- Title
- From academic to political rigour: Insights from the ‘Tarot’ of transgressive research
- Creator
- Temper, Leah, McGarry, Dylan K, Weber, Lena
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/390629
- Identifier
- vital:68570
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajee/article/view/186598"
- Description
- The role of science and knowledge production is at a crossroads, as societal transformation calls for challenging dominant forms of knowledge production that have contributed to marginalizing other ways of knowing. This presents a challenge to mainstream science and invites a deeper reflection on our roles as scientists and exploration of alternative engaged, post-normal and activist approaches to research. This paper examines the diverse ways researchers are meeting this challenge. Employing the device of the Tarot deck we describe seven “characters” to illustrate the variety of roles and approaches that trans-disciplinary, transformative, transgressive and activist researchers are engaging in. These characters are used to introduce and develop the concept of political rigour as a means of expanded academic rigour in new emancipatory scientific paradigms. We demonstrate how these Tarot characters can be used as an activity for collective and personal reflexivity and propose ten principles that frequently emerge in a ‘political’ peer review process. We argue that the insights emerging from these strands of radical, critical, engaged and applied forms of scholarship, can significantly improve the understanding of what a “transformative knowledge paradigm” may look like in practice and how it can be mobilized for social change and environmental justice.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (13 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Ecological Economics, Temper, L., McGarry, D. and Weber, L., 2019. From academic to political rigour: Insights from the ‘Tarot’ of transgressive research. Ecological Economics, 164, p.106379, Ecological Economics volume 164 p. 106379 2019 0921-8009
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