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Mobilities of Knowledge.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jöns, Heike.
Other Authors: Meusburger, Peter., Heffernan, Michael.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2017.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Knowledge and Space Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Chapter 1: Mobilities of Knowledge: An Introduction
  • References
  • Part I: Circulation, Transfer, and Adaptation
  • Chapter 2: Spatial Mobility of Knowledge: Communicating Different Categories of Knowledge
  • Shortcomings and Disputable Assumptions in Research About the Mobility of Knowledge
  • Free Access to Knowledge Is Not Equivalent to Acquisition of Knowledge
  • The Impact of New Information and Communication Technologies on the Mobility of Knowledge
  • Is Codified Knowledge a Public Good and a Tradable Commodity? The Necessity to Distinguish Between Knowledge and Information
  • Nominal and Ordinal Differentiations of Knowledge
  • An Attempt to Construct a More Realistic Communication Model
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Papermaking: The Historical Diffusion of an Ancient Technique
  • The Early Diffusion of Papermaking
  • The Replacement of Papyrus and Parchment
  • Cultural Geographies of Papermaking
  • Spatial Adaptations in the Technology of Papermaking
  • Paper Mills
  • Raw Material Used for Papermaking
  • Molds and Papermarks
  • Further Processing of Paper
  • Trade Relations and the Decline of Arab Papermaking
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Circulating Seditious Knowledge: The "Daring Absurdities, Studied Misrepresentations, and Abominable Falsehoods" of William Macintosh
  • William Macintosh: A Colonial Life
  • Polishing, Publication, and Reception of Macintosh's Travels
  • The Reading and Afterlife of Travels
  • Macintosh in Leipzig
  • Macintosh in Paris
  • Conclusion: Text, Translation, and Truth
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Exploration as Knowledge Transfer: Exhibiting Hidden Histories
  • Institutional Context
  • Form and Content
  • Design Strategies
  • Conclusion
  • References.
  • Chapter 6: The Imprecise Wanderings of a Precise Idea: The Travels of Spatial Analysis
  • The View from Somewhere: Place and the Spatial Mobility of Knowledge
  • Place and Knowledge
  • Spatial Mobility of Knowledge
  • A History and Geography of Spatial Analysis
  • The Early Years
  • The Later Years
  • Seattle and Iowa City
  • Lund
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 7: Knowledges in Disciplines and Cities: An Essay on Relations Between Archaeology and Social Sciences
  • Preamble: Knowledges
  • Introductions
  • The Times and Spaces of Academic Social Knowledges
  • Practical Knowledges in, Through, and Out of Cities
  • Indictments
  • Of Mainstream Social Science
  • Of Mainstream Archaeology
  • Debates Generated by Bringing Cities Back In
  • Cities and the Creation of States
  • Cities and the Development of Agriculture
  • Conclusion: The Limiting Case of Uncertainty of Knowledge
  • References
  • Part II: Mediators, Networks, and Learning
  • Chapter 8: Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange between Scholars in Britain and the Empire, 1830-1914
  • Motivations Driving Scholarly Networking Within the British Empire
  • An International Republic of Letters
  • Critiques of Imperialism
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 9: Geographies of Selection: Academic Appointments in the British Academic World, 1850-1939
  • Selection Practices
  • Assessing Specialized Knowledge
  • Search Committees
  • London Selection Committees
  • Personalized Trust Versus Government Recruitment
  • Geographies of Selection
  • Origin and Nationality
  • Social Proximity and Distance
  • Cultures of Academic Sociability
  • References
  • Chapter 10: The University of Cambridge, Academic Expertise, and the British Empire, 1885-1962
  • Knowing the Empire
  • Capitalizing on the Empire
  • Imperial Travels Until 1945
  • Imperial Travels After 1945
  • Empowering the Empire
  • Conclusions.
  • References
  • Chapter 11: Geneva, 1919-1945: The Spatialities of Public Internationalism and Global Networks
  • From the "Spirit of Geneva" to the Spatial Representation of Public Internationalism
  • "Inhabité"-Controversies About the International Space or How Public Internationalism Translated into Space
  • Tracing Spatial Contexts of Global Organizations
  • Religious and Philosophical Networks: Global Knowledge from Other than Diplomatic Perspectives?
  • Translating Agencies
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 12: The Spatial Mobility of Corporate Knowledge: Expatriation, Global Talent, and the World City
  • The Firm, International Business Strategy, and Knowledge Management
  • Expatriation, Global Talent, and Knowledge Exchange
  • World Cities, Expatriation, and the Spatial Mobility of Knowledge
  • Global Staffing and Expatriation in Professional Service Firms
  • Global Talent in London's Financial District
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 13: Formal Education as a Facilitator of Migration and Integration: A Case Study of Nigerian University Graduates
  • Methodology and Data
  • Nigerian Migration History: Migration as a Cultural Event?
  • Emigration as Culturally Underpinned and Realized Through Education
  • Integration Between Structural Forces and Individual Abilities: Migration as a Continuum in Space and Time
  • Migration Culturally Underpinned and Educationally Materialized: A Migration Model of Highly Skilled Nigerians
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 14: Trans-knowledge? Geography, Mobility, and Knowledge in Transnational Education
  • Geography, Mobility, and Knowledge
  • Knowledge, Transnationalism, and TNE
  • Moving Ideas: The Transfer of Program Content
  • The Transfer of Different Forms of Capital
  • How (And the Limits to How) Knowledge Is Transferred in TNE
  • Language Issues
  • Mobile Academics.
  • Conclusions: So Where Is Knowledge in TNE?
  • References
  • The Klaus Tschira Stiftung
  • Index.

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