Collaborative Research: Changing Structures of Knowledge and Relevancy: Understanding the Sociology of Geographical Research on Public Space

这项合作研究考察了思想和知识如何发展，如何在社会和学术实践之间流动，以及如何在不同的社会背景下与不同的社会主体相关。它提出了这样的问题：“社会科学研究如何反映和影响社会辩论？”以及“社会辩论如何反映和影响社会科学研究？”该项目始于这样一种假设，即学术研究人员和其他社会代理人之间的思想流动不断地转化有问题的知识，使其或多或少具有相关性。“相关性”被定义为生活经验(学术和其他因素)与社会、政治和个人对知识的使用之间的关系。PIS将1)分析关于公共空间的地理文献(进行内容和引文分析)；2)采访学术公共空间研究人员，了解他们的公共空间研究对学术和社会的影响以及他们的公共空间研究目标；3)审查美国四个城市的具体公共空间争议；以及4)采访直接参与这些争议的人，了解他们的公共空间知识，公共空间地理研究的重要性(或缺乏重要性)。从这个信息库中，将考察学术研究人员和社会代理人内部和之间的影响和相关性的模式。

This collaborative research examines the ways in which ideas and knowledge develop, move between social and academic practices, and become relevant for different social agents in different social contexts. It addresses questions such as, 'How does social science research reflect and influence social debates?' and 'How do social debates reflect and influence social science research?' The project begins from the assumption that the flow of ideas between academic researchers and other social agents continually transforms the knowledge in question, making it more or less relevant. 'Relevance' is defined as a relationship between lived experience (of both academic and other agents) and the social, political, and individual uses of knowledge. The PIs will 1) analyze the geographical literature on public space (performing both content and citation analyses); 2) interview academic public space researchers about academic and social influences on and goals of their public space research; 3) examine specific public space controversies in four US cities; and 4) interview people directly involved in those controversies about their public space knowledge, the importance (or lack of importance) of geographical research on public space. From this information base, the patterns of influence and relevancy within and between academic researchers and social agents will be examined.