Re: [xmca] CHAT: Interdisciplinary or maybe TRANS-disciplinary?

["Bruce Robinson" <bruce@brucerob.eu>]

> I think it is pretty widely stated that cultural historical activity theory
> or socio-cultural historical practice theory or ..........
> is what is ordinarily conceived of as an inter-disciplinary undertaking
> that
> spans at least social sciences and humanities, with
> some arts and evolutionary biology thrown in from time to time (and even,
> gulp, some math).

Don't forget information systems which has a reasonable corpus of CHAT work.
Or perhaps more generally socio-techn[olog]ical studies should also be
included.

> Andy has been using the term interdisciplinary in trying to get us to
> think
> of projects as a basic unit of analysis while some
> resist the idea of *A SINGLE* unit of analysis that spans all concerns of
> this ryzhomic enterprise.
>
> And despite the talk of interdisciplinarity, we seem to be pretty heavily
> centered in psychology and education, with only
> some attention to work.
> Might we need to think seriously about a TRANS-discipline where
> integration
> across levels of time and syncrhonic variation
> are included? Or must we always be piecemeal, able to cope with 2-3
> dimensions/aspects of our problematic, but unable
> to move to the integrative level that our own theories tell us we need?

On a transdiscipline: Definitely. This integration is implicit in the 
fundamental conceptions of CHAT IMHO.

Don't forget space either. It seems to have been rather under-theorised in 
CHAT from what I can see and there seem to be some interesting possible 
crossovers. Plus a group of radical geographers who might be interested.

Bruce R



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