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The Movement of Knowledge : Thinking with Infrastructure.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kruse, Corinna.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Forensic sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (199 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "The Movement of Knowledge".
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Situating the argument
- Empirical foundations
- The criminal justice system
- Antenatal care
- Occupational health services
- Different angles to the movement of knowledge
- Ethnographic fieldwork
- Outline of the book
- 1 Thinking About the Movement of Knowledge
- Knowledge, knowledge objects, and cultures of knowledge
- Movement and stability
- Infrastructure and global(ized) movement
- Points of departure
- Meanings
- Tension and friction
- Work
- Undergirding the movement of knowledge
- 2 Standards
- Resolving tension through standards
- Undergirding indirectly
- Legitimacy through homogeneity
- Standards that lend weight
- Bureaucratic impartiality and accountability
- Desiring legitimacy
- Complexities
- 3 Alignment Work
- Aligning sites into seamlessness
- Resolving (more) tension
- Keeping standards functional
- The visibility and appreciation of alignment work
- Shaping professions
- Continuous work
- 4 Relationships and Emotion Work
- Emotion work
- Making knowledge attractive
- Broaching difficult topics
- Building and maintaining relationships
- The criminal justice system: smoothing institutionalized relationships
- Antenatal care: being passionate
- Occupational health services: building and maintaining a business relationship
- Undergirding and smoothing the movement of knowledge
- 5 Power and Inequalities
- Unequal relationships
- Destabilizing (im)balances of power
- Profitability and dependencies
- The unequal work of resolving tension
- Engaging with tension and standards
- Setting standards
- Power and the cost of movement
- 6 Knowledge and Its Movement
- Choices and their consequences.
- What may move knowledge - and what may make it immobile
- Attaining (fleeting) stability
- Shaping knowledge
- An infrastructural lens on knowledge
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-5952-5
- OCLC:
- 1568843543
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