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Routledge Handbook
of Interdisciplinary
Research Methods
The landscape of contemporary research is characterized by a renewed interest in the potential
of interdisciplinarity. Yet there are few discussions of the development of interdisciplinary
methods and their ‘behaviour’ in the field.
The Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research presents a bold intervention by showcasing
a diversity of stimulating approaches. Over 50 experienced researchers illustrate the challenges,
but also the rewards of doing interdisciplinary research through discussions of their own practice
and that of others. Each section is dedicated to an aspect of interdisciplinary methodology,
including collection, classification, validation and communication to research audiences. Featured
projects cover a variety of scales and topics, from small art-science collaborations to the ‘big data’
of mass observations.
Most importantly, the Handbook presents a distinctive approach, defamiliarizing and reworking
established practices such as experimenting, archiving, observing, prototyping and translating.
The focus is on knowledge as process, the compounding of methods, and the role of interdisci-
plinary methods in activating the present.
Celia Lury is Professor and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the
University of Warwick.
Rachel Fensham is Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies and Assistant Dean of the Digital
Studio, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne.
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is a writer on contemporary cinema and a Research Associate at
the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.
Sybille Lammes is Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Leiden.
Angela Last is Lecturer in Environmental Humanities at the University of Leicester.
Mike Michael is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and
Anthropology at the University of Exeter.
Emma Uprichard is Reader at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University
of Warwick.
Routledge Handbook
of Interdisciplinary
Research Methods
Edited by Celia Lury, Rachel Fensham,
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Sybille Lammes,
Angela Last, Mike Michael and Emma Uprichard
First published 2018
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Contents
List of figures xi
List of contributors xiii
Preface xxiii
Introduction: activating the present of interdisciplinary methods 1
Celia Lury
SECTION 1
Making and assembling 27
1 Making and assembling: towards a conjectural paradigm for
interdisciplinary research 29
Rachel Fensham and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
2 Arranging (enchaînement) 41
Harmony Bench
3 Drawing 47
Matthew Reason
4 Experimenting 53
Thomas Jellis
5 Figuring 57
Margaret Wertheim
6 Imaging 61
Rebecca Coleman
7 Rescaling 68
Ramon Lobato
8 Sand drawing 71
Jennifer Green
v
Contents
9 Suspending 76
Catherine Ayres and David Bissell
SECTION 2
Capturing and composing 81
1 Capturing and composing: doing the epistemic and the ontic together 83
Emma Uprichard
2 Abducting 90
Ana Teixeira de Melo
3 Archiving 95
Luciana Duranti
4 iBorder/ing 99
Holger Pötzsch
5 Casing 104
Charles C. Ragin
6 Diffracting 108
Leila Dawney
7 Figurationing 112
Leila Dawney
8 Notating 116
Moritz Wedell
9 Prototyping 122
Alberto Corsín Jiménez
10 Retrieving 126
Carolin Gerlitz
11 Timing 132
Barbara Adam
12 Visualizing data: a view from design space 133
Greg McInerny
vi
Contents
SECTION 3
Engaging and distributing 143
1 Engaging and distributing 145
Sybille Lammes
2 Affective analysis 152
Laura U. Marks
3 Data-sprinting: a public approach to digital research 158
Tommaso Venturini, Anders Munk and Axel Meunier
4 Digging 164
Jussi Parikka
5 Issuecrawling: building lists of URLs and mapping website networks 169
Richard Rogers
6 Moving methods 176
Monika Büscher
7 Playing with ethics 183
Miguel Angel Sicart
8 Sensing atmospheres 187
Sasha Engelmann and Derek McCormack
SECTION 4
Of interdisciplinarity 195
1 Of interdisciplinarity 197
Angela Last
2 Diagramming 209
Gail Davies and Helen Scalway
3 Conversation between Angela Last and Nina Lykke 228
Nina Lykke and Angela Last
4 Haunting seedy connections 239
Tahani Nadim
5 Dirty methods as ethical methods? In the field with ‘The Cultural
Politics of Dirt in Africa, 1880–Present’ 248
Stephanie Newell, Patrick Oloko, John Uwa, Olutoyosi Tokun, Jane Nebe,
Job Mwaura, Rebeccah Onwong’a, Ann Kirori and Claire Craig
vii
Contents
SECTION 5
Valuing and validating 267
1 Valuing and validating: on the ‘success’ of interdisciplinary research 269
Mike Michael
2 Compromising 279
Mike Michael
3 Deriving 284
Carl DiSalvo
4 Disrupting 287
Yoko Akama and Sarah Pink
5 Dissenting 291
Manuel Tironi
6 Exemplifying 296
Tuur Driesser
7 Explaining 301
Priska Gisler
8 Generalizing 306
Joanna Latimer and Rolland Munro
9 Interdisciplines, and Indigenous research and methodologies 311
Catriona Elder and Jonathon Potskin
10 Troubling 317
Anne Galloway
11 Problem-making 329
Alan Irwin and Maja Horst
12 Project-ing: from differences to design 334
Connor Graham
13 Qualifying 339
Gay Hawkins
14 Scaling 343
Masato Fukushima
viii
Contents
15 Speculating 347
Alex Wilkie
16 Wedging 352
Jane Calvert
Index 355
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