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The principles of reality-mercy-action constitute the founding triad, which the Theologyof Liberation provides for the construction of a liberating psychosocial perspective, whichassumes an ethical commitment based on the look, on the recognition of the other, andon the mercy, which recognizes the political implications of action and direct them towardtransformation and emancipation. This assumes solidarity and horizontality as a frameworkfor action and rethinks its ontological, epistemological, and methodological bases. Thisperspective becomes necessary the moment that Colombia is going through in order tocontribute to the construction of peace and to the transformation of conflicts, from aconcrete praxis, in which frontiers between investigation and intervention are diluted, wherethe aim is to attempt to overcome bureaucracy, technocracy, and the patronage, and that canwalk toward transdisciplinarity. From a clear and determined option for the transformationof suffering, injustice, and exclusion, which are generated in the models of governanceand development of neoliberal model is reiterated on a viable and possible alternative forpsychology in Colombia and Latin America. ; Los principios de Realidad-misericordia-acción, constituyen la tríada fundante que la teología de la liberación aporta para la construcción de una perspectiva psicosocial liberadora, que asume una apuesta ética basada en la mirada, en el reconocimiento del otro y en la misericordia; que reconoce las implicaciones políticas de la acción y las orienta hacia la transformación y la emancipación, que asume la solidaridad y la horizontalidad como marco de acción y que replantea sus bases ontológicas, epistemológicas y metodológicas. Dicha perspectiva deviene necesaria en el momento que atraviesa Colombia, de cara a aportar a la construcción de paz y a la transformación de los conflictos, a partir de una praxis concreta, en la que se diluyan las fronteras entre investigación e intervención, se busque superar la burocracia, la tecnocracia y el clientelismo y se camine hacia la transdisciplinariedad. Desde una opción clara y decidida por la transformación del sufrimiento, la injusticia y la exclusión que se generan en los modelos de gobernanza y desarrollo de corte neoliberal se reitera sobre una alternativa viable y posible para la psicología en Colombia y en América Latina.

At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, a new sub-field of physics and chemistry emerged centering on radioactivity. Its disciplinary structures were slow to crystallize. The early phase of this field was characterized by substantial international exchange between the European centers in Vienna, Paris, Berlin and Cambridge and a concomitant high degree of transdisciplinarity. Research on radioactivity was also marked by an unusual openness in respect to gender and gender politics. The volatile political and social context of nuclear research, which abruptly changed several times, acted to further, impede or block these initiatives to transcend diverse boundaries in science, politics, and society. The two central questions of the present project are: How did the agendas and foci of Austrian nuclear research, and the styles of work of the scientists, change within the framework of international cooperation and competition? How were these developments dynamically linked with the political, social and cultural shifts in European history in the 20th century? The historical analysis starts with the founding of the Vienna Institute for Radium Research (IRR), including the institutes for physics at the University of Vienna that worked in close cooperation with the IRR. The period under investigation extends from the late years of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire to World War I, the era of "Red Vienna," the "state of estates" (Ständestaat) and the Nazi dictatorship, down to the full restoration of Austrian sovereignty in 1955. The study will include systematic transnational comparisons with the other centers of European nuclear research, based in part on existing literature from the history of science, as well as exact reconstructions of the bilateral and multilateral cooperative links and relations with the international scientific community. In this way, the proposed project is expected to go beyond the historical reconstruction of nuclear research in Austria and shed light on the importance of nationality and internationality, both for framing politics and as mental and cultural points of reference for the behavior and actions of the scientific actors and the production of scientific knowledge under shifting constellations of war and peace, democracy and dictatorship.

Cet article propose une reconceptualisation de la discipline sociologique ainsi que de sa place dans le monde actuel. Nous remettrons tout d'abord en question l'idée même que la sociologie puisse être considérée en tant que discipline académique dans le sens habituel du terme, tout comme le fait qu'il soit possible de distinguer, à la manière des sciences de la nature, autant de disciplines distinctes au sein du champ des sciences sociales. Au contraire, nous defendrons la thèse selon laquelle la sociologie et ses disciplines connexes furent plutôt constitueés en tant que champs sociaux à travers un processus historique particulier. Cette analyse nous permettra de réaffirmer la position centrale qu'occupe la sociologie dans le champ de la recherche sociale, de par les liens étroits qu'elle entretient avec les autres disciplines qui constituent ce champ, ainsi que par sa nature interdisciplinaire et critique. Cette reconceptualisation implique qu'une ontologie sociale claire fondée sur une méthodologie cohérente, en l'occurence le réalisme critique, puisse remédier aux tendences centrifuges propre à la discipline, en renforçant sa capacité à analyser les problèmes sociaux, et donc à contribuer à défendre et à élargir les pratiques démocratiques au fondement d'un avenir meilleur.This article proposes a re‐visioning of sociology and of its relationship to the late‐modern world it inhabits. I first problematize the claim that sociology is a discipline in any ordinary sense of the term, indeed, that social science can be reasonably cleaved into "disciplines" on the model of natural science. I then explore the thesis that sociology and kindred pursuits have been constituted as fields. Finally, I argue that among the fields of social scientific inquiry, the sociological terrain is of great import, as a nexus whose permeability, dense connectivity to other fields and critical transdisciplinarity are prime assets. By implication, the remedy for centrifugal tendencies that worry some sociologists is greater clarity on matters of social ontology and, on that basis, a coherent methodology (critical realism) that can strengthen sociology's capacity to understand our troubled world and to defend and enrich democratic practices that may portend a better future.

The Palmeira School Group (PSG) has built its Educative Project (EP) having as reference the new educative paradigm that valorises the future (human, scientific and technical future) in order to face appropriately the new challenges in a globalisation context. The PSG Educative Project (PSG-EP) aims at "developing health promoting habits in the school community", where smoking addiction is a major bad habit target. The PSG-EP goals are the following: (i) to supply potentials for the development of competencies in the domains of "knowing how to be" and "knowing how to do"; (ii) to develop habits of critical, reflexive and aware citizenship; (iii) to promote the interlinking of knowledge and curricular contents with the needs of globalization; (iv) to promote collaboration, teamwork, the multidisciplinarity/transdisciplinarity of both health promotion know-how and authority for the progress of healthier lifestyles, particularly in giving up smoking. In this work the PSG-EP participants' conceptions and perceptions were taken into account. They were teachers, educational action staff, pupils, parents and the local administrative authorities of a specific outskirts area of Braga town, making a total of 1423 participants. The results showed that 25% of the PSG population were smokers. There were fewer women smokers than men in all the sample groups, except for the teachers where both men and women smoking groups were similar, 35% each. From the total sample, the street group effect was the major factor (30%) contributing to smoking addiction, followed by lack of prevention (25%), low general literacy (19%), unemployment (9%), poverty (9%) and Legislation (8%). Less than 20% of the respondents were aware of smoking preventive campaigns in the PSG: 18% of the teachers, 15% the other school staff, 12% of the pupils and only 6% of the parents. Results show that 43% of the respondents do not know about any partnership with other institutions or persons for smoking prevention and that 41% say there is not any partnership ...

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Vorwort -- Kapitel 1: Gewalt weiter denken -- Kapitel 2: Kolonialität von Macht, Wissen und Sein -- Kapitel 3: Begriffslandschaften epistemischer Gewalt -- Einleitung -- Systemimmanent und relational: Johan Galtungs Gewalttheorie -- Herrschaftsordnungen und symbolische Gewalt bei Pierre Bourdieu -- Normativität, Krieg und Gewaltfreiheit bei Judith Butler -- Kapitel 5: Transdisziplinäre Konturierungen eines Konzepts epistemischer Gewalt -- Literatur.

El presente artículo reflexiona sobre la Educación para la Ciudadanía Mundial (ECM) y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) discutidos en 2015 durante el 2º Foro de la UNESCO de ECM de enero, el 2º Foro Mundial de Educación de mayo y la Cumbre del Milenio de septiembre. El estudio se apoya en la metodología transdisciplinar y el principio de biomímesis con el propósito de reforzar los lazos entre la educación y la sostenibilidad. Como resultado, el trabajo identifica los principios operacionales que constituyen la interdependencia de los ecosistemas para hacer una aplicación biomimética en las estructuras sociales, políticas y educativas de los sistemas humanos. Para concluir, se realizan tres propuestas para contribuir a alcanzar los ODS. ; This paper reflects on the Global Citizenship Education (GCE) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) discussed in 2015 during the Second UNESCO Forum on Global Citizenship Education in January, the Second Global Education Forum in May and the Millenium Summit in September. The study is supported by a transdisciplinary methodology and the biomimetic principles in order to strengthen the bonds between education and sustainability. As a result, this research identifies the operational principles that constitute the interdependence of ecosystems in order to make a biomimetic implementation in the social, political and educational structure in human systems. To conclude, three proposals to achieve SDGs are given. ; 113-129 ; javiercolladoruano@gmail.com ; Cuatrimestral

Die transdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit stellt die Fächer Literaturwissenschaft und Informatik vor die Herausforderung, ihre Theoriebildungen und Modelle neu zu perspektivieren. Die Beiträger*innen dokumentieren exemplarisch die spannungsreiche Verschränkung von digitalen und klassischen Methoden, fachlichen Standards sowie unterschiedlichen Forschungsgegenständen der beiden höchst differenten Wissenschaftskulturen. Aus der Sicht beider Disziplinen eruieren sie die epistemologischen Mehrwerte digitaler Modellierung oder evaluieren Tools für die Analyse literarischer Texte - und stoßen so durch die wechselseitigen methodologischen Perspektiven eine Revision facheigener Fragestellungen an.

This open access book presents and discusses current issues and innovative solution approaches for land management in a European context. Manifold sustainability issues are closely interconnected with land use practices. Throughout the world, we face increasing conflict over the use of land as well as competition for land. Drawing on experience in sustainable land management gained from seven years of the FONA programme (Research for Sustainable Development, conducted under the auspices of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research), the book stresses and highlights co-design processes within the "co-creation of knowledge", involving collaboration in transdisciplinary research processes between academia and other stakeholders. The book begins with an overview of the current state of land use practices and the subsequent need to manage land resources more sustainably. New system solutions and governance approaches in sustainable land management are presented from a European perspective on land use. The volume also addresses how to use new modes of knowledge transfer between science and practice. New perspectives in sustainable land management and methods of combining knowledge and action are presented to a broad readership in land system sciences and environmental sciences, social sciences and geosciences.

У статті запропоновано побудову інформаційно-аналітичної системи підтримки процесів оснащення і розвитку ОВТ здійснити здійснити на основі принципів мережецентричності. При цьому інтеграція різних інформаційних ресурсів в зазначену систему має здійснюватися на основі процедур трансдисциплінарних онтологій. Реалізація зазначеного підходу забезпечить використання кожного контексту інформаційного простору та високій рівень документо-орієнтованої взаємодії. ; В статье предложено построение информационно-аналитической системы поддержки процессов оснащения и развития ВВТ осуществить путем внедрения принципов сетецентричности. При этом интеграция разных информационных ресурсов в указанную систему должна происходить на основе процедур трансдисциплинарных онтологий. Использование таких подходов обеспечит концептуальное отображение взаимодействия сетевых информационных процессов и систем в разных предметных областях, унификацию терминологии, логики обработки таксономических категорий и связей между ними, а также аксиоматизацию описаний процессов, причинных связей и процедур онтологии. Кроме этого, внедрение принципов сетецентричности на основе трансдисциплинарных процедур интеграции всех компонентов и составляющих предоставит возможность: реализации семантической и темпоральной синхронизации всех категорий и понятий информационных ресурсов и цифровых активов, сокращение времени интеграции политематических подсистем глобальной среды информационно-аналитической системы при решении сложных прикладных задач, синхронизации взаимодействия всех категорий участников процессов технического оснащения Вооруженных Сил Украины, сбалансированный мониторинг деятельности пользователей, адаптивность интерфейсов пользователей к сетевым информационным ресурсам. В практической плоскости, предложенные процедуры, позволят осуществить интегрирование разнотипных информационных массивов и взаимодействие пространственно-распределенных организационных структур (Министерств и ведомств) и подразделений Вооруженных Сил Украины. ; The article proposes the construction of an informational and analytical system for supporting the processes of equipment and development of armament and military equipment by implementing the principles of network-centricity. At the same time, the integration of various information resources into the specified system should take place on the basis of procedures of transdisciplinary ontologies. The use of such approaches will provide a conceptual representation of the interaction of network information processes and systems in various subject areas, unification of terminology, logic of processing taxonomic categories and links between them, as well as axiomatization of descriptions of processes, causal relationships and ontology procedures. In addition, the implementation of the principles network-centricity based on transdisciplinary procedures for integrating all its components and components will allow: implementation of semantic and temporal synchronization of all categories and concepts of information resources and digital assets, reducing the time integration polythematic subsystems global environment information analysis system in dealing with complex applications, synchronization of interaction of all categories of participants in the processes of technical equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, balanced monitoring user activity, adaptation of user interfaces to network information resources. In practical terms, the proposed procedures will allow the integration of various types of information arrays and the interaction of spatially-distributed organizational structures (ministries and departments) and units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The beginnings of historical anthropology as a transdisciplinary project have to be located in the 1970s. However, in this part of the world it is still considered as a young project. This seems to be the main reason for not having yet developed a common understanding about its aims, methods and core contents. There is also no unanimity about the perception, advocated in this volume, that historical anthropology does not represent a new scientific discipline but an altered understanding of history as a discipline as a whole for the purpose of transdisciplinarity. The intention of the endeavor 'historical anthropology' is far from questioning established disciplines such as the historical scholarship but to put man in its historical contingency and cultural complexity into the focus of research and academic teaching. Since the temporal dimension does play a central role anthropologically oriented historical scholarship occupies a specific position in this project. Historical anthropology is comprehended here as integration of disciplines in the sense of a comprehensive science of the human being.
Historical anthropology conducted in a rather peripheral region such as Southeastern Europe or the Balkans due to its specific historic development and cultural features is confronted with partly other challenges and has partly different aims compared with Western or Central Europe, for instance, which is reflected in the composition of the present volume. It consists of five parts. The first one addresses migration and adaption strategies, the second one gender relations and stages of life. The third one deals with the complex relationship of geographic features such as mountains and sea, and the human being. The fourth part is devoted to law and disciplining, and the concluding one to identities. The authors are either directly affiliated with Centre for Southeast European History and Anthropology at University of Graz or colleagues from abroad with whom the Centre has intensive collaboration. - Die bislang vor allem ethnozentrierte Perspektive auf Geschichte und Kultur Südosteuropas hat viel zu den unübersehbaren Spannungen in der Region beigetragen. Eine historisch-anthropologische Perspektive kann dem Entscheidendes entgegensetzen und ethnozentrierte Blicke auflösen.

Dieser erste Überblick über Themenfelder einer Historischen Anthropologie im südostlichen Europa hat Einführungscharakter und weist gleichzeitig auf Forschungsperspektiven hin. Dargestellt werden u. a. folgende Themenfelder: Wanderungen und Anpassungsstrategien; Geschlechterbeziehungen und Lebensphasen; das Gebirge, die Stadt und das Meer; Recht und Disziplinierung; Identitäten. Die Beiträger und Beiträgerinnen stammen sowohl aus Ländern des westlichen als auch des südöstlichen Europa.

Purpose
This paper aims to identify patterns and trends taking place in engineering education in sustainability, through analyzing the evolution of research conducted in relevant publications in the field of engineering education for sustainability in the past decades.


Design/methodology/approach
First, a bibliometric approach has been applied, adopting a co-word analysis based on co-occurrence of the keywords (300 items) in articles from three indexed journals related to engineering, education or sustainability. The selection of the articles has been based on the appearance of the previous three terms in the topic and title fields of the journal, where journal scope (based in the categories of the InCites Journal Citation Reports) covered at least two topics, and the third topic was applied in the search, as follows: International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education – Scope of the journal: sustainability and education, Keyword search: engineering (20 papers); Journal of Cleaner Production – Scope of the journal: sustainability and engineering, Keyword search: education (122 papers); International Journal of Engineering Education – Scope of the journal: engineering and education, Keyword search: sustainability (29 papers); Second, to identify topological patterns and their evolution, a structural and temporal analysis of the network of keywords and a categorization of the keywords in thematic clusters (named categories) have been performed.


Findings
The most relevant categories in terms of corresponding number of keywords, even though these have decreased in recent years, are those related with institutional and policy aspects to embedding or applying sustainability in higher education. At the same time, categories related to the professional development of faculty members, implementation and use of learning strategies (i.e. real-world learning experiences, educational innovative initiatives/tools/techniques) and cross-boundary schemes (i.e. transdisciplinarity, ethics, networking, etc.) increase their relevance in the past five years, signaling some of the challenging fields of interest in engineering higher education in sustainability in the near future.


Practical implications
Knowledge of the trends in devising sustainability education in engineering allows for designing curricular schemes and learning strategies to achieve competences, which are key factors for the change toward sustainability.


Originality/value
This research has a strong strategic value, as it indicates the focus of future research efforts and networking on some of the topics of greatest concern in engineering higher education for sustainability.

Обґрунтовано актуальність створення єдиного інформаційного простору з метою підвищення ефективності процесів оснащення і розвитку ОВТ. Показано доцільність інтегрованого використання необхідних інформаційних та розрахункових ресурсів, які мають значну кількість міждисциплінарних відношень, та створені на основі використання різних інформаційних технологій і стандартів. Реалізацію єдиного інформаційного простору запропоновано здійснювати на засадах формування структурної зв'язності між усіма системними компонентами на основі когнітивних ІТ-технологій, які спроможні забезпечити вирішення метазадач аналізу, структуризації, синтезу та вибору з впровадженням принципів трансдисциплінарності. Визначено актуальні наукові завдання, що потребують вирішення для практичної реалізації зазначеного підходу. ; Обоснована актуальность создания единого информационного пространства с целью повышения эффективности процессов оснащения и развития ВВТ. Показана целесообразность интегрированного использования необходимых информационных и расчетных ресурсов, которые имеют значительное количество междисциплинарных отношений и созданы на основе использования различных информационных технологий и стандартов. Реализацию единого информационного пространства предложено осуществлять на основе формирования структурной связанности между всеми системными компонентами на основе когнитивных IT-технологий, которые способны обеспечить решение метазадач анализа, структуризации, синтеза и выбора с использованием принципов трансдисциплинарности. ; The urgency of development of a single information space for the purpose of increasing the efficiency of implementation of the program-target planning procedures within the problem solution of process automation of equipping and development of weapons and military equipment has been justified. The practicability of integrated use of the necessary information and calculated resources, which have a significant number of interdisciplinary relations, and created based on the use of various information technologies and standards. The implementation of a single information space is proposed to be implemented on the basis of the development of a structural coherence between all system components based on cognitive IT technologies that can provide a solution for meta-tasking analysis, structuring, synthesis and selection applying the principles of transdisciplinarity. The solution to the problem of unstructured data storages, and as a result the lack of opportunities for a full-scale analysis of the semantics of information arrays, is carried out by applying an ontological approach that allows the creation of information descriptions based on the object-oriented formalization procedure and descriptions of interpretation functions. The primary scientific tasks that require solution are the development of a methodology for determining transdisciplinary conditions for the development of a single information space.

Background Up to one half of the population in Africa, Asia and Latin America has little access to high-quality biomedical services and relies on traditional health systems. Medical pluralism is thus in many developing countries the rule rather than the exception, which is why the World Health Organization is calling for intercultural partnerships to improve health care in these regions. They are, however, challenging due to disparate knowledge systems and lack of trust that hamper understanding and collaboration. We developed a collaborative, patient-centered boundary mechanism to overcome these challenges and to foster intercultural partnerships in health care. To assess its impact on the quality of intercultural patient care in a medically pluralistic developing country, we conducted and evaluated a case study. Methods The case study took place in Guatemala, since previous efforts to initiate intercultural medical partnerships in this country were hampered by intense historical and societal conflicts. It was designed by a team from ETH Zurich's Transdisciplinarity Lab, the National Cancer Institute of Guatemala, two traditional Councils of Elders and 25 Mayan healers from the Kaqchikel and Q'eqchi' linguistic groups. It was implemented from January 2014 to July 2015. Scientists and traditional political authorities collaborated to facilitate workshops, comparative diagnoses and patient referrals, which were conducted jointly by biomedical and traditional practitioners. The traditional medical practices were thoroughly documented, as were the health-seeking pathways of patients, and the overall impact was evaluated. Results The boundary mechanism was successful in discerning barriers of access for indigenous patients in the biomedical health system, and in building trust between doctors and healers. Learning outcomes included a reduction of stereotypical attitudes towards traditional healers, improved biomedical procedures due to enhanced self-reflection of doctors, and improved traditional health care due to refined diagnoses and adapted treatment strategies. In individual cases, the beneficial effects of traditional treatments were remarkable, and the doctors continued to collaborate with healers after the study was completed. Comparison of the two linguistic groups illustrated that the outcomes are highly context-dependent. Conclusions If well adapted to local context, patient-centered boundary mechanisms can enable intercultural partnerships by creating access, building trust and fostering mutual learning, even in circumstances as complex as those in Guatemala. Creating multilateral patient-centered boundary mechanisms is thus a promising approach to improve health care in medically pluralistic developing countries.

Acknowledgements ix I. Introduction 1 I.1 Theme and Relevance 1 I.2 Research Questions and Focus 5 I.3 Thesis Statement 7 I.4 Case Selection 8 I.5 Chapter Organization 12 II. Methodology and Methods 22 II.1 Introduction 22 II.2 Cultural Studies and Critique 22 II.2.1 Culture as Ideology and the Hall/Jessop Debate 24 II.2.2 Urban Cultures and Critique 27 II.2.3 Culture, Political Economy and Urban Complexity 33 II.2.4 Cultural Analysis and Re- Specifying Critique 36 II.3 Critical Realism and Methodology 39 II.3.1 Retroductive Research 39 II.3.2 The Ontology of Critical Realism 42 II.3.3 Critical Realism and Social Research 44 II.3.4 Emergence 46 II.4 Between Disciplinary Deconstruction and Transdisciplinarity 49 II.5 Research Methods and Data Collection 52 II.5.1 Discourse Analysis 55 II.5.2 Qualitative Data 57 II.5.3 Spatial Data Analysis 58 II.5.3 Quantitative Data 59 II.6 Conclusion 61 III. Accumulation, Regulation, Networks 62 III.1 Introduction 62 III.2 Accumulation and Regulation 62 III.2.1 Accumulation Regime, Mode of Accumulation, Model of 64 Development III.2.2 The Crisis of Fordism, Post- Fordist Accumulation and the 68 Complexity of Regulation III.2.3 Meso-Level Investigations and the Intersection of Theories 75 III.2.4 Weaknesses of the Regulation Approach 79 III.3 Networks 81 III.3.1 Social Network Analysis 81 III.3.2 Inter-Urban Networks 84 III.3.3 Commodity Chains and Transnational Cultures 86 III.3.4 Actor-Network Theory 87 III.4 Towards a Cultural Political Economy of Emergence 89 III.5 Cities and Networks 96 III.5.1 London and Berlin 96 III.5.2 Music Networks 101 III.6 Conclusion 104 IV. Location 106 IV.1 Introduction 106 IV.2 Creative Cluster Policies in London and Berlin 106 IV.3 Music Clusters in London and Berlin 109 IV.3.1 London 109 IV.3.2 Berlin 113 IV.4 The Exclusions of Theory and Policy 117 IV.4.1 Vertical and Horizontal Linkages 117 IV.4.2 Knowledge and Learning 127 IV.4.3 Cluster Growth and Development 132 IV.5 Conclusion 137 V. Communication 139 V.1 Introduction 139 V.2 Urban ...

Urban sustainability is a wicked issue unsuited to management through traditional decision-making structures. Co-productive arrangements, spaces and processes are inscribed in new organisational forms to bridge between diverse forms of knowledge and expertise. This article suggests that local interaction platforms (LIPs) are innovative responses to these challenges, developed in two African and two European cities between 2010 and 2014. Through elaborating the design and practice of the LIPs, the article concludes that the value of this approach lies in its context-sensitivity and iterative flexibility to articulate between internationally shared challenges and distinctive local practices. Six necessary conditions for the evolution of LIPs are presented: anchorage, co-constitution, context-sensitivity, alignment, connection and shared functions. In the context of increased uncertainty, complexity and the demand for transdisciplinary knowledge production, the platform concept has wider relevance in surfacing the challenges and possibilities for more adaptive urban governance.