CFP Mobility of Expertise Knowledge

[Helena Petersson]

Call for papers

The 32nd Nordic Conference of Ethnology & Folkloristic, Bergen/Norway  18-21 June 2012: “Dynamics of Cultural Differences”.

 

Panel: Mobility of Expertise Knowledge: Transfers, transgressions, and transitions

 

In a globalized world, mobility of expertise knowledge is acknowledged as a critical core processes in contemporary culture and society. Current academic debates analyze transfers, transgressions and transitions of knowledge as a multidimensional phenomenon.[1] Welfare development, growth, and innovation are defined as areas, dependent on knowledge mobility. Therefore, we need to understand how knowledge moves between humans, within institutions and nation states.

 

This session will problematize the assumption that knowledge is unbound and easily transferable. Our aim is to emphasize how knowledge undergoes transitions, depending on cultural and social context. It is per se a process with dynamics, power relations and ambiguities. Our point of departure is a critical perspective on the understanding of knowledge as culturally and socially indistinctive. Such a perspective includes values, practices and materialism on one hand, and individual, groups and organizations on the other.

 

Our session will highlight contemporary complexities and dimensions of understanding cultural variations of knowledge. If we consider knowledge as plastic and malleable, knowledge changes and adapts within national and local culture. Thus, knowledge may partake in dynamic processes, which challenge ideas about cultural and social boundaries.

 

We welcome papers focusing on the cultural and social aspects of mobility in the following themes:

-          Mobility and knowledge transfers

-          Mobility and professional cultures

-          Mobility in science, technology and medicine

-          Places/spaces of mobile knowledge

 

Panel discussion and paper presentation language: English

 

Please e-mail your abstract of maximum 450 words to the panel organizers by January 10^th 2012. CC the abstract to the conference organizers  pa...@bergen2012.no

Accepted abstracts are posted online on February 15^th 2012.

 

Check the following website for more information:

http://www.bergen2012.no/kongresser/kongresser-2012/den-32-nordiske-etnolog-og-folkloristkonferansen-18-21-jun/welcome/

 

Organizers:

Helena Pettersson, Umeå University   helena.p...@kultmed.umu.se

Katarzyna Wolanik Boström, Umeå University    kata...@kultmed.umu.se

Magnus Öhlander, Södertörn University   magnus....@sh.se

 

 

 

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[1] Pettersson 2011; Wolanik Boström & Öhlander, manuscript under revision