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UNINA9910794039503321 |
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The power of pragmatism : knowledge production and social inquiry / / Jane Wills and Robert Lake [[electronic resource]] |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2021 |
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1-5261-3496-9 |
1-5261-5548-6 |
1-5261-3495-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 290 pages) : : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Manchester scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Pragmatism |
Inquiry (Theory of knowledge) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2020. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : the power of pragmatism / Jane Wills and Robert W. Lake -- Habits of social inquiry and reconstruction : a Deweyan vision of democracy and social research / Malcolm P. Cutchin -- Appreciating the situation : Dewey's pragmatism and its implications for the spatialisation of social science / Gary Bridge -- Mead, subjectivity and urban politics / Crispian Fuller -- Rorty, conversation and the power of maps / Trevor Barnes -- Embodied ignorances : a pragmatist responds to epistemic and other kinds of frictions in the academy / Susan Saegert -- Truth and academia in times of fake news, alternative facts and filter bubbles : a pragmatist notion of critique as mediation / Klaus Geiselhart -- Learning from experience : pragmatism and politics in place / Alice E. Huff -- Reflections on an experiment in pragmatic social research and knowledge production / Liam Harney and Jane Wills -- Ecological crisis, action and pragmatic humanism / Meg Holden -- Pragmatism, anti-representational theory and local methods for critical-creative ecological action / Owain Jones -- Pragmatism and contemporary planning theory : going beyond a communicative approach / Ihnji Jon -- Exploring possibilities for a pragmatic orientation in development studies / Alireza F. Farahani and Azadeh Hadizadeh Esfahani -- The quest for uncertainty : pragmatism between rationalism and sentimentality / Robert W. Lake -- Who's afraid of |
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pragmatism? / Clive Barnett. |
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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. |
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UNINA9910777615503321 |
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CLEANER and NSF's environmental observatories [[electronic resource] /] / Committee on the Collaborative Large-scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research (CLEANER) |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2006 |
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ISBN |
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0-309-18087-2 |
1-280-56735-X |
9786610567355 |
0-309-66165-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (75 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Environmental engineering |
Environmental sciences |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 CLEANER and the Observatory Approach""; ""3 Grand Water Challenges and Research Questions""; ""4 Implementing Environmental Observatories""; ""References""; ""Acronyms""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A Water Science and Technology Board""; ""Appendix B Biographical Sketches for Committee on the Collaborative Large-scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research (CLEANER)"" |
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