Stories for Interdisciplinary Disaster Research Collaboration
Stories for Interdisciplinary Disaster Research Collaboration
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DOI：
10.1111/risa.13424
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发表时间：
2019-11-06
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影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Peek，Lori
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作者：
Moezzi，Mithra;Peek，Lori
如果我们使用研究人员和从业者互相讲述的故事作为工具来推进跨学科的灾害研究，会怎么样？这篇文章假设这样做可以培养一种新的合作学习和发现模式。人们，包括研究人员，经常根据他们的经验讲故事来讲述“发生了什么”，通常是以增强或反驳现有理解的方式。这些故事提供了对背景、复杂性和动态关系的自然主义描述，而这些描述是正式理论、静态数据和对发现的解释所无法做到的。他们经常这样做令人难忘和有益的，这使得他们有利于跨学科的研究人员，并允许他们融入自己的工作。因此，在已经形成强烈信任感的跨学科团队中寻找、积极邀请、分享和讨论这些故事，可以部分摆脱经常无意识地使用的特定学科推理和框架。为了发展和测试这种可能性，本文认为，多样化和快速增长的危害和灾害领域需要纳入一个基本的理论理解的故事，从民俗学和其他来源的建设。它还需要制定战略，从适当的跨学科研究论坛的故事中汲取和发展，并反过来找到方法，将故事中产生的讨论纳入正在进行的分析、解释和未来的跨学科研究。
What if we used the stories that researchers and practitioners tell each other as tools to advance interdisciplinary disaster research? This article hypothesizes that doing so could foster a new mode of collaborative learning and discovery. People, including researchers, regularly tell stories to relate “what happened” based on their experience, often in ways that augment or contradict existing understandings. These stories provide naturalistic descriptions of context, complexity, and dynamic relationships in ways that formal theories, static data, and interpretations of findings can miss. They often do so memorably and engagingly, which makes them beneficial to researchers across disciplines and allows them to be integrated into their own work. Seeking out, actively inviting, sharing, and discussing these stories in interdisciplinary teams that have developed a strong sense of trust can therefore provide partial escape from discipline‐specific reasoning and frameworks that are so often unconsciously employed. To develop and test this possibility, this article argues that the diverse and rapidly growing hazards and disaster field needs to incorporate a basic theoretical understanding of stories, building from folkloristics and other sources. It would also need strategies to draw out and build from stories in suitable interdisciplinary research forums and, in turn, to find ways to incorporate the discussions that emanate from stories into ongoing analyses, interpretations, and future lines of interdisciplinary inquiry.