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Transdisciplinary research and autoethnography in a healthy food market : learning through complexity, power and difference in Khayelitsha, South Africa
Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2021.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/110309 Transdisciplinary research and autoethnography in a healthy food market : learning through complexity, power and difference in Khayelitsha, South Africa Bosworth, Amy Drimie, Scott Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. School of Public Leadership. Interdisciplinary research -- Cape Town (South Africa) Sustainable development -- Cape Town (South Africa) Food security -- Cape Town (South Africa) Food supply -- Cape Town (South Africa) UCTD Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2021. ENGLISH SUMMARY: Current high levels of urban food insecurity are not only unjust but also poorly conceptualised. As a wicked problem facing the global South, challenges associated with urban food systems require transdisciplinary approaches to solving them. Such an approach is conducive to microscale interventions that include societal actors in an experimental process. This thesis argues that a key practice-based strategy to tackling wicked problems, such as food insecurity in the global South, is the formation of transdisciplinary research partnerships with society. Therefore, in order to follow this strategy, transdisciplinary research needs to be grounded in research practices that consider history, power and difference in the global South context. This thesis explores the use of autoethnography as a sense-making tool, allowing the researcher to be critically reflexive and uncover the relational dynamics of change present in research practice. The use of the transdisciplinary approach, as well as autoethnography in the study revealed the politics of sustainability research and the need to shift the research approach into a relational paradigm of reflexivity and learning. The study suggests a set of guiding practices that can help orientate researchers who are undertaking transdisciplinary research projects. The key finding of this thesis is the need for researchers to embed individual and group reflexivity, by means of facilitating a communicative space, to confront power and difference during transdisciplinary partnerships. The significance of this study is the recognition that learning can only take place by embracing complexity, unequal power relations and diversity in experience and worldviews to form genuine research partnerships with society. This is necessary in order to create a transformative transdisciplinary research practice that tackles wicked urban problems and is inclusive of diverse African voices. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die huidige hoe vlakke van stedelike voedselonsekerheid is nie net onregverdig nie, maar is ook swak gekonseptualiseer. Dis ʼn bose probleem wat die hele Suide in die gesig staar en uitdagings verbonde aan stedelike voedselstelsels vereis transdissiplinere benaderings om opgelos te word. So ʼn benadering is bevorderlik vir klein ingrypings wat gemeenskapslede in ʼn eksperimentele proses insluit. Hierdie verhandeling voer aan dat ʼn sleutel praktiese strategie om bose probleme soos voedselonsekerheid in die hele Suide te takel, is dievorming van transdissiplinere navorsingsverwantskappe met die gemeenskap. Daarom is dit nodig om transdissiplinere navorsing te baseer op navorsingspraktyke wat die geskiedenis, mag en verskille in die Suidelike konteks insluit. Hierdie verhandeling verken die gebruik van outoetnografie as ʼn manier vir die navorser om hieruit sin te maak en krities refleksief te wees en die verwantskapsdinamiek van verandering in navorsingspraktyke te ontbloot. Die gebruik van ʼn transdissiplinere benadering, asook outo-etnografie in die studie het gewys die politiek van volhoubaarheidsnavorsing en die behoefte om die navorsingsbenadering te verander na ʼn verhoudingsparadigma van wederkering en leer. Die studie stel riglyne voor wat navorsers met transdissiplinere projekte kan help orienteer. ʼn Sleutelbevinding van die tesis is die nodigheid vir navorsers om individuele en groepsrefleksiwiteit vas te le deur ʼn gespreksruimte te fasiliteer om mag en verskille gedurende transdissiplinere vennootskappe te konfronteer. Die belangrikheid van hierdie studie is die erkenning dat leer net kan plaasvind deur komplekse, ongelyke magsverhoudings en diversiteit in ondervindings en wereldbeskouings in te sluit om werklike navorsingsvennootskappe met die samelewing aan te gaan. Dit is nodig om transformerende transdissiplinere navorsingspraktyke te skep wat bose stedelike probleme kan takel en diverse Afrika-stemme kan insluit. Masters 2021-03-07T17:04:57Z 2021-04-22T10:13:25Z 2023-03-31T03:00:09Z 2021-03 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/110309 en_ZA Stellenbosch University 144 pages : illustrations, includes annexures application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Interdisciplinary research -- Cape Town (South Africa) Sustainable development -- Cape Town (South Africa) Food security -- Cape Town (South Africa) Food supply -- Cape Town (South Africa) UCTD Bosworth, Amy Transdisciplinary research and autoethnography in a healthy food market : learning through complexity, power and difference in Khayelitsha, South Africa |
| title | Transdisciplinary research and autoethnography in a healthy food market : learning through complexity, power and difference in Khayelitsha, South Africa |
| title_full | Transdisciplinary research and autoethnography in a healthy food market : learning through complexity, power and difference in Khayelitsha, South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Transdisciplinary research and autoethnography in a healthy food market : learning through complexity, power and difference in Khayelitsha, South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transdisciplinary research and autoethnography in a healthy food market : learning through complexity, power and difference in Khayelitsha, South Africa |
| title_short | Transdisciplinary research and autoethnography in a healthy food market : learning through complexity, power and difference in Khayelitsha, South Africa |
| title_sort | transdisciplinary research and autoethnography in a healthy food market learning through complexity power and difference in khayelitsha south africa |
| topic | Interdisciplinary research -- Cape Town (South Africa) Sustainable development -- Cape Town (South Africa) Food security -- Cape Town (South Africa) Food supply -- Cape Town (South Africa) UCTD |
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