KNOW-IN Research Network: Knowledge Infrastructures: The Circulation, Transfer and Translation of Knowledge across Borders
Project by Dr Carmen Dexl and Dr Christian Reiß
This CITAS-funded research network, ‘Knowledge Infrastructures: Circulation, Transfer and Translation of Knowledge across Borders’ (KNOW-IN for short), explores the interconnections between infrastructures and knowledge production, and the processes of circulation, transfer and translation that they facilitate across and beyond borders. We bring together scholars from a range of disciplinary and institutional backgrounds to build on a set of case studies drawn from a wide variety of historical and cultural contexts, with the aim of fostering a productive dialogue between Area Studies and Science and Technology Studies.
How do infrastructures create connections that enable the generation, circulation, translation and dissemination of various forms of knowledge across cultural, regional or national borders? And conversely, how do these (emerging) forms of knowledge contribute to the construction, stabilisation and maintenance of infrastructures? How exactly do infrastructures manifest themselves – for instance, as institutions or networks of institutions, agents, gatekeepers, routes and other structures of transfer, translation and circulation? What role do they play in knowledge production by facilitating the transmission of cultural goods and objects, materials, people or ideas, thereby creating spaces for inter- and transnational collaborations and alliances, or zones for intercultural and intellectual exchange? This is the central set of questions on which our transdisciplinary network focuses in its collective research.
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