Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge

The case study has proved of enduring interest to all Western societies particularly in relation to questions of subjectivity and the sexed self. This volume interrogates how case studies have been used by doctors lawyers psychoanalysts and writers to communicate their findings both within the specialist circles of their academic disciplines and beyond to wider publics. At the same time it questions how case studies have been taken up by a range of audiences to refute and dispute academic knowledge. As such this book engages with case studies as sites of interdisciplinary negotiation transnational exchange and influence exploring the effects of forces such as war migration and internationalization. Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge challenges the limits of disciplinary-based research in the humanities. The cases examined serve as a means of passage between disciplines genres and publics from law to psychoanalysis and from auto/biography to modernist fiction. Its chapters scrutinize the case study in order to sharpen understanding of the genreâs dynamic role in the construction and dissemination of knowledge within and across disciplinary temporal and national boundaries. In doing so they position the case at the center of cultural and social understandings of the emergence of modern subjectivities. . Language: English