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The articles offers opportunities to make the tensions in knowledge networks visible. This means to render power relations visible.
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The article shows the convergences and divergences from social capital, actor network theory and sociologies of the south as means to discuss the dynamic movement of asymmetries in knowledge networks between the global North and the global South as entities that are in a process of constant negotiation.
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Knowledge networks literature is highly fragmented. This articles relates main bodies of literature to explore tensions in knowledge networks. Through a process of identification of convergences and divergences among social capital, actor-networked theory and sociologies of the south, the article offers analytical tools to render power relationships visible in knowledge networks.
Dr. Marcela Suarez
Freie Universitat Berlin
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This page is a summary of: Exploring tensions in knowledge networks: Convergences and divergences from social capital, actor-network theory and sociologies of the south, Current Sociology, November 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0011392116676298.
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