A transdisciplinary account of water research
A transdisciplinary account of water research
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水研究的跨学科描述
作者：
T. Krueger;Carly M. Maynard;G. Carr;Antje Bruns;E. Mueller;S. Lane
水研究是从自然科学和社会科学的结合角度以及公民和利益相关者共同生产知识的案例来介绍的。使用跨学科的总体概念，我们研究如何跨学科和参与式水研究已经发生，并可以进一步发展。很明显，水知识是在社会中广泛产生的，包括认证的学科专家和非认证的专家利益攸关方和公民。然而，理解和管理干预可能仍然是部分的，甚至是冲突的，因为许多跨传统学科和传统学科之间的研究由于哲学，方法论和沟通障碍而未能整合学科范式。我们主张更多的竞争关系，挑战认证和非认证的知识生产力。这些应该包括审查水研究本身如何嵌入和嵌入社会背景和执行政治工作。虽然存在关于水知识的文化和政治经济的案例研究，但我们需要更多的经验证据来说明文化、政治和经济到底如何塑造了这种知识，以及在什么时候这种知识可能会产生不同的结果。因此，我们可以有效地引导共同生产主义者的批评，将观点，替代知识和影响带入水政治中，而这些观点，知识和影响是以前没有考虑过的;试图对抗可能锁定在特定的水政策和技术上，这些政策和技术可能是不公平的，不可持续的，或不可接受的。在明确参与政治的同时，跨学科水研究应继续关注研究过程中的关闭时刻，如框架，路径依赖，既得利益，研究人员的地位，权力和规模。WIREs Water 2016，3：369-389。doi：10.1002/wat2.1132
Water research is introduced from the combined perspectives of natural and social science and cases of citizen and stakeholder coproduction of knowledge. Using the overarching notion of transdisciplinarity, we examine how interdisciplinary and participatory water research has taken place and could be developed further. It becomes apparent that water knowledge is produced widely within society, across certified disciplinary experts and noncertified expert stakeholders and citizens. However, understanding and management interventions may remain partial, or even conflicting, as much research across and between traditional disciplines has failed to integrate disciplinary paradigms due to philosophical, methodological, and communication barriers. We argue for more agonistic relationships that challenge both certified and noncertified knowledge productively. These should include examination of how water research itself embeds and is embedded in social context and performs political work. While case studies of the cultural and political economy of water knowledge exist, we need more empirical evidence on how exactly culture, politics, and economics have shaped this knowledge and how and at what junctures this could have turned out differently. We may thus channel the coproductionist critique productively to bring perspectives, alternative knowledges, and implications into water politics where they were not previously considered; in an attempt to counter potential lock‐in to particular water policies and technologies that may be inequitable, unsustainable, or unacceptable. While engaging explicitly with politics, transdisciplinary water research should remain attentive to closing down moments in the research process, such as framings, path‐dependencies, vested interests, researchers’ positionalities, power, and scale. WIREs Water 2016, 3:369–389. doi: 10.1002/wat2.1132