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The Fields of Interdisciplinarity
How do Practices of Place Transform Forest Science and European Forests?
Publié le 27 août 2024 – Mis à jour le 27 août 2024
Nouvel article dans le cadre du projet BENDYS de R.VIMAL & E.FISHER
Il s'agit du travail d'enquête ethnographique mené par Evan Fisher et qui s'intéresse à la fabrication d'une interdisciplinarité de terrain. L'article est publié dans une revue reconnue de sociologie des sciences.
Il montre en particulier comment la logique interdisciplinaire du projet, couplée aux caractéristiques du terrain, a permis de transformer l'objet d'étude, à savoir les vieilles forêts.
Résumé :
This paper provides an empirical account of the problem of interdisciplinarity in the field sciences, considering it as a driver of ontological change. Our case study is an ongoing interdisciplinary research project in environmental science. Its objective is to trace the long-term histories of European old-growth forests. To account for the mechanisms involved when researchers seek to do interdisciplinary science in the field, we describe : 
Il montre en particulier comment la logique interdisciplinaire du projet, couplée aux caractéristiques du terrain, a permis de transformer l'objet d'étude, à savoir les vieilles forêts.
Résumé :
This paper provides an empirical account of the problem of interdisciplinarity in the field sciences, considering it as a driver of ontological change. Our case study is an ongoing interdisciplinary research project in environmental science. Its objective is to trace the long-term histories of European old-growth forests. To account for the mechanisms involved when researchers seek to do interdisciplinary science in the field, we describe :
- Four research practices that take advantage of the spatial order of the study site in order to make forests temporal processes knowable, thereby producing a field site crisscrossed by multiple spatiotemporal orders;
- Those practices geared towards articulating these spatiotemporal orders and the limits faced by the consortium towards their complete integration;
- How such articulation transforms the conception of old-growth forests as spaces shaped by historical processes integrating human activities and valued ecological processes. We argue that interdisciplinary research practice in environmental field sciences does not lead to a synthesis of pre-existing domains of knowledge production. Rather, it does tend to transform both the object of study and the disciplines involved. The field, as both an object of study and a research place, becomes a broker toward ontological changes.
