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GEOFORUM
Volume 39, Issue 2, Pages 552-560Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.08.013
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interdisciplinarity; geography; positionality; perceptions; disciplines; united kingdom
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This paper explores the relationship between interdisciplinary studies and research and researchers' positionalities, both within and beyond geography. The profound degree to which researchers' assumptions, expectations and attitudes (which in turn are affected by their personal backgrounds, training, location, etc.) influences the very notion of interdisciplinarity, and what it involves and consists of, is often neither noted nor appreciated. This paper will illustrate, particularly through personal examples, how positionality is part of the circuit of knowledge production, informing academic research, employment and publishing to no small extent. The boundaries of interdisciplinary research are shown to be under constant negotiation, still far from mutual understanding or consensus, a fact which explains the often uneasy identification and negotiation of oneself as an interdisciplinary scholar. The paper concludes by making recommendations at individual and institutional level on how to overcome some of the constraints imposed by researchers' positionalities to the promotion of interdisciplinary research. (C) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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