Transdisciplinary research as transformative space making for sustainability: enhancing propoor transformative agency in periurban contexts
Transdisciplinary research as transformative space making for sustainability: enhancing propoor transformative agency in periurban contexts
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DOI：
10.5751/es-10249-230308
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Priya, Ritu
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作者：
Marshall, Fiona;Dolley, Jonathan;Priya, Ritu
在本文中，我们将讨论如何跨学科的发展研究（TDR），如果在特定的方式，可以产生新的知识，也促进更深层次的系统性变化的知识体系本身。我们关注的是支持扶贫可持续性转型的系统性变革，并将有助于这类系统性变革的进程概念化为“创造转型空间”。作为TSM的跨学科发展研究可以为将各种知识纳入决策创造可能性，同时也为底层知识创造新的机会，通过加强穷人的变革机构来实现更大的影响力。因此，我们的概念超越了《贸易和发展报告》关于共同创造以解决问题为导向的知识的想法，并认识到需要解决知识体系中的结构性不公正问题。在《贸易和发展报告》和《贸易和社会管理报告》中，制定揭示权力关系和驾驭结构性不公正政治的战略与完善强有力的合作知识生产原则同样重要。为了展示TDR作为TSM的可操作性，我们从我们长期参与印度城市周边环境中紧急环境和健康挑战的TDR案例研究中汲取见解。我们确定了建立扶贫知识的合法性的机制，同时创造“准备”，以利用干预措施的机会，以支持在多个尺度上的政策和实践的变化。我们强调了研究团队内部和外部的联盟建设的政治，认为关注联盟是理解TDR在创造变革可能性方面的作用的核心。最后，我们认为，发展研究的资金和委托机构应注意TSM的机制，以及更公认的方面的规划，监测和评估的TDR倡议，以提供适当的支持，增强影响。
In this paper, we discuss how transdisciplinary development research (TDR), if approached in particular ways, can produce new knowledge and also foster deeper systemic changes in the knowledge system itself. We are concerned with systemic change that supports propoor sustainability transformations, and conceptualize the processes that contribute to this type of systemic change as "transformative space making" (TSM). Transdisciplinary development research as TSM can generate possibilities for the integration of diverse knowledges into decision making, while 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 cocreation 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 periurban contexts in India. We identify mechanisms that build legitimacy of propoor knowledges, while 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 recognized aspects of the planning, monitoring, and evaluation of TDR initiatives, in order to provide appropriate support for enhanced impact.