Long-distance and intercontinental connections with an attendant spread of knowledge are as old as Homo sapiens themselves. Since its inception, the globalization of knowledge has been a process with its own dynamics, interfering significantly with other processes of intercultural transmission. The four parts of this volume address historical phases in which the production, transmission and transformation of knowledge were crucial for advancing these processes. Part 1 investigates a series of processes in the very early phases of globalization, from the transmission of practical knowledge to the emergence of science. Part 2 explores how knowledge was disseminated as a consequence of the spread of power and belief structures. Part 3 deals with the encounters between culturally specific knowledge and globalized knowledge. Part 4 is dedicated to the globalization of modern science and to the great challenges, such as energy supply and climate change, that humanity faces when dealing with knowledge today
The 97th Dahlem Workshop:
The present volume is based on the 97th Dahlem Workshop on Globalization of Knowledge and its Consequences, Berlin, 18–23 November 2007, coordinated by Katharina Ochse.
Participants:
Ian Baldwin, Angelo Baracca, Fabio Bevilacqua, Maria Emilia Beyer, Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Gianluca Bocchi, István M. Bodnár, Jens Erland Braarvig, Chiara Brambilla, Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Jacob Dahl, Peter Damerow, Hansjörg Dilger, Kostas Gavroglu, Matteo Gerlini, Denise Gimpel, Gerd Graßhoff, Hans Falk Hoffmann, Dirk Hofäcker, Jarita C. Holbrook, Malcolm D. Hyman, Birgit Krawietz, Manfred Krebernik, Joachim Kurtz, Manolis Patiniotis, Albert Presas I Puig, Daniel T. Potts, Dhruv Raina, Jürgen Renn, Richard Rottenburg, Dagmar Schäfer, Matthias Schemmel, Mark Schiefsky, Meredith Schuman, Gebhard J. Selz, Martina Siebert, Circe Mary Silva da Silva, Ana Simões, Tzveta Sofronieva, Saran Solongo, Karin Tybjerg, Hans Ulrich Vogel, Milena Wazeck, Gerhard Wolf, Harriet T. Zurndorfer
Preface
Jürgen Renn
1 The Globalization of Knowledge in History: An Introduction
Jürgen Renn, Malcolm D. Hyman
2 Knowledge and Science in Current Discussions of Globalization
Helge Wendt, Jürgen Renn
PART 1: From Technology Transfer to the Origins of Science
3 Survey: From Technology Transfer to the Origins of Science
Malcolm D. Hyman, Jürgen Renn
4 Technological Transfer and Innovation in Ancient Eurasia
Daniel T. Potts
5 Writing, Language and Textuality: Conditions for the Transmission of Knowledge in the Ancient Near East
Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum
6 The Origins of Writing and Arithmetic
Peter Damerow
7 Globalization of Ancient Knowledge: From Babylonian Observations to Scientific Regularities
Gerd Graßhoff
8 The Creation of Second-Order Knowledge in Ancient Greek Science as a Process in the Globalization of Knowledge
Mark Schiefsky
PART 2: Knowledge as a Fellow Traveler
9 Survey: Knowledge as a Fellow Traveler
Jürgen Renn
10 The Spread of Buddhism as Globalization of Knowledge
Jens Braarvig
11 The Transmission of Scientific Knowledge from Europe to China in the Early Modern Period
Matthias Schemmel
12 Normative Islam and Global Scientific Knowledge
Birgit Krawietz
13 From Khwarazm to Cordoba: The Propagation of Non-Religious Knowledge in the Islamic Empire
Gotthard Strohmaier
14 The Sciences in Europe: Transmitting Centers and the Appropriating Peripheries
Manolis Patiniotis, Kostas Gavroglu
15 The Naturalization of Modern Science in South Asia: A Historical Overview of the Processes of Domestication and Globalization
Dhruv Raina
PART 3: The Place of Local Knowledge in the Global Community
16 Survey: The Place of Local Knowledge in the Global Community
Jürgen Renn
17 Taking China to the World, Taking the World to China: Chen Hengzhe and an Early Globalizing Project
Denise Gimpel
18 The Introduction of the European University System in Brazil
Oscar Abdounur, Adriana Cesar de Mattos
19 Celestial Navigation and Technological Change on Moce Island
Jarita C. Holbrook
20 Translation of Central Banking to Developing Countries in the Post-World War II Period: The Case of the Bank of Israel
Arie Krampf
21 On Juridico-Political Foundations of Meta-Codes
Richard Rottenburg
22 The (Ir)Relevance of Local Knowledge: Circuits of Medicine and Biopower in the Neoliberal Era
Hansjörg Dilger
23 The Transformations of Knowledge Through Cultural Interactions in Brazil: The Case of the Tupinikim and the Guarani
Circe Mary Silva da Silva, Ligia Arantes Sad
PART 4: The Globalization of Modern Science
24 Survey: The Globalization of Modern Science
Jürgen Renn, Malcolm D. Hyman
25 The University of the 21st Century: An Aspect of Globalization
Yehuda Elkana
26 The Soviet Psychologists and the Path to International Psychology
Ludmila Hyman
27 The Global Diffusion of Nuclear Technology
Angelo Baracca
28 The Role of Open and Global Communication in Particle Physics
Hans Falk Hoffmann
29 Internationalism and the History of Molecular Biology
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
30 The Role of Chemistry in the Global Energy Challenge
Robert Schlögl
31 Climate Change as a Global Challenge – and its Implications for Knowledge Generation and Dissemination
Daniel Klingenfeld, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
32 Toward an Epistemic Web
Malcolm D. Hyman, Jürgen Renn
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academic freedom
actor
collective
identity of
mobility of
multitude of
nongovernmental
political
administration
accountability
accounting techniques
colonial
state
agency
change agent
distributed
agriculture
development of
spread of
algebra
alphabet
Greek
history of
alphabetization
alphabetocentrism
animal husbandry
spread of
Anthropocene
arithmetic
Chinese
and cuneiform writing
origin of
proto-arithmetic
artifacts
technological
astronomical diaries
astronomy
Babylonian
Chinese
Copernican
Egyptian
Greek
Islamic
Ptolemaic
early modern
modern
nautical
B
C
calculus
calendar
Chinese
reform of
capitalism
academic
global
intellectual
cartography
center-periphery model
central banking
centralization
challenging object
chemistry
and energy research
concept of chemical compounds
electro
internationalism of
synthetic
Christian
concept of hell
theology
Christianity
City of God in
Nestorian
Oriental
epistemic transformation of
in Brazil
in China
in the late Roman Empire
medieval
rise of
citizenship
classification
climate
change
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decarbonization
negotiation
code-switching
cognition
cultural conditions of
distributed
individual
cognitive
constructions
development
dynamics
egocentrism
homology
maps
order of knowledge
order of science
processes
science
Cold War
colonialism
and education
anti-colonialism
decolonization
global
in Africa
in Brazil
in India
in the Islamic world
policies in
post-colonial studies
post-colonial world
post-colonialism
self-colonization
communication
communication technology
compass
conceptual
change
creolization
framework
system
corridor-like connection
cosmology
creationism
cultural technique
culture
Afanasievo
American
Andronovo
Arabic
Chinese
Greek
Greek-Arab
Indian
Latin
Lower Xiaojiadian
Moce
Mycenaean
Soviet
Tibetan
Xinjiang
and development
bilingual
book
consumer
heterogeneity
indigenous
intellectual
layers of
local
mass
material
mathematical
non-native
proto-Indo-European
scholarly
scientific
technocratic
transculturation
cultures
interaction of
cuneiform
languages
curriculum
Ancient Near Eastern
Chinese
Islamic
mathematics
reform of
research
D
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economic globalization
economic model
economy
hydrogen
labor
liberal
macroeconomics
monetary
nomadic
educational institutions
Babylonian scribal school
Buddhist monastery
Christian school in the Arab world
House of Wisdom
School of Alexandria
engineering school
indigenous
kuttab
madrasa
monastery
polytechnic
vocational school
egocentric speech
elite
Chinese
European
Indian
Jesuit
Latin American
administrative
in Baghdad
indigenous
intellectual
local
of the Ottoman Empire
religious
ruling class
scientific
technocratic
university
empire
Aśokan
British
Byzantine
Chinese
Habsburg
Hellenistic
Hittite
Islamic
Mesopotamian
Mongol
Ottoman
Persian
Qing
Roman
Sargonic
Sasanian
Spanish
empiricism
empowerment
EnerChem
energy
challenge
conservation of
conversion
nuclear
renewable
solar
storage
supply
sustainability of
system
engineering
and colonial rule
and computer technology
bioengineering
chemical
early modern
genetic
large-scale engineering projects
nuclear
reverse
entextualization
epistemic
challenge
community
configuration
framework
framework, global
heterogeneity
island
limitation
network
epistemology
Kantian
deconstructive
historical
philosophical
epistolography
equilibration
evolution
biological
epistemic
of knowledge
of political thought
of writing
sociocultural
socioepistemic
examination system
experiment
experimental system
G
I
iconography
identity
corporate
cultural
intellectual
national
political
positive
social
ideology
Soviet
gender
imperial
technocratic
imperialism
European
cultural
global
industrial military complex
industrialization
capitalist
industry
science-based
state
information processing
information technology
infrastructure
development
global
industrial
information
institutional
legal
technical
transport
innovation
immune reaction to
institutional
local
resistance to
scientific
technical
transfer of
institutional embeddedness
intellectual property rights
interaction sphere
interagent
interdisciplinarity
international organization
internationalism
Islam
Umma in
education in
in the Middle Ages
normative
theology
Islamic studies
K
Keynesian
model
network
knowledge
adaptation of
administrative
alternative
and global power relations
and practice
and truth
appropriation of
architecture
as a fellow traveler
assimilation of
borrowing
canonization of
chunks of
collaborative generation of
condensation of
control structure for
critical mass of
democratization of
disintegration of
dissemination of
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distributivity of
diversification of
domestication of
dynamics
ecology of
economic
economy of
empirical
first-order
form
fragmentation of
hybrid
image of
implicit
indigenous
individual
integration of
intuitive
layers of
linguistic
liquidity of
local
local and global
local, globalization of
localization of
loss in colonization
naturalization of
operational
philological
practical
production of
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psychological
recontextualization of
reflective
reflexivity of
refraction of
religious
reorganization of
scientific
second-order
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second-order, local
selection of
shared
social
spoliation of
statistical
symbolically represented
systematicity of
tacit
technological
transformation of
transport of
typology
uneven distribution of
universal
vehicle for the transmission of
knowledge system
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laboratory
CERN
Cavendish
European Molecular Biology
Joliot-Curie
as pilot project
cultural-scientific
for spectral analysis
psychological
language
Akkadian
Arabic
Aramaic
Aryan
Buddhist
Chinese
Egyptian
Gandhāra
Greek
Hittite
Hurrian
Latin
Luwian
Pāli
Sanskrit
Sumerian
Tajik
Tibetan
Vedic Sanskrit
and economy
and knowledge dissemination
and phonetics
and thought
barrier
colonial
divine
elite
game
hybrid
in Mesopotamia
indigenous
official
origin of
preservation of
proto-Indo-European
spoken
studies
theoretical
vernacular
world
law
Buddhist
Islamic
Roman
constitutional
data protection
divine
indigenous
international
natural
religious
universal
layers of globalization processes
learning processes
emulation of
legitimization
lexical list
Library of Alexandria
lingua franca
Akkadian
Arabic
Aramaic
Chinese
English
Latin
lingua sacra
literacy
Proto-Elamite
and culture
and science
and socioeconomic status
in the Soviet Union
research in
spread of
literati
literature
Akkadian
Arabic
Babylonian
Brazilian
Buddhist
Indo-European
Mahāyāna
Norse Christian
Sanskrit
Sumerian
cuneiform
sacred
logic
Aristotelian
Buddhist
Chinese
Indian
deductive
default
formal
internal
of enlightenment
syllogistic
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maritime travel
market
European
academic
as a driver of research
dominance of
financial
food
for emissions
for energy
formation of
globalization of
pharmaceutical
protection of
stability of
underdeveloped
market economy
mass media
mathematics
Babylonian
Chinese
Euclidean
Greek
Newtonian
in Brazil
indigenous
pure
sub-scientific
mechanics
medicine
Ayurvedic
Babylonian
Chinese
Egyptian
Galenic
Greek
Indian
antiretroviral
introduced by missionaries
modernization of
nineteenth-century
traditional
medicine man
memory
communicative
cultural
mental model
meta-code
metalinguistics
meteorology
methodology
migration
missionary activities
Aśokan
Buddhist
Jesuit
Protestant
mnemotechnics
modernity
multiple
modernization
Mohist canon
molecular biology
morality
multilingualism
multiliteralism
N
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paper
history of
invention of
path dependency
percolation model
philosophy
Aristotelian
Cassirer’s
Chinese
Hellenistic
Kantian
Muslim reservations about
Platonic
experimental
linguistic turn in
natural
post-modern
scientific
phonetization
phylogenesis
physics
Newtonian
astrophysics
classical
high-energy
laws of
nuclear
particle
quantum
relativistic
policy
climate protection
development
economic
educational
energy
government
health
instruments for
security
policy-making
positivism
printing
history of
introduction to the Arab world
prosumer
psychology
behaviorist
cognitive
cross-cultural
cultural-historical
developmental
experimental
indigenous
international
Pythagorean theorem
R
rational actor model
reasoning
causal
deductive
mythical
of a child
subjective
rebus principle
representation of knowledge
artistic
external
internal
resonance effect
of science and society
revolution
Brazilian
Chinese
Copernican
Internet
Neolithic
Russian
Upper Paleolithic
epistemological
financial
industrial
industrious
printing
scientific
symbolic
technological
world
rhetoric
ritual
S
science
European
European, transmitted to China
Greek
Hellenistic
alternative
anthropology of
as a medium of societal reflection
as a military and economic factor
as counter-ideology
autonomy of
colonial
disciplinary
diversification of
early modern
ethno-science
evaluation of
global objects of
historical definition of
image of
in Islamic societies
in the European periphery
institutionalization of
interface with technology
localization of
management
mission-oriented
mode 1
mode 2
policy
post-colonial
pseudoscience
rational
recursive blindness of
recursiveness of
reflective approach to
reward structure of
social studies of
spread of
tourism
transmitted
scientific cooperation
scientific method
sedentariness
semantics
semiotics
sender-receiver model
Silk Road
socioepistemic complex
state
actor
centralized
city
colonial
failed
formation of
ideology
interventionism
religion
stimulus diffusion
syntax
T
technological package
technology
Chinese
allochthonous
black box
boating
bronze
ceramic
change
chemical
computer
dual-use
energy
evolution of
gene
indigenous
laser
metallurgical
military
nuclear
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paper
science-based
spin-off
textile
transfer
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world-scale
textbook
thinking
Buddhist
autistic
egocentric
individual
innovative
institutionalized
logical
non-linear
productive
reflective
symbolic
trade route
translation
center
conceptual
cultural
into Arabic
into Chinese
linguistic
movement
of policy
sociology of
transmission processes
transnational cooperation
triple helix model
W
weapons
nuclear
Web
Epistemic
Old World
Semantic
Web 2.0
of Things
witchcraft
world market
world religion
world system
World War I
World War II
worldview
mechanistic
modern
religious
scholastic
scientific
writing
Greek
Phoenician
Semitic
alphabetic
as codification of language
calligraphy
cuneiform
glottographic
glyphic
hieroglyphic
history of
iconicity of
invention of
lexicographical
logographic
materials for
phonetic
proto-Elamite
proto-cuneiform
proto-writing
rebus
syllabic
technology
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DOI
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