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Exploring Knowledge-Cultures: Precision Farming, Yield Mapping, and the Expert/Farmer Interface

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>5/01/2000
<mark>Journal</mark>Environment and Planning A
Issue number5
Volume32
Number of pages16
Pages (from-to)909-924
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Over recent years the concept of `knowledge' in the singular has been increasingly challengedby ideas of differentiated, contextualized `knowledges'. In this paper we propose the concept of`knowledge-cultures' as a way of exploring the fluidity of diverse forms of knowledge and the rules,norms, and values that enable or constrain their production. Elaborating on Shotter's idea of knowl-edge-from-within, we argue that knowledge-cultures are social achievements that equip those whoembody them with a relational ^ responsive kind of understanding of events and surroundings built onmultiple knowledge-forms. To explore this contextual nature of knowledge-culture construction andillustrate our arguments, we draw on detailed empirical research of farmers' experiences with theprecision-farming technique of yield mapping in the English counties of Lincolnshire and Suffolk.