Making Things Known: Epistemic Practices, the United Nations, and the Translation of Piracy
Making Things Known: Epistemic Practices, the United Nations, and the Translation of Piracy
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DOI：
10.1111/ips.12073
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发表时间：
2015-03-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Bueger, Christian
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作者：
Bueger, Christian
如何使国际现象变得可知？国际知识是通过什么手段和实际手段产生的？在这篇文章中，我借鉴当代海盗的情况下，介绍一个研究框架，使这些问题得到解决。认为国际知识生成的做法是知之甚少，我展示了如何从科学和技术研究的概念提供的工具来研究这些做法的经验。依靠卡琳克诺尔Cetina的实践理论，我介绍了认识基础设施，认识实践和实验室的概念，并展示了它们如何促进有趣的见解知识的产生。我调查三个原型的认识实践的细节，并显示这些如何产生知识的海盗为联合国。这三个原型是国际海事组织的量化做法、监测小组的解释工作和特别顾问网络。本文介绍了一个创新的议程，研究知识的产生在国际关系中的关注实践的认知基础设施，保持对国际现象的知识。
How are international phenomena rendered knowable? By which means and practical devices is international knowledge generated? In this article, I draw on the case of contemporary maritime piracy to introduce a research framework that allows these questions to be addressed. Arguing that the practices of international knowledge generation are poorly understood, I show how concepts from science and technology studies provide the tools to study these practices empirically. Relying on the practice theory of Karin Knorr Cetina, I introduce the concepts of epistemic infrastructures, epistemic practice, and laboratories and demonstrate how they facilitate interesting insights on knowledge generation. I investigate three archetypes of epistemic practices in detail and show how these generate knowledge about piracy for the United Nations. The three archetypes are the quantification practices of the International Maritime Organization, the interpretation work of a monitoring group and the network of a special adviser. The article introduces an innovative agenda for studying knowledge generation in international relations by focusing on the practical epistemic infrastructures, which maintain knowledge about international phenomena.