How does knowledge move? Investigating the epistemic mobilities of “climate migration” with diverse conceptual metaphors

Durand-Delacre, David, (2024). How does knowledge move? Investigating the epistemic mobilities of “climate migration” with diverse conceptual metaphors. Mobilities, 1-17

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    Author Durand-Delacre, David
    Title How does knowledge move? Investigating the epistemic mobilities of “climate migration” with diverse conceptual metaphors
    Appearing in Mobilities
    Publication Date 2024-03-18
    Place of Publication London
    Publisher Taylor & Francis
    Start page 1
    End page 17
    Language eng
    Abstract The production of knowledge is a mobile process. Efforts to conceptualise the mobilities of knowledge draw on a wide range of metaphors to conceptualise the ways in which knowledge moves and changes as it moves. In this paper, I present the theoretical origins and methodological implications – often tied to specific disciplines – of concepts in use. I distinguish between sedentarist metaphors (construction, transfer) and mobile metaphors (focusing on translation, contagion, friction, and circulation). I show that, although all these metaphors share a common attention to knowledge as mobile, they are neither synonymous nor interchangeable. They each structure how we think about and research epistemic mobilities in their own way. I find that mobile metaphors in particular are most compatible with, and can contribute to, the development of the mobile ontology that characterises the mobilities turn. I illustrate this using a case study of the epistemic mobilities of the idea of climate migration in the French context. From this example, I draw key lessons for studies of epistemic mobilities. I argue for a diverse, nuanced conceptual vocabulary of epistemic mobilities, leading to a nuanced, relational understanding of space, scale, and how to trace the mobilities of knowledge in practice.
    Keyword Knowledge
    Epistemic mobilities
    Conceptual metaphor theory
    New mobilities paradigm
    Climate migration
    Climate mobilities
    Copyright Holder Taylor & Francis
    Copyright Year 2024
    Copyright type All rights reserved
    DOI 10.1080/17450101.2024.2328221
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