Abstract

SANCHEZ-MALDONADO, Jorge. HUMAN-NATURAL WEB AS POSSIBLE ROUTE TOWARDS TRANSDISCIPLINARITY IN THE FIELD OF HUMAN ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE AT UNIVERSIDAD DE CALDAS. Luna Azul [online]. 2017, n.44, pp.265-276. ISSN 1909-2474.  https://doi.org/10.17151/luaz.2017.44.16.

This paper offers an approach to transdisciplinarity and the need to engage it in the Human Ecology and Environmental Knowledge Master's Program at Universidad de Caldas, Colombia. To do this, two critical theoretical perspectives on the modernity are presented which illustrate, first, the tension existing between Social and Natural Sciences (essential in the academic background), and the need to overcome them, and secondly and equally important, the power relationships and the process that have made these two aspects of knowledge production to make invisible other systems of practice of knowledge present in not-so-modern actors (Martínez-Dueñas, 2012). This study proposes that observing human-natural webs (Escobar, 2013) and a political ontology of human-ecological problems suggest the adequate route to advance towards the construction of transdisciplinary research agendas in human ecology and environmental knowledge.

Keywords : human-natural networks; interdisciplinary nature; political ontology; transdisciplinarity.

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