Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice : Revisioning Academic Accountability.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (386 pages)
- SUNY Series, Praxis: Theory in Action Series .
- SUNY Series, Praxis: Theory in Action Series .
Intro -- Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice: An Introduction -- Section I: Critiques of Disciplinarity -- Chapter Two: Metaphors of Globalization -- Chapter Three: Crossing the Immigration and Race Border: A Critical Race Theory Approach to Immigration Studies -- Chapter Four: Whiteness in a Red Room: Telling Stories and Legal Discourse in the Tribal Courtroom -- Chapter Five: An Emergent Extradisciplinarity: Worlding Arabs, Activist Representation, and the Example of Ahdaf Soueif -- Section II: Critiques of Interdisciplinary Fields -- Chapter Six: Cultural Studies: Justice, Values, and Social Class -- Chapter Seven: The Other Inters: Augmenting Academic Disciplinarity to Make Things (Happen) -- Chapter Eight: The Ethico-politics of Dedisciplinary Practices -- Chapter Nine: The Limits of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Chicano Studies -- Section III: Interdisciplinary Claims to Social Justice -- Chapter Ten: Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity -- Chapter Eleven: Interdisciplinarity: A Consideration from African American Studies1 -- Chapter Twelve: Imagined Immunities: Border Rhetorics and the Ethos of Sans Frontièrisme -- Chapter Thirteen: Toward Collaborative Coalitions: From Internationalism to Interdisciplinarity -- Chapter Fourteen: Interdisciplinary Investigations and Cross-Sector Interventions -- Chapter Fifteen: Accounting for Interdisciplinarity -- Afterword: Justice without Truth? -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Considers the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary fields motivated by concerns for social justice.