diverse sources

Hi Ishmael,

When studying something in a disciplinary way, the sources that inform your reading and research are to some degree prescribed by the discipline.   In interdisciplinary studies one is always wondering:  Could this possibly be relevant?  And then, the relevance is almost always piece-meal.  Never as full-bodied as the disciplines make their connections out to be.   I do think this creates a bit of anxiety:  "What am I doing?"   And later fear itself when you think you find that someone has already made the types of interdisciplinary connections you have.

Anyway, I mentioned in a comment that Kurt has an interesting journal article on interdisciplinary, qualitative research in leadership.  I wrote a critical review of that article in his blog, should you decide to obtain and read the article.

Also, through our discussions here, as is always the case for me, I've become attuned to mentions of "fear" and related concepts in everything I read.   So presently Kurt and I are reading Joan Richardson's Natural History of Pragmatism.   It's a great book.  I'm not sure if it would be useful to you.  But, fear as a conditioning and motivating factor in her discussion does come up in a few places in the Preface and Introduction.  

Near the end of the Merleau-Ponty Preface....he defines the general mission of phenomenological study.   In a way, this accords a bit with descriptive, narrative approach to understanding any phenomena we can observe and describe.   This is a theme of sorts in the Richardson book.  

Just a few of the things I'm thinking about currently....

Allan