Horizon 1 1 5 OS CH : Chapitres d'ouvrages scientifiques Routledge handbook of academic knowledge circulation 1-24 2023 Londres (GBR) ; New York Routledge fdi:010098020 ENG 10.4324/9781003290650-1 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010098020 Horizon (IRD) This Handbook deals with the circulation of a specific type of knowledge, namely academic knowledge, produced in specific institutions dedicated to research and teaching. The meaning of academic knowledge has been subject to historical changes throughout time. Knowledge is profoundly relational. Academic knowledge is collectively produced through methodological procedures embedded in scholarly disciplines. Its circulation is a precondition for academic knowledge production. Speaking of circulation, rather than diffusion or transfer, is to insist on the possibility of reciprocities, competition and socialisation in different social spaces. In its simplest understanding, pieces of academic knowledge move from one place to another, from one person to another, within a given time frame. In more complex forms, knowledge, places and people are transformed during the process of circulation. What remains stable or changes cannot be decided theoretically but has to be empirically studied. This is what the different sections and chapters of this handbook endeavour to undertake. 106