Paradigm Found? Immanent Critique to Tackle Interdisciplinarity and Normativity in Science for Sustainable Development

Boda, Chad; Faran, Turaj

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“…In the following sections, we examine theoretical limitations and tensions within and between different perspectives, and how they might be complementary, inspired by the method of immanent critique [80] and Lakatos idea of progressive and degenerative research programmes [81]. For meaningful exchange across disciplinary boundaries, we consider complementary among the perspectives a condition.…”

Section: Discussion: the Possibilities And Limitations Of An Integratmentioning

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“…It can be achieved by either aligning theories with auxiliary hypotheses, or, where that is not possible, sublating more foundational tensions with a new synthesis that reconcile contradictory conceptions. It has been suggested that one procedural logic for doing so is that of immanent critique [80]. At its most basic, immanent critique is a method for identifying limitations and contradictions within a perspective and suggesting what might resolve them.…”

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“…Broadening of the problem frame thus has normative implications. Indeed, integrated research and normativity are deeply intertwined as different paradigms frame the problem differently [80]. Ultimately, "the incorporation of various insights from a variety of disciplines is itself a normative question-i.e., which discipline (and even which particular paradigm within a discipline) ought we to seek out and incorporate?"…”

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“…Ultimately, "the incorporation of various insights from a variety of disciplines is itself a normative question-i.e., which discipline (and even which particular paradigm within a discipline) ought we to seek out and incorporate?" [80] (p. 22).…”

Section: Broadening the Problem Framementioning

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Studying Industrial Decarbonisation: Developing an Interdisciplinary Understanding of the Conditions for Transformation in Energy-Intensive Natural Resource-Based Industry

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The ambition to keep global warming well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, as recognised in the Paris Agreement, implies a reorientation towards low-carbon societal development and, ultimately, the decarbonisation of human societies and economies. While climate policy has been geared towards achieving set emission reduction targets, the decarbonisation of key socioeconomic sectors such as energy-intensive natural resource-based industries (ENRIs) has not yet been sufficiently addressed, neither politically nor in science. Decarbonising the ENRIs is a complex societal problem that will require structural transformation technologically as well as socially. Understanding the conditions for transformative change therefore necessitates integrated knowledge from multiple perspectives of different research fields. In this paper, we examine the potential of combining three different research fields and critically scrutinize the challenges to integration for understanding the conditions for industrial decarbonisation: energy system analysis, sustainability transition research and policy studies. We argue that these perspectives are complementary—a fundamental condition for fruitful integration—but not easily compatible since they are sometimes based on different ontological assumptions. The research fields are in themselves heterogeneous, which poses additional challenges to an integrated research approach. Drawing on experiences from a Swedish research project (GIST2050) on industrial decarbonisation, we suggest a modest approach to integrated research that could progressively develop from multidisciplinary exchange towards more integrated forms of interdisciplinarity by means of cross-disciplinary dialogue and understanding.

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“…This then provided a platform for working with management practitioners to formulate more adequate goals and practices for the city. These systematically arose from attempts to correct the theoretical and practical tensions uncovered in the analysis of current goals and practices (for more on the methodology of immanent critique, see Boda and Faran 2018). Throughout the research process, a range of methods was used to generate primary and secondary data related to the socio-cultural, economic, and bio-physical characteristics of the case.…”

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Enabling local adaptation to climate change: towards collective action in Flagler Beach, Florida, USA

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2019

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Local communities around the world are directly exposed to impacts of climate change. It is also clear that many local governments are politically and economically constrained in their capacity to implement needed adaptations. These constraints can restrict adaptation options to incremental, or even maladaptive, practices. At the same time, necessary transformational actions may remain out of reach for local actors. Building on five years of collaborative research with the city of Flagler Beach (FL, USA), we draw on political process theories to describe how incremental adaptation activities that are possible within current constraints can serve to build local capacity for instigating reforms at higher scales of social organization. We use the concept of a collective action strategy to conceptualize how context-specific barriers to adaptation can be overcome. From our analysis, an idealized multi-step process for designing collective action strategies is presented. The study advances scholarship on limits to adaptation beyond the diagnosis of barriers to action by taking steps towards developing context-specific strategies for overcoming these barriers.

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The road traveled and pathways forward: A review of Loss and Damage from Climate Change: Concepts, Methods and Policy Options by Mechler, R., Bouwer, L., Schinko, T., Surminski, S. & Linnerooth-Bayer, J. (Eds.)

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2019

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Mechler et al.'s recently published collectionLoss and Damage from Climate Change: Concepts, Methods and Policy Options is surely the most ambitious book on the topic to date, though that is a designation likely to be short lived in this rapidly expanding research field. Loss and Damage from Climate Change, however, arrives at a particularly opportune time. Launched open-access at the beginning of 2019, its publication comes in advance of a review of the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM), surely the most significant international policy on the topic, planned for later this year. Over the last several decades, the global climate change regime has shifted from an emphasis primarily on mitigation, to both mitigation and adaptation, and finally to the incorporation of L&D as a main focus for climate-related research and policy (Roberts and Huq 2015). L&D is often said to result from a lack of effective adaptation (Warner and van der Geest 2013), though some emphasize that adaptation itself can lead to L&D for communities affected by adaptation efforts (Boyd et al. 2017). After nearly two decades of debate, and building on synergistic programs such as the Sendai framework , the establishment of WIM solidified for the first time L&D as a "third pillar" (Page and Heyward 2017, p. 357) of the UNFCCC research and policy agenda.In advance of the coming evaluation of WIM, the book makes (at least) two extremely important contributions. Firstly, it provides a comprehensive and state-of-the art overview of the field in its many dimensions. This is no small achievement. L&D has often been in "the unusual situation of policy driving the development of the science, as opposed to the other way around" (Vincent and Cull 2014, p. 8.). As a result, the field has increasingly, especially since 2013, attracted the attention of an ever more varied cohort of researchers and practitioners from around the world, ranging from climatologists to lawyers, from anthropologists to macro-

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Paradigm Found? Immanent Critique to Tackle Interdisciplinarity and Normativity in Science for Sustainable Development

Cited by 25 publications

References 88 publications

Studying Industrial Decarbonisation: Developing an Interdisciplinary Understanding of the Conditions for Transformation in Energy-Intensive Natural Resource-Based Industry

Studying Industrial Decarbonisation: Developing an Interdisciplinary Understanding of the Conditions for Transformation in Energy-Intensive Natural Resource-Based Industry

Enabling local adaptation to climate change: towards collective action in Flagler Beach, Florida, USA

The road traveled and pathways forward: A review of Loss and Damage from Climate Change: Concepts, Methods and Policy Options by Mechler, R., Bouwer, L., Schinko, T., Surminski, S. & Linnerooth-Bayer, J. (Eds.)

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