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Introduction

Parsley, Connal and Herman, Didi (2022) Introduction. In: Herman, Didi and Parsley, Connal, eds. Interdisciplinarities: Research Process, Method, and the Body of the Law. Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies . Springer, Cham, Switzerland. ISBN 978-3-030-89296-8. (doi:10.1007/978-3-030-89297-5_1) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:92126)

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Abstract

This chapter introduces the project of this edited collection, which takes a new approach to interdisciplinary legal research methods. The book investigates how scholars go about their work, while situating their practical choices within a wider context of conceptual and methodological meaning-making. Contributors were asked: if you were tasked with writing a hypothetical chapter on ‘the body’, where would you start? What would be your next steps, and why? Which literatures would you draw upon, and how would the process unfold given your choices? The chapter introduces the contributions, drawing out commonalities and differences in their chosen starting points; the ‘mess’, limitations and situatedness of research processes themselves; and their ‘end points’—goals, motivations, and what they hope to achieve. It concludes that interdisciplinary research involves choices around discipline and method that are deeply personal, and speak to the connectedness and inherently ethical nature of research practice.

Item Type: Book section
DOI/Identification number: 10.1007/978-3-030-89297-5_1
Uncontrolled keywords: Legal studies, Interdisciplinary research, Research method, Research process, Research messiness
Subjects: K Law
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > Kent Law School
Depositing User: Connal Parsley
Date Deposited: 05 Dec 2021 22:39 UTC
Last Modified: 08 Mar 2022 16:38 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/92126 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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