Introduction

This book is highly interdisciplinary – an approach often praised in theory more than in practice. Interdisciplinary scholars assume that integrating knowledge and methods from various disciplines can create a compelling synthesis of ideas to arrive at new findings. This book is also transdisciplinary, creating a conversation between and across a range of critical methods and frameworks. ¹ Forging connections between seemingly disparate disciplines and methodologies create some obvious obstacles. These challenges reflect the difficulty of compartmentalising discrete and yet complementary concepts in areas of study such as ecology, social justice, geography, culture, and the humanities, even though they are all, in their own way, transdisciplinary.