Making and Moving Knowledge

by Lutz, John Sutton; Neis, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780773533738
• ISBN10: 0773533737
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-01
• Publisher: Carleton Univ Pr

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
Getting Started
Introduction	p. 3
Knowledge, Uncertainty, and Wisdom	p. 20
Building and Moving Knowledge Within Communities
"Ebb and Flow": Transmitting Environmental Knowledge in a Contemporary Aboriginal Community	p. 45
Students as Community Participants: Knowledge through Engagement in the Coastal Context	p. 64
Knowledge Flows and Blockages: Fish Harvesters' Knowledge, Science, and Management
The Evolving Use of Knowledge Sources in Fisheries Assessment	p. 85
Opening the Black Box: Methods, Procedures, and Challenges in the Historical Reconstruction of Marine Social-ecological Systems	p. 100
Data Fouling in Newfoundland's Marine Fisheries	p. 121
Knowledge Flows, Policy Development, and Practice
Knowledge Flows around Youth: What Do They "Know" about Human and Community Health?	p. 139
Promoting, Blocking, and Diverting the Flow of Knowledge: Four Case Studies from Newfoundland and Labrador	p. 155
Knowledge Flows, Conservation Values, and Municipal Wetlands Stewardship	p. 178
Moving Knowledge Across Disciplines and Between University and Community
Knowledge Movement in Response to Coastal British Columbia Oil and Gas Development: Past, Present, and Future	p. 197
The Process of Large-Scale Interdisciplinary Science: A Reflexive Study	p. 222
Circularizing Knowledge Flows: Institutional Structures, Policies, and Practices for Community-University Collaborations	p. 245
Conclusion: Miles To Go	p. 271
Notes	p. 279
Bibliography	p. 295
Index	p. 329
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