Overview
- Includes one open access chapter: Bodies, Medicine and Otherness
- Presents a highly innovative way of showing how methodologies work using the constant of a single research task
- Brings together some of the finest interdisciplinary scholars in the UK
Part of the book series: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies (PSLS)
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This book illuminates methodology in legal research by bringing together interdisciplinary scholars, who employ a diverse set of methodologies, to address a specific shared research challenge: ‘the body’. The contributors were asked a question: if you were invited to contribute to an edited book on ‘the body’, where would you start and then where would you go? The result is a self-reflective discussion of how and where researchers engage with methodological practices. The contributors draw on their own interdisciplinary research experiences to explore how ‘the body’ might be addressed in their work, and the resources they would deploy in order to carry out the task. This ‘book within a book’ is innovative in both content and format. It provides a rare insight into how top interdisciplinary legal scholars go about making decisions about their research. The shared device of ‘the body’ allows the volume to trace a number of rich approaches into the process of research as practiced by these diverse scholars. In presenting thinking and research in action, the volume offers a new, self-reflective view on the much-addressed theme of the body, as well as taking a fresh approach to the historically vexed problem of research methodology in legal studies.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
Reviews
"Research is never the ‘plug and play’ that conventional methods books describe. Affirming the messiness and contingency of real projects, this book places us in the joyful, vexing, fleshy life of the ‘how’ of research, offering lessons for new and veteran scholars alike’.
- Nicholas Blomley FRCS, Professor of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Canada
“This innovative and groundbreaking volume focuses on the messiness of how to do research and the various ways scholars approach their subject-matter, often making personal and idiosyncratic decisions in the process of doing. The reflective and exploratory mode of inquiry is vitally important, reminding us all of the embedded biases within what we like to think of as objective legal scholarship.”
- Eve Darian-Smith, Professor and Chair, Global and International Studies, University of California, Irvine, USA
“Interdisciplinarities offers an entirely fresh perspective on socio-legal research methods. Stemming from a challenge given to a group of scholars, the authors at one level illustrate a wide variety of situated approaches to interdisciplinary research methods. More importantly, however, the work brings the researching body as subject and object into the very heart of the question of method. At times intensely personal, often inspirational, and always highly reflective and readable, the chapters collectively demystify and locate method in a way which will encourage us all to reflect on our own research experiences and practices.”
- Margaret Davies, Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor, College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University, Australia
“There is not enough attention to "process" in publishing. We academics are all about the product:finished, polished, done. But interdisciplinarity is itself a process and in this fantastic volume authors write about their own processes, embodied and worldly, during a world-wide pandemic, while reflecting on the place of the body in law and legal studies. This brilliant volume should be read by those interested in law's interdisciplinarities but also by anyone who writes and has a body.” - Bonnie Honig, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor, Political Science and Modern Culture and Media (MCM), Brown University, USA
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Didi Herman is Emeritus Professor at the University of Kent, UK. She is the author of, amongst other things: (2011) An Unfortunate Coincidence: Jews, Jewishness and English Law, Oxford University Press; (2003) Globalizing Family Values: The Christian Right’s International Activism (co-author Buss, D), University of Minnesota Press.
Connal Parsley is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent, UK. His research spans the fields of critical jurisprudence, political theory and visual cultural studies. He is the translator of Roberto Esposito’s Categories of the Impolitical (2015) Fordham University Press, and co-director of the AHRC Law and the Human network.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Interdisciplinarities
Book Subtitle: Research Process, Method, and the Body of Law
Editors: Didi Herman, Connal Parsley
Series Title: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89297-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89296-8Published: 24 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-89297-5Published: 23 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2947-9274
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9282
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 136
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Socio-legal Studies, Social Sciences, general, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Sociology of the Body