Knowledge Landscapes North America

Contents: Knowledge Landscapes North America: Introduction / Sabine Sielke, Simone Knewitz, and Christian Kloeckner Knowledge Institutions, Knowledge Economies New Roles for Academia? The American University and the Knowledge Economy / Christopher Newfield Frost on Humanities and Social Sciences? Understanding the Climate Change in North American Knowledge Landscapes / Sverker Sorlin Building Knowledge: Carnegie Libraries as Epistemic Spaces / Alexander Starre Education and the Circulation of Knowledge From the ABCs to the American Revolution: Poetry and the Construction of Children’s Knowledge / Emily Petermann From Tools to Toys: American Dissected Maps and Geographic Knowledge at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Mahshid Mayar The Contingency of Knowledge: Stover at Yale and the Debate on U.S. Elite Education / Sophie Spieler Stoner: John Williams’s Academic Novel against Academia / Heinz Ickstadt Literary Knowledge Production and the Natural Sciences in the United States / Antje Kley Matter, Metaphor, and Cultural Ecology / Hubert Zapf How Black Is the Border? Border Concepts Traveling North American Knowledge Landscapes / Paula von Gleich Four Theses on the News / Frank Kelleter Tacit and Embodied Knowledges Tacit Knowledge in Edward P. Jones’s Novel The Known World /Christa Buschendorf Knowledge on Edge: Resident Evil, Feminism and the Rescue of the Female Child / Jeanne Cortiel Translating Affect: Inuit Cinema, Affect Theory, and Knowledge (Re-)Production / Russell J. A. Kilbourn “American Innovations”: A Conversation with Rivka Galchen and Joseph O’Neill /Andrew Gross