Abstract
The term ‘knowledge asymmetry’ is a resilient conceptual resource within knowledge communication research. This chapter focuses on the term and presents a series of conceptual and methodological considerations related to the beginnings of a research inquiry embedded within Corvus Corax 20XX, which is an artistic collaboration project (2021-2024) involving a partnership between Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium - Odin Teatret (Holstebro, Denmark) and Nunatta Isiginnaartitsisarfia (The National Theatre of Greenland). It explores the ways in which ‘knowledge asymmetry’ has been used and modified in knowledge communication research; it examines the various meanings of two socio-culturally, politically and emotionally overcharged words brought in close proximity; and it frames knowledge asymmetry as a ‘concept-metaphor’. This paves the way for a discussion on methods. Corvus Corax is assembled as a valuable site of knowledge communication that unfolds within a complex knowledge or epistemic community, which is textured with different forms of knowledges that are negotiated over, via, by, with, among, and beyond knowledge asymmetr(y/ies). The chapter explains why the investigation of this empirical site necessitates a method-theory of multi-sited ethnography as an epistemological approach and contributes to widening the methodological repertoire of knowledge communication research.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Perspectives on Knowledge Communication : Concepts and settings |
| Editors | J. Engberg, A. Fage-Butler, P. Kastberg |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Place of publication | New York |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publication date | 1 Jan 2023 |
| Pages | 97-112 |
| Chapter | 5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781032258096 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781003285120 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2023 |