Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: The production of scientific knowledge is an eminently collective activity.For several decades, and increasingly so since the turn of the century, the researchers who pursue this activity professionally have been encouraged to work not only with one another, but also with professionals from other sectors, and with 'ordinary people.'This issue of the journal is dedicated to these links between researchers and other actors, which are often presented as a source of new and innovative knowledge.The seven articles in the issue provide us with a clearer picture of such links: the terms used to refer to them and the forms they take, where and when they are deployed, the extent to which they are truly new, and their relative importance.They also document expectations of these links, their various contributions, conditions of success, and limitations.Finally, they consider the relations between mountains and these particular ways of 'building knowledge' that straddle the boundary between scientific research and other specific activities in alpine regions. Characterising the links between researchers and actors 2Only two of the articles in the issue explore links in the context of an activity that is not primarily scientific: one in relation to tourism (Vialette et al.), and the other in relation to communications/preventive information (Chambru and de Oliveira).The remaining articles all concern links established between researchers and other non-academic actors in the context of scientific research.This predominant focus on the links between researchers and other actors in the context of research, rather than as part of other activities, may well be explained by the fact that the call for contributions strongly emphasised the 'collaborative turn' in alpine research.A range of terms is used for these kinds of research projects spilling over from the academic sphere, sometimes as synonyms within the same article: participatory, partnership, Mountains and New Ways of Building Knowledge
Source: Revue de géographie alpine
DOI: 10.4000/rga.9332
Authors: Anne Sgard, Isabelle Arpin
Institution: Université Grenoble Alpes
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3210306164