Zonta, Aymara Llanque; Jacobi, Johanna; Mukhovi, Stellah M.; Birachi, Eliud; von Groote, Per; Abad, Carmenza Robledo (2023). The role of transdisciplinarity in building a decolonial bridge between science, policy, and practice. GAIA - ökologische Perspektiven für Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft / ecological perspectives for science and society, 32(1), pp. 107-114. Oekom Verlag 10.14512/gaia.32.1.7
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Transdisciplinary research is considered to offer contributions of science to sustainability transformations, partly because transdisciplinary approaches aim to increase the relevance, credibility, and legitimacy of scientific research by ensuring the active participation of non-academic actors in research. However, the possible impact of transdisciplinary research on decolonial sustainability science – understood as actively undoing Euro-North American centricity, dispossession, racism, and ongoing power imbalances in inequitable social-ecological systems – and simultaneous response to scientific rigor remain under debate. Thus, this article assesses the contributions of transdisciplinary research projects to decolonial sustainability science based on empirical infor ma tion. To do so, we analyze a sample of 43 development research projects of the Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development (r4d programme) in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. We found that despite significant differences in approaches, Global-North-dominated sustainability science still has far to go to achieve the decolonial potential of transdisciplinarity, enabling different actors’ participation.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) |
UniBE Contributor: |
von Groote, Per Maximilian |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 360 Social problems & social services |
ISSN: |
0940-5550 |
Publisher: |
Oekom Verlag |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Doris Kopp Heim |
Date Deposited: |
16 May 2023 18:44 |
Last Modified: |
17 May 2023 15:54 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.14512/gaia.32.1.7 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/182637 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/182637 |
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