Exploring Knowledge-Cultures: Precision Farming, Yield Mapping, and the Expert–Farmer Interface
Exploring Knowledge-Cultures: Precision Farming, Yield Mapping, and the Expert–Farmer Interface
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探索知识文化：精准农业、产量图和专家与农民的互动
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10.1068/a32138
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2000
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C. Watkins
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作者：
Judith Tsouvalis;S. Seymour;C. Watkins
Over recent years the concept of ‘knowledge’ in the singular has been increasingly challenged by ideas of differentiated, contextualized ‘knowledges’. In this paper we propose the concept of ‘knowledge-cultures’ as a way of exploring the fluidity of diverse forms of knowledge and the rules, norms, and values that enable or constrain their production. Elaborating on Shotter's idea of knowledge-from-within, we argue that knowledge-cultures are social achievements that equip those who embody them with a relational–responsive kind of understanding of events and surroundings built on multiple knowledge-forms. To explore this contextual nature of knowledge-culture construction and illustrate our arguments, we draw on detailed empirical research of farmers' experiences with the precision-farming technique of yield mapping in the English counties of Lincolnshire and Suffolk.
