Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research Methods

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.

• General introduction, Section 1: Making and Assembling 1. Making and Assembling: Towards a Conjectural Paradigm for Interdisciplinary Research, 2. Arranging, 3. Drawing, 4. Experimenting, 5. Figuring, 6. Imaging, 7. Rescaling, 8. Sand-drawing, 9. Suspending, Section 2: Capturing and Composing, 1. Capturing and Composing: Doing the Epistemic and the Ontic Together, 2. Abducting, 3. Archiving, 4. iBorder/ing, 5. Casing, 6. Diffracting, 7. Figurationing, 8. Notating, 9. Prototyping, 10. Retrieving, 11. Timing, 12. Visualising Data: A View from Design Space Section 3: Engaging and Distributing 1. Engaging and Distributing, 2. Affective analysis, 3. Data-Sprinting: A Public Approach to Digital Research, 4. Digging, 5. Issuecrawling: Building Lists of URLs and Mapping Website Networks, 6. Moving methods, 7. Playing with Ethics, 8. Sensing atmospheres, Section 4: Of Interdisciplinarity, 1. Of Interdisciplinarity, 2. Diagramming, 3. Conversation Between Angela Last and Nina Lykke, 4. Haunting Seedy Connections, 5. Dirty Methods as Ethical Methods? In the Field with 'The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa, 1880–Present' Section 5: Valuing and Validating, 1. Valuing and Validating: On the ‘Success’ of Interdisciplinary Research, 2. Compromising, 3. Deriving, 4. Disrupting, 5. Dissenting, 6. Exemplifying, 7. Explaining, 8. Generalizing, 9. Interdisciplines, and Indigenous Research and Methodologies, 10. Troubling, 11. Problem-Making, 12. Projecting, 13. Qualifying, 14. Scaling, 15. Speculating, 16. Wedging