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1. Mobilities, Knowledge, and Social Justice

Author

Suzan Ilcan and Suzan Ilcan

Subjects
Access to knowledge movement, Social justice, Social mobility
Abstract

The mobility of people, objects, information, ideas, services, and capital has reached levels unprecedented in human history. Such forms of mobility are manifested in continued advances in communication and transportation capacities, in the growing use of digital and biometric technologies, in the movements of Indigenous, migrant, and women's groups, and in the expansion of global capitalism into remote parts of the world. Mobilities, Knowledge, and Social Justice demonstrates how knowledge is mobilized and how people shape, and are shaped by, matters of mobility. Richly detailed and illuminating essays reveal the ways in which issues of mobility are at the centre of debates, ranging from practices of belonging to war and border security measures, from gender, race, and class matters to governance and international trade, and from citizenship and immigration policies to human rights. Contributors analyze how particular forms of mobility generate specific types of knowledge and give rise to claims for social justice. This collection reconsiders mobility as a key term in the social sciences and humanities by delineating new ways of understanding how mobility informs and shapes lives as well as social, cultural, and political relations within, across, and beyond states. Contributors include Rob Aitken (Alberta), Tanya Basok (Windsor), Janine Brodie (Alberta), William Coleman (Waterloo), Ronjon Paul Datta (Alberta), Karl Froschauer (Simon Fraser), Daniel Gorman (Waterloo), Amanda Grzyb (Western), Suzan Ilcan (Waterloo), Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex), Anita Lacey (Auckland), Theresa McCarthy (Buffalo), Daniel J. Paré (Ottawa), Nicola Piper (Sydney), Parvati Raghuram (Open), Kim Rygiel (Wilfrid Laurier), Leslie Regan Shade (Toronto), Sandra Smeltzer (Western), Daiva Stasiulis (Carleton), Myra Tawfik (Windsor), and Lloyd Wong (Calgary).

Published
2013

2. The place of 'culture' in the Access to Knowledge movement: Comparing Creative Commons and yogic theories of knowledge transfer (Respond to this article at.

Author

Fish, Allison

Subjects
*ACCESS to knowledge movement, *YOGIC therapy, *SOCIAL justice, *ECONOMIC development, *COMPARATIVE studies, *KNOWLEDGE transfer
Abstract

A fundamental tenet of the Access to Knowledge (A2K) movement is that access to intangibles, especially educational and cultural works, should be open to all. Grounded in a human rights framework, this perspective links open and unfettered access to principles of social justice, freedom, and economic development. This article explores how mainstream A2K debates play out with respect to intangible cultural heritage. In doing so, the discussion contributes to an emerging literature highlighting the tension between individual and cultural rights in this movement through a comparative analysis of how select A2K activists and sanyasi (spiritual ascetics) react to debates surrounding intellectual property claims to yoga. On the one hand, A2K activists, specifically leaders from the Creative Commons community, place primacy on democratic modern law as a principle of social ordering to theorize yoga-as-information, information-as-disembodied, and information-as-neutral. This framework produces an undifferentiated public domain within which the practice naturally resides. In contrast, expert yoga practitioners rely on an interpretation of the guru-disciple relationship to theorize yoga-as-knowledge, knowledge-as-embodied, and knowledge-as-powerful to conceptualize its placement in a stratified commons. The juxtaposition of these two accounts adds to emergent debates around the construction and management of the public sphere and/or versus the cultural commons, as well as the possibilities and limits both present for community and identity politics. While the article is informed by a larger ethnographic project, it primarily draws from nine months of fieldwork with sanyasi (spiritual ascetics) of the Satyananda lineage as well as my own involvement in the A2K movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2014
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