Essential tensions in interdisciplinary scholarship: navigating challenges in affect, epistemologies, and structure in environment–society research centers

Higher Education

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 649-665

  Turner, V Kelly ^a   Benessaiah, Karina ^b   Warren, Scott ^b   Iwaniec, David ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective science; Boundary organizations; Epistemic cultures; Research centers; Resilience; Sustainability science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945447160     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: 1573174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-015-9859-9     Document Type: Article

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