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Nat. Sci. Soc.
Volume 25, Number 2, April-June 2017
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Page(s) | 163 - 171 | |
Section | Vie de la recherche – Research news | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/nss/2017026 | |
Published online | 11 August 2017 |
Retour réflexif sur une expérience interdisciplinaire exploratoire : l'atelier « Interdisciplinarité autour des petits barrages »
Reflexive feedback on an interdisciplinary experience: the “Interdisciplinarity around small reservoirs” workshop
1
Anthropologue, IRD, UMR183 G-EAU,
Montpellier, France
2
Hydrogéologue, IRD, UMR183 G-EAU,
Montpellier, France
3
Agro-géographe, IRD, UMR183 G-EAU,
Montpellier, France
* Auteur correspondant: jeanne.riaux@ird.fr
Au cours d'un atelier, qui a eu lieu à Montpellier en décembre 2015, destiné à partager des expériences de recherche sur un objet hydroagricole, le petit barrage, une vingtaine de chercheurs d'horizons disciplinaires variés ont interrogé leurs pratiques et conceptions de l'interdisciplinarité entre sciences de la nature et sciences de la société. Cette expérience exploratoire a mis en lumière deux postures interdisciplinaires différentes. La première repose sur la recherche d'interfaces et de complémentarités entre les disciplines pour documenter ensemble des objets complexes. La seconde se construit plutôt dans l'exploration des limites des disciplines pour identifier de nouveaux fronts de recherche à l'intersection des approches en présence. Alors que l'interdisciplinarité est souvent déclinée au singulier, cet atelier nous invite à la penser au pluriel à travers les différentes pratiques qui nourrissent le processus de construction de l'interaction entre personnes.
Abstract
During the workshop “Interdisciplinarity around small reservoirs” (at the French Institut de Recherche pour le Développement [IRD], Montpellier, December 2015), twenty researchers from a wide range of academic fields − including hydrology, sociology and agronomy − experienced the development of an interdisciplinary reflexive dialogue. Encouraged to share their research experience on a common object − small reservoirs − the participants explored their different practices and conceptions of interdisciplinarity between natural and social sciences. This exploratory experience highlighted two distinct interdisciplinary postures. The first one emerges from the perception that understanding hydrosystems requires associating multiple scientific approaches to account for the multidimensional water-society relations. Seen as a way to analyse and represent complex objects and systems, the objective of this interdisciplinary posture is to favour linkages and complementarities between academic disciplines. The second posture's objective is rather to explore disciplinary boundaries and identify new research issues by combining and confronting the approaches of multiple researchers. Researchers explore their mutual methodological and conceptual boundaries, draw out the contradictions resulting from their respective approaches and build upon these conclusions to define innovative research questions. While interdisciplinarity is often expressed in the singular form, this workshop invites us to see it as a being plural and built through the multiple practices that nurture interactions between people and disciplines.
Mots clés : recherche / environnement / interdisciplinarité / réflexivité / petits barrages
Key words: research / environment / interdisciplinarity / reflexivity / small reservoirs
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