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Informationen zum Autor Jane Wills is Professor of Geography at the Centre for Geography and Environmental Science and the Environment and Sustainability Institute at the University of ExeterRobert W. Lake is Professor in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and a member of the Graduate Faculties in Geography and Urban Planning at Rutgers University Klappentext Making the case for a pragmatist approach to social inquiry and knowledge production, sixteen contributors illustrate the power of pragmatism to inform democratic, community-centred, action-oriented research. Zusammenfassung Making the case for a pragmatist approach to social inquiry and knowledge production! sixteen contributors illustrate the power of pragmatism to inform democratic! community-centred! action-oriented research. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: The power of pragmatism1 Introduction: The power of pragmatism - Jane Wills and Robert W. LakePart II: Key thinkers, core ideas and their application to social research2 Habits of social inquiry and reconstruction: A Deweyan vision of democracy and social research - Malcolm Cutchin3 Appreciating the situation: Dewey's pragmatism and its implications for the spatialisation of social science - Gary Bridge4 Mead, subjectivity and urban politics - Crispian Fuller5 Rorty, conversation and the power of maps - Trevor BarnesPart III: 'Truth', epistemic injustice and academic practice6 Embodied inequalities: Can we go beyond epistemologies of ignorance in pragmatic knowledge projects? - Susan Saegert7 Truth and academia in times of fake news, alternative facts, and filter bubbles: A pragmatist notion of critique as mediation - Klaus Geiselhart8 Learning from experience: Pragmatism and politics in place - Alice Huff9 Reflections on an experiment in pragmatic social research and knowledge production - Liam Harney and Jane WillsPart IV: Disciplinary applications in pragmatic research10 Ecological crisis, action and pragmatic humanism - Meg Holden11 Pragmatism, anti-representational theory and local methods for critical-creative ecological action - Owain Jones12 Pragmatism and contemporary planning theory: Going beyond a communicative approach - Ihnji Jon13 Exploring possibilities for a pragmatic orientation in development studies - Alireza F. Farahani and Azadeh Hadizadeh EsfahaniPart V: Conclusion and postscript14 The quest for uncertainty: Pragmatism between rationalism and sentimentality - Robert W. Lake15 Postscript: Who's afraid of pragmatism? - Clive Barnett...
