Crossing boundaries: Interdisciplinarity in the context of urban environments
Crossing boundaries: Interdisciplinarity in the context of urban environments
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跨越边界：城市环境背景下的跨学科性
DOI：
10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.02.008
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发表时间：
2008
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
H. Bulkeley
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作者：
J. Petts;S. Owens;H. Bulkeley
在一系列研讨会上，研究人员和政策制定者提供了讨论和见解，本文探讨了跨学科的基本原理、实践和困难。城市环境提供了问题背景。尽管有一致的言论和反复的尝试来促进跨学科研究，尤其是资助委员会响应政策要求，成功似乎是有限的。这篇论文建议，与其将跨学科视为一个独特的、往往是困难的研究类别，不如考虑从多学科到跨学科的连续研究类型。这篇论文通过描述五类“边境问题”进一步推动了跨学科辩论。这些问题包括跨学科与“现实世界问题”的无情联系，学科的认识论结构，关于学科分工的假设和某些框架和调查形式的特权，知识转移的日益复杂，以及研究资金和评估系统的“硬连接”。然而，我们乐观地得出结论，研究人员明显愿意占领危险的学科边界地带，以进一步了解城市环境，并提出了一套“成功的条件”，包括跨学科工作参与者的方法和实践，以及操作和背景因素。
Drawing upon the discussions and insights provided by researchers and policy-makers during a seminar series, this paper explores the rationales for, and the practices and difficulties of, interdisciplinarity. The urban environment provides the problem context. Despite a consistent rhetoric and repeated attempts to promote interdisciplinary research, not least by the funding councils in response to policy imperatives, success appears to have been limited. The paper suggests that rather than viewing interdisciplinarity as a distinct, often difficult, category of research it is more useful to consider a continuum of research types from multi- to transdisciplinarity. The paper furthers the interdisciplinarity debate by characterising five categories of ‘border troubles’. These involve the relentless association of interdisciplinarity with ‘real world problems’, the epistemological structuring of disciplines, assumptions about the disciplinary division of labour and the privileging of certain frames and forms of enquiry, the increasing complexity of knowledge transfer, and the ‘hard wiring’ of the research funding and assessment system. However, we conclude optimistically in terms of the evident willingness of researchers to occupy hazardous disciplinary border zones to further urban environmental understanding and propose a set of ‘conditions for success’ encompassing both the approach and practices of participants in interdisciplinary work as well as operational and contextual factors.