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The BRCSS Knowledge Space: Configuring Experimentation in Knowledge Production and Social Science Imaginaries
Nick LewisRichard Le HeronErena Le Heron
School of Geography Geology and Environmental ScienceThe University of Auckland
Funded by BRCSS: Theme funding programme 2009
A walk through a BRCSS Knowledge Space
• Why the metaphor?
• Architecture of BRCSS as knowledge space
• What was practised / achieved
• Potency of knowledge space as an extraordinarily insightful generative category (way of framing)
• for understanding institutional experiments
• our performance as a social science collective
• Three moments of interrogation: 2005, 2007, 2009
A Moment
• TEC tenders $8 million worth of funding for capability building programmes in the social sciences– attracted three bids– the most substantial /innovative was the BRCSS bid
• There was an agreement among six universities, and a private social researcher a TEC contract, the money, a set of deliverables, 9 nodes, 36 programmes, some themes, a College of 50+, an Advisory Board ....
• But what was BRCSS, what would it do .....
A mid-term reflection
• by definition, innovative and distinctive– challenges the established competitive model– only capability building initiative in any area of
research that links all of New Zealand’s universities
(Bedford and colleagues 2006)
The Metaphor
What is a knowledge space?
• Relational nexus that adds meaning• extension of practices and relations beyond immediate
physical sites through new connections to other sites• describe assemblages of exchanges, transformations, sites of
knowledge production, and virtual connections• capture, categorise, stabilise, make visible and available for
action networked approaches to learning• generative confluence of intellectual and political projects
emerging from the co-production of knowledge and learning
Adopting the Metaphor
• Guiding imaginary for investigating what/how/why we were doing what we were doing
• Leads us to ask the deep capability questions• Lewis and Thorns (2005,2007) two dimensions of use
– hopeful conceptualisation - potential to alter the landscape of the social sciences
– generative conceptualization - begun to frame an alternative guide as our interpretation of it
– Derived from regional meetings
… requires a Genealogy
Political Times• Shaking up foundational commitments and
disciplines • After-neoliberal political projects
– agenda to rebuild social and economic institutions after the failures of laissez faire …..
– AND an ethics and politics of inclusion, collaboration, facilitation, participation, and pragmatism,
– more than the economic transformation agenda– language of steering, framing, and enabling – Improving the Knowledge Base 2001
Coming of age and conceiving BRCSS
• Crisis narrative• Guided understandings of the social sciences at key time of
rebuilding the national knowledge base for a new economic and social development agenda (Bedford 2005)
• Aimed to reposition social science for agenda– co-ordination, interdisciplinarity, strategic planning, better funding,
long-term research– contribute knowledge to sciences and technology– more stable and institutionally fairer funding– investment in capacity building– Social Sciences Research Academy– inclusiveness, collaboration, and a demand for new social institutions
• Conservative and defensive
In short: BRCSS established• Strong links between Coming of Age and BRCSS e.g. Towards
2020• BRCSS to contribute by linking social development agenda to
the national economic development project in commitment to economic nationalism
• Creature of, and challenged to overcome, competitive environment
• Established in image of existing problem
A full genealogy
• A future project …. weaving the personal reflections, documentary records through the context
Emergence
It is not simply what is (or was) that should be of interest, but
how assemblages of projects take form, how they are mobilised, how they are made coherent, what work they do, and what
subjects and spaces they foster (Lewis et al. 2008)
Early activity
• ...extending the moment of conception• Access Grid development• Regional meetings
– fighting tired thinking, old models– glimpsing the inventive opportunities
(congratulations ... collective gasp ... escaping the collective grasp)
– AG as catalyst (...more coming)
Institutionalising work
• Imagining a mandate from contested spaces• Designing platforms• Establishing practices: Awards
guidelines/protocols, Distinguished Visitor expectations, conventions for funding requests, meeting protocols, roles of ....
Proactive
Reactive
Capacity building
Research
BRCSS: Contested dimensions of a mandateBRCSS: Contested dimensions of a mandate
Instrumental/domestic
Reflective/global
Policysupport
Critical
Project-centric
Exploratory-conceptual
AcademyCommunity
Inclusive
Exclusive
EstablishedNew
Engagement
Engagement Engagement
EngagementAdvocacy
Advocacy
Academic pursuit
Key Milestones 2004-2005
• September 2004: BRCSS launched / Access Grid investment planned• November 2004: The BRCSS Research College meeting• January – May 2005: Workshops on research themes• May 2005: Second meeting of the BRCSS Research College; Lewis and
Thorns paper on BRCSS Occasional Paper Series• May 2005: First BRCSS Distinguished Visitors for Research College meeting
and seminars• July 2005: First independent BRCSS Distinguished Visitor, Dr James
McCarthy - post-graduate workshop, writing workshop, community research workshop in Kaitaia
• July – August 2005: Finalised arrangements for appointment of a Director and Business Manager; initial postgraduate research training workshop
• January - October 2005: Agreements for the design and implementation of an Access Grid network – first AG system linking so many institutions on existing internet infrastructure
• November 2005: BRCSS Management Group meeting via the AG; Distinguished Visitor, Professor Marilyn Taylor presented seminars co-sponsored by SPEaR
Taking early form
‘Time to get traction’ (Bedford 2006)– imagine and invent itself– capture interest / support
• January – March 2006: Applications for initial competitive grants for research projects and Masters thesis research, with BRCSS Objectives and Guidelines to Policies and Awards published on web
• March 2006: Inaugural postgraduate research seminar (50 postgraduate students and staff)
• April 2006: Third meeting of the BRCSS Research College (considered capability building initiatives and nature of the research awards)
• April 2006: BRCSS Distinguished Visitors Professor Robert Stimson, Professor Graeme Hugo participate in the BRCSS Research College meeting and a two-day seminar for policymakers and researchers
• May 2006: BRCSS Distinguished Visitor, Professor Katharine Rankin (University of Toronto) delivered public lectures in Auckland and Christchurch, facilitated a post-graduate workshop in Auckland and the second BRCSS Grid postgraduate research seminar on trans-disciplinarity, met researchers in Palmerston North and Wellington
• October 2005 – June 2006: Research staff at SHORE (Massey University, Auckland) scope, develop and implement an on-line survey of around 1,600 social scientists in the universities.
• June 2006: Professor David Thorns released a second reflective paper entitled Creating E-Research Communities: The Aotearoa/New Zealand National Project
• December 2006: Research Colloquium to present research from programmes, accent on postgraduate students in programmes
Key Milestones 2004-2005
Working in the BRCSS Knowledge Space
Ongoing research agendas
Postgraduateteaching
programmes
Innovative research directionsSocial theory
Policy analysis and
evaluation
Knowledge Production
BRCSS Themes
Networks
David Thorns, Nick Lewis SPRE Conference 2007
Building
• Platforms (connections across):– themes, international visitors, meetings, communities
of interest, workshops, access grid• Connections (to):
– disciplines, institutions, policy (SPEAR, SPRE conference, Progress Report), publics (teachers, Dutch immigrants, community researchers), science, international
• Take-up and engagement– full value not achieved because of slowness of some
groups to take up
The Access Grid: Axes for performing BRCSS knowledge space into being
• Forced action• Generated sense of BRCSS as a space • Forced BRCSS to experiment, confront new imaginaries and
modalities, and unfamiliar practices at a formative stage• Forced a transdisciplinarity (had to be invented)• Set rhythms of BRCSS• Fashioned nature of BRCSS relationships and framed
understandings of BRCSS by others• Fostered the knowledge space metaphor• A new space that overcame boundaries simply through its
practices
BRCSS Revealed in Practices
BRCSS Activities Read From the Funding Record Type of funding $ Total (excl
GST) No. of awards / events*
Research and project grants $ 1,527,294 46
Masters scholarships $ 450,000 57
Doctoral completion scholarships $ 380,000 38
Post doctoral scholarship $ 360,000 4
Conference/workshops ** $ 334,741 22
Access grid funding (Pasifika, New Settler, Postgrad, General, Other)
$ 69,000 5
Postgrad conference support and travel $ 53,580 10
Summer studentships $ 35,200 16
Distinguished visitors $ 33,541 8
Other - support for postgrad journal $ 12,000 1
Academic travel grants (mostly 'conference') $ 2,814 4
BRCSS planning day, strategic day $ 2,611 2
Total $ 3,260,781 213
Connectivity
BRCSS use of the Access Grid 2007-2008 BRCSS Access Grid Usage No. meetings 2008 No. meetings 2007
Meetings
He waka tangata (+RunningHot) 15 3
Pasifika conference / research committee 4 3
Dutch community Hoe Wie 9 2
Maori Social Sciences Network (MASS) 7 -
BRCSS management meeting 5 8
Biological economies group 9 1
BRCSS what's next/strategic group 2 -
Other 2 3
Total 53 20
Seminar series type Registrations
Research 12 - 293
Talanoa 13 10 407 / 195
New Settler 13 2 252 / 30
Methodology - 17 411
Workshops 5 - -
Total 96 49 1588 +
Extent of involvement across the nodes
Meetings in 2008
Number of node
s connected
Nodes Connected
Massey Albany
*
UofA AUTWaikat
o
Massey PN*
VUW
Massey Wn *
Canterbury
Lincoln
Otago
He Waka Tangata (HWT)
5 y y y y
Pasifika Conference Committee
6 y y y y y y
Dutch Community Hoe Wie
5 y y y y y
He Waka Tangata 6 y y y y y
Maori Social Sciences Network (MASS)
5 y y y y
Pasifika Conference Committee
5 y y y y y
BRCSS Management Committee
4 y y y
Pasifika Conference Committee
7y y y y y y y
HWT Running Hot Oxygen Group
2 y y
MASS Meeting 7 y y y y y y y
Dutch Community Hoe Wie
4 y y y y
Meetings over February – May 2008
Registrations - Research Series 2008
Massey Albany
UofA AUT WaikatoMassey
PNVUW
Massey W'n
Canterbury Lincoln OtagoFamily Centre
6 42 35 30 21 43 5 45 13 35 2
New BRCSS forms and practices of connection
Target Constituencies: Postgraduate students, Pasifika, New Settlers, Maori researchers
Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies
SocCon 2007 – Schools Social Science conference
NZSSN Workshop
Postgraduate workshops with international scholars – AG and in-person
Strategic support for Postgraduate students attendance at conferences: Centre for Applied Cross-cultural Research Conference, New Zealand Institute for Research on Ageing
SAANZ / TASA 2007
He Waka Tangata
Objects, ideas, readings, stuff from outside the rooms (research)
Knowledge Making Away from Content
Working Papers and Reports• Access Grid and e-social science
– Access Grid and Video Conferencing as Real Life Simulation by Mary Allan and David Thorns
– Access Grid Environments as Spaces of Mixed Spacial Interaction by Mary Allan and David Thorns
– Virtual Conferencing Technologies: A Survey of Users by David Thorns, Mary Allan, Bindy Barclay, Gina Chamberlain, Roslyn Kerr and Jenna Scott
– Creating E-research Communities: The Aotearoa/New Zealand National Project • Social science surveys
– BRCSS National Survey of Social Scientists 2006 report – BRCSS: The Social Sciences and Policy-Research Use by Penelope Carroll, Michael
Blewden and Karen Witten– Trends in Human Capital in the Social Sciences in New Zealand – Mapping the Social Sciences: Characteristics of Academic Research Outputs – National Survey of Social Scientists
• Studies of BRCSS– BRCSS Portfolio Research Programmes Survey 2007 by Karen Witten, Melissa Girling and
Jenny Neale– The BRCSS 2005-2006 Progress Report – BRCSS: Building a Network and a Knowledge Space in Critical Conditions
• Mahi Awatea: A Sociology for the 21st Century in Aotearoa • Report from the Foundation Conference for the International Data Forum
December 2007 Research Grants• Associate Professor Julie Park & Associate Professor Judith Littleton - Historical and
Contemporary Migrant Social Inclusion: A Focus on Health and Tuberculosis. • Professor Richard Le Heron , Associate Professor Hugh Campbell , Dr Nick Lewis & Professor
Mike Roche - Centring Social Science in Building Diverse and Resilient Biological Economies.• Dr Hannah Badland , Scott Duncan , Dr Mitch Duncan & Melody Oliver - Moving Through the
Built Environment: Where, How, and Why? • Dr Ruth McManus & Dr Cyril Schafer - Final Arrangements: Attitudes to Funeral Costs in NZ. • Professor David Thorns & Dr Mary Allan - Building Collaborative Research Capabilities in Virtual
Research Environments.• Professor Harvey Perkins , Dr Stephen Fisher, Michael Mackay - Interpreting Rural Landscapes
of Production and Consumption: Multifunctionality in Two Central Otago Districts.• Dr Lesley Patterson - Lifelines: Imagining Familial Futures.• Associate Professor Henrik Moller & Associate Professor Hugh Campbell - Securing Mahinga
Kai: Building Capacity Among Emerging Maori Researchers in the Te Tiaki Mahinga Kai Project.• Associate Professor Karen Witten , Associate Professor Robin Kearns , Penelope Carroll, Lanuola
Asiasiga , Sandy Kerr & Dr En-Yi Lin - Characteristics of Intensive Urban Environments that Support Family Wellbeing.
• Professor Sally Casswell , Associate Professor Karen Witten , Dr Tim McCreanor , Dr John Huakau & Dr En-Yi Lin - Perceptions of Social Cohesiveness in New Zealand Neighbourhoods.
• Associate Professor James Liu , Katja Hanke , Arama Rata & Keri Lawson-Te Aho - Testing a Culture-sensitive Model of Intergroup Forgiveness.
• Dr Amanda Wolf & Associate Professor Robin Peace - Policy-directed Research on Social Change in Diverse Societies: Prospects for Innovative Methodologies in New Zealand.
• Professor Colleen Ward - Integration and Adaptation in Muslim New Settlers.• Professor John Gibson , Assoc Prof Bonggeun Kim & Dr Alan de Brauw - Building and E-research
Network to Analyse an Experiment Comparing Longitudinal Surveys with Retrospective Recall.• Professor Ted Zorn - The Current and Potential Impacts of Web 2.0 Applications on New Zealand
Not-for-Profit Organisations.
Talanoa Series 2007
Title or Theme Presenter/sNodes
connectedRegistrations
Your Health is in your hands: Factors that influence Samoan women’s food choices within a church context. Use of Grounded theory.
Aliitasi Tavila 8 33
Living the Dream? Pacific Young Women in New Zealand
Karlo Mila-Schaaf 8 34
What kinds of relationships enhance the well-being of Samoan Youth attending secondary schools in Auckland
Fuafiva Fa'alau 6 18
Builing a talanoa research path: American deportees in Tonga
Lea Lani Kinikini and Mo'ale 'Otunuku
5 24
The Embodiment of God: towards a theology of the Samoan male body
Tavika Maliko 4 11
Tufunga Fonua: Tongan Indigenous Leadership in a Globalised Society
Sioni Tuitahi 7 21
Tongan Social work approaches to practice Tracie Mafileo
The academic reading experiences and profiles of Pasifika students in their first year of tertiary study
Ruth Davidson-Toumu’a
6 12
Family Centred learning at home Ramona Tiatia
Talanoa as a Tongan research methodology Linita Manuatu 6 15 James Prescott Perceptions of English use among South Pacific Islanders at the University of the South Pacific Rajni Chand
6 11
Research Series 2008Title or Theme Presenter/s
No. nodes connected
Total Registrations
The Researcher Development Initiative at the ESRC
Professor Joan Orme 6 16
Meta -Analysis of Empirical Evidence on the Labour Market Impacts of Immigration
Dr Simonetta Longhi 8 14
Working internationally to address the social determinants of health and health equityProgramme
Frank Pega 8 24
Knowledge exchange: Models of knowledge co-production
Sir Howard Newby 8 20
Trans-disciplinary knowledge production: Insights from UK and Norway
John Bryson 7 29
Bourdieu, chickens and cars: Research methods for cultural economy analyses
Jane Dixon 7 16
Is it working? : Low-income children's perspectives on managing work and care in lone-mother families
Tess Ridge 8 33
Economic Geography and Science Bill Clark 8 26
Working interdisciplinarily: a case study of TB and Citizenship
Deborah Dunsford, Annika Phillips and
Jody Lawrence7 16
Social Work and Community Development Postgraduate Research Presentations
Druinie Perera and Kathleen Gavigan
6 14
How can we make communities healthy by design? Billie Giles Corti 8 71Rural Restructuring and Spatial Planning Alister Scott 4 14
New Settler Series 2008Title or Theme Presenter/s Nodes Reg’ns
Connecting Research to Practice: A gambling perspective
Pauline Chan, Gus Lim and John Wong 6 23
Media and Minority Elena Maydell and Phoebe Li 7 17
Technology and Social Sciences Wan Munira Bt Wan Jaafar and Theodore Lee
5 11
International Graduates Fen Lu and YingJing Yuan 8 23
How to Apply for a Scholarship Hong Jae Park and Wendy Li 6 23
Be Scholarship Savvy: A Scholarship Officer's Perspective
Phillipa Hay, Gwenda Pennington, Julie Park8 43
The Construction of Social Memory in Chinese Documentary Hybrids
Wei Luo6 11
Economy and Organisation Benjamin Lindt and Albert Kuruvila 4 13
Health and Wellbeing of New Settlers Pheobe Guo 5 29
Poster Preparation Matthew Gerrie and James Liu 6 21
South African Migrants in New Zealand: Two Case Studies
Annika Phillips and Carina Meares5 15
(De)constructing the Korean NZer's Return Migrations to 'Homeland'.
Jane Lee5 16
A Matter of Development: Economic and Community Development
Daisy Lepon and Julius Marete3 7
Methodology Series 2007Title or Theme Presenter/s Nodes Reg’ns
BRCSS summer students seminarStudents (Canterbury,
Victoria and Lincoln)- -
Alas Poor Darwin: arguments beyond evolutionary psychology Hilary Rose, Stephen Rose 6 17
Domestic violence and mental illness/substance abuse Debbie Hager 7 54
Building and Usinag Microsimulation Models for the Analysis of the Effects of Social Policy
Holly Sutherland 3 17
BRCSS Seminar Series: Workshop Arun Agrawal 7 15
Balancing Social and Economic Policy: Comparing Countries in the Analysis of Best Practice
Joakim Palme 5 10
The power of Discourse Rendt Gorter 9 46
Internationalising Imaginaries in New Zealand Tertiary EducationLewis, Le Heron, Friesen,
Rees- -
'Socio-Spatial Exclusion in the city of Kolkata'. Dr Sohel Firdos 5 13
Data Archiving in Australasia: lessons from across the ditch Sophie Holloway 7 17
Polynesian Migrant Women at Work in New Zealand: Self-perceived Knowledge,Skills and Sense of Identity
Karin Menon 5 13
Planning for urban agriculture in Japan and east-Asian megacities Makoto Yokohari 3 4
Combining Rehabilitation with Accountability and Safety Judge Eugene Hyman 7 32
Demystifying Academic WritingJenny Cameron, Jane
Higgins7 60
Mauri Ora in ActionDi Grennell, Leland
Ruwhiu, Moana Eruera8 71
Politics of Connectivity
Spread of applications
Type of application No. listed on application (e.g. student and supervisor, x researchers)
No. of departments
listed
No. of institutions
listed
1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
Masters 0 41 15 1 0 0 52 5 0 0 all - - -
Doctoral completion 1 22 15 3 0 0 35 5 1 0 35 2 0 1
Post doc awards 1 3 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0
Research awards 6 20 11 4 1 1 34 8 1 0 37 4 2 0
Totals 7 64 26 8 1 1 125 18 1 0 133 6 2 1
Breadth of applicants on particular applications – cross disciplinary, cross institutional
Extensivity and reach
No. of applicants associated with Count
One contact 233
Two contacts 21
Three contacts 6
Four contacts 4
Five contracts 2
Six contacts 3
Seven contacts 2
Eight contacts 1
272
Which disciplines were interested in which themes?
Discipline/department New wealth social justice transmission sustainability e-research
Geography 8 17 4 19
Psychology 16 6 7
Anthropology 2 10 7 9
Sociology 7 6 4 7 3
Public health/health 8 4 8 1
Management 4 4 1 2
History 2 3 3 2
Education 2 3 2 2
Political studies/ science 4 4 2 3 1
Social sciences 1 3 2 2
Environment, society and design (Lincoln) 1 3 3
Development studies 3 1 1
Economics 2 1 2 1
Theme counts 34 89 40 73 6
Distribution of Awards by Number
Auckland
AUT
Waikato
Massey
Victoria
Canterbury
Lincoln
Otago
Number of successful award applications
BRCSS: building core capabilitiesCommunity Contributions: Community Contributions:
‘‘public’ social sciencepublic’ social science
TeachingTeachingResearchResearch
Knowledge production
Core Social Science
Capability building
IdentitiesCreative/futures
Commissioned research
Training / capacitie
s
Critic and Conscience
HWT P
Hui
PG Workshops
Research Awards
Access Grid ER
CoRE bids
NI
Commissioned Research
Multiple traces and effects: enhanced capability and a remapped a
landscape
Our contention is that the work achieved by BRCSS described above has had multiple effects and left multiple traces on the landscape of the social sciences. Many of these are difficult to quantify, and most are difficult to tie directly to measures of a
better future. All however, are dimensions of a new knowledge space that has remapped social science
BRCSS’ Achievements• Network development• Reinvigorate research and lead research agenda• Capability building• Achieving what otherwise could not have been achieved at
disciplinary or other level .....… at minimal cost
Multiple traces• New connectivities, new groupings, platforms for
new capabilities• New spirit of experimentation• New sense of community, new communities of
practice• New social science identities• New postgraduate identities / practices• New networks, engagements, connections, platforms• Investments in multiple particular individuals
Multiple effects• Fostering knowledge of conditions of NZ social science – a
new basis for knowing• Widening range of dedicated activities• Blunting the axes of contest • Demonstrating NZ social science as novel• Making visible, giving recognition, resourcing, fostering
marginal or shadowed groups• Assembling basis for new research/career trajectories• Shifting collective voice and identity to positive
• Extraordinarily – Inclusive and integrative
• Generated– Imagination and boundary crossing– a national project with new, post-foundational architecture– impetus to consider how to perform social science– greater knowledge of ourselves
• Demonstrated – knowledge can be made differently and that knowing is in the doing– framework for reconfiguring NZ universities– innovative graduate teaching model– value of giving research community freedom to get on and do it
• Allowed – groups to imagine and give imagination substance
Pluses on the Report Card
Shaping What Next
What Next 2008 … imagined from BRCSS
• Excellent, meaningful social science for NZ• Pathways and networks, breadth of engagement, ‘national
knowledge project’, independent social science ‘centre’, transdisciplinarity, distributed leadership
• Also requires commitment, enhanced connections, Access Grid, strong constituencies, funding
Source: Peace, R. 2008 ‘BRCSS What Next?’ Document prepared for What Next Group
Forward to the conception
• Messages from Coming of Age high on BRCSS II agenda (Peace et al. 2009)– BRCSS II requires strong stable funding– thicker institutional space– social science-led interdisciplinary research and knowledge production – stronger recognition of the social embeddedness and grounding of
economic relations and value
• BRCSS has given the Coming of Age project a politics and practice of knowledge production, replacing under-intellectualised vision with new and theorised imaginaries of a 21st century social science, a record of performing it and prescription for practicing it, and a tried model of engagement across multiple boundaries. The recommendations of Coming of Age are now open to a deep debate.
BRCSS A Knowledge Space
Creating a new social science generation/paradigm for 21st century Aotearoa
New ZealandBRCSS initiated practices that have allowed different groups to perform different imaginaries in ways that have proven capable of accommodating a diversity of visions across the professional, critical, policy and public realms. Its distributed, relational and performed forms mapped a knowledge space in which institutions, places, social projects, research agendas and social knowledges became rearticulated in generative practices that have afforded it a temporary yet flexible stability.
• BRCSS has changed things – new connections, networks, platforms, experiences to confront changing conditions
• Things have changed: how does BRCSS now sit within Government policy objectives, new balances of its formative tensions
BRCSS as ExperimentationExperiment ‘Results’Access Grid Available to be integrated into all social science practice ... taken up by many
Hardware of connectivity, capability building, aspirationThorns et al. - world now knows how it works
Priortised Networks
AspirationalFormative momentum – something new
Methodology / Research Series
Discrete (but connected) injections of global flavour to BRCSS experience
Research Seeding New practices for new times – creating different social science worlds
Connectivity / bottom-up collaboration
Wide reach and touch in universitiesAltered institutional landscapeHigh returns on investment
Postgraduate emphasis
New generations folded in - innovation, enthusiasm, excitement for allPractising in this novel space what is good about the social sciencesNew capacities
Capability Building Knowledge production capability, enhanced capacities, reshaped landscape
Making Social science visible
We can all see / walk in the landscapePlatform for connectivity
Emergence Not a top-down creation – yet not a creation of academic mind alone
Reading BRCSS as a knowledge space allows us to…
• See and know social science as co-constituted political and intellectual projects
• Connect social theory to policy/institutional context through innovative / deeper reflection beyond the survey
• Reveal– the interplay of imaginaries, political projects, institutions, agency– imaginaries to be the drivers of value creation and what it is to be good in the
world– BRCSS as emergent, stitched together entity requiring different metrics– capability building as on-going, never finished– potential creativity of living the tensions between intellectual and political
trajectories – Knowledges spaces as a category for the 21st century
• Highlight relationality in the production of knowledge
‘Knowledge with’ for inventive futures