Affect and Effect in Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration
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Affect and Effect in Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration. / Hillersdal, Line; Jespersen, Astrid Pernille; Oxlund, Bjarke; Bruun, Birgitte .
In: Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2020, p. 66-82 .Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Affect and Effect in Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration
AU - Hillersdal, Line
AU - Jespersen, Astrid Pernille
AU - Oxlund, Bjarke
AU - Bruun, Birgitte
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Research across disciplines is often described as beset with problems of epistemological hierarchies and incommensurable categories. We recognize these problems working in two large interdisciplinary research projects on obesity and cholesterol lowering medicine in Denmark. We explore the affective tensions that arise in concrete situations when we meet other researchers around a shared research object. We propose that sensitivity towards such differences, and exploration of the affects they foster, can generate new epistemological and political openings. Analysing four interdisciplinary situations we suggest that embodied experiences of amusement, awkwardness, boredom and doubts are signposts of both differences and connections between people and concerns. Inspired by Haraway’s notion of “response-ability” (1997) and Verran’s concept of “generative critique” (2001) we propose that attention to affective tensions in interdisciplinary research collaboration can be generative of effects not only on modes of collaboration, but also on the ways we engage the world as researchers.
AB - Research across disciplines is often described as beset with problems of epistemological hierarchies and incommensurable categories. We recognize these problems working in two large interdisciplinary research projects on obesity and cholesterol lowering medicine in Denmark. We explore the affective tensions that arise in concrete situations when we meet other researchers around a shared research object. We propose that sensitivity towards such differences, and exploration of the affects they foster, can generate new epistemological and political openings. Analysing four interdisciplinary situations we suggest that embodied experiences of amusement, awkwardness, boredom and doubts are signposts of both differences and connections between people and concerns. Inspired by Haraway’s notion of “response-ability” (1997) and Verran’s concept of “generative critique” (2001) we propose that attention to affective tensions in interdisciplinary research collaboration can be generative of effects not only on modes of collaboration, but also on the ways we engage the world as researchers.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Interdisciplinarity
KW - affect
KW - response-able
KW - cholesterol
KW - obesity
KW - Denmark
U2 - 10.23987/sts.63305
DO - 10.23987/sts.63305
M3 - Journal article
VL - 33
SP - 66
EP - 82
JO - Science Studies
JF - Science Studies
SN - 0786-3012
IS - 2
ER -
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