ABSTRACT
This chapter describes an illustration of the use of the DREI(C) in interdisciplinarity research in a context of HIV education. The research objective was to use the currently available literature on HIV to give an interdisciplinary understanding of the HIV situation in southern Africa. Initially, there was no reason to disagree with the African Culture Theory and therefore it was assumed that the appropriate critical realist model of science was the RRREI(C), designed for applied science, in which adequate theory is already available. The Carnivalesque Theory challenges those who strategically use the African Culture Theory orthodoxy to achieve their (feminist or Christian) moral goals of insisting on monogamy, compliance to (religious) sexual "norms", and gender equality. The chapter provides example of interdisciplinary transfactual theorizing to illustrate three other aspects of interdisciplinarity, namely that: it challenges our actions; it requires reflexivity; and it challenges our institutions.
