by graydaniels
January 21, 2012
It seems obvious to me now that knowledge mobilization (KMb) is a horizontal concept, but this was not always so. Once upon a time I looked at KMb as many do, as a discipline on its own, something that was often mistaken for communications. While KMb is certainly an area of academic research it is [...]
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climate,
computers,
data,
kmb,
knowledge
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by Peter Levesque
October 22, 2011
Modern science often flourishes at the top of what might be considered a hierarchy of knowledges. The dominance of Western scientific approaches to health and development over sociological or ‘traditional’ approaches reflects the universal and hegemonic position of modern science that is often deemed the “sole criteria of truth and aesthetic quality” (Santos 2006). The [...]
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ecology,
knowledge,
truth
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Essay by David Venn: Confronting the Monoculture of Scientific Knowledge
by Peter Levesque October 22, 2011Modern science often flourishes at the top of what might be considered a hierarchy of knowledges. The dominance of Western scientific approaches to health and development over sociological or ‘traditional’ approaches reflects the universal and hegemonic position of modern science that is often deemed the “sole criteria of truth and aesthetic quality” (Santos 2006). The [...]
Tagged as: ecology, knowledge, truth
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