Heike Jöns · Peter Meusburger Michael He ernan Editors Klaus Tschira Symposia Knowledge and Space 10 Mobilities of Knowledge Knowledge and Space Volume 10 Series editor Peter Meusburger, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany Knowledge and Space This book series entitled “Knowledge and Space” is dedicated to topics dealing with the production, dissemination, spatial distribution, and application of knowledge. Recent work on the spatial dimension of knowledge, education, and science; learning organizations; and creative milieus has underlined the importance of spatial disparities and local contexts in the creation, legitimation, diffusion, and application of new knowledge. These studies have shown that spatial disparities in knowledge and creativity are not short-term transitional events but rather a fundamental structural element of society and the economy. The volumes in the series on Knowledge and Space cover a broad range of topics relevant to all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences focusing on knowledge, intellectual capital, and human capital: clashes of knowledge; milieus of creativity; geographies of science; cultural memories; knowledge and the economy; learning organizations; knowledge and power; ethnic and cultural dimensions of knowledge; knowledge and action; and mobilities of knowledge. These topics are analyzed and discussed by scholars from a range of disciplines, schools of thought, and academic cultures. Knowledge and Space is the outcome of an agreement concluded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation and Springer in 2006. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/7568 Heike Jöns • Peter Meusburger Michael Heffernan Editors Mobilities of Knowledge Editors Heike Jöns Peter Meusburger Department of Geography Department of Geography Loughborough University Heidelberg University Loughborough, Leicestershire, Heidelberg, Germany United Kingdom Michael Heffernan School of Geography University of Nottingham Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom ISSN 1877-9220 Knowledge and Space ISBN 978-3-319-44653-0 ISBN 978-3-319-44654-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-44654-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016959460 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. This book is published open access. 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The staff of the Klaus Tschira Stiftung and Studio Villa Bosch have been crucially important for these symposia. Together with all the authors in this volume, we are especially grateful to James Bell for his tire- less dedication as technical editor. Volker Schniepp in the Department of Geography at Heidelberg University and Mark Szegner in the Department of Geography at Loughborough University were enormously helpful in ensuring that the figures and maps met the publication standards. We also thank the students of Heidelberg University’s Department of Geography who helped to organize the tenth sympo- sium and prepare this publication, especially Helen Dorn, Claudia Kämper, Andreas Kalström, Laura Krauß, Julia Lekander, Solveig Liekefett, Pia Liepe, Anna Mateja Schmidt, Florence Wieder, and Angela Zissmann. We dedicate this volume to the late Klaus Tschira (1940–2015) to express our sincere gratitude for his outstanding long-term support of research and knowledge exchange in geography and associ- ated disciplines. v Contents 1 Mobilities of Knowledge: An Introduction ........................................... 1 Heike Jöns, Michael Heffernan, and Peter Meusburger Part I Circulation, Transfer, and Adaptation 2 Spatial Mobility of Knowledge: Communicating Different Categories of Knowledge ........................................................................ 23 Peter Meusburger 3 Papermaking: The Historical Diffusion of an Ancient Technique ................................................................................................. 51 Jonathan M. Bloom 4 Circulating Seditious Knowledge: The “Daring Absurdities, Studied Misrepresentations, and Abominable Falsehoods” of William Macintosh .............................................................................. 67 Innes M. Keighren 5 Exploration as Knowledge Transfer: Exhibiting Hidden Histories...................................................................................... 85 Felix Driver 6 The Imprecise Wanderings of a Precise Idea: The Travels of Spatial Analysis ................................................................................... 105 Trevor Barnes and Carl Christian Abrahamsson 7 Knowledges in Disciplines and Cities: An Essay on Relations Between Archaeology and Social Sciences ...................... 123 Peter J. Taylor vii viii Contents Part II Mediators, Networks, and Learning 8 Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange between Scholars in Britain and the Empire, 1830–1914 ................................... 141 Heather Ellis 9 Geographies of Selection: Academic Appointments in the British Academic World, 1850–1939 ........................................... 157 Tamson Pietsch 10 The University of Cambridge, Academic Expertise, and the British Empire, 1885–1962 ....................................................... 185 Heike Jöns 11 Geneva, 1919–1945: The Spatialities of Public Internationalism and Global Networks................................................. 211 Madeleine Herren 12 The Spatial Mobility of Corporate Knowledge: Expatriation, Global Talent, and the World City ......................................................... 227 Jonathan V. Beaverstock 13 Formal Education as a Facilitator of Migration and Integration: A Case Study of Nigerian University Graduates ................................................................................................. 247 Melanie Mbah 14 Trans-knowledge? Geography, Mobility, and Knowledge in Transnational Education ........................................ 269 Johanna L. Waters and Maggi Leung The Klaus Tschira Stiftung ............................................................................ 287 Index ................................................................................................................. 289 Contributors Carl Christian Abrahamsson Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Trevor Barnes Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Jonathan Beaverstock School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Jonathan M. Bloom Fine Arts Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA Felix Driver Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, UK Heather Ellis School of Education, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Michael Heffernan School of Geography, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK Madeleine Herren Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Heike Jöns Department of Geography, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK Innes M. Keighren Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, UK Maggi Leung Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Melanie Mbah Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany ix x Contributors Peter Meusburger Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany Tamson Pietsch Department of History, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia Peter J. Taylor Department of Geography, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Johanna L. Waters Department of Human Geography, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Chapter 1 Mobilities of Knowledge: An Introduction Heike Jöns, Michael Heffernan, and Peter Meusburger