Article ID: CBB480065073

From Affect to Action: Choices in Attending to Disconcertment in Interdisciplinary Collaborations (September 2021)

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Reports from integrative researchers who have followed calls for sociotechnical integration emphasize that the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration to inflect the social shaping of technoscience is often constrained by their liminal position. Integrative researchers tend to be positioned as either adversarial outsiders or co-opted insiders. In an attempt to navigate these dynamics, we show that attending to affective disturbances can open up possibilities for productive engagements across disciplinary divides. Drawing on the work of Helen Verran, we analyze “disconcertment” in three sociotechnical integration research studies. We develop a heuristic that weaves together disconcertment, affective labor, and responsivity to analyze the role of the body in interdisciplinary collaborations. We draw out how bodies do affective labor when generating responsivity between collaborators in moments of disconcertment. Responsive bodies can function as sensors, sources, and processors of disconcerting experiences of difference. We further show how attending to disconcertment can stimulate methodological choices to recognize, amplify, or minimize the difference between collaborators. Although these choices are context-dependent, each one examined generates responsivity that supports collaborators to readjust the technical in terms of the social. This analysis contributes to science and technology studies scholarship on the role of affect in successes and failures of interdisciplinary collaboration.

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Authors & Contributors
Mansilla, Veronica Boix
Ruy Fabila-Monroy
Plutniak, Sébastien
Lisa Lindén
Luis Humberto Fabila-Castillo
Tehya Stockman
Concepts
Scientific collaboration
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Research
Ethnography
Affect
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Modern
20th century, late
Places
Latin America
Ghana
Kenya
Colombia
United States
Sweden
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