Knowing what we know
Abstract:
This chapter describes a theoretical framework for conceptualising the practices of ordinary knowledge, how we know things in our ordinary lives, and the boundaries of knowing. The framework is based on Russell Hardin’s theory of ordinary knowing and the notion of boundary objects developed by Susan Star and James Griesemer. Its premise is that the decisions we take make sense at the moment we make them, but at the same time what we can know perfectly is limited by many types of boundaries. The choices are not necessarily easy or effortless, but we feel they are sensible. The boundaries that limit our knowing can be technological, social and even physical. Those between different knowledge communities hinder ...
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