Geoengineering Knowledge

Interdisciplinarity and the Shaping of Climate Engineering Research

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4959422
AutoresBronislaw Szerszynski (0000-0002-6546-1479, Centre for the Study of Environmental Change, Department of Sociology, Bowland North, Lancaster University LA1 4YT, England), Maialen Galarraga (Centre for the Study of Environmental Change, Department of Sociology, Bowland North, Lancaster University LA1 4YT, England)
Ano2013
Volume45
Fascículo12
Páginas2817-2824
Data de publicação2013-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a45647
OpenAlexW2152386342
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas17

In this paper we highlight the need to attend to the structuring power of knowledge production in geoengineering research, because of the way that problem definitions are shaped by disciplinary ways of thinking and describing the world. We also draw attention to a number of problematic assumptions about how interdisciplinary research should be approached and organised in this area. We first look at the logic of 'subordination', in which certain disciplines are given the task of problem definition and others-typically the social sciences-are allocated the task of filling in gaps within that given frame. We then examine the more fundamental 'integrative imaginary' which, we argue, mistakenly assumes that disciplines can be combined in a straightforward way to reveal different aspects of the same underlying world. We conclude by proposing a more reflexive imaginary for interdisciplinarity, one that challenges the idea of integration and subordination, that promotes and benefits from the multiplicity and heterogeneity of ways of seeing that different disciplines offer, and that can thereby contribute to greater 'epistemological responsibility' in geoengineering research

Discipline · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Management science · Political science · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Structuring · The Imaginary · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · Engineering · Psychology · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance