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This article is a personal reflection on borderlands as a professional home. Researchers who find themselves beyond their home discipline, i.e., the one in which they have been credentialed, have tried to assign terms for their location and its psychological ramifications. Defying an intellectual lane is to traverse a boundary that is constricted by a paradigm and a way of looking at and framing research problems. There is a rich body of the literature that explores scientific specialization, problem choice, and the meaning of community in research. Indeed, science consists of mainland where we must spend most of our professional time preserving our existence and building our careers. Borderlands are communities, typically marginalized, where researchers can collectively rethink, challenge, bond, and concoct something not possible before.
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Este artículo es una reflexión personal sobre las zonas fronterizas como un hogar profesional. Los investigadores que se encuentran más allá de la disciplina de su hogar, es decir, aquella en la que han sido certificados, han tratado de asignar términos para su ubicación y sus ramificaciones psicológicas. Desafiar una línea intelectual es atravesar un límite que está restringido por un paradigma y una forma de ver y enmarcar los problemas de investigación. Existe una abundante literatura que explora la especialización científica, la selección de un problema y el significado de la comunidad en la investigación. De hecho, la ciencia se compone de territorios donde debemos pasar la mayor parte de nuestro tiempo profesional preservando nuestra existencia y construyendo nuestras carreras. Las zonas fronterizas son comunidades, típicamente marginadas, donde los investigadores pueden repensar, desafiar, vincularse e inventar colectivamente algo que antes no era posible.
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Chubin, D.E. Borderlands in science. Cult Stud of Sci Educ 18, 521–526 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-023-10186-z
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