Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge

Joy Damousi (Curatore)

Birgit Lang (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015

The case study has proved of enduring interest to all Western societies, particularly in relation to questions of subjectivity and the sexed self. This volume interrogates how case studies have been used by doctors, lawyers, psychoanalysts, and writers to communicate their findings both within the specialist circles of their academic disciplines, and beyond, to wider publics. At the same time, it questions how case studies have been taken up by a range of audiences to refute and dispute academic knowledge. As such, this book engages with case studies as sites of interdisciplinary negotiation, transnational exchange and influence, exploring the effects of forces such as war, migration, and internationalization. Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge challenges the limits of disciplinary-based research in the humanities. The cases examined serve as a means of passage between disciplines, genres, and publics, from law to psychoanalysis, and from auto/biography to modernist fiction. Its chapters scrutinize the case study in order to sharpen understanding of the genre’s dynamic role in the construction and dissemination of knowledge within and across disciplinary, temporal, and national boundaries. In doing so, they position the case at the center of cultural and social understandings of the emergence of modern subjectivities.

• Curatore: Joy Damousi, Birgit Lang
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
• Anno: 2015
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 228 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 453 gr.
• EAN: 9781138815339

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