Parker / Samantrai / Romero Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice

Revisioning Academic Accountability
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3137-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Praxis: Theory in Action

Considers the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary fields motivated by concerns for social justice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parker, Joseph D.

Samantrai, Ranu

Romero, Mary

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice: An Introduction
Joe Parker and Ranu Samantrai

I. Critiques of Disciplinarity

2. Metaphors of Globalization
Lisa Lowe 3. Crossing the Immigration and Race Border: A Critical Race Theory Approach to Immigration Studies
Mary Romero
4. Whiteness in a Red Room: Telling Stories and Legal Discourse in the Tribal Courtroom
Raquel Montoya-Lewis

5. An Emergent Extra-Disciplinarity: Worlding Arabs, Activist Representation, and the Example of Ahdaf Soueif
Mrinalini Chakravorty

II. Critiques of Interdisciplinary Fields

6. Cultural Studies: Justice, Values, and Social Class
Patrick Brantlinger

7. The Other Inters: Augmenting Academic Disciplinarity to Make Things (Happen)
Alexandra Juhasz

8. The Ethico-politics of Dedisciplinary Practices
Joe Parker

9. The Limits of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Chicano Studies
Michael Soldatenko

III. Interdisciplinary Claims to Social Justice

10. Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity
Robyn Wiegman

11. Interdisciplinarity: A Consideration from African American Studies
Lindon Barrett

12. Imagined Immunities: Border Rhetorics and the Ethos of Sans Frontièrisme
D. Robert DeChaine

13. Toward Collaborative Coalitions: From Internationalism to Interdisciplinarity
Leila Neti

14. Interdisciplinary Investigations and Cross-Sector Interventions
Ellen Messer-Davidow

15. Accounting for Interdisciplinarity
Miranda Joseph

Afterword: Justice Without Truth?
Ranu Samantrai

List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joe Parker is Associate Professor of International and Intercultural Studies at Pitzer College. He is the author of Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts of Early Muromachi Japan (1336–1573), also published by SUNY Press. Ranu Samantrai is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University at Bloomington. She is the author of AlterNatives: Black Feminism in the Postimperial Nation. Mary Romero is Professor of Justice Studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of Maid in the U.S.A. and the editor of several books, including (with Eric Margolis) The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities.