The power of pragmatism : knowledge production and social inquiry / / Jane Wills and Robert Lake [[electronic resource]]
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The power of pragmatism : knowledge production and social inquiry / / Jane Wills and Robert Lake [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (ix, 290 pages) : : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 149.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Pragmatism |
| Inquiry (Theory of knowledge) | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Community |
| Democracy | |
| John Dewey | |
| Knowledge production | |
| Pragmatism | |
| Research philosophy | |
| Research practice | |
| Richard Rorty | |
| Social inquiry | |
| Social research | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | WillsJane |
| LakeRobert | |
| Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2020. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 pragmatism? / Clive Barnett. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The power of pragmatism |
| ISBN: | 1-5261-3496-9 |
| 1-5261-5548-6 | |
| 1-5261-3495-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812842503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Manchester scholarship online.