Multiple Epistemologien, multiple Interessen. Auf den Spuren transdisziplinärer Forschung im postkolonialen Zeitalter.

Inter- and transdisciplinary research approaches have established themselves in science and science policy as an adequate response to the pressing problems of global change. Despite a longstanding discourse on their potential, the promised successes of joint knowledge production seem to be stuck in rhetoric. A critical reflection of their own practice and an analysis of the causes of the difficulties are largely missing from the debates. As part of the dissertation, a transdisciplinary research project dealing with sustainable land management in southern Africa was accompanied and analysed in its process. The underlying structures, power relations and constellations of interests were analysed and their influence on the resulting difficulties and potentials of this new research practice was worked out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]