Novy, Andreas, Beinstein, Barbara. 2009. Transdisciplinarity and Social Innovation Research. SRE-Discussion 2009.
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Abstract
This working paper dwells on the relationship between a dialogue-oriented mode of knowledge production in line with transdisciplinarity and the flourishing of a culture of socioeconomic democratisation. These scientific and cultural-political undertakings have in common an effort of bridge-building between fragmented entities, be it scientific disciplines and their mono-logical explanations or single-issue policies which foster micro-efficiency to the detriment of social cohesion and socio-economic effectiveness. The paper starts by presenting emblematically some typical problematics of social innovations which need experience-based knowledge of practitioners as well the structure-aware knowledge of scientific research. In the second section transdisciplinary research is proposed as a research programme focussing on socially relevant problems and a structured dialogue with practitioners. Transdisciplinarity is based on a two-fold-dialogue: First, it is an interdisciplinary dialogue between different disciplines which overcome their respective research programmes and paradigms and contribute their knowledge to joint-problem solving. Second, it is a dialogue of two forms of knowledge: experience-based and analyticalstructural knowledge. In the final section, the potential of this type of research is shown to address the problematics of social innovation as a research programme as well as a socially-transformative practice.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Working/discussion paper, preprint |
Language | English |
Title | Transdisciplinarity and Social Innovation Research |
Title of whole publication | SRE-Discussion 2009 |
Year | 2009 |
URL | http://iir-hp.wu-wien.ac.at/sre-disc/sre-disc-2009_01.pdf |
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- Projects
- SOCIAL POLIS - Social Platform on Cities and Social Cohesion
- People
- Novy, Andreas (Details)
- Beinstein, Barbara (Former researcher)
- Organization
- Institute for Multi-Level Governance and Development IN (Details)
- Research areas (Ă–STAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 5105 International relations (Details)
- 5325 Political economics (Details)
- 5340 Economic history (Details)
- 5406 Foreign aid (Details)
- 5415 Economic sociology (Details)
- 5427 Poverty research, social exclusion (Details)
- 5608 Regional development planning (Details)
- 5610 Urban development planning (Details)
- 5611 Urban and regional analysis (Details)
- 5618 Regional economy (Details)
- 5912 Social sciences (interdisciplinary) (Details)
- 5915 Economic geography (Details)