Mapping scientific method: disciplinary narrations

Table of Contents: Introduction: Method-o-logical Diversity: Seeking Disciplinary Narrations, Gita Chadha and Renny Thomas. Part I: SHIFTS WITHIN THE SILO: HUMANITIES. Introduction to Part I. 1. Methods in Substantivist Linguistics, Probal Dasgupta. 2. 'If Not Precisely a Science': The Provocations of Literary Studies, Sharmila Sreekumar. 3. Philosophy and Method, Sundar Sarukkai. Part II: SHIFTS WITHIN THE SILO: NATURAL SCIENCES. Introduction to Part II. 4. The Methods of Mathematics, Amber Habib. 5. Questions of Method: The Philosophy and Practice of Modern Human Genetics, Chitra Kannabiran. 6. Chemistry, Method, Science, and Society: A Conversation, Gita Chadha, Ram Ramaswamy and Renny Thomas. 7. 'Between Clearing and Concealment': Knowledge-making in Physics, K. Sridhar. Part III: SHIFTS WITHIN THE SILO: SOCIAL SCIENCES. Introduction to Part III. 8. Decolonising Method: Where Do We Stand in Political Studies?, Aditya Nigam. 9. Betwixt And Between?: Anthropology's Engagement with the Sciences and Humanities, Kamala Ganesh. 10. Economics, Feminist Economics, and Women's Studies: Methodological Orientations and Disciplinary Boundaries, Neetha N.. 11. Method, Object, and Praxis: Marx and the Historians of Science, Rahul Govind. 12. Psychology in India: Knowledge, Method, Nation, Sabah Siddiqui. 13. Geography in India: Gendered Concerns and Methodological Issues, Saraswati Raju. 14. Beyond the Postcolonial: Speculations on the Indian Contemporary, Yasmeen Arif. 15. Towards New Ecologies of Method: A Speculative Afterword, Sasheej Hegde.

Editor(s) Biography: Gita Chadha is a faculty member at the Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai, India. Her areas of academic interests are sociological theory, feminist epistemologies, feminist science studies and visual cultures. Her publications include Feminists and Science: Critiques and Perspectives in India, Vo 1 & 2 (2015, 2017) and Reimaging Sociology in India: Feminist Perspectives (2018). Renny Thomas is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. He is the author of Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment (2022).