Mobilities of Knowledge.
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| Superior document: | Knowledge and Space Series ; v.10 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2017. {copy}2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Knowledge and Space Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (305 pages) |
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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.