scholarly journals Missed connections: Pomeranian Medical University’s efforts to join circulation- of-knowledge networks in the pre-Thaw cold War times (1948–1956)

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 11-36
Author(s):  
Joanna Nieznanowska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
Circulation Of Knowledge

scholarly journals Mission or money?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aileen Fyfe
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Keynote Presentation ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Relationship ◽  
Circulation Of Knowledge

Keynote presentation. The current debates about the future of academic publishing have generated much discussion about the most appropriate way to support financially the widespread circulation of knowledge. Yet there have been debates about this since at least the 1890s. Drawing upon my historical research, I will describe how scholarly publishing has a long history of not making money. Indeed, until the mid-twentieth century, its costs were frequently sponsored (i.e. subsidised) by learned societies, by universities, by government and by private donors. It was only in the early Cold War years, in a time of expanding output of research, that mission-driven publishers began to seriously focus on sales income as a means of covering costs; and then, later, as a means of generating income. Should publishing be treated as mission, or as a means to mission? My talk will seek to untangle the historical relationship between publishing, money-making and scholarly mission.

Theorizing ‘crisis’ as performative politics

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Tadaki ◽  
Kiely McFarlane ◽  
Jennifer Salmond ◽  
Gary Brierley
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Physical Geography ◽  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Situated Knowledges ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Circulation Of Knowledge ◽  
Change Response

As physical/environmental geographers, we respond to Larner (2011) in two ways. First, we argue that the crisis frame – which she caveats, but implicitly accepts – is problematic because it performs and legitimates a certain kind of politics, and pulls analytical foci away from other approaches. The ontological and epistemological moments of Larner’s crises require clarification, and the ‘value added’ from declaring yet more geographical crises needs to be assessed. Second, we develop epochal themes from physical geography to converse with Larner’s call for more situated approaches to the production and circulation of knowledge. Place-based and historically contingent science and knowledge networks are increasingly important for understanding and enacting progressive and sustainable environmental governance regimes. Physical and human geographers can find productive common ground in developing situated knowledges of ‘change response’ across a spectrum of social-environmental concerns.

Ripe for Resolution

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 388-409
Author(s):  
Kristina Hinz ◽  
Monica Herz ◽  
Maira Siman
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Epistemic Community ◽  
Third Party ◽  
International Mediation ◽  
Common Practices ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Circulation Of Knowledge

Abstract This article discusses how the institutionalization of international mediation practices and its growing relevance since the end of the Cold War coincided with the formation of an epistemic community that shares common practices for a third party. This community focuses on core concepts that structure mediation practices such as efficiency, rationality, and the management of time and information. The article analyzes the consolidation of this community through the circulation of knowledge among scholars and practitioners. In particular, it highlights the place of the concept of ripeness, developed by Ira William Zartman, in stabilizing a division between a moment of conflict and a moment of nonconflict; and it discusses the place of the UN system in its dissemination among mediation practitioners. The article argues that the project-oriented understanding of mediation practices that arises from these shared conceptions contributes to an insulation of these practices from broader views of conflict within international politics.

Cold War Science and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge

Ambix ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-358
Author(s):  
Adriana Minor
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Circulation Of Knowledge
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