This article is a personal reflection on borderlands as a professional home. Researchers who find themselves beyond their home discipline, i.e., the one in which they have been credentialed, have tried to assign terms for their location and its psychological ramifications. Defying an intellectual lane is to traverse a boundary that is constricted by a paradigm and a way of looking at and framing research problems. There is a rich body of the literature that explores scientific specialization, problem choice, and the meaning of community in research. Indeed, science consists of mainland where we must spend most of our professional time preserving our existence and building our careers. Borderlands are communities, typically marginalized, where researchers can collectively rethink, challenge, bond, and concoct something not possible before.

这篇文章是边疆作为职业之家的个人反思。研究人员发现自己超出了他们的家庭学科，即他们获得证书的学科，他们试图为他们的位置及其心理后果分配术语。违背知识分子的道路就是穿越一个被范式和一种看待和构建研究问题的方式所限制的边界。有大量文献探讨科学专业化、问题选择和社区在研究中的意义。事实上，科学由大陆组成，我们必须将大部分专业时间花在维持我们的生存和建立我们的事业上。Borderlands 是通常被边缘化的社区，研究人员可以在这里集体重新思考、挑战、建立联系，并创造出一些以前不可能实现的东西。