Mobilizing Transdisciplinary Collaborations: Collective Reflections on Decentering Academia in Knowledge Production

The document argues that addressing global sustainability challenges—such as extreme weather and biodiversity loss—requires integrated knowledge produced through collaborations between scientists and diverse stakeholders, including government and corporate entities. It specifically focuses on the need for 'collective unlearning' to reduce the central role of academia and ensure practitioners are positioned more equitably within these research partnerships.

• Global sustainability challenges, including biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, and intense extreme weather events, necessitate integrated knowledge created by scientists across multiple disciplines working with stakeholders from government, corporate industry, non-government organizations, and the general public.
• The authors propose using processes of collective unlearning to decenter academia, which aims to establish a more equitable position for practitioners involved in collaborative global sustainability research.

APA

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (2025). Mobilizing Transdisciplinary Collaborations: Collective Reflections on Decentering Academia in Knowledge Production. https://iai.int/es/pub_acad/mobilizing-transdisciplinary-collaborations-collective-reflections-on-decentering-academia-in-knowledge-production/

Chicago

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. Mobilizing Transdisciplinary Collaborations: Collective Reflections on Decentering Academia in Knowledge Production. 2025. https://iai.int/es/pub_acad/mobilizing-transdisciplinary-collaborations-collective-reflections-on-decentering-academia-in-knowledge-production/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearch2025mobilizing, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{Mobilizing Transdisciplinary Collaborations: Collective Reflections on Decentering Academia in Knowledge Production}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, year = {2025}, month = jan, url = {https://iai.int/es/pub_acad/mobilizing-transdisciplinary-collaborations-collective-reflections-on-decentering-academia-in-knowledge-production/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }