Knowledge Centre: Centre for the International Politics of Knowledge

Description

The Knowledge Centre facilitates research on the dynamics, diffusion, and contestation of knowledge production and expertise in the field of international politics. The Centre was established at the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University in 2016 and connects researchers to stimulate intellectual exchange and innovative research about questions of knowledge and politics.

The Centre works across two interrelated strands:

Knowledge Production, Expertise and Evidence in International Politics, which concerns projects that:

• analyse how knowledge is produced in international political environments, including international organisations, state structures, non-governmental organisations, and in key areas, such as peace and conflict, human rights and climate change;
• explore the conditions of possibility of dominant ways of knowing in international politics and scrutinize knowledge-related policy tools, such as ‘local ownership’, ‘evidence-based policy making’ and ‘impact evaluation’;
• interrogate the difficulties and opportunities of dominant and resisting knowledge production and their underlying practices in international politics;
• contest assumptions, paradigms and approaches on knowledge production in international political and academic practice and assess their implications.

History, Philosophy and Sociology of Knowledge, Science and Technology, which concerns projects that:

• approach knowledge, science, technology, and expertise as objects of international politics;
• focus on the constitution, exchange and use of knowledge on international, transnational, and global structures;
• undertake a philosophical and theoretical study of knowledge, enquire into ‘ways of knowing’ and limits of knowledge;
• push for a cross-disciplinary understanding of the nature and impact of contemporary expert, scientific and indigenous knowledges and of their role in socio-political projects;
• champion a reflexive understanding of ‘International Relations’ as an expert field of knowledge

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2016

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Aberystwyth University
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