Socio-criticism, Mediations and Interdisciplinarity

Mediations on Lymphoma in Dogs and Cats

The Challenge of Making and Redrawing Boundaries: a Perspective on Socio-rhetorical Criticism

Introduction Formulating a perspective on the work of Vernon Robbins (Robbins 1996a) and (Robbins 1996b), I would like to link to the metaphor of boundaries which is evidently of great importance to Robbins and which he prefers over against the well known metaphor of texts as mirrors and windows. In his preface to New Boundaries in old territory (Robbins 1994:xif), he remarks that the choice fo...

Gender studies and interdisciplinarity

In this article we consider the example of gender studies as an interdisciplinary field, and argue that gender studies, and women’s studies, from which gender studies developed, has a distinctive engagement with interdisciplinarity. By thinking about the trajectory of women’s studies, feminist thinking and gender studies, we suggest that this has always been an interdisciplinary field of study....

Natural Supersymmetry from the Yukawa Deflect Mediations

Tai-ran Liang, Bin Zhu, Ran Ding, and Tianjun Li 5, 6 School of Physics and Electronic Information, Inner Mongolia University for The Nationalities, Tongliao 028043, P. R. China Department of Physics, Yantai University, Yantai 264005, P. R. China Center for High-Energy Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and Kavli Institute for Theoreti...

Philosophy of and as interdisciplinarity

“Interdisciplinarity” is now a buzzword for more than 40 years since Erich Jantsch coined the term for a broader audience, together with “transdisciplinarity” (Jantsch 1970; see also Apostel et al. 1972). The exact meaning of these and related terms seems to be still in flux. However, as Britt Holbrook explains in the first contribution to this special issue, we can observe a convergence in the...