Many Ways to Think about Harvest

Communicating Across Disciplines
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-90-485-6957-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Effective and creative solutions to complex global problems often need teams with diverse knowledge and experience. Yet, rising polarisation and confrontational attitudes can make meaningful dialogue across differences feel daunting. This book explores how to make collaborations possible, through focusing on what people really mean rather than just the words they say, using a case study of the deceptively simple word “harvest”.

In each chapter, contributors share how they understand “harvest” within their respective fields, including topics of organ transplantation, energy politics, data governance, sustainable agriculture, remote sensing, subsistence hunting, biotechnological cultures, and harvest festivals as sites of cultural resilience. They then respond to one another’s perspectives, offering a rich dialogue that reveals both divergence and unexpected common ground.

Written in an interactive style, the text invites readers to engage with chapters and reflections in real time. For students, researchers and practitioners committed to collaboration and interdisciplinarity, this book offers not just a fascinating case study of “harvest” but also a practical framework for understanding, communicating and working effectively across difference.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kater, Ilona

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Communicating Across Difference 1. Cycles of an Ecologically Sustainable Harvest 2. The Personal Data Cost-per-Bit: The Changing Socio-Technical and Legal Landscape of Data Harvesting 3. Organ Donation for Transplantation: To Harvest, Procure, or Retrieve Life-Saving Organs? 4. Harvesting the Community: Iñupiat, the Bowhead Whale, and Settler Colonial Imaginaries of Property 5. Energy Harvest: Infrastructures of Extraction and Violence in Sudan 6. Harvest: Remote Sensing of the Earth 7. Harvest as Marronage: Shankleville's Texas Purple Hull Pea Festival and the Maroon Legacies of Freedom Colonies 8. Harvesting Cell Cultured Food from Bioreactors 9. Reflecting on the Harvest

Über Autor(innen)

Ilona Kater Ilona Kater is an Institute Associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK. Her research explores resource-use conflicts, and the use of interdisciplinary knowledge to understand complex social-ecological systems, particularly in Arctic and Northern regions. She is also passionate about teaching and science communication.