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来源类型 | Article |
规范类型 | 其他 |
DOI | 10.5751/ES-10249-230308 |
ISBN | 1708-3087 |
Transdisciplinary research as transformative space making for sustainability: enhancing propoor transformative agency in periurban contexts contexts. | |
Marshall, Fiona; Dolley, Jonathan; Priya, Ritu | |
发表日期 | 2018-07-18 |
出处 | Ecology and Society |
出版者 | Resilience Alliance |
出版年 | 2018 |
页码 | 8 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | In this paper we discuss how transdisciplinary development research (TDR), if approached in particular ways, can not only to produce new knowledge, but also foster deeper systemic changes in the knowledge system itself. We are concerned with systemic change that supports pro-poor sustainability transformations, and conceptualise the processes that contribute to this type of systemic change as 'transformative space making' (TSM). TDR as TSM can generate possibilities for the integration of diverse knowledges into decision making, whilst also creating new opportunities for subaltern knowledges to achieve greater influence, through enhancing the transformative agency of the poor. Thus, our conceptualization goes beyond the idea of TDR for the co-creation of solution-oriented knowledge, and recognizes the need to address structural injustices in knowledge systems. In TDR as TSM the development of strategies to reveal power relations and navigate the politics of structural injustices becomes as important as refining the principles for robust collaborative knowledge production. To demonstrate the operationalization of TDR as TSM, we draw insights from our long-term involvement in TDR case studies of emergent environmental and health challenges in peri-urban contexts in India. We identify mechanisms which build legitimacy of pro-poor knowledges, whilst simultaneously creating ‘readiness’ to take advantage of opportunities for interventions to support change in policy and practice at multiple scales. We highlight the politics of alliance building both within and beyond the research team; arguing that attention to alliances is central to understanding the role of TDR in creating possibilities for transformative change. Finally, we argue that development research funding and commissioning agencies should pay attention to the mechanisms of TSM, alongside more recognised aspects of the planning, monitoring and evaluation of TDR initiatives, in order to provide appropriate support for enhanced impact. |
特色分类 | H Social Sciences |
URL | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/76121/ |
来源智库 | Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/469092 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Marshall, Fiona,Dolley, Jonathan,Priya, Ritu. Transdisciplinary research as transformative space making for sustainability: enhancing propoor transformative agency in periurban contexts contexts.. 2018. |
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