The politics of transdisciplinary research on societal transitions

IF 3 3区 管理学 Q1 ECONOMICS
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Within research on societal transitions, ‘post-normal’ scientific approaches such as transdisciplinary research are increasingly prominent. The difficulties of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research are well-established, but less attention has been paid to the underlying causes of these difficulties. In this essay, we argue that the political natures of both ‘transdisciplinarity’ and ‘transitions’ themselves underlie the more visible research challenges. While recent work has outlined how transitions research, embedded as it is in the sociopolitical milieu, can reproduce or challenge existing regimes, here we discuss more specifically the politics of projects themselves, which necessarily affect how they inform societal transitions. Using literature and examples from our own work, we outline three politically contested areas in projects – stakeholder inclusion, understanding of transitions, and research questions that are considered – and identify two broad orientations that research can follow to address these: incremental or fundamental. The interconnectedness of the political aspects of transdisciplinary transitions research requires explicit attention, we argue, if such work is to effectively address complex and ‘wicked’ societal challenges.
社会转型跨学科研究的政治性
在社会转型研究中,跨学科研究等 "后常态 "科学方法日益突出。跨学科和跨学科研究的困难是公认的,但人们较少关注这些困难的根本原因。在这篇文章中,我们认为 "跨学科 "和 "转型 "本身的政治性质是更显而易见的研究挑战的根源。近期的研究工作概述了过渡研究如何在社会政治环境中再现或挑战现有制度,在此,我们将更具体地讨论项目本身的政治性,这必然会影响项目如何为社会过渡提供信息。我们利用文献和自身工作中的实例,概述了项目中三个具有政治争议的领域--利益相关者的融入、对转型的理解以及所考虑的研究问题--并确定了解决这些问题的两大研究方向:渐进式或根本性。我们认为,如果跨学科过渡研究工作要有效应对复杂而 "邪恶 "的社会挑战,就必须明确关注跨学科过渡研究政治方面的相互关联性。
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Futures
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6.00
自引率
10.00%
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期刊介绍: Futures is an international, refereed, multidisciplinary journal concerned with medium and long-term futures of cultures and societies, science and technology, economics and politics, environment and the planet and individuals and humanity. Covering methods and practices of futures studies, the journal seeks to examine possible and alternative futures of all human endeavours. Futures seeks to promote divergent and pluralistic visions, ideas and opinions about the future. The editors do not necessarily agree with the views expressed in the pages of Futures
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