1st Edition
The Politics of Transdisciplinarity Collaboration and Control at the Interface of Science, Policy and Society
Introduction: Social and Epistemic Control in Collaborative Research – Reconfiguring the Interplay of Politics and Methodology
Jeremias Herberg and Ulli Vilsmaier
1. The Limits of Epistemic Control, the Powers of Actualization, and the Moral Economies of a Fictional Collective
Judith Igelsböck
2. Untrol: Post-Truth and the New Normal of Post-Normal Science
Katharine N. Farrell
3. Designing a Transformative Epistemology of the Problematic: A Perspective for Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science
Esther Meyer and Daniela Peukert
4. Navigating between Complexity and Control in Transdisciplinary Problem Framing: Meaning Making as an Approach to Reflexive Integration
Basil Bornemann and Marius Christen
5. Knowledge Decolonization à la Grounded Theory: Control Juggling in Research Situations
Maria De Eguia Huerta
6. Identity Politics: Participatory Research and its Challenges Related to Social and Epistemic Control
Stefan Böschen, Martine Legris, Simon Pfersdorf and Bernd Carsten Stahl
7. The Phase Zero: Why Collaborative Research is Not Co-Designed but Scripted
Jeremias Herberg
Biography
Jeremias Herberg is a sociologist and practitioner at the interface of environmental politics and research. He heads the presidential department of the German Environment Agency and held a visiting professorship at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He publishes broadly on social dimensions of sustainability. He co-founded the Journal of Political Sociology.
Ulli Vilsmaier is a geographer by training and specialized in inter- and transdisciplinary research and higher education. Her research focuses on designing, accompanying, implementing and evaluating boundary-crossing research and on methods for boundary work and integration. She has significant international experiences with research development and transformations of academic institutions.
