Knowledge Production Research Articles

Forms of life: a literary formalist view on biological individuality.

This article argues for a formalist approach to biological individuality, bridging formalist ways of reading in cultural and literary studies with contemporary debates in the philosophy of biology. Central to this discussion is the idea that the question of what constitutes an individual, spanning across domains such as biology, politics, law, and literature, is essentially a question of form: the conditions by which we individualise enforce a specific pattern through which we interpret the world, whether it is the natural world, the social world, or the fictional world of a literary text. Taking this as a starting point, the article adopts a strategic formalist method as articulated by Caroline Levine, employing a close-reading method that asks how forms of individuality, whether they are phenomenal, theoretical, or cultural, operate as they move beyond their designated system of discourse; what they afford when they travel across dissimilar materials; and what occurs when they intersect with other forms, be they sociopolitical, poetic, or aesthetic. Considering literary and sociopolitical forms on the same plane of existence as theoretical forms of individuality enables a needed conversation on the affordances of forms in both the production of knowledge and in the cultural imagination.

Difference and subordination – the epistemic struggles of collaborative knowledge production in the field of mental health

BackgroundCollaborative or co-productive approaches in the field of mental health care research are often legitimized by the argument that researchers with lived experience of mental health crisis and disability (= LE) produce different knowledge as compared to those without these experiences At the same time, there is a lack of studies that report on the underlying collaborative processes and on how these processes affect the knowledge that is being produced. This manuscript describes a collaborative research process and how this process impacted the knowledge produced.MethodsThe collaborative research process entailed a multi-step coding process, using a variant of thematic analysis. To facilitate comparison, two code systems were produced, one by researchers with and the other by researchers without LE of mental health crisis and disability. Subsequently, the code systems of these two sub-teams were integrated into a single code system. To evaluate the potential differences between the code formations of the two sub-teams as well as the effects of their integration, three focus groups suceeded, composed of 1) psychology students as well as researchers 2) with and 3) without LE, whose results are at the core of this manuscript.ResultsThe focus group participants described extensive differences between the code formation of the researchers with and without LE – first in form, but also more substantially in the contents of both systems – corresponding to two distinct logics for understanding the implementation of PSW: an “institutional” and “interactional” logic. The integration process of both code systems was described as invasive, resulting in a final code system that more closely resembled the primary code system of the researchers without LE.ConclusionThe distinct logic of the two code systems can be thought of as distinct but complementary positions on the topic of PSW implementation. Such an explanation, however, falls short, as it silences the power relations and diverging interests and positions of the researchers involved. This is supported by what resulted from the integration of both code systems, resulting in the continuation of the logic of the researchers without LE. It is concluded that epistemic struggles and their knowledge politics require greater attention in the context of collaborative mental health research.

Brown researcher, white schools:

This article is a cross-racial reflexive analysis between a biracial brown researcher and two researchers racialized as white in the same research project on (anti)racism in Finnish lower secondary schools. Building on three vignettes, the authors highlight several ways in which a researcher's racialized position as non-white and as white can impact ethnographic fieldwork in a context dominated by Nordic Exceptionalism and normative whiteness. The authors problematize the position of insider gaining access and gatekeepers’ trust, before looking intersectionally at the dynamic of being a racial outsider, the conflicts and affects that come with it, and conclude with the onto-epistemological challenges of doing school ethnographic research and contributing to antiracist knowledge production. This contribution crystalizes under-researched dilemmas that call for the development of new ethnographic designs which center researchers’ racial positions and further reflection on the ethical, methodological and ontological implications of producing data on racism at school.

Displaced Placemaking, Bioart and Beyond-Human Communication

This article develops the concept of displaced placemaking as a theoretical and methodological framework for examining how individuals experiencing forced migration engage with environments through art-based practice and Earth–outer space perspectives. Drawing on observations and creative work at sites in northern and southern Finland, the study explores how experiences of spatial and cultural rupture shape human–environment relationships across multiple temporal and spatial scales. Rather than treating displacement solely as a condition of loss, the framework emphasises how observation, documentation and engagement with more-than-human systems can generate new, non-assimilative forms of environmental connection.Displaced placemaking draws from complexity theory, environmental humanities, and critical bioart practices to offer methods that are both materially accessible and conceptually responsive to structural exclusions. Through tools such as scalar analysis, temporal recalibration and boundary identification, the approach situates localised environmental experience within broader planetary systems without assuming continuity, origin or territorial fixity. The study contributes to scholarship on migration and environmental ethics by articulating practices of attention, co-creation and situated accountability, while interrogating the boundaries of ecological knowledge production across disciplines and scales.

Creolizing reflexivity:

This article contributes to ongoing debates on generating interconnected transformative possibilities for decolonizing knowledge production in Nordic educational research without erasing power differences and tensions. Drawing from my PhD research, I entangle various research practices from the previously ignored or discredited margins, which go beyond hegemonic gazes and approvals for legitimacy. I particularly highlight everyday knowledges stemming from multiple senses, encounters, and unexpected connections, which might seem from a scientific perspective less rigorous or considered research at all. These may disrupt Nordic exceptionalism and color-evasiveness in researchers’ racialised positionalities. I show how the concept of creolization intersects with the method of autoethnography as Anzaldúan autohistoria-teoría with the aim of entangling multiple unequal knowers and knowledges, imagine and experiment with unforeseeable possibilities in and beyond research, and thus creolize reflexivity. This can expand the research imagination with regards to what constitute data generation and analysis, co-researching, co-writing, co-authoring publications, and presenting the research to wider audiences.

Queering cybersecurity: An alternative research agenda

ABSTRACT Current scholarship on cybersecurity in International Relations tends to emphasise state-centric, militarised, and overly securitised perspectives. However, an emerging body of critical and feminist scholarship seeks to challenge this dominant perspective. This article draws from and extends these critical perspectives to propose a creative intervention of queering cybersecurity. By bringing queer scholarship, methodologies, and possibilities into conversation with critical cyber scholarship, the article sketches the contours of an alternative research agenda. This is developed firstly, by drawing necessary attention to the experiences of queer people in cyberspace, including both generative and violent encounters that enable spaces for queer flourishing. Secondly, by developing and maintaining a queer, subversive ethos committed to disrupting the cyber status quo through queering, hacking, and glitching the system. Thirdly, by exposing the violent hierarchies of cybersecurity, which sit at the intersections of cisheterosexism, coloniality, racism, and other structures of violence. Through empirical examples presented, the article demonstrates a proposed research agenda, which offers opportunities to expand cyber to include queer intimacies and subjectivities, disrupt binary logics of cyber securitisations, and challenge the boundaries of knowledge production in and on cybersecurity. Ultimately, the article’s intervention for queering cyber scholarship invites further exploration and contemplation for reimagining cybersecurity otherwise.

“Don’t Research about Us without Us”: Participatory Action Research as an Approach to Producing Knowledge with Marginalized Populations

ABSTRACT Communities marginalized along economic, social, and political fronts are frequently the objects of academic research, particularly among scholars who study social problems. However, given the many obstacles that prevent people from vulnerable populations from obtaining graduate degrees and becoming formal researchers, much of our knowledge about vulnerable groups is written by outside academics rather than those from the communities being studied. In this article, we argue that Participatory Action Research (PAR) is an effective approach for enabling vulnerable groups to play a central role in the process of knowledge production about their communities. Not only does this approach bring the voices of the periphery into academic research, it also improves the quality of the data, facilitates data collection, promotes the well-being of the research population, and creates opportunities for community members to gain entry into higher education. We illustrate this claim by describing our experience conducting a two-year research project that employed a PAR approach to examine the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Cidade de Deus, a “favela,” or informal settlement in Rio de Janeiro. We discuss the benefits, challenges, and limitations of employing PAR for incorporating voices from the periphery in sociological research about marginalized communities.

GESTÃO ESCOLAR X PARCERIAS: TRAZER A COMUNIDADE PARA DENTRO DA ESCOLA E ASSIM SOCIALIZAR A GESTÃO E O TRABALHO PEDAGÓGICO ESCOLAR

This text seeks to show from bibliographic research that School Management with Community Partnerships can produce good results. Partnerships that will become an educational trend when well structured. To this end, the school manager must promote actions that attract these partnerships. These partnerships can happen to former employees such as former directors, ex-teacher (retired), former students who now have technical or licensed training. With municipal entities (Guardianship Council, Social Assistance, Health post) that can promote lectures and studies. With universities and colleges. With institutions offering technical courses. With local commerce, etc. Anyway the school in the management of the school manager can provide all these educational partnerships. Involving diverse sectors of the community in favor of the process of teaching and learning. And in school the school manager should seek the engagement of the whole school community with the partnerships and their projects for the production of knowledge.

Sexual Harassment and Human Security in Higher Educational institutions in Nigeria

This paper explores sexual harassment and human security in higher institutions in Nigeria. Section (11) and (12) of the Sexual Harassment Bill of the Federal Government of Nigeria passed by the Senate in July, 2020 states the penalties for sexual harassment in Nigerian Tertiary institutions .The major focus of this paper was to find out the fundamental causes and consequences of sexual harassment on the victims and the learning environment, suggest the way forward to address the issue. Using the Feminism theory, and archival method of data collection, the paper discovered among others that the mission of higher institution as a system dedicated to knowledge production is seriously compromised when the male lecturers, through their incessant sexualized misuse of institutional authority, continually violate the intellectual freedom of female students with impunity. Secondly, that the scale of the threat is trivialized as a result of underreporting of such cases. The paper made the following recommendations based on the findings. 1. Female employees should be protected by legislation against such acts. 2. The management should educate and raise awareness among students and staff at all levels on how to recognize, prevent, and respond to sexual harassment.

The imaginaries of urban agriculture and a livable city shaping Bangkok’s urban governance and design

ABSTRACT Urban imaginaries illustrate how city residents engage with the past, present and future urban environment, yet they remain underexamined in the context of urban agriculture (UA) in the Global South. This paper investigates multiple imaginaries produced through five types of UA in Bangkok, Thailand. Drawing on a co-production of urban imaginaries lens, we examine how the material and immaterial dimensions of imaginaries within UA in Bangkok contribute to reimagining the future(s) of a more livable city through UA practices, knowledge production, networking and values. We identify the compatibilities and tensions between UA network’s future imaginaries for a livable city, and how these imaginaries shape urban design and planning. We argue that to build on compatibilities and address tensions to better promote equality and justice in the city, more ambitious and multilayered policies on UA are needed that can be achieved through deepening effective participatory governance and critical anticipatory governance.

Bridging Europe’s Innovation Divide: How European Union Research Policy Drives Growth in Less Developed Regions

Background This research examines the impact of competitive European research and development funding—specifically from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme and Horizon 2020—on regional economic growth, research capacities, and innovation performance across NUTS2 regions, representing mid-level administrative divisions within European Union Member States. Given the persistent disparities in research and innovation output between more and less developed regions, we focus on how these funding mechanisms influence economic and scientific development, particularly in less developed and peripheral regions. While European Union research programs aim to foster knowledge production and technological advancement, their role in mitigating regional inequalities and supporting economic convergence remains an open question. Methods To assess the effects of European Union Research and Development (EU R&D) funding, we conduct a quantitative analysis using data from Eurostat, PATSTAT, Web of Science, and the European Commission’s CORDIS database. We measure changes in three key indicators —publication output, patent applications, and GDP per capita— between 2011 and 2022. GDP per capita, representing a region’s total economic output divided by its population, is a key indicator of regional economic performance. Ordinary least squares regression models are employed to evaluate the relationship between funding intensity and regional research and economic development, controlling for factors such as regional R&D investments, international collaboration, and initial economic conditions. Results Our findings reveal significant and persistent interregional disparities in research and innovation outcomes. While participation in European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme and Horizon 2020 is associated with stronger research capacities in already well-developed regions, no significant relationship is found between EU-funded R&D and increases in publications or patents at an aggregate level. However, a positive correlation emerges between EU R&D funding and GDP growth in less developed regions, suggesting that while direct scientific outputs may not always materialize, economic benefits arise through alternative channels such as small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) engagement, infrastructure improvements, and knowledge diffusion. Conclusions The study highlights the broader implications of transnational funding frameworks for regional economic convergence within the EU. Despite limited effects on immediate research outputs in less developed regions, competitive EU R&D programs contribute to economic resilience in lagging regions, raising important considerations for multi-level governance and international cooperation. These results align with debates in International Relations regarding the role of supra-national institutions in shaping equitable economic outcomes and addressing structural imbalances across Member States. As EU funding strategies evolve, a more integrated approach that strengthens innovation ecosystems in underperforming regions could enhance European research policy's inclusivity and long-term impact.

Artificial Intelligence in Research Ecosystem: AI Roles, New Research Thinking Paradigms, and Collaborative Potential

This study presents a novel exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI)—operating as a tool, assistant, and participant—can reshape the research ecosystem and drive innovative research thinking. By introducing a unified framework, we systematically examine AI’s contributions in advancing research thinking, highlighting the potential of human-AI collaboration and new research thinking paradigm. Through original case analyses such as SciAgents, Co-scientist, and AITurk, this paper illustrates how AI severs as research assistant and participant to conduct human-like behaviors in scientific research, and fosters deeper interdisciplinary cooperation. Finally, we argue that AI’s true value lies not just in efficiency gains but in augmenting human creativity and insight. Our findings advance the current understanding of AI’s multiple roles in research and underscore its capacity to revolutionize both knowledge production and collaborative methodologies, paving the way for a more integrated, impactful, and future-oriented research paradigm.

Plasmonic nanolaser with tunable emitting wavelength near 1 µm

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) can produce a confined electromagnetic field near the metal–dielectric interface, allowing energy to be compressed into a scale smaller than the optical diffraction limit. The characteristic enables the fabrication of sub-wavelength-sized, ultra-low-threshold, ultrafast, specific polarization, room-temperature lasing nanolasers, which is especially meaningful for the lasers emitting long wavelength light. In this work, we developed a Cs0.1MA0.9SnI3 perovskite plasmonic laser based on a metal–insulator–semiconductor (MIS) structure, demonstrating a low threshold of 281 μJ cm−2, a tunable emitting wavelength from 973 to 1023 nm, strong mode confinement at the cutoff height of 90 nm, and a rapid response lifetime of 29.43 ps. Our study represents the first, to the best of our knowledge, theoretical design and experimental production of perovskite plasmonic nanolaser with a tunable emitting wavelength near 1 μm, filling a significant research gap and paving the way for the application of perovskite nanolasers in optoelectronic integration and information technology.

Escribir en comunidad: Construcción de relaciones y responsabilidad en la producción de conocimiento

ABSTRACTAs anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subdiscipline, is a social endeavor. Yet research often remains an isolating (though not necessarily solitary) process, even within research teams and in coauthorship contexts. Here, we focus on peer‐reviewed publication as the principal manifestation of knowledge production and propose a method for challenging division, hierarchy, power differentials, and adherence to tradition: writing in community. Writing in community is a collaborative form of writing that centers care, abundance, joy, and personal satisfaction over the individuality currently rewarded by the academy. This process engenders consensus, circumvents normative hierarchical research and writing, and promotes relationship building. Here, we experiment by inviting reviewers and editors into our community to collectively contribute to the writing process and reflect on that experience together. Ultimately, we challenge norms for scholarship, (co)authorship, and ways of knowing to offer a more equitable praxis of knowledge production. We propose that writing in community can help anthropologists enact values of multivocality and research transparency.

Writing with research partners ‘from the field’: Plural knowledges and epistemic justice in qualitative research

Despite longstanding calls for more inclusive geographical research and the increasing adoption of participatory research designs, our non-academic research partners ‘from the field’ continue to be excluded from a central aspect of knowledge production: academic writing and publishing. This exclusion is not only an epistemological issue of limited knowledge perspectives but also an ethical problem of epistemic injustice (Fricker, 2007). While participatory research has fostered collaboration in data collection and analysis, academic writing remains largely restricted to scholars, perpetuating traditional power asymmetries in knowledge dissemination. Drawing from an interdisciplinary literature review and personal experience with collaborative writing, I argue that co-authoring with non-academic research partners can enrich academic knowledge production by incorporating plural knowledges while simultaneously challenging academic gatekeeping. However, writing with non-academic partners is not a straightforward process; it necessitates transforming the ineluctable position of the academic as a gatekeeper into that of a mediator in the co-production of knowledge. Based on leading examples, I outline a structured approach to developing meaningful writing partnerships, focusing on three key strategies: (1) creating a writing relationship and negotiating positionality; (2) investing time, respecting different urgencies, and sharing resources; and (3) finding a common language, breaking conventions, and challenging academic standards. By embracing these strategies, we can take steps towards a more inclusive and multi-voiced geography that actively redistributes epistemic authority.

Factors Influencing the Adoption of Renewable Energies in Developing Countries

ABSTRACTThis study offers a comprehensive systematic review and bibliometric analysis of the determinants affecting renewable energy adoption in developing nations. By employing a methodology that integrates qualitative content analysis with bibliometric mapping, 201 articles published between 2019 and 2023 were examined. The results reveal a complex web of technological, economic, social, and political factors influencing clean energy implementation. A temporal analysis demonstrates a significant paradigm shift in the literature, from predominantly economic–financial determinants (37% in 2019) to the emergence of sociocultural factors as the primary drivers (32% in 2023) of renewable energy adoption. Noteworthy barriers include financial limitations, governance challenges, and societal resistance, whereas facilitators encompass innovations in business models and supportive policies. The bibliometric analysis highlighted significant geographical asymmetries in knowledge production, with research concentrated in China, India, and the United Kingdom, whereas extensive regions in Africa and Latin America remain underrepresented. These geographical disparities raise critical questions about the generalizability of findings across diverse socioeconomic contexts. This research emphasizes the importance of employing multifaceted and locally tailored strategies to drive renewable energy adoption, particularly those addressing emerging sociocultural dimensions. The study also explores implications for energy policy and suggests future research directions, advocating for more interdisciplinary, longitudinal investigations, and greater inclusivity in international research collaborations to ensure the representation of underserved regions.

Computational linguistics: a scientometric review

Abstract Computational linguistics has significantly influenced teaching, learning, and research methods in knowledge production and data analysis. This study aims to examine the rise and development of computational linguistics and its implications for education. Using a scientometric approach, we analysed 81,740 documents from Scopus, Web of Science (WOS), and Lens between 1954 and 2022. Bibliometric and scientometric analyses were conducted using CiteSpace 5.8.R3 and VOSviewer 1.6.18. Our analysis identified eight bibliometric and eight scientometric indicators that describe the development of computational linguistics. We observed two primary patterns in the clustering of the most explored and examined topics within computational linguistics. The first pattern includes using computational linguistics to produce progress reports, advance linguistic theory, and assess inter-coder agreement. The second pattern involves utilizing probabilistic language models to evaluate word sense disambiguation in semantic relatedness, deep learning, semantic roles, referring expressions, and statistical machine translation. Our analysis reveals: (1) The development of natural language processing applications to enhance learning experiences and analyse student interactions; (2) The creation of intelligent tutoring systems and chatbots for personalized guidance and support; (3) The implementation of automated assessment and grading systems for consistency and timely feedback; (4) The role of computational linguistics in language learning tools and resources, providing real-time feedback and adaptive learning paths; and (5) The use of computational linguistics methods to analyse research trends and emerging topics. By understanding the development and contributions of computational linguistics, we can better harness its potential to enhance the quality of education, benefiting students, educators, and researchers alike.

Mahmud ibn Vali and the Persianate geography of early modern Eurasia

ABSTRACT The seventeenth century was a time of upheaval for the geographical traditions of the Persian world, but Mahmud bin Valī remains a little-recognized figure in its intellectual history. His Baḥr al-Asrār, written in Persian, combines classical Islamic geography with empirical observations, and offers a synthesis of historiography, economic geography, and environmental analysis. In contrast to European contemporaries, such as Blaeu and Clüver, who developed a mathematical cartography, Valī’s work remained textual and reflected the descriptive and historical geography that characterized Persian scholarship. His focus on trade networks, irrigation systems, and political landscapes demonstrates the continuing vitality of Islamic geographical traditions in Iran, Central Asia, and Mughal India. By reassessing Baḥr al-Asrār, this work situates Mahmud bin Valī within broader debates about the production of geographical knowledge and affirms the role of the Persian world in shaping an early modern understanding of space, mobility, and territoriality. His contributions challenge Eurocentric narratives of geographical progress and emphasize the continuing influence of Persian intellectual traditions on Eurasian geography.

Rebellious academia – the potential of creative practice research. Collaborative experimental provocation

ABSTRACT Creative practice research sits on a fascinating, albeit sometimes challenging, border between research (understood as knowledge production) and creative practice (individual ways to express oneself using artistic methods). An exciting journey as it is, it sometimes results in confused identities of the makers and, potentially, misaligned expectations of the audiences. Not adhering to existing templates, creative practice research requires a slightly more rebellious approach to achieve its goals and remain genuine. This Collaborative Creative Experimental Provocation is driven by a manifesto that emerged out of the main author’s own challenges, both as a maker and supporter (examiner/supervisor/mentor) of practice research projects across creative disciplines: To guarantee their place in academia, creative practice researchers need to make new rules by breaking the rules. The legitimacy of creative practice research is possible due to the consistent rebellious acts of those involved. To be a rebel means to know your direction and be able to tell helpful structures from limiting restrictions and inadequate rules. To be a rebel means to strive for what matters regardless of expectations. It expresses the strong need to do what’s right instead of perpetuating limiting or unhelpful strategies that traditionally dictate what research should be (and how), and as such, it defines the scope of being ‘rebellious’. It considers creative practice research, understood as research where creative practice is essential to achieving the projected objectives. This paper explores the potential of creative practice research, not only for historians but everyone interested in the non-verbal communication potential that can be applied to multiple disciplines and scenarios.

A Secular Bible: Contesting Scientific Knowledge Claims on How to Translate the Old Testament in Sweden, 1971–1974

ABSTRACT This article investigates tensions between scientific and religious knowledge in Sweden in the 1970s. As a case study, the article surveys the work of a governmental committee, appointed by the Social Democratic Government in 1971 to prepare the production of a new Swedish translation of the Old Testament. The knowledge production of the committee experts, being researchers trained in the methods of historical-critical biblical scholarship, favoured what was perceived as a scientific perspective on the translation of the Old Testament. As the committee report was published in 1974 and put into circulation in the form of a referral round (remissrunda), it met with criticisms from a number of actors representing Christian organizations and denominations. I suggest that this critique was primarily targeted at the scientific knowledge underpinning the arguments of the committee. A translation based on such knowledge would differentiate the biblical texts from their true religious purpose and context of use, bringing about a secularization of the Bible itself. Contesting the knowledge claims of the committee experts was vital since, ultimately, the knowledge base of the new translation would decide what kind of Bible that would occupy the public space of future Sweden.