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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Knowledge is constantly on the move, yet it often resists travelling smoothly between disciplines, institutions and communities.
This book examines why the movement of knowledge can be so fragile, and what happens when different ways of knowing collide. Drawing on scholarship from the field of science and technology studies, the book explores the ways in which standards, alignment work, relationships and power shape how knowledge is taken up, transformed or rejected.
By focusing on the often invisible labour that supports knowledge transfer, the book offers a novel framework for understanding how meaning is negotiated across contexts, and why stable knowledge remains such a persistent challenge in contemporary societies.
‘Like other things that people make, knowledge needs infrastructures to move reliably. But travel reshapes things, leaving knowledge potentially fragile or even disunified. This book takes a fresh look at how standards, routines and procedures, strengthened with alignment work, relationships and emotional labour, allow epistemic objects to be translated across cultures and contexts. Knowledge, this book neatly argues, is not a stable entity at all, but a temporary accomplishment sustained through work.’ Sergio Sismondo, Queen's University, Canada
Corinna Kruse is Associate Professor at Linköping University.
Jenny Gleisner is formerly Associate Professor at Linköping University.
Hannah Grankvist is Faculty Programme Director at Linköping University.
Introduction
1. Thinking about the Movement of Knowledge
2. Standards
3. Alignment Work
4. Relationships and Emotion Work
5. Power and Inequalities
6. Knowledge and Its Movement