Over the course of the last six years, New Directions: Science, Humanities, Policy has taken a case-study approach to questions concerning the nature of knowledge production. Launched in 2001, New Directions promotes interdisciplinary collaborations where physical scientists, social scientists, and humanists work together with public science agencies, the private sector, and communities to deepen our understanding of and develop effective responses to societal problems. Two key elements characterize all New Directions projects. First, by involving the sciences, engineering, and the humanities, in dialogue with the public and private sectors, New Directions unites the two axes of interdisciplinary—the wide and the deep. Second, these experiments in interdisciplinary problem solving function as a means for thematizing the problem of the breakdown between knowledge production and use.
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Robert Frodeman, Julie Thompson Klein, Carl Mitcham, and Nancy Tuana
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2007
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 176–187 (12 total)
Introduction
Experiencing Anticipation. Anthropological Perspectives
Christopher Stephan and Devin Flaherty
linking speech to the public discourses operating to construct and manage subaltern identities, we see how enacting identity can be founded in anticipatory experience. Thematizing actors’ relative awareness of the social stakes of their speech, the
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2019
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–16 (16 total)
William Nessly, Noel B. Salazar, Kemal Kantarci, Evan Koike, Christian Kahl, and Cyril Isnart
beyond the United States, including Canada and Jamaica, and her genre-blurring writing and the complex, hybrid subject position she adopts articulate a broader transnational perspective. Eaton’s works thematize the crossing, complication, and defiance of
Introduction
(De)materializing Kinship—Holding Together Mutuality and Difference
Kathryn E. Goldfarb and Caroline E. Schuster
. By thematizing dis-alignment, exclusion, and non-mutuality in kinship, we seek an alternative grounds for comparative study in anthropology that does not presume mutuality and that incorporates otherness as a necessary focus in order to understand
Captured by Texts
Travel Tales of Captivity in Rabbinic Literature
Joshua Levinson
alterity and thematize this meeting of self and Other, in tales of captivity the other identity grappled with is often the other that the self has lost or has become. All this is equally true for late antiquity where the taking of captives for slaves or