Abstract
The Green belt is a good example of what happens in a border zone when the nature is left alone without any disturbance from human activity . What happens is determined by the species’ inner potentialities and the living conditions in the belt. The same can be said about development of any organism in general. It is not the potentiality within the organism that determines the result, but the interaction between the potentiality in the organism and the environment. This article will try to show how research on two so different topics as epigenetics and practical knowledge / borderology can benefit from each other’s results. Both focus on the condition for interaction in their specific type of border zone.
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This does not mean that research has not been conducted on these topics earlier. On the contrary, earlier research led to the establishment of the topics as research fields.
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Epi from Greek: επί- over, outside of, around.
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This is Lars Olov Bygren’s definition of epigenetic (Enerstvedt 2011).
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In English Human —sex and personality. My translation .
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In original language «(…) genuttrykk, dvs. trekk ved fenotypen, kan overføres mellom generasjoner”.
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In English Genetics—Are substantial effect documented in schizophrenia?.
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In English Epigenetic changes in severe mental illness: a result of psychological stress?.
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In Norwegian: «Livets vesen er karakterisert som vekselvirkningen mellom organisme – omgivelser», og «Genene er derfor ikke seleksjonens (utvalgets) enhet.» This is a part of Enertvedts critick of Richar Dawkin’s The Selfish Gene (1976).
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Episteme; from Greek ἐπιστήμη, epistēmē, meaning “knowledge”, and λόγος, logos, meaning “logical discourse”. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology.
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In English Practical knowledge —as experience and as research field. Hereafter referred to as the HBO-report. The paragraphs below are based on information from the HBO-report. Otherwise reference is given.
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In English Knowledge in action.
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In English Illness Concepts in practice. The clinical work’s philosophy and philosophy of science.
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In English Working Skills and Technology .
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In English The esthetical practice.
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In English From art to science.
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This category is central in the Activity theory. In Norwegian, the concept is virksomhet, in Russian Dejatelnost and in German Tätigkeit.
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In English Ruin landscape and modernity. Everyday pictures and rand zone experiences from a Northern Norwegian fishing village.
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In English Health, Human and Culture.
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Information from the HBO-rapport 10/2005 pp. 8–10 stops here.
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Written in 1845 but first published as an appendix to Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, 1888.
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The International Society of Cultural-historical Activity Research (ISCAR).
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In English Human as activity and Does God play dice anyway?
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Tidsskrift for Norsk psykologforening, Vol 53, nr. 9, 2016, pp. 740–743.
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In English Practical knowledge as research on professional work experience .
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In original language praktisk kunnskap er svarevne.
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In English The theory of practical knowledge .
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In original language «Grensesonen tilbyr her – i likhet med andre grensesoner over hele jordkloden – en workshop for kosmopolitiske felleskap der både det sosiale forholdet til den andre og det å kunne se verden fra den andres standpunkt».
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Methi, J.S. (2019). Borderology and Practical Knowledge—Humanities Response to Epigenetics?. In: Methi, J., Sergeev, A., Bieńkowska, M., Nikiforova, B. (eds) Borderology: Cross-disciplinary Insights from the Border Zone. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99392-8_11
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