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Titolo: | The power of pragmatism : knowledge production and social inquiry / / Jane Wills and Robert Lake [[electronic resource]] |
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.: | 9910794039503321 |
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