Living in a Time of Social and Climate Crisis: Musings on the Importance of Trans-Disciplinarity
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: How do we navigate a world in crisis? Headlines are replete with escalating environmental, social, and economic catastrophes. Anxieties grow as many experience the weight of inertia set in, not for lack of concern but rather for concern over the material realities—trying to keep those we love safe, housed, and fed. Yet, what if we could see, much like civil rights activist Septima Clark (ca.1910–ca.1990), chaos as a gift—an opportunity to (re)build a more just world? This essay explores possibilities via storytelling, the study of diverse disciplinary thought, and work on the land: a path that has highlighted the power and promise of diverse ways of knowing, being in, and caring for the world and the critical need for trans-disciplinary studies, work, and dialogue as we, to paraphrase Arundhati Roy (2020), begin to fashion the world anew.
Author: Matthew, Rebecca A.
Institution: University of Georgia
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7215268693