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Critical Surveys
Edited by Robert Hassink

Towards a Geography of Knowledge Creation: The Ambivalences between ‘Knowledge as an Object’ and ‘Knowing in Practice’

Pages 103-114 | Received 01 Jun 2006, Published online: 27 Jul 2010

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