The materiality of knowledge production
The following paper is based upon fifteen months of participatory ethnographic fieldwork within an NGO in Rajasthan, India. Based within a solar photovoltaic workshop for the production of lanterns and the training of ‘solar engineers’, the author reflects upon the different kinds of knowledges gene...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of comparative research in anthropology and sociology 2012-01, Vol.3 (1), p.31-51 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The following paper is based upon fifteen months of participatory ethnographic fieldwork
within an NGO in Rajasthan, India. Based within a solar photovoltaic workshop for the
production of lanterns and the training of ‘solar engineers’, the author reflects upon the
different kinds of knowledges generated in the workshop and how they are constituted
through particular kinds of material artefacts and approaches to learning. Drawing upon an
‘after actor-network’ approach to knowledge production the author explores the emergent
and contingent character of knowledge performed. When knowledge is imagined as fluid
like, as something that flows and transmutes with more or less viscosity (Mol and Law
1994), we are perhaps in a better position to conceive of its transformative and generative
potential. |
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ISSN: | 2068-0317 2068-0317 |