William Moseley and Interdisciplinarity
The video above gave you a brief introduction of how Professor Moseley got into the work that he is currently involved in. Below is a video clip from a lecture in which Moseley will discuss China's recent agricultural revolution, and the various effects it's had on African agriculture. He incorporates ideas from history, global studies, sociology, and biology.
Next is a clip taken from the same lecture in which Moseley shares his ideas about the merit in hybridizing local education and awareness on agricultural practices with government intervention on farming, connecting farming sciences with public education and political sciences.
Aside from being a professor, Moseley seems to be something of a wine connoisseur.
I read the summary for an article that Professor Moseley had written about the wine industry in post-apartheid South Africa. Since the end of the apartheid, there has been a growing number of black-owned certified fair trade wine businesses cropping up in the wine producing regions of South Africa, which is a promising indicator of the future of equity in industry, which has been nontraditional repressive and white-owned.
To me, this study exemplifies how easy it is to combine different fields of work. This study alone incorporated not only global studies, but geography, agricultural sciences, sociology, history, and political sciences.
In this essay, Moseley explains why most geographers are so publicly engaged. In it, he justifies his active role in writing op ed articles, which cover a wide range of subjects, from Trump and capitalism to Sri Lanka's beaches.
Interdisciplinarity is something that I have given considerable thought to, and the more I think about it the more beautiful it becomes. All fields of study are linked to one another in an endless circle of applications. Psychology is applied philosophy, sociology is applied psychology, anthropology is applied sociology, anthropology is applied biology, biology is applied chemistry, chemistry is applied physics, physics is applied metaphysics, and philosophy is applied metaphysics.
Inter-connectivity between fields is crucial to any academic pursuits, and Professor William Moseley exemplifies this idea with his myriad of interdisciplinary studies.
In this segment of a lecture, Dr. Sushil Prasad from Georgia State University explains why the interdisciplinary approach is important.
There are differences between interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity. These differences are explained by Nick Monk from the Warwick International Higher Education Academy in this video.
The Warwick International Higher Education Academy is really into interdisciplinary studies. Their website is an excellent resource to learn more about it.