When climatologists meet social scientists: ethnographic speculations around interdisciplinary equivocations
Abstract This article argues for the need to address the fact that a large amount of conflict over environmental knowledge occurs inside the academy, against the commonsensical perception that it is a mark of the relationship between science and non-science. It proposes a conceptual speculative exer...
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| description | Abstract This article argues for the need to address the fact that a large amount of conflict over environmental knowledge occurs inside the academy, against the commonsensical perception that it is a mark of the relationship between science and non-science. It proposes a conceptual speculative exercise that uses a framework presented by indigenous ethnology, specifically the theory of Amerindian perspectivism, to address tensions among scientific disciplines in interdisciplinary work. Ethnographic vignettes about contentious encounters between climatologists/meteorologists and social scientists are used as methodological and analytical resources. The paper argues for a non-platonic approach to interdisciplinarity, suggesting that a more productive and realistic attitude treats the collaboration of different disciplines as a case of alliance among “enemies”, with the caveat that the concept of enemy should be understood here in terms of the relational philosophies of Amerindian peoples, where antagonistic difference is valued for its constitutive and productive effects on reality. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-031ad464c7c34b0794a02edd6866f0842022-12-21T21:09:36ZspaUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulSociologias1807-0337215118621110.1590/15174522-0215107S1517-45222019000200186When climatologists meet social scientists: ethnographic speculations around interdisciplinary equivocationsRenzo Romano TaddeiSophie HainesAbstract This article argues for the need to address the fact that a large amount of conflict over environmental knowledge occurs inside the academy, against the commonsensical perception that it is a mark of the relationship between science and non-science. It proposes a conceptual speculative exercise that uses a framework presented by indigenous ethnology, specifically the theory of Amerindian perspectivism, to address tensions among scientific disciplines in interdisciplinary work. Ethnographic vignettes about contentious encounters between climatologists/meteorologists and social scientists are used as methodological and analytical resources. The paper argues for a non-platonic approach to interdisciplinarity, suggesting that a more productive and realistic attitude treats the collaboration of different disciplines as a case of alliance among “enemies”, with the caveat that the concept of enemy should be understood here in terms of the relational philosophies of Amerindian peoples, where antagonistic difference is valued for its constitutive and productive effects on reality.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-45222019000200186&lng=en&tlng=enmudança climáticainterdisciplinaridadeperspectivismosociologia da ciênciaconflito |
| spellingShingle | Renzo Romano Taddei Sophie Haines When climatologists meet social scientists: ethnographic speculations around interdisciplinary equivocations Sociologias mudança climática interdisciplinaridade perspectivismo sociologia da ciência conflito |
| title | When climatologists meet social scientists: ethnographic speculations around interdisciplinary equivocations |
| title_full | When climatologists meet social scientists: ethnographic speculations around interdisciplinary equivocations |
| title_fullStr | When climatologists meet social scientists: ethnographic speculations around interdisciplinary equivocations |
| title_full_unstemmed | When climatologists meet social scientists: ethnographic speculations around interdisciplinary equivocations |
| title_short | When climatologists meet social scientists: ethnographic speculations around interdisciplinary equivocations |
| title_sort | when climatologists meet social scientists ethnographic speculations around interdisciplinary equivocations |
| topic | mudança climática interdisciplinaridade perspectivismo sociologia da ciência conflito |
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