On Epistemic Dissonance: Contesting the Transdisciplinary Disaster Risk Reduction Education, Research, and Practices

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.818361" target="_blank" >10.3389/feart.2021.818361</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

On Epistemic Dissonance: Contesting the Transdisciplinary Disaster Risk Reduction Education, Research, and Practices

Original language description

Over the last century, the ever-present challenges facing disaster risk reduction (DRR) have driven several paradigmatic shifts in disaster risk research, lacking adequate bridging between research focused on a biophysical understanding of natural hazard mechanisms, and research focused on societal root causes of disasters. A transdisciplinary approach to research and practices has been widely advocated as an appropriate mode of acknowledging and reconciling multiple feedbacks between societal developments, Earth?s dynamics, and resulting disasters. A critical assessment would reveal that these efforts often serve as occasional crossroads on independent thematic avenues pursued by researchers. In disaster risk management (DRM) practices, the proclaimed transdisciplinarity often proves to be an illusion, as current organisations and funding vehicles continue to evince reluctance to fund and perform transdisciplinary research and practice. This urges a fair and self-critical evaluation of how we conduct and assess our work as a DRR community. In this paper, I argue that at least some of these shortfalls in research and practice can be explained by what I call epistemic dissonance, a term derived from theories of epistemic injustice and cognitive dissonance.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Earth Science

ISSN

2296-6463

e-ISSN

2296-6463

Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

818361

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

4

Pages from-to

1-4

UT code for WoS article

000748429100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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