Affect and Effect in Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration

Line Hillersdal, Astrid Pernille Jespersen, Bjarke Oxlund, Birgitte Bruun

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Abstract

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.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftScience Studies
Vol/bind33
Udgave nummer2
Sider (fra-til)66-82
Antal sider17
ISSN0786-3012
DOI
StatusUdgivet - maj 2020
Udgivet eksterntJa

Emneord

  • Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • affect
  • response-able
  • cholesterol
  • obesity
  • Denmark

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