dechamma C. C. 7. Education as a Discipline in India: Foundations and Histories- Nidhi Gulati and Manish Jain 8. Indispensability of Interdisciplinarity in Studying Society: On Philosophy and Science in Sociology- Vivek Kumar 9. Border crossings between the Legal and the Social: On the interface of Law, Sociology and Anthropology in India- Manisha Sethi 10. Interdisciplinary Concerns in Researching Women's Work- Neetha N. 11. Engaging with Interdisciplinarity through Disability Studies- Shubhangi Vaidya 12. Desires and Fears of Heterodoxies: Notes on Disciplining Media Studies- Vibodh Parthasarathi 13. Media and Cultural Studies: Text, Subject and Perception- Sujith Kumar Parayil 14. 'Belonging' to the discipline of International Relations: The Needs, Perils and Limits of Border-Crossings- Aparna Devare 15. A new "discipline" or a "conversational community": Reflections on doing and building Childhood Studies- Anandini Dar 16. Once upon a time, I was an Economist! Autobiographical Notes of a Researcher in Labour Studies- Babu P. Remesh 17. Positioning Emotions in an Interdisciplinary Perspective- Nita Mathur 18. Researching the 'Urban Turn': Interdisciplinary Methods to Study Cities and Regions- Rohit Negi, Rachna Mehra, Pritpal Randhawa 19. Multiple personas of social scientists in public health: Challenges in interdisciplinarity- N. Nakkeeran