Theoretical Scholarship and Applied Practice

by Sarah Pink (Editor), Vaike Fors (Editor), Tom O'Dell (Editor)

Overview

Academics across the globe are being urged by universities and research councils to do research that impacts the world beyond academia. Yet to date there has been very little reflection amongst scholars and practitioners in these fields concerning the relationship between the theoretical and engaged practices that emerge through such forms of scholarship. Theoretical Scholarship and Applied Practice investigates the ways in which theoretical research has been incorporated into recent applied practices across the social sciences and humanities. This collection advances our understanding of the ethics, values, opportunities and challenges that emerge in the making of engaged and interdisciplinary scholarship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785334177
Publisher:	Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/01/2017
Series:	Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology , #11
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	254
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Sarah Pink is Professor of Design and Emerging Technologies, and Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University, Australia.

Vaike Fors is Director of the Swedish Centre for Applied Cultural Analysis, and Associate Professor in Pedagogy at Halmstad University in Sweden.

Tom O’Dell is Professor of Ethnology in the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University, Sweden.

Table of Contents

PART I: THEORETICAL SCHOLARSHIP AND APPLIED PRACTICE: OPPORTUNITIES, ETHICS AND ENTANGLEMENTS

Editor’s Introduction: Theoretical Scholarship and Applied Practice: opportunities and challenges of working in the in-between
Sarah Pink, Vaike Fors and Tom O’Dell

Chapter 1. Ethics in a changing world: embracing uncertainty, understanding futures and making responsible interventions
Sarah Pink

PART II: MAKING CONTACT AND MAKING SENSE

Chapter 2. Workshops as nodes of knowledge co-production: beyond ideas of automagical synergies
Martin Berg and Vaike Fors

Chapter 3. The Conversation Analytic Role-play Method: tacit methods, endogenous impact and interactional ‘nudges’ in applied interaction analysis
Elizabeth Stokoe and Rein Sikveland

Chapter 4. Making Theory, Making Interventions: doing applied scholarship at the in between in safety research
Sarah Pink, Jennie Morgan and Andrew Dainty

PART III: WORKING IN INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMS

Chapter 5. From Emplaced Knowing to Interdisciplinary Knowledge: Sensory Ethnography in Energy Research
Kerstin Leder Mackley and Sarah Pink

Chapter 6. Working Across Disciplines: Using Visual Methods in Participatory Frameworks
Susan Hogan

PART IV: LETTING GO AND MOVING FORWARD

Chapter 7. How to gain traction? From theoretical scholarship to applied outcomes in energy demand research and housing research
Yolande Strengers, Cecily Maller and Larissa Nicholls

Chapter 8. The Social Life of HOMAGO
Heather A. Horst

Chapter 9. Entanglements: Issues in Applied Research and Theoretical Scholarship
Tom O’Dell and Robert Willim

PART V: AFTERWORD

Chapter 10.  Afterword: The deep dynamics of the between
Paul Stoller

Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"This book provides a well-grounded and meticulously described account of a number of projects involving 'publics' and external stakeholders in the process of doing research. The editors address a gap in academic knowledge, providing rich and useful detail about the nature of, and practices involved in, collaborative interdisciplinary research." · Kate Pahl, University of Sheffield

EBOOK COMMENTARY

"This book provides a well-grounded and meticulously described account of a number of projects involving 'publics' and external stakeholders in the process of doing research. The editors address a gap in academic knowledge, providing rich and useful detail about the nature of, and practices involved in, collaborative interdisciplinary research." - Kate Pahl, University of Sheffield

"The work is a great contribution to the fields of theoretical and practical anthropology, which are often seen as dichotomous. Through the presentation and analysis of nine case studies of public policy, business or the third sector carried out in England, Sweden and the United States, the authors show us their experience during fieldwork between the theory and the applied practice and how theory and practice can be combined." - Social Anthropology

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