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In this chapter, the author analyses processes of differentiation within situations of knowledge production and transfer. Therefore, he focuses specifically on two examples from the two neighbourhoods. The first example is the analysis of the city population by the City of Stuttgart in the 1970s. This analysis had the aim of gaining knowledge about the immigrated inhabitants in order to plan different measures. The second example is a research project about Pollokshields that had the aim of gaining general knowledge about the quality of life experience of people framed as an ethnic minority. In his analysis, the author takes aspects like the process of categorisation, information infrastructures as well as localisation of differences into account. Moreover, he shows how the topic of migration has changed statistics and the work of municipal administrations.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Knowledge, which is accessible only in the head of a person, I understand here as not existing (cf. the comments on the public nature of practices by Schmidt 2012, pp. 226–263).

  2. 2.

    Knowledge has become a key term within Anthropology and Cultural Studies in ideas such as symbolic orders and orders of knowledge. In this sense, knowledge has become almost a synonym for culture (Reckwitz 2008, p. 84). Barth raised the question of the difference between knowledge and culture: “Indeed, it does focus on many of the same data and seeks to analyse many of the same phenomena. But in calling it knowledge rather than culture I think that we ethnographers will analyse it differently and find ourselves disaggregating our received category of culture in distinctive ways that hinge on what our ideas of ‘knowledge’ evoke. Knowledge provides people with materials for reflection and premises for action, whereas ‘culture’ too readily comes to embrace also those reflections and those actions” (Barth 2002, p. 1).

  3. 3.

    To visit “foreign” places is also a type of knowledge production and communication. However, because of its specific features, it will be discussed in the next section.

  4. 4.

    On the history of immigration and emigration in Baden-Württemberg, see the anthology and monograph by Karl-Heinz Meier-Braun and Reinhold Weber (2009) and the anthology by Mathias Beer (2014).

  5. 5.

    The present study could also be described in a similar way to the presentation carried out here. It argues in favour of truth-spots, about the presentation of the districts of Pollokshields and Nordbahnhofviertel, which should lead to systematic insights into the subject of diversity through specific methodological steps. On how certain places become focus points of research and the potential of over-research see Neal et al. (2016).

  6. 6.

    The following information on the Central Register of Foreigners are the investigations and comments by Helmut Bäumler (1996), Franz Scheuerer (1987), Christian Streit (1996) and Thilo Weichert (1998, 2000). All authors take a critical look at the register from a data protection perspective. In 2008, the European Court of Justice ruled that the storage and processing of European Union citizens’ data in the Central Register of Foreigners infringes Community law (European Court of Justice 2008).

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Klückmann, M. (2020). Knowledge Production/Transfer. In: Situational Diversity. Global Diversities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54791-2_3

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