This lively autobiography details Marion Nestle’s life-long engagement with food, particularly the tumultuous politics that inevitably accompany this central aspect of human life. As founder interdiscipline food studies, she describes her early life in academia, work federal government and appointment as a professor at New York University (NYU). Food studies scholars practitioners will be fasci...

The ability of manipulating mesoscopic objects with high precision and flexibility is extremely important for a wide variety of fields from physics, biochemistry, to biomedicine. Particularly, the ability of arranging particles/cells into desired patterns precisely is a challenge for numerous physical and biological applications. Here, we report a strategy of realizing highly flexible trapping,...

Urban design seeks to apply the goals of sustainable development in physical cities. It involves complex efforts explore and address a whole range urban issues accordance with development. However, it faces challenges consider feelings local communities about unsustainabilities their environment impact actual Deploying strategy, which is science making most effective use situation achieve goals...

This introductory article outlines how Global Political Economy and the nuanced perspectives of scholars from this interdiscipline navigate claims about origins consequences of, as well responses to, COVID-19 pandemic. Emerging social scientific assessments have tended to understand pandemic either an entirely novel crisis (“everything has changed”) or one merely extending preexisting economic ...

This article describes an "Introduction to Performance Theory" course that the authors co-teach MFA students at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Through semester, we track genealogies of performance studies, highlighting ways which our interdiscipline has been incorporated as academic field while still remaining sensationally unsettled its interventions, methods, and objects analysis. The...

In the West, Translation Studies as a discipline has a very short but lively history. Founded in the early 1970s in the Low Countries—Holland and Belgium—translation studies is a fairly new field. Yet, today some theorists suggest that the discipline is too limited to translated texts and excludes much translation data being generated from other fields of inquiry, including theater, art, archit...

This article draws together disparate research and theorizing on interdisciplinarity. We first describe widespread efforts to promote interdisciplinarity in U.S. universities and critically examine the assumptions underlying these initiatives. Next, we present a cross-sectional view of interdisciplinary communication, knowledge diffusion, research assessment, and interdisciplinary research cent...

Countryside has been generally recognized and regarded as a characteristic symbol which presents in human memory for a long time. As a result of the change of times, because of it is failure to meet the growing needs of the growing life and mental decline, the vast rural area began to decline. But their history feature image which accumulated by the ancient tradition provides people with the or...