Knowledge in Motion

Constellations of Learning Across Time and Place
In the last twenty-five years, scholars from a number of disciplines have explored situated learning, specifically investigating how learning relates to social reproduction and daily life. In this book, contributors focus on learning through time and at a variety of scales, particularly as they relate to power and politics.
Spirit mediums of East Africa. Healers and fishermen of the Amazon River Basin. Potters of the American Southwest. People contending with climate change long ago. All share ‘knowledge in motion,’ a process of drawing on experiences past and present while engaging in daily practice in relation to contexts of time, place, and power.

In the last twenty-five years, scholars from a number of disciplines have explored ‘situated learning,’ specifically investigating how learning relates to social reproduction and daily life. In Knowledge in Motion, contributor