About the Book
It has long been acknowledged that research does not directly translate into knowledge nor does knowledge necessarily, or even often, translate into wisdom. Whether the immediate challenge is global warming, epidemic disease, poverty, environmental degradation, or social fragmentation, our research efforts are all wasted if we cannot devise processes to create and transfer knowledge to policy makers, interested groups and ordinary people in a manner that is efficient and understandable. How we maximize the impact of the research that scholars do and how to combine that with knowledge already extant in lay or local communities, are key issues in a world with scarce research resources and numerous social and scientific conflicts. Making and Moving Knowledge focuses directly on how knowledge is created, transferred and used and perhaps most important, how it is blocked and atrophies. It treats knowledge generated by universities and governments alongside traditional and practical knowledge generated in coastal aboriginal and non-aboriginal communities and looks at how the different kinds flow in different directions.
The chapters are theoretical, methodological, and applied as the authors model their commitment to knowledge transfer in their work with community, academics and policy makers.
Table of Contents:
Tables and Figures; Foreword by Rosemary Ommer Part one getting started 1 Introduction / John Lutz and Barbara Neis; 2 Knowledge, Uncertainty, and Wisdom / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Grant Murray, Barbara Neis, David C. Schneider, Danny Ings, Karen Gosse, Jennifer Whalen, and Craig T. Palmer; 7 Data Fouling in Marine Fisheries: Findings and a Model for Newfoundland / Kaija I. Metuzals, C. Michael Wernerheim, Richard L. Haedrich, Parzival Copes, and Ann Murrin Part four knowledge flows and policy development and practice 8 Knowledge Flows around Youth: What Do They Know about Human and Community Health? / 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 / John R. Gibson, Richard L. Haedrich, John C. Kennedy, Kelly M. Vodden, and C. Michael Wernerheim; 10 Knowledge Flows, Conservation Values and Municipal Wetlands Stewardship / 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 / 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 / Peter Trnka; 13 Circularizing Knowledge Flows: Institutional Structures, Policies, and Practices for Community-University Collaborations / Kelly Vodden and Kelly Bannister; 14 Conclusion: Miles To Go / Barbara Neis and John Lutz Notes; Bibliography; Index
About the Author :
John Sutton Lutz is associate professor, history, University of Victoria.
Barbara Neis is professor, sociology, Memorial University.
