TY - CHAP
T1 - The dynamics of identity struggle in interdisciplinary meetings in higher education
AU - Choi, Seongsook
AU - Richards, Keith
PY - 2017/4/26
Y1 - 2017/4/26
N2 - In response to shifts in requirements for research funding, interest in interdisciplinary engagement has burgeoned, but as yet the interactional dynamics of interdisciplinary meetings have received almost no attention. This chapter draws on a data set of over 20 hours of audio-recorded talk from 12 different interdisciplinary meetings involving biologists, mathematicians, bioinformaticians and statisticians. Drawing on a combination of applied conversation analysis and quantitative analysis (using the Interactional Discourse Lab developed by one of the authors), it explicates the ways in which disciplinary identities are deployed in the reconciliation of different perspectives on shared problems. In interdisciplinary engagement, it will argue, the interactive and contingently accomplished process of identity construction is mediated by reference to epistemic rights associated with disciplinary membership, and that while there is assumed parity of disciplinary entitlement, in practice the power of a dominant discipline can be invoked by relevant participants in order to establish epistemic precedence.
AB - In response to shifts in requirements for research funding, interest in interdisciplinary engagement has burgeoned, but as yet the interactional dynamics of interdisciplinary meetings have received almost no attention. This chapter draws on a data set of over 20 hours of audio-recorded talk from 12 different interdisciplinary meetings involving biologists, mathematicians, bioinformaticians and statisticians. Drawing on a combination of applied conversation analysis and quantitative analysis (using the Interactional Discourse Lab developed by one of the authors), it explicates the ways in which disciplinary identities are deployed in the reconciliation of different perspectives on shared problems. In interdisciplinary engagement, it will argue, the interactive and contingently accomplished process of identity construction is mediated by reference to epistemic rights associated with disciplinary membership, and that while there is assumed parity of disciplinary entitlement, in practice the power of a dominant discipline can be invoked by relevant participants in order to establish epistemic precedence.
KW - interdisciplinary identity
KW - interdisciplinary
KW - identity struggles
KW - disciplinary identity
KW - interdisciplinary engagement
KW - interactional Discourse Lab
KW - interdisciplinary research meeting
KW - conversation analysis
KW - epistemics
KW - Systems Biology
KW - drys
KW - biology
KW - statistics
U2 - 10.1075/dapsac.69.09cho
DO - 10.1075/dapsac.69.09cho
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9789027206602
T3 - Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture (DAPSAC)
SP - 165
EP - 184
BT - Identity Struggles
A2 - Van De Mieroop, Dorien
A2 - Schnurr, Stephanie
PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company
CY - Amsterdam; Philadelphia
ER -