Science in the Trading Zone: Interdisciplinarity and the ‘Environment’

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Sociology Lens Pub Date : 2023-09-28 DOI:10.1111/johs.12434
Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda
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Interdisciplinarity continues to be a focus and method for complex social and environmental challenges. This paper explores how the School of Environmental Sciences (ENV) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) which was founded through the idea of scientific interdisciplinarity operated in practice to create new knowledge about a new object of concern, the ‘environment’. Using the ‘trading zone’ concept, the social and epistemic processes behind making scientific interdisciplinarity a material and institutional reality are uncovered, and to what extent interdisciplinary knowledge was actually produced. This paper concludes that interdisciplinary processes can be effective in dealing with complex challenges but often rely on the institutional and social dynamics of the researchers involved. Historicising interdisciplinarity in knowledge-making settings can go some way in supporting new interdisciplinary endeavours associated with environmental and climate research.

贸易区中的科学:跨学科与 "环境
跨学科仍然是应对复杂的社会和环境挑战的重点和方法。本文探讨了东英吉利大学(UEA)环境科学学院(ENV)是如何通过科学跨学科的理念,在实践中为新的关注对象--"环境 "创造新知识的。本文使用 "交易区 "概念,揭示了科学跨学科成为物质和制度现实背后的社会和认识过程,以及跨学科知识的实际产生程度。本文的结论是,跨学科过程可以有效地应对复杂的挑战,但往往依赖于相关研究人员的制度和社会动力。将知识创造环境中的跨学科性历史化,可以在一定程度上支持与环境和气候研究相关的新的跨学科努力。
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