Making and Moving Knowledge

by Lutz, John Sutton; Neis, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780773533936
• ISBN10: 0773533931
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ

Summary

It has long been acknowledged that research does not directly translate into knowledge nor does knowledge necessarily, or even often, translate into wisdom. Whether the immediate challenge is global warming, epidemic disease, poverty, environmental degradation, or social fragmentation, our research efforts are all wasted if we cannot devise processes to create and transfer knowledge to policy makers, interested groups and ordinary people in a manner that is efficient and understandable. How we maximize the impact of the research that scholars do and how to combine that with knowledge already extant in "lay" or "local" communities, are key issues in a world with scarce research resources and numerous social and scientific conflicts.Making and Moving Knowledge focuses directly on how knowledge is created, transferred and used and perhaps most important, how it is blocked and atrophies. It treats knowledge generated by universities and governments alongside "traditional" and practical knowledge generated in coastal aboriginal and non-aboriginal communities and looks at how the different kinds flow in different directions. The chapters are theoretical, methodological, and applied as the authors model their commitment to knowledge transfer in their work with community, academics and policy makers.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures; Foreword by Rosemary OmmerPart one getting started1 Introduction / John Lutz and Barbara Neis; 2 Knowledge, Uncertainty, and Wisdom / Rosemary E. Ommer, Harold Coward, and Christopher C. ParrishPart two building and moving knowledge within communities3 "Ebb and Flow": Transmitting Environmental Knowledge in a Contemporary Aboriginal Community / Nancy J. Turner, Anne Marshall, Judith C. Thompson (Edosdi), Robin June Hood, Cameron Hill, and Eva-Ann Hill; 4 Students as Community Participants: Knowledge through Engagement in the Coastal Context / Carol E. Harris and Sandra L. UmplebyPart three knowledge flows and blockages: fish harvesters' knowledge, science, and management5 The Evolving Use of Knowledge Sources in Fisheries Assessment / David C. Schneider, Erin Alcock, and Danny Ings; 6 Opening the Black Box: Methods, Procedures, and Challenges in the Historical Reconstruction of Marine Social-ecological Systems / Grant Murray, Barbara Neis, David C. Schneider, Danny Ings, Karen Gosse, Jennifer Whalen, and Craig T. Palmer; 7 Data Fouling in Marine Fisheries: Findings and a Model for Newfoundland / Kaija I. Metuzals, C. Michael Wernerheim, Richard L. Haedrich, Parzival Copes, and Ann MurrinPart four knowledge flows and policy development and practice8 Knowledge Flows around Youth: What Do They "Know" about Human and Community Health? / Anne Marshall, Lois Jackson, Blythe Shepard, Susan Tirone, and Catherine Donovan; 9 Promoting, Blocking, and Diverting the Flow of Knowledge: Four Case Studies from Newfoundland and Labrador / John R. Gibson, Richard L. Haedrich, John C. Kennedy, Kelly M. Vodden, and C. Michael Wernerheim; 10 Knowledge Flows, Conservation Values and Municipal Wetlands Stewardship / Brian McLaren, Tim Hollis, Catherine Roach, Kathleen Blanchard, Eric Chaurette, and Dean BavingtonPart five moving knowledge across disciplines and between university and community11 Knowledge Movement in Response to Coastal British Columbia Oil and Gas Development: Past, Present, and Future / Christopher R. Barnes, Robert H. Dennis, Lorne F. Hammond, Marjorie J.Johns, and Gregory S. Kealey; 12 The Process of Large-Scale Interdisciplinary Science: A ReflexiveStudy / Peter Trnka; 13 Circularizing Knowledge Flows: Institutional Structures, Policies, andPractices for Community-University Collaborations / Kelly Vodden and Kelly Bannister; 14 Conclusion: Miles To Go / Barbara Neis and John LutzNotes; Bibliography; Index