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From academic to political rigour: Insights from the 'Tarot' of transgressive research

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The role of science and knowledge production is at a crossroads, as societal transformation calls for challenging dominant forms of knowledge production that have contributed to marginalizing other ways of knowing. This presents a challenge to mainstream science and invites a deeper reflection on our roles as scientists and exploration of alternative engaged, post-normal and activist approaches to research. This paper examines the diverse ways researchers are meeting this challenge. Employing the device of the Tarot deck we describe seven "char-acters" to illustrate the variety of roles and approaches that trans-disciplinary, transformative, transgressive and activist researchers are engaging in. These characters are used to introduce and develop the concept of political rigour as a means of expanded academic rigour in new emancipatory scientific paradigms. We demonstrate how these Tarot characters can be used as an activity for collective and personal reflexivity and propose ten principles that frequently emerge in a 'political' peer review process. We argue that the insights emerging from these strands of radical, critical, engaged and applied forms of scholarship, can significantly improve the understanding of what a "transformative knowledge paradigm" may look like in practice and how it can be mobilized for social change and environmental justice.
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3. Method: the Tarot deck of transgressive research
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4. Results: our Tarot deck
4.1. The post-normal scientist
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J5@CF=N98 F97C;B=N98 5B8 =BH9;F5H98 =BHC H<9 F9G95F7< DFC79GG
 Relationality F9G95F7< G<CI@8 69 ;FCIB898 5B8 7CBH9LH 89D9B89BH
 Reciprocity 7C89G=;B C: F9G95F7< EI9GH=CB A9H<C8G 5B5@MG=G 5B8
CIHDIHG KCF?G 5G CB9 A9H<C8 HC <9@D 9BGIF9 F97=DFC7=HM
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DCK9F F9@5H=CBG 5B8 HF5BG;F9GG=B; DF57H=79 5G IGI5@ HC CD9B ID B9K
9A5B7=D5HCFM DCGG=6=@=H=9G
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... Besides, the different associations and meanings that people tie to the concept tells us that there are many different 'faces' of power and ways in which it is experienced (Lukes 2002). Therefore, there is a need to become more confident when talking about power and to develop a language and capacities to do so (Temper et al. 2019;Goodwill et al. 2021;Hölscher et al. 2021;Strumińska-Kutra and Scholl 2022). ...
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... While such structural characteristics and macro-power relations are not the focus of this article, they are shaping climate politics in the wider country as well as among climate movement actors. Moreover, the epistemic grounds on which this research relies are shaped by these wider power relations as well (Sultana 2022a, b;Temper et al. 2019). ...
... This reflects a process of gaining trust through previous engagements as both a researcher and movement participant, and an approach in which I clarified my aim to coproduce insights as contributions to movement causes. As such, I took a role as 'self-reflexive researcher' (Wittmayer and Schäpke 2014) and 'co-conspirer' (Temper et al. 2019). Additionally, I guaranteed participants anonymity by using, among other things, code names and leaving out details that could easily lead to identification. ...
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