How to combine scholarly research with practical knowledge to maximize its scientific and social impact.
It has been clear for some time that research does not automatically translate into knowledge, nor does knowledge necessarily translate into wisdom. Whether the immediate challenge is global warming, epidemic disease, poverty, environmental degradation, or social fragmentation, research efforts are wasted if we cannot devise efficient and understandable processes to create and transfer knowledge to policy makers, interested groups, and communities.
How to maximize the impact of scholarly research and combine it with practical knowledge already available in lay communities are key issues in a world threatened with social-ecological disasters. Making and Moving Knowledge focuses directly on how knowledge is created and transferred or is blocked and atrophies. It places knowledge generated by universities and governments beside practical knowledge from coastal aboriginal and non-aboriginal communities and looks at how different kinds of knowledge flow in different directions.
Concentrating on intellectually fertile spaces at the edges of disciplines and the rich socio-ecological interfaces where land meets sea, authors demonstrate their commitment to knowledge transfer in their work, showing how knowledge transfer can be considered theoretically, methodologically, and practically."
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360 Pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 9780773533936
July 2008
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"Lutz and Neis, and their contributors, weave masterfully from the general to the specific in their attempt to guide readers toward a deeper understanding of how best to fuse the knowers, the known, and socially meaningful deeds into something transformational for their communities, as well as in other spheres of life." Tony Chambers, Academic Matters
John Sutton Lutz is associate professor, history, University of Victoria.
Barbara Neis is professor, sociology, Memorial University.
Tables and Figures ix
Foreword by Rosemary Ommer xi
PART ONE GETTING STARTED
1 Introduction 3
John Sutton Lutz and Barbara Neis
2 Knowledge, Uncertainty, and Wisdom 20
Rosemary E. Ommer, Harold Coward, and Christopher C. Parrish
PART TWO BUILDING AND MOVING KNOWLEDGE WITHIN COMMUNITIES
3 “Ebb and Flow”: Transmitting Environmental Knowledge in a Contemporary Aboriginal Community 45
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 64
Carol E. Harris and Sandra L. Umpleby
PART THREE KNOWLEDGE FLOWS AND BLOCKAGES: FISH HARVESTERS’ KNOWLEDGE, SCIENCE, AND MANAGEMENT
5 The Evolving Use of Knowledge Sources in Fisheries Assessment 85
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 100
Grant Murray, Barbara Neis, David C. Schneider, Danny Ings, Karen Gosse, Jennifer Whalen, and Craig T. Palmer
7 Data Fouling in Newfoundland’s Marine Fisheries 121
Kaija I. Metuzals, C. Michael Wernerheim, Richard L. Haedrich, Parzival
Copes, and Ann Murrin
PART FOUR KNOWLEDGE FLOWS, POLICY DEVELOPMENT, AND PRACTICE
8 Knowledge Flows around Youth: What Do They “Know” about
Human and Community Health? 139
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 155
R. John Gibson, Richard L. Haedrich, John C. Kennedy, Kelly M. Vodden, and C. Michael Wernerheim
10 Knowledge Flows, Conservation Values, and Municipal Wetlands
Stewardship 178
Brian McLaren, Tim Hollis, Catherine Roach, Kathleen Blanchard, Eric Chaurette, and Dean Bavington
PART FIVE MOVING KNOWLEDGE ACROSS DISCIPLINES AND BETWEEN UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY
11 Knowledge Movement in Response to Coastal British Columbia Oil and Gas Development: Past, Present, and Future 197
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 Reflexive
Study 222
Peter Trnka
13 Circularizing Knowledge Flows: Institutional Structures, Policies, and
Practices for Community-University Collaborations 245
Kelly Vodden and Kelly Bannister
14 Conclusion: Miles To Go 271
Barbara Neis and John Sutton Lutz
Notes 279
Bibliography 295
Index 329
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