Más allá de las expectativas de rol: 'Devenires' en la investigación interdisciplinaria sobre el cambio global, el clima y el ambiente

Cecilia Hidalgo; Meritxell Ramírez Ollé; Charlotte Mazel-Cabasse; Catharina Landstrom; Simone Rödder

doi:10.48160/18517072re54.149

Authors

Cecilia Hidalgo Universidad de Buenos Aires Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, ICA-FFyL. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6875-4181
Meritxell Ramírez Ollé Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0583-5624
Charlotte Mazel-Cabasse Digital Humanities Center - University of Lausanne (UniL) - Polytechnical School of Lausanne (EPFL) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9263-0901
Catharina Landstrom University of Oxford, UK School of Geography and the Environment. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7782-1438
Simone Rödder Department of Business, Economics and Social Sciences Universität Hamburg https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4013-6183

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48160/18517072re54.149

Keywords:

Interdisciplinary, Professional roles , Etnography

Abstract

This article seeks to contribute to growing discussions, in this journal and elsewhere, on the intellectual, personal and emotional transformations that Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholars doing ethnographic fieldwork undergo with each new research project and collaboration. Drawing from our experience of being ‘embedded’ within large collaborations in climate change science and environmental science, we propose the notion of ‘becoming’ to capture the overall positive transformations ethnographers experience, which go beyond the more static and one-dimensional understanding of ‘roles’ often found in the literature. We conclude with some remarks on the transformations or ‘becomings’ that our collaborators also experience.

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