April 14, 2000
Negotiating a Passage Between Disciplinary Borders
How interdisciplinary is interdisciplinarity? As an editor, I find that question much on my mind as I read proposal after proposal trumpeting interdisciplinary methodology and claiming that a resulting book will be of interest to readers in every discipline within a mile of the topic. In recent decades, academe has echoed with the refrain of interdisciplinarity; perhaps we have now reached a time to pause and consider what interdisciplinary work is, and what it is
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