Nightingale, Andrea
- Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Sammanfattning
Climate change, along with other so-called global challenges, demands that scholars work across disciplines. Drawing on Donna Haraway's idea of situated knowledges, this paper develops an approach to mixing disciplines by engaging in epistemological pluralism, or approaching a research problem through more than one way of conceptualising it. The example of climate change adaptation planning in Nepal is used to show how a hybrid methodology research design requires thinking through what can be known and also what cannot be known by using a particular method. The main argument is that it is not possible to prove methodologically which conceptualisation or analytical entry point is better than another. Rather, new insights are gained both by triangulating data from different methods, and by probing the ways that they present contradictory results. An interdisciplinary research design is therefore used as a kind of kaleidoscope wherein plural epistemologies help to reveal new, albeit partial and situated, patterns.
Nyckelord
climate change; political ecology; mixing methods; plural epistemologies; methodology; triangulation
Publicerad i
Area
2016, volym: 48, nummer: 1, sidor: 41-47
SLU författare
Globala målen (SDG)
SDG5 Jämställdhet
SDG13 Bekämpa klimatförändringarna
UKÄ forskningsämne
Annan naturvetenskap
Kulturgeografi
Övrig annan samhällsvetenskap
Publikationens identifierare
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12195
Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/81340