Conflict, Controversy, Compromise, and Compression: The Pragmatics of Transdisciplinary (Development) Projects

Abstract: Drawing upon qualitative interviews, this article narrates central controversies and conflicts that scholars working in the field of "development" face in their daily work. Based on how these conflicts and controversies have been reconstructed, I place them in the discourse on transdisciplinarity, drawing into question the claim to authority and novelty around the term "transdisciplinarity" that Western institutions have attributed themselves with in recent years. Finally, I turn to the question of collaboration: How can transdisciplinary projects deal with the fact of pluralism on the one hand and the necessity to work towards shared problem definitions, solutions, and strategies on the other? In this context, I make a case against transdisciplinarity's often-held conceptions of harmony, comprehensiveness and total systems as well as unity and for compromise, partiality and joint contextual strategies. The "art of deliberation", thus, replaces the notion of transcendence as a cent

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies ; 13 (2020) 2 ; 193-210

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Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wer)
SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
(wann)
2020
Urheber

DOI
10.14764/10.ASEAS-0038
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022071906350882159155
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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25.03.2025, 13:50 MEZ

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