Conceptualizing Circulation of Knowledge in the Social Sciences

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ID20082285
AuthorsWiebke Keim (0000-0003-1332-5931, corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages107-134
Publication date2016-04-22
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueGlobal Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315584881-10
OpenAlexW2613824878
ISBN9781315584881
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited1

Circulation is not a new phenomenon – especially in the domain of science and knowledge. One would be hard pressed to think of a static and closed moment of knowledge production. Instead, exchange and circulation have always been constitutive of knowledge making and thus represent ‘both a fact of life and a usefully enabling condition of intellectual activity’ (Said 1983: 226). It is the use of the circulation terminology that is recent, particularly with regard to South-North circulation of knowledge. This chapter attempts to conceptualize circulation of knowledge; in other words, to convey the overarching concept of this edited collection. I shall thus start with a brief historical overview over earlier frameworks for thinking about the circulation of ideas in the (social) sciences prior to the introduction of this new concept, focusing mainly on international and South-North circulation in accordance with the orientation of this edited collection.Import-Export? The Diffusionist Model under Scrutiny

Epistemology · Knowledge management · Knowledge production · Linguistics · Phenomenon · Social science · Sociology · Terminology · Computer Science · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · Engineering · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Science Research and Education

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