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Knowledge Landscapes North America

Herausgeber: Kloeckner, Christian | Knewitz, Simone | Sielke, Sabine

American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 273

2016

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Abstract

‘Knowledge Landscapes North America’ intervenes in current critical debates on concepts of knowledge and modes of knowledge production and circulation. As knowledge has been proclaimed an indispensable economic resource, scholarly and public discourses increasingly interrogate its established and newly evolving forms and institutions. These discussions frequently focus on North America and its knowledge landscapes, which retain their crucial position in knowledge distribution despite shifts in global power constellations. The contributions to this volume explore the particularities of these knowledge formations by raising pertinent questions: How do North American knowledge institutions drive global knowledge economies—and in which ways are they driven by them? Which agents shape North American knowledge landscapes? What conditions have been conducive to the emergence of innovative knowledges? The authors interrogate the significance of local and tacit knowledge; they reflect on marginalized or ‘forgotten’ knowledges as well as on the expertise of literature and the arts; and they map the shifting media ecologies that have affected concepts of knowledge and its circulation.

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Cover C
Title Page 3
Copyright 4
Contents 5
Sabine SIELKE, Simone KNEWITZ, AND Christian KLOECKNER, Knowledge Landscapes North America: Introduction 7
Knowledge Institutions, Knowledge Economies 21
Christopher NEWFIELD, New Roles for Academia? The American University and the Knowledge Economy 23
Sverker SÖRLIN, Frost on Humanities and Social Sciences? Understanding the Climate Change in North American Knowledge Landscapes 45
Alexander STARRE, Building Knowledge: Carnegie Libraries as Epistemic Spaces 67
Education and the Circulation of Knowledge 85
Emily PETERMANN, From the ABCs to the American Revolution: Poetry and the Construction of Children’s Knowledge 87
Mahshid MAYAR, From Tools to Toys: American Dissected Maps and Geographic Knowledge at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 99
Sophie SPIELER, The Contingency of Knowledge: "Stover at Yale" and the Debate on U.S. Elite Education 119
Heinz ICKSTADT, "Stoner": John Williams’s Academic Novel against Academia 139
Competing and Contested Concepts of Knowledge 151
Antje KLEY, Literary Knowledge Production and the Natural Sciences in the United States 153
Hubert ZAPF, Matter, Metaphor, and Cultural Ecology 179
Paula VON GLEICH, How Black Is the Border? Border Concepts Traveling North American Knowledge Landscapes 191
Frank KELLETER, Four Theses on the News 211
Tacit and Embodied Knowledges 229
Christa BUSCHENDORF, Tacit Knowledge in Edward P. Jones’s Novel "The Known World" 231
Jeanne CORTIEL, Knowledge on Edge: "Resident Evil", Feminism and the Rescue of the Female Child 249
Russell J. A. KILBOURN, Translating Affect: Inuit Cinema, Affect Theory, and Knowledge (Re-)Production 269
Andrew GROSS, “American Innovations”: A Conversation with Rivka Galchen and Joseph O’Neill 289
Contributors 301