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Over the past several years, there have been intensive discussions about the importance of knowledge management (KM) in our society. Nowadays, it is commonly accepted that many KM disciplines and practices are relevant to the social-level knowledgebased development. In this context, the new theme of ''knowledge cities'' came to the front. This paper attempts on the one hand to define the concept in a coherent way - presenting also its main implications and benefits - and on the other hand, to examine - on a worldwide scale - the different models of knowledge cities as well as modes of practice

In the area of moral epistemology, there is an interesting problem facing the person in my area, ancient philosophy, who hopes to write a historical paper which will engage with our current philosophical concerns. Not only are ancient ethical theories very different in structure and concerns from modern ones (though with the rapid growth of virtue ethics this is becoming less true), but the concerns and emphases of ancient epistemology are very different from those of modern theories of knowledge. Some may think that they are so different that they are useful to our own discussions only by way of contrast. I am more sanguine, but I am quite aware that this essay's contribution to modern debates does not fall within the established modern traditions of discussing moral epistemology.

Drawing from current debates in social theory about the changing nature of knowledge, this book offers the most comprehensive sociological theory of the university that has yet appeared. The author views the university as a key institution of modernity and as the site where knowledge, culture and society interconnect. He assesses the question of the crisis of the university with respect to issues such as globalization, the information age, the nation state, academic capitalism, cultural politics and changing relationships between research and teaching. Arguing against the notion of the demise of the university, his argument is that in the knowledge society of today a new identity for the university is emerging based on communication and new conceptions of citizenship. It will be essential reading for those interested in changing relationships between modernity, knowledge, higher education and the future of the university. Contents: 1. Knowledge and Cognition: The Sociology of Knowledge Reconsidered. - 2. The University in the Age of Liberal Modernity: Between Cosmopolitanism and Nation State. - 3. The University in Organized Modernity: Capitalism, the State and Citizenship. - 4. The Transformative Project: Democracy, The Counter-culture and Communication. - 5. The Institutionalization of Critique: Intellectuals, the Public Sphere and the University. - 6. Academic Power and Cultural Capital: Bourdieu on Knowledge and the University. - 7. The University and the New Production of Knowledge: From the Producer to the User. - 8. Globalization and Academic Capitalism: The New Knowledge Flows. - 9. The Postmodern University: Deconstructing Knowledge and Institutions. - 10. The New Politics of Knowledge: Culture Wars, Identity and Multiculturalism. - Conclusion: Knowledge, Citizenship and Reflexivity (HoF/text adopted)

Recent literature on 'local knowledge' has left the term 'local' largely unexamined. In this paper, I bring into view theoretical and ethnographic material that points to the relationality of the local and consider what this might mean for an understanding of local knowledge. What does a relational local knowledge look like? In response to the distance of this reconfigured concept from conventional notions of locality and in an attempt to resist localization, I suggest that much might be gained by rethinking local knowledge and its production as a form of intimacy. 1 Photograph, 34 References. (Original abstract - amended)