scholarly journals Map the gap: alternative visualisations of geographic knowledge production

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. e00038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margath Walker ◽  
Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Geographic Knowledge

scholarly journals "A world we don't know": the spatial configuration of sensory practices and production of knowledge in and around Mexican seismic monitoring

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Seismic Monitoring ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Geographic Knowledge ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Territorial Politics

AbstractA single technoscientific knowledge project can entail many different kinds of knowledge production. Here, I show how a Mexican technoscientific knowledge project about seismicity requires diverse sensory practices and the production of knowledge about many kinds of environmental and social conditions. I argue that Mexican territorial politics frame this knowledge. Further, I demonstrate that these politics become evident in the very ways that knowledge about Mexico is configured spatially, that is, in topological and topographic ways that technicians and engineers come to understand and relate to Mexican territory. After situating this argument within contemporary critical attention to the production of geographic knowledge, I address it ethnographically. First, I describe how Mexican seismic monitoring is undertaken from the headquarters of the Centro de Instrumentación y Registro Sísmico (CIRES). Then, I deal with the arrangements of power that structure seismic monitoring and social conditions in what CIRES engineers and technicians call "the field." As I relate the sensory work and knowledge production that field teams do when they leave CIRES headquarters, I show how the things that field teams can know are shaped by territorial politics, and consequently reflect them.Key Words: Mexico, environmental monitoring, sense, knowledge, earthquakes

scholarly journals Capitalizing Asian Studies: Critical Scholarship and the Production of Knowledge in a Globalizing World

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Oakes
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
The United States ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
Geographic Knowledge

This paper explores the implications of the related trends of economic globalization and the corporatization of higher education in the United States for Asian area studies scholarship. It argues that the scales at which geographical knowledge is produced are increasingly in flux due to the shift in global political economy. Area studies scholarship is subsequently left scrambling to both understand this shift and make its knowledge production somehow relevant and valuable in an arena in which knowledge about Asia is being produced and diffused from an increasingly diverse array of sources. In response, the paper suggests that more attention to the production of scale is needed if area studies scholars are to comprehend the changing relationship between our categories of geographic knowledge and global political economy.

The World-Revealing Goblet: Reading Farhād Mīrzā’s Geographical Treatise Jām-i Jam as a Lithograph

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 409-449
Author(s):  
Zeinab Azarbadegan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Persian Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Library ◽  
Political Networks ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
Geographic Knowledge ◽  
The World

Abstract This article examines a copy of Farhād Mīrzā’s Jām-i Jam (the World-Revealing Goblet) published in 1856 in Tehran and kept at Columbia University Library offsite storage. It demonstrates the dual importance of this book in geographic knowledge production and as part of the library of Saʿīd Nafīsī, one of the most prominent Iranian scholars of Persian literature. Methodologically, the paper offers various ways to study a single lithograph to decipher larger historical processes in histories of education, translation, and print. First, it analyzes the paratext to expose scholarly and political networks in order to examine the genealogy of geographic knowledge production in mid-nineteenth century Qajar Iran. Second, it studies the content and translation practices employed by Farhād Mīrzā to offer novel strategies for analyzing dissemination and reception of new ways of production and categorization of geographic knowledge as well as methods utilized in composition of pedagogical geography books. Finally, it discusses how cataloging practices affect current scholarship and lead to rendering certain texts “hidden.” It therefore illustrates how the study of Farhād Mīrzā’s Jām-i Jam, a book aspiring to reveal the world, can expose much about scholarly practices not only in the past but also the present.

scholarly journals O TRABALHO DE CAMPO COMO PRODUÇÃO DE CONHECIMENTO:

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 05-22
Author(s):  
Éverton de Moraes Kozenieski ◽  
Paula Vanessa de Faria Lindo ◽  
Reginaldo José de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Unique Form ◽  
Construction Of Knowledge ◽  
Geographic Knowledge ◽  
Field Activity ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Guiding Principles

Os trabalhos de campo são importantes na trajetória dos estudos geográficos. Propiciam à produção de conhecimentos, contribuindo para uma interação particular entre teoria e prática. Além disso, por meio do campo garante-se autenticidade às observações e experiências, possibilitam-se descobertas e o desenvolvimento de novas teorias, inclusive, colocando-as à prova. Entre o(a)s geógrafo(a)s parece haver consenso e até certa obviedade com relação à importância do campo. Contudo, compreende-se que, para atingir a potencialidade na construção de conhecimentos, o campo não pode ser concebido como uma atividade meramente lúdica. Então, impõe-se a necessidade de refletir sobre a práxis e justificar sua necessidade no ensino, na pesquisa e extensão. Nessa perspectiva, busca-se responder: qual é a importância do trabalho de campo para a produção de conhecimentos geográficos no ensino, pesquisa e extensão? O que considerar ao propor um trabalho de campo? Apresentam-se, amparados na literatura sobre o tema, os elementos fundamentais que constituem as experiências de trabalho de campo no âmbito da ciência geográfica. As reflexões produzidas a partir dos princípios orientadores levam a considerar que tais práticas são produtos e produtoras do conhecimento, envolvendo uma atitude investigativa com reflexão e intervenção da/na realidade estudada. Assim, defende-se o trabalho de campo como práxis geográfica. Palavras-chave Metodologia, Geografia, Práticas espaciais.   FIELDWORK AS KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION: methodological contributions to geographical practice Abstract Fieldwork is important in the trajectory of geographic studies that provide a unique form of knowledge production, contributing to a particular interaction between theory and practice. In addition, the field guarantees authenticity to observations and experiences, enables discoveries and the development of new theories, including, putting them to the test. Between the geographer there seems to be consensus and even a certain obviousness regarding the importance of field activity. However, it is understood that in order to achieve potential in the construction of knowledge, the field cannot be conceived as an ludic activity. So, the need to reflect on praxis and justify its need in teaching, research and extension is increasingly imposed. The authors will seek to answer the following questions: what is the importance of fieldwork for the production of geographic knowledge in teaching, research and extension? What to consider when proposing fieldwork? In this article, supported by the literature on the subject, the fundamental elements that constitute the fieldwork experiences in the scope of geographic science are presented. The reflections produced from the guiding principles led us to consider that such practices are products and producers of knowledge, involving an investigative attitude with reflection and intervention of / in the studied reality. Thus, we defend fieldwork as geographic praxis. Keywords Methodology, Geography, Space practices.

A study of practice based design research models from knowledge integration perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Honghai LI ◽  
Jun CAI
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Design Knowledge ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Design Innovation

The transformation of China's design innovation industry has highlighted the importance of design research. The design research process in practice can be regarded as the process of knowledge production. The design 3.0 mode based on knowledge production MODE2 has been shown in the Chinese design innovation industry. On this cognition, this paper establishes a map with two dimensions of how knowledge integration occurs in practice based design research, which are the design knowledge transfer and contextual transformation of design knowledge. We use this map to carry out the analysis of design research cases. Through the analysis, we define four typical practice based design research models from the viewpoint of knowledge integration. This method and the proposed model can provide a theoretical basis and a path for better management design research projects.

Some Things are Worth Losing to Become./? Trans Masculinity|Queer Autoethnography|Where Theory and the Body Collide

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-50
Author(s):  
Matt Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
The Body ◽  
Trans People ◽  
Family Home

This essay seeks to interrogate what it means to become a legible man as someone who held space as a multiplicity of identities before realising and negotiating my trans manhood. It raises the question of how we as trans people account for the shifting nature of our subjectivity, our embodiment and, indeed, our bodies. This essay locates this dialogue on the site of my body where I have placed many tattoos, which both speak to and inform my understanding of myself as a trans man in Ireland. Queer theory functions as a focal tool within this essay as I question family, home, transition, sexuality, and temporality through a queer autoethnographic reading of the tattoos on my body. This essay pays homage to the intersecting traditions within queer theory and autoethnography. It honours the necessity for the indefinable, for alternative knowledge production and representations, for the space we need in order to become, to allow for the uncertainty of our becoming.

Active Coeliac: Disassembling Gluten and Coeliac Disease

Somatechnics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 188-205
Author(s):  
Sofia Varino
Keyword(s):  
Coeliac Disease ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Food Additive ◽  
Gluten Free ◽  
Biomedical Knowledge ◽  
Dietary Practices ◽  
Object A ◽  
Scientific Knowledge Production ◽  
New Materialisms

This article follows the trajectories of gluten in the context of Coeliac disease as a gastrointestinal condition managed by lifelong adherence to a gluten-free diet. Oriented by the concept of gluten as an actant (Latour), I engage in an analysis of gluten as a participant in volatile relations of consumption, contact, and contamination across coeliac eating. I ask questions about biomedical knowledge production in the context of everyday dietary practices alongside two current scientific research projects developing gluten-degrading enzymes and gluten-free wheat crops. Following the new materialisms of theorists like Elizabeth A. Wilson, Jane Bennett, Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour, I approach gluten as an alloy, an impure object, a hybrid assemblage with self-organizing and disorganizing capacity, not entirely peptide chain nor food additive, not only allergen but also the chewy, sticky substance that gives pizza dough its elastic, malleable consistency. Tracing the trajectories of gluten, this article is a case study of the tricky, slippery capacity of matter to participate in processes of scientific knowledge production.

Internationalization in Higher Education in Russia: Challenges, Lessons and Prospects of Collaboration with Vietnam

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Kraevskaia
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
National Interests ◽  
International Networks ◽  
International Dimension ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Internationalization In Higher Education ◽  
New Strategies

The article addresses the needs of educational system in context of rapidly developing globalization and explores internationalization of higher education as one of the main factors which contributes to integration of international dimension to professional training at universities. Different components and strategies of internationalization, such as strong collaboration in teaching, internationalization of the curriculum, cooperation in researches and knowledge production, students and professors’ mobility, and participation in international networks are analyzed in connection to education reform in Russia. The article provides the comparison of internationalization policies in Russian and Vietnamese education systems, argues that innovations in higher education should be adjusted to the national interests, traditions and mentality and finally describes new strategies in collaboration of Russia and Vietnam in the field of education.  

Khawuleza—An Instantiation of the Black Archive

Imbizo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siseko H. Kumalo
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
African History ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
African Languages ◽  
Philosophical Consideration ◽  
Theory Generation ◽  
Artistic Works

South African history is such that Blackness/Indigeneity were excluded from institutions of knowledge production. Contemporarily, the traditional University is defined as an institution predicated on the abjection of Blackness. This reality neither predetermined the positions and responses, nor presupposed complete/successful erasure of Blackness/Indigeneity owing to exclusion. I contend and detail how theorising, thinking about and through the Fact of Blackness, continue(d)—using the artistic works of Mhlongo, Makeba, Mbulu, and contemporarily, Leomile as examples. Analysing the music of the abovementioned artists, a move rooted in intersectional feminist approaches, will reveal modes of theorising that characterised the artistic expressions that define(d) the country. Theory generation, so construed, necessitates a judicious philosophical consideration if we are to resurrect the Black Archive. I conclude with an introspective question aimed at inspiring similar projects in other traditions that constitute the Black Archive, i.e. African languages and literature, theatre, art practice and theory.

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