Overview

This book discusses collaborative research as both a product of social and epistemic control, and as a process of dealing with it. It offers fresh multi-disciplinary perspectives on old questions that are gaining new urgency with the rise of participatory, transdisciplinary and transformative research. The volume addresses the complexity of collaborative research at the interface of science, policy and society and sheds light on a common dilemma: researchers and their collaborators tackling issues that require political and knowledge-based control. At the same time, collaborative research that involves diverse publics is difficult to predict or regulate. By examining the interplay of power and knowledge in these collaborations, the book offers insights into how researchers navigate the dilemma of social and epistemic control. This exploration is crucial for understanding the politics of transdisciplinarity. Featuring contributions from various fields including transdisciplinary sustainability studies, science and technology studies, policy analysis, participatory research and more, the book discusses different methodologies, practices, theories, and adaptations in response to the control dilemmas inherent in collaborative research to offer a deeper understanding of the nuanced relationship between power and knowledge within collaborative research. The Politics of Transdisciplinarity will be a key resource for the reflexive researcher working with collaborative approaches at the interface of science, policy and society. It was originally published as a special issue of Social Epistemology.

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Author:   Jeremias Herberg ,  Ulli Vilsmaier
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.370kg
ISBN:  

9781032849683

ISBN 10:   1032849681
Pages:   102
Publication Date:   06 September 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Social and Epistemic Control in Collaborative Research – Reconfiguring the Interplay of Politics and Methodology 1. The Limits of Epistemic Control, the Powers of Actualization, and the Moral Economies of a Fictional Collective 2. Untrol: Post-Truth and the New Normal of Post-Normal Science 3. Designing a Transformative Epistemology of the Problematic: A Perspective for Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science 4. Navigating between Complexity and Control in Transdisciplinary Problem Framing: Meaning Making as an Approach to Reflexive Integration 5. Knowledge Decolonization à la Grounded Theory: Control Juggling in Research Situations 6. Identity Politics: Participatory Research and its Challenges Related to Social and Epistemic Control 7. The Phase Zero: Why Collaborative Research is Not Co-Designed but Scripted

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Jeremias Herberg is a sociologist and practitioner at the interface of environmental politics and research. He heads the presidential department of the German Environment Agency and held a visiting professorship at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He publishes broadly on social dimensions of sustainability. He co-founded the Journal of Political Sociology. Ulli Vilsmaier is a geographer by training and specialized in inter- and transdisciplinary research and higher education. Her research focuses on designing, accompanying, implementing and evaluating boundary-crossing research and on methods for boundary work and integration. She has significant international experiences with research development and transformations of academic institutions.

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