Interdisciplinarity in the Scholarly Life Cycle

Karin Bijsterveld is Full Professor of Science, Technology and Modern Culture at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Her work focuses on themes at the intersection of science and technology studies and sound studies. She has taught extensively on how to do interdisciplinary research. ​Aagje Swinnen is Professor in Aging Studies at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She has published on representations of aging in literature, photography, and film; meanings of literary approaches in dementia care; and ways in which professional artists understand and give meaning to creativity in the later stages of their career.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Reversing the Gaze on Expectations in Technology: Philosopher Ortega y Gasset in Innovation Studies.- 3. A Modernization Perspective on Dutch Universities in the 19th Century: Theoretical Sociology Challenging Historiography.- 4. Constitutional Reform in the Postwar Netherlands: Law in History.- 5. Rethinking Eastern Europe in European Studies: Creating Symmetry through Interdisciplinarity.- 6. Gift and Reciprocity in the Aftermath of the 2003 Heatwave: Using Social Theory to Understand Public Confusion in Response to Solidarity Day in France.- 7. Freeing the Frog in the Well: Borrowing from History to Understand Contemporary Japanese Development Aid to Ethiopia.- 8. Examining Personal and Cultural Narratives of Aging: Literary Gerontology Revisited.- 9. Museology and Its Others: Analyzing Exhibition Storytelling through Narratology, Space analysis, Discourse analysis, and Ethnographic Research.- 10. Spatial Rituals andRitualized Space in Dutch Postwar Homes for the Elderly: Anthropology in History.- 11. The Mysterious User of Research Data: Knitting Together Science and Technology Studies with Information and Computer Science.- 12. Interdisciplinary Anticipations: Art-Science Collaboration at the Maastricht Brain Stimulation and Cognition Laboratory.- 13. Doing Collaborative Research on Symphonic Orchestra Audiences: Interventionist Ethnography of Music Practices.- 14. Alignment and Alienation: Emergency Staff and Midwifery Scholars as Co-Researchers.- 15. ‘Doing’ Teamwork as ‘Doing’ Family: Researching Transnational Migrant Families through Interdisciplinary Collaboration.