This book argues that the time has come to embrace transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary teaching and research as essential to addressing todays complex challenges. It traces the shift from rigid silo thinking toward integrated approaches that connect sciences, humanities, and applied fields such as health, environmental policy, and technology. Drawing on cutting-edge scholarship, it explores emerging intersections and conceptual frameworks that redefine concepts of place, landscape, networks, welfare, and wellbeing. The book also explores tensions between global interconnectedness and persistent social, economic, and political divides, offering insights into how scholars can navigate and bridge these worlds.
Essential reading for scholars, educators, and advanced students seeking to navigate and contribute to the evolving landscape of interdisciplinary research.
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1. Introduction (Stanley D. Brunn).
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2. Geographys
Intersecting Paths of Science and Humanism: 1950s1980s (John Pickles).-
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3. Settlement of the Amish amongst the English (John A. Cross).-
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4. Parallel Universes of the Two Koreas through Comparative Mental
Mapping (HaeRan Shin).
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5. The Parallel World of the Roma: From the
Straw Road to the Ghettos and the Architecture of Exclusion (Krasimir
Asenov and Irena Nikolova).
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6. Kazakhs and Russians in Kazakhstan:
Divided/United We StandStill (Nygmet Ibadildin).
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7. Seeking
Togetherness at the Table: Missionaries Wrestling with Every-day Encounters
with Parallel Worlds in Contemporary Capitalist Society in Cajamarca, Peru
(Iain Ross).
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8. ba Talaiashke: Creolization and Pre-Christian
Language in Choctaw Hymns (John DePriest).
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9. Parallel Universes:
The Racial Divide in the Segregated United States (Allison Schlobohm,
Stephanie Mahin, and Lori Boyer).
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10. The Currents of Spiritual
Capital: Expanding Normative Understandings of Water, Victimhood, and Agency
in Freedmens Towns (Cassandra R. Davis, Simona Goldin, and Iheoma Iruka).-
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11. The Norwegian Paradox: Exploring Climate Leadership, Indigenous
Sámi Voices, and the Energy Economy (Karen S. Barton).
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12.
Indigenous Geography and the World Wide Web (RDK Herman).
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13.
Parallels and Intersections: Patriotism and Pandering on U.S. Com-memorative
Postage Stamps since 1957 (Thomas L. Bell).
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14. Montserrats
Parallel Universes: Mapping Science, Policy and Society during a Volcanic
Emergency (Omari Graham, Arlette Saint Ville, and Gabriell Thongs).
Stanley D. Brunn, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA. His research interests cover a broad array of topics within urban geography, economic geography, social geography, information/communications geography, geotechnology and cyberspace, time-space intersections, law, political, and environmental geography, geographical future, as well as disciplinary history.
