ABSTRACT

Agroecology, as a science for the study, design and management of sustainable food systems, retakes epistemic, methodological and practical approaches of transdisciplinarity. However, there is not a unanimous understanding of these approaches and few studies investigate its implementation. Transdisciplinarity is defined lato sensu as the practices of collaboration and knowledge integration between non-academic actors and scientists. This approach is at stake in Europe, especially in the field of food systems. Our aim is to analyze the magnitude, conceptions and praxis of works from European agroecologists claiming transdisciplinarity. Based upon a content analysis of publications and interviews with some of their authors, our results show that, although there is a growing literature on transdisciplinarity in Europe, the proportion of publications is low compared to the overall publications in agroecology. Despite the global aspiration of using it as an approach to achieve cognitive justice and horizontal knowledge construction, our typology of transdisciplinarity in practice shows a diversity of patterns. Four clusters were identified, ranging from genuine co-creation of knowledge to uneven collaborations between scientists and stakeholders, thus questioning scholars’ responsibility As a nascent and promising domain, transdisciplinarity in agroecology should be encouraged in European research and experiences capitalized.

摘要

农业生态学是研究，设计和管理可持续粮食系统的科学，它采用了跨学科的认识论，方法论和实践方法。但是，对这些方法尚未达成一致的理解，很少有研究调查其实施方式。跨学科定义是拉托·森苏作为非学术参与者与科学家之间合作和知识整合的实践。在欧洲，尤其是在食品系统领域，这种方法受到威胁。我们的目的是分析声称具有跨学科性的欧洲农业生态学家的著作的规模，概念和实践。基于对出版物的内容分析以及对他们的一些作者的采访，我们的结果表明，尽管欧洲关于跨学科性的文献不断增长，但与农业生态学领域的整体出版物相比，出版物所占的比例很低。尽管全球都渴望将其用作实现认知正义和横向知识构建的方法，但我们在实践中的跨学科类型学显示出多种模式。确定了四个集群，