Practice research can in itself be regarded as a specific form of knowledge production in social work with substantial potentials. Its possibilities as well as its challenges depend on the broader picture of knowledge production in the field. Important phenomena and trends in this broader picture are identified and discussed by using three perspectives on knowledge production: the epistemology, sociology of knowledge, and conceptualization of professions. Challenges can be identified in several of the newer trends and may be most clearly seen in the substantial changes in the dominant societal recreation of 'professionalism', which at the same time from a traditional point of view must be regarded as deprofessionalization. It is suggested, that practice research in this situation can play an important role in a knowledge production scaffolding a new understanding of professionalism and expertise.
Although globalization processes have brought the world closer through the exchange of knowledge, ideas and practices, advances in knowledge dissemination have not been mirrored by expansion in sites and modes of knowledge production. This article probes this disjuncture and asks how deglobalization might chart different pathways by delving into the intellectual history of the making of International Relations (IR). Focusing its gaze on the structuring principles of knowledge creation and modes of knowing rather than specific issues and problematiques of IR, it analyses the historical impact of western Enlightenment thinking through centuries-long imperialism, which continues to limit the agency of many states in the re-making of their life-worlds. The article describes deglobalization as a longue durée historical response that offers different possibilities for countering or challenging the discursive hegemony of the 'West'. It discusses a 'nationalist' response by China—a rising power and a more dispersed, global academic endeavour seeking to decolonize IR's modes of knowledge production to better account for the diverse ground realities of its many worlds.
Das discusses region as a source of theory and raises concerns about the current state of scholarship, especially (1) the censorship of ideas made possible by government control over research along with a public culture that is increasingly intolerant of differences in interpretation in the name of a feeling ethics; (2) the production of knowledge at different institutional sites that might stand in a tense relation to authorized institutional discourses; and (3) dangerous developments in the rise of new subdisciplines such as global health, which have had serious consequences for freedom of inquiry as a false consensus is generated over what counts as "success" in policy interventions.
Hana Horäkovä. - Introduction: The contents and the chapters. - Hana Horäkovä. - Knowledge production in and on Africa: Knowledge gatekeepers, . - decolonisation, alternative representations. - Daniel C. Bach. - Africa in international relations: The frontier as concept and . - metaphor. - Dominik Kopihski. - China and the United States in the African petroleum sector: . - Knowledge gaps, myths and poor numbers. - Alzbeta Sväblovä. - Reconciliation in Liberia: Discourse, knowledge, consequences. - Mvuselelo Ngcoya, Naren Kumarakulasingam. - Indigenous gardening: Plants, indigeneity and settling/unsettling . - in South Africa. - Stephanie Rudwick. - Afrikaans and institutional identity: A South African university in . - the crossfire. - Katerina Werkman. - Is Africa exceptionally infectious? A comparison of Ebola and . - SARS coverage in the Czech media. - Katerina Mildnerovä. - "Obscene and diabolic and bloody fetishism": European. - conceptualisation of Vodun through the history of Christian missions. - Viera Pawlikova-Vilhanova. - African historians and the production of historical knowledge in . - Africa: Some reflections. - Maciej Kurcz. - The images of Omdurman: The symbolic role of an African city . - during the period of colonialism from the perspective of archival . - photographs. - Silvestr Trnovec. - History production and interpretation on and within French West . - Africa in 1900-1957: From a French colonial doctrine to an . - African perspective. - Jarmila Svihranova. - Representations of Africans in the documents of the German . - Imperial Office and in pre-war academia in the case of German . - South West Africa
In current discourse the knowledge economy is viewed as the primary saviour of European competitiveness. By increasingly focusing on economic activities that utilise knowledge and innovation as the primary value-adding feature rather than cheap labour or available raw materials the EU should be able to increase its constantly weakening competitive position vis-à-vis North America and the fast growing economies in South and Southeast Asia. In the Lisbon European Council in March 2000, the European Union set a strategic goal for the next decade "of becoming the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion". There is thus an implicit expectation that an increasingly knowledge-based economy would automatically generate larger economic growth and prosperity. Before trying to illuminate further on that issue there is however a need to establish exactly how the knowledge economy could be operationalised to quantifiable measures. A generally utilised option here is the division of the knowledge economy into input and output variables. The former could be characterised as the actual endowments of the knowledge production system and include such issues as the educational level and knowledge of the population, the social capital of the population, the amount of money invested into education or the number of students, investments into research and development (R&D), etc. Output variables could be regarded as measurements of the economic or other output of the regional research environment and include, in addition to direct economic measurements such as GDP, issues such as the number of issued patents or patent applications or employment within certain knowledge-intensive branches. Thus the main question here centres on the patterns of knowledge economy inputs and outputs in Europe and how are these distributed among the regions of the continent.
A exposição de arte contemporânea, desde o seu aparecimento no contexto museológico e curatorial, tem sofrido diversas alterações de carácter social, político e económico, influenciadas pelo período histórico e artístico onde se inserem. A figura do curador, igualmente em constante transformação, tem vindo a assumir um papel de mediador que estabelece e fortalece as relações entre os artistas, o público, os profissionais dos museus e outras instituições culturais. Recentemente, este conjunto de mudanças contribuiu para um diluir de fronteiras institucionais entre profissões, departamentos e disciplinas, que resultou na elaboração de projectos curatoriais baseados no trabalho colaborativo e em rede. É enquanto efeito destas inovações que a presente dissertação pretende estudar a exposição como produção de conhecimento. A análise dos projectos Academy (2004-2006), The New Model: An Inquiry (2011-2015) e Under the Clouds: From Paranoia to the Digital Sublime (2015), que tiveram lugar no contexto europeu dos últimos quinze anos, é o ponto de partida para uma reflexão sobre a exposição e a dimensão curatorial enquanto instrumentos de comunicação, colaboração e mediação. ; The exhibition of contemporary art, since its emergence within the museological and curatorial context, has experienced social, political and economic changes influenced by the historical and artistic in which they are inserted. The figure of the curator, equally in constant transformation, has come to play a mediating role that establishes and reinforces the relationships between artists, audience, museum professionals and other cultural institutions. Recently, this set of changes contributed to the dilution of institutional boundaries between professions, departments and subjects, which resulted in the elaboration of curatorial projects based on collaboration and networking. It is as an effect of these innovations that the present dissertation intends to study the exhibition as knowledge production. The analysis of the curatorial projects Academy (2004-2006), The New Model: An Inquiry (2011-2015) and Under the Clouds: From Paranoia to the Digital Sublime (2015), which took place in the European context of the last fifteen years, is the starting point for the study of the exhibition and the curatorial as instruments of communication, collaboration and mediation
Peace Research has long been criticized for the gap between the theory and practice of peace. This paper focuses on the role of knowledge production in peace research on knowledge-policy transfer. Delving into the mechanics of synergies developed between the academics and practitioners, the paper inquires how the multiparty interplay among the academia, practitioners and hybrid institutions acting as both research and practice-oriented bodies contributes to the knowledge production in Peace Studies. As related, the study examines following questions: How are the expectations of donors from the researchers and research institutions shaped? Do peace researchers tailor their research output in a specific manner that is expected by the donors to guarantee the flow of funding? And last but not least, how is the "knowledge" produced in the research integrated to the practice by the practitioners, local actors and facilitators? The paper relies on a field research conducted in Switzerland in 2019 and data collected through interviews with the representatives of certain peace research institutes, academics and donor institutions in Switzerland. Findings suggest that there is a general tendency among peace researchers to distinguish between the knowledge they produce for their academic agenda from the "handy" knowledge for the donor institutions. ; No sponsor
