List of Tables viii 1 IntroductionThe purpose and scope of this report Some qualifications Our sources Outline of the report Prospects for the future 2 The Value of the Humanities Introduction Intrinsic value Social value Heritage, culture, memory The economic value of the humanities Contribution to other disciplines Innovation Critical thinking Personal and spiritual development Aesthetic appreciation A distributional survey of the interview responses Strategies for justification Conclusions 3 The Nature of the Humanities Part I Thematic orientations Part II Reactions to the term 'findings' Knowledge Breakthroughs Perception of the humanities Conclusion vi Contents 4 The Digital Humanities The world of professional digital humanists Research trends Resistance to digital humanities Interview responses Conclusion 5 Translating the Humanities Translational research practices Translational medicine Evidence from interviews Evidence from national reports Conclusion 6 The Culture of Humanities Research 7 Funding and Infrastructure Core funding for research Non-governmental funding in developing countries Competitive funding streams in developed countries Research institutes Infrastructure Conclusion
The Nature of the Humanities 43 at all, and sometimes a respondent made no comment to one of the questions. The responses also varied greatly in length. Sometimes they used a single word and at the other extreme wrote a long paragraph with follow-up references. There were also variations in the level of abstraction. Some answered the question in very general terms; others gave very specific examples from their own field. Many gave both types of answer. Also, some respondents took the question to be about their own research or that of their institute, rather than about their field generally. Some respondents challenged the terms of the questions, particularly in the case of the third question. A few asked whether talk of breakthroughs was actually appropriate in the humanities. This raises an epistemological issue, which we discuss in Part II. Occasionally, respondents queried whether there are dominant themes in research, past or present, but this response was quite rare. Thematic orientations Overview We initially divided the responses into three categories. At the specific or micro-level, we were given examples of research themes such as: Russian towns Ottoman Empire as seen from the periphery Early modern England Palestinian refugees Applied Buddhism Athenian democracy James Joyce and Wallace. At the more general or macro-level, we had examples such as: Race, class and gender Modernism and modernities Visual culture Identity Ethnicity and nationalities Media Memory (especially in relation to war) Postcoloniality History of crime.
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