Knowledge in Policy is contracted to appear in late 2013, edited by Richard Freeman and Steve Sturdy and published by Policy Press…
Knowledge in Policy: embodied, inscribed, enacted introduces a new way of thinking about knowledge, not in terms of its content or those who hold, but of the form it takes. The framework is applied to a number of case studies drawn from the KNOWandPOL project.
Embodied knowledge is the knowledge held by human actors and employed and expressed by them as they go about their activities in the world…
In various ways, this knowledge may be inscribed in artefacts: texts, pictures and instruments, among other things…
But it is only when it is enacted that knowledge, whether embodied or inscribed, becomes significant…