TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding place meaning through integrative research
T2 - Perspectives from the natural resource social sciences and the humanities
AU - Budruk, Megha
AU - Feldhaus, Anne
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Grant RZ-51356-1.1.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 National Recreation and Park Association.
PY - 2019/10/20
Y1 - 2019/10/20
N2 - The complexity of our world demands that our knowledge systems shift from reductionist and mechanistic to holistic, organic, and complex approaches that consider diverse viewpoints. This is especially true when exploring human-nature relationships. This article illustrates our attempt to integrate the natural resource social sciences and the humanities while exploring place meanings at nature-based religious places. We begin by articulating what multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary research are, why they are important, and challenges faced when embarking upon such joint endeavors. We then present the multiplicity of our data-gathering techniques such as textual interpretations, onsite observation, oral histories, photographs, focus groups, interviews, and onsite surveys. We highlight meanings associated with our four study sites and, in the process, discuss insights learned through our integrative work. We hope that this will provide a framework for future collaboration among social scientists, humanities scholars, and eventually natural scientists collectively working to understand human-nature relationships.
AB - The complexity of our world demands that our knowledge systems shift from reductionist and mechanistic to holistic, organic, and complex approaches that consider diverse viewpoints. This is especially true when exploring human-nature relationships. This article illustrates our attempt to integrate the natural resource social sciences and the humanities while exploring place meanings at nature-based religious places. We begin by articulating what multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary research are, why they are important, and challenges faced when embarking upon such joint endeavors. We then present the multiplicity of our data-gathering techniques such as textual interpretations, onsite observation, oral histories, photographs, focus groups, interviews, and onsite surveys. We highlight meanings associated with our four study sites and, in the process, discuss insights learned through our integrative work. We hope that this will provide a framework for future collaboration among social scientists, humanities scholars, and eventually natural scientists collectively working to understand human-nature relationships.
KW - Collaboration
KW - humanities
KW - natural resource social sciences
KW - place meaning
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U2 - 10.1080/00222216.2019.1615395
DO - 10.1080/00222216.2019.1615395
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85067429880
SN - 0022-2216
VL - 50
SP - 461
EP - 478
JO - Journal of Leisure Research
JF - Journal of Leisure Research
IS - 5
ER -