Mobilities of Knowledge / edited by Heike Jöns, Peter Meusburger, Michael Heffernan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jöns, Heike, Editor.

Contributor:

Jöns, Heike., Editor.

Meusburger, Peter., Editor.

Heffernan, Michael., Editor.

Series:

Knowledge and Space, 1877-9220 ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography.

Educational sociology.

Anthropology.

Emigration and immigration.

Human Geography.

Sociology of Education.

Migration.

Local Subjects:

Human Geography.

Sociology of Education.

Anthropology.

Migration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 303 p. 23 illus., 12 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays examines how spatial mobilities of people and practices, technologies and objects, knowledge and ideas have shaped the production, circulation, and transfer of knowledge in different historical and geographical contexts. Targeting an interdisciplinary audience, Mobilities of Knowledge combines detailed empirical analyses with innovative conceptual approaches. The first part scrutinizes knowledge circulation, transfer, and adaption, focussing on the interpersonal communication process, early techniques of papermaking, a geographical text, indigenous knowledge in exploration, the genealogy of spatial analysis, and different disciplinary knowledges about the formation of cities, states, and agriculture. The second part analyses the interplay of mediators, networks, and learning by studying academic careers, travels, and collaborations within the British Empire, public internationalism in Geneva, the global transfer of corporate knowledge through expatriation, graduate mobility from the global south to the global north, and the international mobility of degree programs in higher education.This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

Contents

Contributors

Chapter 1: Mobilities of Knowledge: An Introduction

References

Part I: Circulation, Transfer, and Adaptation

Chapter 2: Spatial Mobility of Knowledge: Communicating Different Categories of Knowledge

Shortcomings and Disputable Assumptions in Research About the Mobility of Knowledge

Free Access to Knowledge Is Not Equivalent to Acquisition of Knowledge

The Impact of New Information and Communication Technologies on the Mobility of Knowledge

Is Codified Knowledge a Public Good and a Tradable Commodity? The Necessity to Distinguish Between Knowledge and Information

Nominal and Ordinal Differentiations of Knowledge

An Attempt to Construct a More Realistic Communication Model

Conclusion

Chapter 3: Papermaking: The Historical Diffusion of an Ancient Technique

The Early Diffusion of Papermaking

The Replacement of Papyrus and Parchment

Cultural Geographies of Papermaking

Spatial Adaptations in the Technology of Papermaking

Paper Mills

Raw Material Used for Papermaking

Molds and Papermarks

Further Processing of Paper

Trade Relations and the Decline of Arab Papermaking

Chapter 4: Circulating Seditious Knowledge: The "Daring Absurdities, Studied Misrepresentations, and Abominable Falsehoods" of William Macintosh

William Macintosh: A Colonial Life

Polishing, Publication, and Reception of Macintosh's Travels

The Reading and Afterlife of Travels

Macintosh in Leipzig

Macintosh in Paris

Conclusion: Text, Translation, and Truth

Chapter 5: Exploration as Knowledge Transfer: Exhibiting Hidden Histories

Institutional Context

Form and Content

Design Strategies

References.

Chapter 6: The Imprecise Wanderings of a Precise Idea: The Travels of Spatial Analysis

The View from Somewhere: Place and the Spatial Mobility of Knowledge

Place and Knowledge

Spatial Mobility of Knowledge

A History and Geography of Spatial Analysis

The Early Years

The Later Years

Seattle and Iowa City

Lund

Chapter 7: Knowledges in Disciplines and Cities: An Essay on Relations Between Archaeology and Social Sciences

Preamble: Knowledges

Introductions

The Times and Spaces of Academic Social Knowledges

Practical Knowledges in, Through, and Out of Cities

Indictments

Of Mainstream Social Science

Of Mainstream Archaeology

Debates Generated by Bringing Cities Back In

Cities and the Creation of States

Cities and the Development of Agriculture

Conclusion: The Limiting Case of Uncertainty of Knowledge

Part II: Mediators, Networks, and Learning

Chapter 8: Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange between Scholars in Britain and the Empire, 1830-1914

Motivations Driving Scholarly Networking Within the British Empire

An International Republic of Letters

Critiques of Imperialism

Chapter 9: Geographies of Selection: Academic Appointments in the British Academic World, 1850-1939

Selection Practices

Assessing Specialized Knowledge

Search Committees

London Selection Committees

Personalized Trust Versus Government Recruitment

Geographies of Selection

Origin and Nationality

Social Proximity and Distance

Cultures of Academic Sociability

Chapter 10: The University of Cambridge, Academic Expertise, and the British Empire, 1885-1962

Knowing the Empire

Capitalizing on the Empire

Imperial Travels Until 1945

Imperial Travels After 1945

Empowering the Empire

Conclusions.

References

Chapter 11: Geneva, 1919-1945: The Spatialities of Public Internationalism and Global Networks

From the "Spirit of Geneva" to the Spatial Representation of Public Internationalism

"Inhabité"-Controversies About the International Space or How Public Internationalism Translated into Space

Tracing Spatial Contexts of Global Organizations

Religious and Philosophical Networks: Global Knowledge from Other than Diplomatic Perspectives?

Translating Agencies

Chapter 12: The Spatial Mobility of Corporate Knowledge: Expatriation, Global Talent, and the World City

The Firm, International Business Strategy, and Knowledge Management

Expatriation, Global Talent, and Knowledge Exchange

World Cities, Expatriation, and the Spatial Mobility of Knowledge

Global Staffing and Expatriation in Professional Service Firms

Global Talent in London's Financial District

Conclusions

Chapter 13: Formal Education as a Facilitator of Migration and Integration: A Case Study of Nigerian University Graduates

Methodology and Data

Nigerian Migration History: Migration as a Cultural Event?

Emigration as Culturally Underpinned and Realized Through Education

Integration Between Structural Forces and Individual Abilities: Migration as a Continuum in Space and Time

Migration Culturally Underpinned and Educationally Materialized: A Migration Model of Highly Skilled Nigerians

Chapter 14: Trans-knowledge? Geography, Mobility, and Knowledge in Transnational Education

Geography, Mobility, and Knowledge

Knowledge, Transnationalism, and TNE

Moving Ideas: The Transfer of Program Content

The Transfer of Different Forms of Capital

How (And the Limits to How) Knowledge Is Transferred in TNE

Language Issues

Mobile Academics.

Conclusions: So Where Is Knowledge in TNE?

The Klaus Tschira Stiftung

Index.

Notes:

CC BY

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ISBN:

9783319446547

3319446541

OCLC:

974207692