Academic tribes and territories

Academic tribes and territories : intellectual enquiry
and the cultures of disciplines / Tony Becher.-Bristol : The Society for Research into Higher
Education : Open Universtiy Press, 1989. How do
academics perceive themselves and colleagues in their own
disciplines, and how do they rate those in other subjects? How
closely related are their intellectual tasks and their ways of
organizing their professional lives? What are the
interconnections between academic cultures and the nature of
disciplines? Academic Tribes and Territories maps academic
knowledge and explores the diverse characteristics of those
who inhabit and cultivate it. This second edition provides a
thorough update to Tony Becher's classic text, first published in
1989, and incorporates research findings and new theoretical
perspectives. Fundamental changes in the nature of higher
education and in the academic's role are reviewed and their
significance for academic cultures is assessed. This second
edition successfully renews a classic in the field of higher
education.
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The birth and death of meaning : an interdisciplinary
perspective on the problem of man / Ernest Becker.-New York : The Free Press, 1971
Becker illustrates the way in which we deceive ourselves and
deliberately confuse the cultural game with underlying material
reality. He offers four levels of possible solution, the first of
which he warns can lead to narcissism and mandess, the
second and third being religious in an abstract and
metaphysical way. Becker is not, like so many sociologists,
drunk on his own lucidity or on a power trip: he is telling us to
relax, because the question of relevance is very much up in the
air. Authenticity is his message. I would recommend this book
as it is easily one of the most important philosophical
awakenings that are on the bookshelf, but I would qualify that
statement by also recommending it be taken in small doses.
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Change by design : how design thinking transforms
organizations and inspires innovation / Tim Brown,
Barry Katz.-- New York : Harper Collins Publishers, 2009.
This book introduces design thinking, the collaborative process
by which the designer’s sensibilities and methods are employed
to match people’s needs with what is technically feasible and a
viable business strategy. In short, design thinking converts need
into demand. It’s a human-centered approach to problem
solving that helps people and organizations become more
innovative and creative. Design thinking is not just applicable to
so-called creative industries or people who work in the design
field. It’s an approach that has been used by organizations such
as Kaiser Permanente to increase the quality of patient care by
re-examining the ways that their nurses manage shift change or
Kraft to rethink supply chain management. This book is for
creative business leaders who seek to infuse design thinking
into every level of an organization, product, or service to drive
new alternatives for business and society.
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Disability studies : an interdisciplinary introduction /
Dan Goodley.-- London : Sage, 2011
This introduction to disability studies represents a clear,
engaging and consistently thought-provoking study of the field.
The book discusses the global nature of disability studies and
disability politics, introduces key debates in the field and
represents the intersections of disability studies with feminist,
class, queer and postcolonial analyses.The book has a clear
and coherent format which matches the interdisciplinary
framework of disability studies - including chapters on
sociology,
critical
psychology,
discourse
analysis,
psychoanalysis and education.
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Essentials of transdisciplinary research : using
problem centered methodologies / Patricia Leavy.-Walnut Creek : Left coast press, 2011
Transdisciplinary research is issue-driven, addressing
contemporary social questions from a range of critical
theoretical perspectives unhampered by the theoretical and
methodological restrictions
of
traditional
disciplinary
boundaries. In this brief, informative guide, Patricia Leavy
shows how a transdisciplinary approach can produce more
effective results for researchers hoping to ameliorate social
problems and foster social justice. Leavy demonstrates the
value of transdisciplinary approaches in mixed methods design,
and how trans approaches actually help fulfill the promises and
goals of mixed methods research. She explains its relationship
to multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary research and its value
in community-based and arts-based research projects.
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Fab : the coming revolution on your desktop form
personal computers to personal fabrication / Neil
Gershenfeld. -- New York : Basic Books, 2005
In FAB, Gershenfeld describes how personal fabrication is possible
today, and how it is meeting local needs with locally developed
solutions. He and his colleagues have created “fab labs” around the
world, which, in his words, can be interpreted to mean “a lab for
fabrication, or simply a fabulous laboratory.” Using the machines in one
of these labs, children in inner-city Boston have made saleable jewelry
from scrap material. Villagers in India used their lab to develop devices
for monitoring food safety and agricultural engine efficiency. Herders in
the Lyngen Alps of northern Norway are developing wireless networks
and animal tags so that their data can be as nomadic as their animals.
And students at MIT have made everything from a defensive dress that
protects its wearer’s personal space to an alarm clock that must be
wrestled into silence.
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Great interdisciplinary ideas : a reader for
writers / William Vesterman.-- New York : Pearson &
Longman, 2008
This book provides an outstanding collection of essays by major
thinkers exploring great ideas in different fields of study. It is
part of Longman's Penguin Academics Series of low-cost, highquality offerings intended for use in introductory college
courses. This reader introduces students to the central issues
of modern life–such as human rights, gender, economics, and
utopias and dystopias–through an exploration of major ideas at
work through time within and among different disciplines. The
book’s 58 selections have been chosen both for the high quality
and importance of their thought and for their usefulness in
stimulating critical reading and analytic and argumentative
writing.
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An interdisciplinary theory of activity / Andy
Blunden.-- Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2010
Andy Blunden presents an immanent critique of CulturalHistorical Activity Theory, the current of psychology originating
from Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934). Tracing the roots of this theory
from Goethe, Hegel and Marx, the author draws out the
principles with which Vygotsky developed a theory of the mind
in which the individual and their social situation form a single
Gestalt, transcending the problems of mind-body dualism.
Blunden follows the efforts of later members of the School to
resolve outstanding problems in Vygotsky’s work. This includes
a critical appropriation of Leontyev’s Activity Theory and
Michael Cole’s cross-cultural research on the role of context in
learning. The outcome is a concept of activity which transcends
the division between individual and social domains in human
sciences.
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Knowledge democracy : consequences for science,
politics and media / editor Roeland J in’t Veld.-- New
York : Springer, 2010.
This book is an emerging concept that addresses the
relationships
between knowledge production
and
dissemination, as well as the functions of the media and
democratic institutions. Although democracy has been the most
successful concept of governance for societies for the last two
centuries, representative democracy, which became the
hallmark of advanced nation-states, seems to be in decline.
Media politics is an important factor in the downfall of the
original meaning of representation, yet more direct forms
of democracyhave not yet found an institutional embedding.
Further, the Internet has also drastically changed the rules of
the game, and a better educated public has broad access to
information, selects for itself which types to examine, and
ignores media filters. This book outlines the challenges entailed
in pursuing a vital.
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The opposable mind : winning through integrative
thinking / Roger L Martin. -- Boston : Harvard Business
Press, 2009.
Though following best practice can help in some ways, it also
poses a danger: By emulating what a great leader did in a
particular situation, you'll likely be terribly disappointed with
your own results. Why? Your situation is different. Instead of
focusing on what exceptional leaders do, we need to
understand and emulate how they think. Successful
businesspeople engage in what Martin calls integrative thinking
creatively resolving the tension in opposing models by forming
entirely new and superior ones. Drawing on stories of leaders
as diverse as AG Lafley of Procter & Gamble, Meg Whitman of
eBay, Victoria Hale of the Institute for One World Health, and
Nandan Nilekani of Infosys, Martin shows how integrative
thinkers are relentlessly diagnosing and synthesizing by asking
probing questions including. What are the causal relationships
at work here? and What are the implied trade-offs?
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Reliable knowledge : an exploration of the grounds
for
belief
in
science
/ John Ziman.-New
York : Cambridge University Press, 2003
Why believe in the findings of science? John Ziman argues that
scientific knowledge is not uniformly reliable, but rather like a
map representing a country we cannot visit. He shows how
science has many elements, including alongside its
experiments and formulae the language and logic, patterns and
preconceptions, facts and fantasies used to illustrate and
express its findings. These elements are variously combined by
scientists in their explanations of the material world as it lies
outside our everyday experience. John Ziman's book offers at
once a valuably clear account and a radically challenging
investigation of the credibility of scientific knowledge, searching
widely across a range of disciplines for evidence about the
perceptions, paradigms and analogies on which all our
understanding depends.
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A space for science : the development of the
scientific community in Brazil / Simon Schwartzman.-Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University
Press, 1991.
The book focuses on the development of natural sciences in
Brazil from the nineteenth century, with emphasis on the
cultural, institutional, and social contexts that facilitated or
hindered their growth and institutionalization, and offers an
analysis of their current predicaments. It also provides an
account of the importance to Brazil of foreign-trained scientists
and foreign models of research and higher education. This new
English version contains background information on Brazilian
society and politics, a new introduction, and two new chapters
on most recent developments. These changes, along with
substantial revisions to the text, make this a new book even for
the Brazilian reader.
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Teaching
and
learning
about
science
and
society / John Ziman.-- New York : Cambridge
University Press, 2008.
Science, Technology, and Society' - STS - has become a major
educational theme. There are many courses in schools,
universities and other institutions, dealing with all sorts of topics
such as the history of science, energy policy, industrial
innovation, technology assessment, Third World development,
scientific method, and so on. But what is this subject really
about? Why should it be taught? Who should study it? What
should they learn? How should the subject be approached?
Who should teach it? These questions are being asked by both
teachers and students in many fields of science, engineering,
medicine, social studies, and the humanities.
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Technics and time : the fault of epimetheus / Bernard
Stiegler.-- California : Stanford University Press, 1998.
What is a technical object? At the beginning of Western
philosophy, Aristotle contrasted beings formed by nature, which
had within themselves a beginning of movement and rest, and
man-made objects, which did not have the source of their own
production within themselves. This book, the first of three
volumes, revises the Aristotelian argument and develops an
innovative assessment whereby the technical object can be
seen as having an essential, distinct temporality and dynamics
of its own. Working his way through the history of the
Aristotelian assessment of technics, the author engages the
ideas of a wide range of thinkers—Rousseau, Husserl, and
Heidegger,
the
paleo-ontologist
Leroi-Gourhan,
the
anthropologists Vernant and Detienne, the sociologists Weber
and Habermas, and the systems analysts Maturana and Varela.
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Technics and time : disorientation / Bernard Stiegler.-California : Stanford University Press, 2009.
The french philosopher Bernard Stiegler engages in a close
dialogue with Husserl, Derrida, and other philosophers who
have devoted their energies to technics, such as Heidegger and
Simondon.The author's broad intent is to respond to Western
philosophy's historical exclusion of technics and techniques
from its metaphysical questionings, and in so doing to rescue
critical and philosophical thinking. For many years, Stiegler has
explored the origins and philosophical, ethical, and political
stakes of a global process he calls "the industrial
temporalization of consciousness." Here, demonstrating that
technology—including alphabetical writing—is memory, he
argues that through new technologies of retention and
inscription we have come to live in a world where time devours
space, a disoriented world in which we have lost our bearings.
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Technics and time : cinematic time and the question
of Malaise / Bernard Stiegler.-- California : Stanford
University Press, 2011
In the first two volumes of Technics and Time, Bernard Stiegler
worked carefully through Heidegger's and Husserl's relationship
to technics and technology. Here, in volume three, he turns his
attention to the prolematic relationship to technics he finds in
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, particularly in the two versions
of the Transcendental Deduction. Stiegler relates this
problematic to the "cinematic nature" of time, which precedes
cinema itself but reaches an apotheosis in it as
theexteriorization process of schema, through tertiary retentions
and their mechanisms. The book focuses on the relationship
between these themes and the "culture industry"— as defined
by Adorno and Horkheimer—that has supplanted the
educational institutions on which genuine cultural participation
depends. This displacement, Stiegler says, has produced a
malaise from which current global culture suffers. The result is
potentially catastrophic.
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Trajectoires de vie dans la grande vieillesse : rester
chez soi ou s'installer en institution? / Stefano
Cavalli.-- Geneve : Georg, 2012.
La thèse est consacrée à l'étude d'une transition majeure de la
dernière partie du parcours de vie, à savoir le passage d'un domicile
privé à un établissement médico-social (EMS). Sur la base des
données – à la fois quantitatives et qualitatives – de SWILSOO (Swiss
Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study on the Oldest Old), la trajectoire
des résidents est suivie depuis l'amont de leur déménagement jusqu'à
deux ans environ après l'installation en EMS; de même, les trajectoires
des personnes qui entrent en institution sont comparées à celles des
contemporains qui continuent à vivre à domicile. Deux ensembles de
facteurs prédisent l'entrée en EMS: l'un renvoie au processus de
fragilisation, l'autre à des formes d'isolement qui se traduisent en un
sentiment de solitude. Dans l'année du déménagement, la santé
connaît une dégradation, pour se stabiliser voire s'améliorer par la
suite; le bien-être des résidents reste stable et les visites de la famille
s'intensifient.
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Travelling concepts in the humanities : a rough
guide / Mieke Bal.-- Toronto : University of Toronto Press,
2002.
Mieke Bal has written an intellectual travel guide that charts the
course 'beyond' cultural studies. As with any guide, it can be
used in a number of ways and the reader can follow or willfully
ignore any of the paths it maps or signposts. Bal's focus for this
book is the idea that interdisciplinarity in the humanities necessary, exciting, serious - must seek its heuristic and
methodological basis in concepts rather than its methods.
Concepts are not grids to put over an object. The counterpart of
any given concept is the cultural text or work or 'thing' that
constitutes the object of analysis. No concept is meaningful for
cultural analysis unless it helps us to understand the object
better on its own terms. Bal offers the reader a sustained
theoretical reflection on how to 'do' cultural analysis through a
tentative practice of doing just that. This offers a concrete
practice to theoretical constructs, and allows the proposed
method more accessibility.
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