Boundaries as Spaces of Knowledge Integration: Learning from transdisciplinary collaboration on planetary health in Indonesia

Towards a practice framework for transdisciplinary collaboration in planetary health

“…Funding institutions are hence identified as one of the primary audiences of the framework. The empirical case study (Section 2.2) yielded two publications: the first (Wardani et al, 2023) highlighted the essential elements of collaboration as experienced from LMIC perspectives, which were included as Foundational Considerations (Section 3.2.1) around stakeholder engagement in the practice framework; while the second (Wardani et al, forthcoming)…”

“…Indonesian interviews and reflections were translated into English, and thematic analysis was conducted using NVivo software following an inductive, grounded theory approach (Braun & Clarke, 2006;Charmaz, 2015). The case study yielded two publications; the first on the meaning of collaboration from the perspectives and experiences of Indonesian and LMIC stakeholders (Wardani et al, 2023) and the second on the enabling and constraining factors found in the case study based on experiences of all participants (Wardani et al, forthcoming). Findings from both publications yielded practice strategies that intertwined with and informed the framework development process as elaborated below.…”

“…Building trust and shared heuristics, like achieving conditions for authentic dialog, requires formidable effort, time and resources (Innes & Booher, 2018). However, diversity should not be foregone in the interest of efficiency (Littman et al, 2021), and excluding certain stakeholders may create obstacles later on in the process (Wardani et al, 2023).…”

“…Beyond academic structures, in LMIC research settings, a lack of understanding of the local socio-cultural, political, economic, geographic and historical context also caused constraints, challenges, and inequitable division of labor due to nuanced communication and cultural differences (Sillitoe, 2018) and power imbalance (Gunasekara, 2020). The importance of local context and knowledge contributed by LMIC stakeholders were also highlighted in Wardani et al (2023).…”

“…Likewise, planetary health scholarship aims to highlight systemic interlinkages (Whitmee et al, 2015), while transnational studies and globalization scholars emphasize interdependence across global development contexts (Sassen, 2016(Sassen, , 2019. Understanding interdependence among diverse stakeholders goes a long way in enabling collaboration, as validated in the empirical case study (Wardani et al, 2023). Section 3 below details further interdependence and other foundational considerations related to stakeholder engagement.…”