Fitzgerald, Des  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1899-8481, Littlefield, Melissa M., Knudsen, Kasper J., Tonks, James and Dietz, Martin J.
2014.
Ambivalence, equivocation and the politics of experimental knowledge: a transdisciplinary neuroscience encounter.
Social Studies of Science
44
(5)
, pp. 701-721.
10.1177/0306312714531473
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Abstract
This article is about a transdisciplinary project between the social, human and life sciences, and the felt experiences of the researchers involved. ‘Transdisciplinary’ and ‘interdisciplinary’ research-modes have been the subject of much attention lately – especially as they cross boundaries between the social/humanistic and natural sciences. However, there has been less attention, from within science and technology studies, to what it is actually like to participate in such a research-space. This article contributes to that literature through an empirical reflection on the progress of one collaborative and transdisciplinary project: a novel experiment in neuroscientific lie detection, entangling science and technology studies, literary studies, sociology, anthropology, clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Its central argument is twofold: (1) that, in addition to ideal-type tropes of transdisciplinary conciliation or integration, such projects may also be organized around some more subterranean logics of ambivalence, reserve and critique; (2) that an account of the mundane ressentiment of collaboration allows for a more careful attention to the awkward forms of ‘experimental politics’ that may flow through, and indeed propel, collaborative work more broadly. Building on these claims, the article concludes with a suggestion that such subterranean logics may be indissociable from some forms of collaboration, and it proposes an ethic of ‘equivocal speech’ as a way to live with and through these kinds of transdisciplinary experiences.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
| Publisher: | SAGE |
| ISSN: | 0306-3127 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 30 March 2016 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Nov 2024 20:45 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/76425 |
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