Knowledge Asymmetry, and Corvus Corax in Greenland/Denmark: Locating method

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPerspectives on Knowledge Communication : Concepts and settings
EditorsJ. Engberg, A. Fage-Butler, P. Kastberg
Number of pages16
Place of publicationNew York
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date1 Jan 2023
Pages97-112
Chapter5
ISBN (Print)9781032258096
ISBN (Electronic)9781003285120
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2023

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