Teaching Manual on Transdisciplinary Research

Autor(en)

Alexandra Heis

Abstrakt

This session elaborates on the possible ways to approach migration studies from a transdisciplinary perspective. Transdisciplinary migration research is underrepresented in transdisciplinary scholarship compared to other fields of scholarly inquiry such as urban planning, natural resources management, or public health. It is also less prone to collaborative research practice such as action research, or collaborating with social movements or social groups from civil society. At the same time, the migration question is also closely related to identification and othering processes, and hence also about identity politics. Because of this, its analysis is often messy and ambiguous. From a transdisciplinary point of view, discussing the political interests and the discriminatory and exclusionary social practices which make migration a problem should become more central to migration studies than they usually are. We thus argue that such a shifting of focus in migration studies, which could be achieved by pursuing a transdisciplinary approach, would help to understand more closely the intersection of societal, political and economic powers constituting the migration subject.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Internationale Entwicklung

Publikationsdatum

11-2019

ÖFOS 2012

504021 Migrationsforschung, 509006 Geschichte der Sozialwissenschaften, 605004 Kulturwissenschaft, 504014 Gender Studies

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/teaching-manual-on-transdisciplinary-research(e686dcf3-72fc-49bd-a09f-946b4765b710).html