'I have never cared for particular disciplines' - negotiating an interdisciplinary self in biographical narrative

Carlos Adrian Cuevas-Garcia

Contemporary Social Science, 2015, vol. 10, issue 1, 86-98

Abstract: Interdisciplinary researchers can be perceived as valuable but also as dilettantistic. Therefore, claiming an interdisciplinary self and identity is not a straightforward task. This paper draws on a narrative-discursive psychology approach to analyse the biographical narrative of a postdoctoral researcher to position himself successfully as interdisciplinary. This autobiographical story was published in the scientific journal Nature . The analysis of this account identifies a number of discursive resources that can be used for the construction of oneself as an interdisciplinary researcher, and for the negotiation of this position as convenient and desirable.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2014.974664

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