What if we all work in between? Notes on the geography of geographical knowledge production and consumption

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel B Aalbers
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Geographical Knowledge ◽  
Production And Consumption

scholarly journals Women’s organizing against extractivism: towards a decolonial multi-sited analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Angela Caretta ◽  
Sofia Zaragocin ◽  
Bethani Turley ◽  
Kamila Torres Orellana
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
The Body ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Geographical Knowledge ◽  
Extractive Industry ◽  
Natural Resource Extraction ◽  
The North ◽  
Embodied Water

In Anglophone geography, proposals have called for the decolonization of geographical knowledge production to be focused on tangible and material manifestations of how dialogue is initiated and mediated among different ontologies and epistemologies. We strive to respond to this call by empirically cutting across the American continent to highlight the embodied and transnational dimensions of natural resource extraction. Across the Americas, extractive industries’ water usage often brings corporations into prolonged conflicts with local communities, who mobilize to resist the initiation and/or expansion of extractive activities that they view as threatening to their health, way of life, and their families and communities’ territories. Through two case studies from West Virginia (WV), USA, and Cuenca, Ecuador, we propose an analytical framework capturing how women organize against the extractive industry as a result of embodied water pollution. We do this with the aim of decolonizing geographical knowledge production, as we propose a decolonial, multi-sited analytical approach, which serves to rethink the scale of effects of extractive industry. By showing how resource extraction affects women’s bodies and water while also effectively allowing us to compare and contrast embodied water relations in WV and Ecuador, we better understand how extractivism works across scales—the body, the environment, and transnationally. We contend that a multi-sited approach disrupts the North–South geographical discursive divide and furthers a decolonial geographical approach in making apparent the embodied production and lived experience of territory across various scales. In this piece, we promote debates on decoloniality within Anglophone geography by proposing that we must not only consider epistemologies and spatial ontologies outside the western canon, but engage with practices and theories occurring in different parts of the globe in a simultaneous fashion as well. We call on fellow geographers to do the same.

Imagining between possible and realized: Creative world-making as politically situated knowledge production

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Paul Catungal
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Real World ◽  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Situated Knowledge ◽  
Social Difference ◽  
Geographical Knowledge ◽  
Artistic Works

In this rejoinder to Dragos Simandan’s (2019) consolidated theory of the partiality of geographical knowledge, I draw on feminisms of colour, including Black and Chicanx feminisms, to re-place power at the heart of how we understand the situatedness and limitations of how we know, experience and produce worlds. Furthermore, dissatisfied with Simandan’s binary construction of ‘possible worlds’ (in plural) and the ‘realized world’ (in singular), and his call to move beyond ‘ simply social difference’ (my emphasis) in how we theorize the partiality of geographical knowledge, I centre creative practices by marginalized people as practices that conjoin navigating the unjust ‘real’ world and imagining different, more just worlds. The artistic works of Cree/Irish artist Kent Monkman provide powerful examples of art as geographical knowledge that makes room both for critiques of the gender, racial and sexual violence of settler colonial world-making and for the agentive production of alternate worlds by Indigenous people, including through their creative practices.

Practising and knowing management: A dialogic perspective

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert MacIntosh ◽  
Nic Beech ◽  
Elena Antonacopoulou ◽  
David Sims
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Research Relationships ◽  
The Relationship

This article develops a dialogic perspective on practising and knowing management. It builds on prior work which has considered the nature of management research as well as the relationship between those who research organizations and those that manage them. The article argues that practising and knowing are co-constitutive, dialogic processes and that viewing the process in this way helps move beyond views of knowledge production and consumption which centre on translation between communities. The article sheds new light on the nature of research relationships by presenting two ways of mapping the dynamics of these relationships in terms of dialogue.

Can literary events use Co-Creation to challenge stigmatisation?

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-172
Author(s):  
Christina Horvath
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Arts Festivals ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Global North ◽  
North And South

This chapter takes a comparative approach to two initiatives developed by artists and cultural promoters from the Global North and South, to challenge clichés attached to French banlieues and Brazilian favelas as places devoid of the production and consumption of literary texts. The ‘Dictée des Cités’, a spelling competition promoted since 2013 in French banlieues by writer Rachid Santaki, and the ‘Literary Festival of the Urban Periphery’ (FLUP) curated in Rio de Janeiro since 2012 by writers Julio Ludemir and Écio Salles, are analysed through the lens of Co-Creation as examples of artist-driven initiatives to encourage large local audiences’ engagement with literary texts, transform literary institutions and canons and challenge stereotypes associated with urban peripheries. While the chapter seeks to evaluate the potential of large-scale literary events to change the perception of disadvantaged urban areas, it also explores differences between the Global North and South. The chapter ends with the conclusion that socially engaged arts festivals and Co-Creation events may promote similar aims, they however differ in their scale, approaches to knowledge production as well as in their strategies promoting engagement with creative methods.

Expressive Resources

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regina Bendix
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Folk Art ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Classification Techniques ◽  
Political Identification ◽  
Multiple Context ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Aesthetic Affect

Drawing examples from ethnic and popular music as well as from folk art, the paper explores the multivalence of expressive forms as local and European, even global aesthetic resources, whose territorial or ethno-national connection is - due to the power of aesthetic affect - but one among many possibilities of identification. It is argued first that the resource dimension of cultural expression has been furthered by the documentation and classification techniques of ethnological and folkloristic knowledge production, which in turn also facilitated circulation in multiple context. Second, the paper encourages that scholarship expand from recognising a political identification and instrumentalisation of aesthetic resources to understanding the economic appropriation of the production and consumption of such resources.

Fluid Histories: Swamps, Law and the Company-State in Colonial Bengal

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 1036-1073 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debjani Bhattacharyya
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Eminent Domain ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Geographical Knowledge ◽  
Property Relations ◽  
Legal Geography ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
Law Making

AbstractThe movement of the Hughli River in 1804-5 resulted in the deposition of alluvion along Calcutta’s river banks which unfolded as an ownership crisis for the East India Company. The Company responded by developing new legal categories and administrative language to manage these newly formed lands and thereby fashioning itself as a public agent of Calcutta’s land and landed property. Focusing on specific legal aspects of colonial hydrology that arose in the making of property in these amphibious spaces, the article argues that the soaking ecology of Bengal became a site for productive law-making by creating open-ended possibilities for taking land. It demonstrates how the Company used this new land formation to gradually institute a legal architecture regulating alluvion and dereliction and subsequently subjecting these soaking ecologies to an intricate documentary regime with the aim of disciplining the existing landed property relations in Calcutta. Documenting the haphazard extension and enactment of these new legal doctrines in a mobile landscape illuminates a particular history of the colonial regime of property and the Company-State’s early articulations of a particular type of quasi-eminent domain as a manner of taking land. Pushing a new direction in legal geography, the piece shows how the legal arena became a productive site for geographical knowledge production and legal experimentation in the colony.

Libraries as Armouries: Daniel Coit Oilman, Geography, and the Uses of a University

10.1068/d13s ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Heyman
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Research University ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
Full Account ◽  
Geographical Knowledge ◽  
Alexander Von Humboldt ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century

The author builds on recent work on the history of geographical thought by focusing on the career of American geographer Daniel Coit Oilman, who was the first President of the Johns Hopkins University. It is argued that Oilman's influential work in professionalizing an instrumentalist approach to knowledge production in the new institution of the research university forms an important link between the philosophically oriented geography of Alexander von Humboldt and the geopolitics of Isaiah Bowman. The author extends work in the history of the discipline by showing how geographical knowledge came to be seen in instrumentalist terms not only in the institutional context of geographical societies and European imperial administration-the focus of much of the historical scholarship-but also within the context of an intellectual division of labor that emerged in the second half of the 19th century as the modern research university took shape. It is suggested that a full account of the way in which Humboldt's project was displaced by Oilman's may give us a better understanding of the role that geography might play in moving knowledge production beyond a purely instrumentalist orientation and into more liberatory projects of social justice.

A “New” View of Proof-of-Concept Practices Through the Lenses of Activity Theory and Hermeneutics

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 118-135
Author(s):  
Antonio Jose Rodrigues Neto ◽  
Maria Manuel Borges ◽  
Licinio Roque
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Activity Theory ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
New Products ◽  
Learning Outcome ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
New View

In this study, the authors acknowledge Proof-of-Concept (PoC) as an activity with a set of practices performed by its practitioners and consumed by organizations that aim to explore new products or technologies and achieve knowledge production and consumption. PoC practices are poorly explored and characterized in the scientific literature. The motivation of this research is the clarification of an approach to PoC. This article introduces a “new” and different view of PoC practices using Activity Theory and Hermeneutics. The authors debate that it is not possible to understand the whole PoC until its constituent parts and context have been understood. Therefore, the process of appropriation of knowledge in PoC occurs in social interaction between one practitioner and another, through an activity that is mediated in the relations between those practitioners, and an activity between the triad—subject (practitioner), object of learning (outcome), and mediating artifacts—with the aim of improving PoC practices.

Gaming against the greater good

First Monday ◽  
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan McGrady
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The World ◽  
Greater Good ◽  
The Way

Wikipedia has grown to be one of the most visited Web sites in the world. Despite its influence on popular culture and the way we think about knowledge production and consumption, the conversation about why and how it works - or whether it's credible at all - is ongoing. This paper began as an examination of what the concept of "authority" means in Wikipedia and what role rhetoric might play in manufacturing this authority. Wikipedia's editors have functioned well as a community, having collaboratively developed a comprehensive set of social norms designed to place the project before any individual. Hence ideas like authority and rhetoric have only marginal roles in day-to-day activities. This paper takes an in-depth look at these norms and how they work, paying particular attention to a relatively new guideline that exemplifies the spirit of the Wikipedia community - "Gaming the system."

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