Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
895928 Scandinavian Journal of Management 2013 10 Pages PDF
Abstract
The article focuses on the scientist's body with the aim of analyzing how knowledge is produced by the body in scientific practice. This process is mediated by links and interactions with the sociomaterial dimension of working practices and may be defined as a learning process. The paper investigates how mastery of the body is produced, perceived, defined and narrated by researchers engaged in laboratory practice. The paper shows how the scientist's corporeal learning is gradual, the fruit of daily disciplining, and it is only through a process of embodiment that the body develops sensitive ability and expert competency. The article includes three episodes of knowledge embodiment in the form of immersion in practice and ex-post reflection on the practice itself.
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