Rethinking Community through Transdisciplinary Research
This book offers the first interdisciplinary survey of community research in the humanities and social sciences to consider such diverse disciplines as philosophy, religious studies, anthropology, sociology, disabilities studies, linguistics, communicatio
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Rethinking Community through Transdisciplinary Research
Bettina Jansen Editor
Rethinking Community through Transdisciplinary Research
Editor Bettina Jansen Institute of English and American Studies TU Dresden Dresden, Saxony, Germany
ISBN 978-3-030-31072-1 ISBN 978-3-030-31073-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31073-8 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: © Alex Linch/shutterstock.com This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
The idea of the essay collection Rethinking Community through Transdisciplinary Research germinated during dinner conversations in the context of the international conference “Re-Thinking Community” I hosted in Dresden, Germany, in October 2017. The conference, for the first time, brought together leading experts on the subject of community from diverse disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. During panel discussions and over dinner and coffee, participating scholars expressed their enthusiasm about meeting each other and gaining a direct insight in the research conducted on community in other disciplines. Quickly, the idea took shape to make this experience available to the wider (scholarly) public by publishing the main findings of the conference. Yet, conference speakers agreed that the intended publication should not simply offer the proceedings of the conference but aim to shape future community research, in whatever small way, by suggesting paths of interdisciplinary collaboration. The present publication hopes to do just that: it surveys the state of the art of contemporary community res
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