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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

Foreword -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Introduction -- East Meets West: Transcultural Knowledge in Production -- Sec2 -- Encounters in Media: Placemaking and Meaning-Making -- 1 Civic Pluralism: Designing for Enriched Intercultural Experiences of Place -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Models of Good Governance -- Intercultural Struggles and Street-Level Civility -- Diversity Destroyed …and Remade: Kulturprojekte, Berlin -- Place-Making and Place-Faking -- Smart, Civic Technologies -- Proposing and Designing Street Activations: A Local Story in Progress -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- 2 Taming the Paradox Between Facts and Control: Media Discourses on Natural Disasters in Chinese Media -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Excluding Disaster Facts and Discursive Control -- Disaster Facts as Anathema in Chinese Tradition -- Reshaping the Facts: Maoist ren ding sheng tian Discourse -- Seeking Facts in Social Reform -- Retreat of the "Tiandao" View -- Thought Emancipation -- Dissolving the Paradox by Legalising Rights to Information -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Public Humiliation: Carnival Marketplace and Discourse Power Shifting in Chinese Social Media -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Mapping the Networked Public Sphere in China -- The Social Cultural Context of Public Humiliation in China -- "Stoning the Drowning Dog" -- "Being Stoned with Verbal Rocks" -- Case Studies and Analytic Framework -- Carnival Marketplace: Smiling Official Face Yang Dacai -- Resisting Official Narratives: 7.21 Beijing Flood -- Discourse Power Shifting Within Carnivalesque Participatory Discourse -- Conclusion -- Fund -- References -- Creative Encounters: Literature, Music and Arts -- 4 Transcultural Affinities: In Praise of Wang Zuoliang -- Abstract -- References -- 5 Hsiung's Cultural Translation of the Peking Opera Wang Baochuan -- Abstract -- Introduction

The systemic view provides a basic approach through which people may advance their understanding of knowledge production in organizations. One of the most important contributions to this systemic view is the theory of social autopoiesis which emphasizes that knowledge production of organizations can only be understood through the view of a social autopoietic system. Recent developments in the field of organization research have started to view organization as a process rather than as entity. The author combines in this book these two approaches - autopoietic systemic view and process thinking - in a way that organizations are seen as processual autopoietic systems.

Analyses how social processes impact on knowledge production and dissemination. This book investigates how differences between actors impact on knowledge dissemination and appropriation. It explores how knowledge frameworks affect knowledge analysis and acceptance and how people bridge the gap between 'outside' and 'local' forms of knowledge.

"Whereas Area Studies and cross-border cooperation research conventionally demarcates groups of people by geographical boundaries, individuals might in fact feel more connected by shared values and principles than by conventional spatial dimensions. Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation asks what norms and principles lead to the creation of knowledge about cross-border cooperation and connection. It studies why theories, methods, and concepts originate in one place rather than another, how they travel, and what position the scholar adopts while doing research, particularly 'in the field'. Taking case studies from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, the book links the production of alternative epistemologies to the notion of global cooperation and reassesses the ways in which the concept of connectedness can be applied at the translocal and individual rather than the formal international and collective level. Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation provides an innovative and critical approach towards established means of producing knowledge about different areas of the world, demonstrating that an understanding of pluri-local connectivity should be integrated into the production of knowledge about different areas of the world and the behavioural dimension of global cooperation. By shifting the view from the collective to the individual and from the formal to often invisible patterns of connectedness, this book provides an important fresh perspective which will be of interest to scholars and students of Area Studies, Politics, International Relations and Development Studies."--Publisher's description

Praxis and Politics explores the knowledge arising from activist praxis and its significance for reimagining radical and democratic politics. It is based on five years of direct involvement in the Toronto-based Metro Network for Social Justice and their work in coalition building, campaign-organizing and 'economic and political literacy' work in the aftermath of the signing of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement. The book breaks new theoretical and methodological ground in social movement studies in drawing on a wide range of traditions including cultural studies, urban studies, politi.

Many studies investigate the relationship between R&D expenditures as an input and patents as an intermediate product or output of a knowledge production function. We suggest that the productivity of research in patent production functions has been underestimated in the literature, as scholars typically use information about R&D, i.e. the sum of research expenditure and development expenditure, due to data availability. However, in most industries only (applied) research will lead to patentable knowledge, and development happens after the initial research phase that may have led to a patent. Instead of using data on R&D, we separate the knowledge creating process into 'R' and 'D'. This data stems from R&D surveys of Belgian firms. It turns out that only the 'R' part of R&D expenditure has a significant effect on patents and that development expenditure are insignificant. Thus previous literature relying on R&D expenditure suffers from a measurement error, such that the coefficient of R&D is biased towards zero, as R&D includes a large fraction of irrelevant expenditure, i.e. development expenditure, with respect to patenting.

Preliminary Materials /Noris Mudege -- 1 Knowledge, Resettlement And Farming /Noris Mudege -- 2 Investigating Knowledge /Noris Mudege -- 3 The Research Context /Noris Mudege -- 4 Farmers' Knowledge And Sustainable Innovation: Experiments And Observation /Noris Mudege -- 5 Magic, Witchcraft, Religion And Knowledge /Noris Mudege -- 6 Field Days: Knowledge Dissemination And Entertainment /Noris Mudege -- 7 Knowledge And Practice: Men, Women And Children /Noris Mudege -- 8 Conclusion /Noris Mudege -- References /Noris Mudege -- Index /Noris Mudege.

Confronted with the complex environmental crises of the Anthropocene, scientists have moved towards an interdisciplinary approach to address challenges that are both social and ecological. Several arenas are now calling for co-production of new transdisciplinary knowledge by combining Indigenous knowledge and science. This book revisits epistemological debates on the notion of co-production and assesses the relevant methods, principles and values that enable communities to co-produce. It explores the factors that determine how indigenous-scientific knowledge can be rooted in equity, mutual respect and shared benefits. Resilience through Knowledge Co-Production includes several collective papers co-authored by Indigenous experts and scientists, with case studies involving Indigenous communities from the Arctic, Pacific islands, the Amazon, the Sahel and high altitude areas. Offering guidance to indigenous peoples, scientists, decision-makers and NGOs, this book moves towards a decolonised co-production of knowledge that unites indigenous knowledge and science to address global environmental crises.