Ethnic and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge / / edited by Peter Meusburger, Tim Freytag, Laura Suarsana |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
Disciplina | 300 |
Collana | Knowledge and Space |
Soggetto topico |
Human geography
Science - Study and teaching Geography Anthropology Human Geography Science Education Regional Geography |
ISBN | 3-319-21900-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Cultural and Ethnic Dimensions of Knowledge: An Introduction -- 2. The School System as an Arena of Ethnic Conflicts -- 3. Race, Politics, and Geography in the Development of Public Schools in the Southern United States -- 4. Spatial Traditions of Knowledge and Education—Ethnic Groups in the United States Reconsidered -- 5. Educational Inequalities Reflecting Sociocultural and Geographical Embeddedness?—Exploring the Place of Hispanics and Hispanic Cultures in Higher Education and Research Institutions in New Mexico, the United States -- 6. Local Cultural Resource Knowledge, Identity, Representation, Schooling, and Education in Euro-Canadian Contexts -- 7. The Knowing in Indigenous Knowledge: Alternative Ways to View Development, Largely from a New Guinea Highlands’ Perspective -- 8. Local Knowledge as a Universal Social Product: A General Model and a Case from Southeast Asia -- 9. Local Knowledge and Global Concerns: Artificial Glaciers as a Focus of Environmental Knowledge and Development Interventions -- 10. Political Economy, Power, and the Erasure of Pastoralist Indigenous Knowledge in the Maghreb and Afghanistan -- 11.“Masawa—bogeokwa si tuta!”: Cultural and Cognitive Implications of the Trobriand Islanders’ Gradually Lossof Their Knowledge of How to Make a Masawa Canoe -- 12. Beyond Merry-Making: Customs of Indigenous Peoples and the Normative Functions of Ceremonies in Precolonial Igbo Societies -- 13 Knowledge, Behavior, and Culture: HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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Geographies of Knowledge and Power / / edited by Peter Meusburger, Derek Gregory, Laura Suarsana |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.42 |
Collana | Knowledge and Space |
Soggetto topico |
Geography
Sociology Political science Religion Industrial management Geography, general Sociology, general Political Science Religious Studies, general Media Management |
ISBN | 94-017-9960-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Derek Gregory, Peter Meusburger, Martina Ries -- The Geopolitics of Knowledge about World Politics: A Case Study in US Hegemony: John Agnew -- Two Men of War and Their Idea: Walter Christaller, Edward Ullman, and the Central Place Theory: Trevor Barnes -- Tau(gh)t Subjects: Sarah DeLeeuw -- Who gets the past? The Changing Face of Islamic Authority and Religious Knowledge: Dale Eickelman -- Another Order of Things: Military Imaginaries and the Middle East: Derek Gregory -- ‘A Heavenly Kingdom Shall Descend’: How Millennialism Spread from New England to the United States of America: Robert Jewett -- Elites and the Monetary Power Complex: Hans-Jürgen Krysmanski -- Telling the Future: Reflections on the Status of Divination in Ancient Near Eastern Politics: Stefan Maul -- Mutual relations between Knowledge and Power: Peter Meusburger -- Hot Spots, Dark Side Dots, Tin-pots?:The Uneven Internationalism of the Global Academic Market: Anssi Paasi -- Power/Knowledge/Geography: Speculation at the End of History: Richard Peet -- The Power of Communication: Jo Reichertz -- Enabling Knowledge: Nico Stehr -- Between Omnipotence and Powerlessness: religious Symbolizations and Theological Interpretations of Power: Klaus Tanner -- Knowledge between Language and Social Control: Ingo Warnke -- Media Control in the Twentieth Century: Jürgen Wilke -- What a book (or two) Can Do: Reflections on Man and Nature and Silent Spring: Graeme Wynn. |
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Geographies of Schooling [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Holger Jahnke, Caroline Kramer, Peter Meusburger |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XII, 358 p. 62 illus., 35 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 304.2 |
Collana | Knowledge and Space |
Soggetto topico |
Human geography
Schools Urban geography Sociology Human Geography Schools and Schooling Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns) Sociology, general |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 3-030-18799-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. Territorial Governance of Schooling in Shrinking Regions -- Chapter 2. Local Educational Landscapes in Germany—Interfaces and Interlacings Between Education and Urban Development -- Chapter 3. School Autonomy Policies and the Changing Governance of Schooling -- Chapter 4. From Republican Spaces of Schooling to Educational Territories? The Problematic Emergence of Educational Territories in Post-Decentralized France -- Chapter 5. Ideology, Spatial Planning, and Rural Schools: From Interwar to Communist Hungary -- Chapter 6. Changing Structures and the Role of Education in the Development of the Educational System in Czechia -- Chapter 7. Securing Indigenous Dispossession Through Education: An Analysis of Canadian Curricula and Textbooks -- Chapter 8. Geopolitical Framings of Subalterity in Education: Compounding a Neoliberalized Welfare State -- Chapter 9. Bigger or Better? Research Based Reflections on the Cultural De-construction of Rural Schools in Norway—Meta Perspectives -- Chapter 10. A Multilevel View of Small Schools: Changing Systems in Baden-Württemberg and Vorarlberg -- Chapter 11. Small Rural Schools in Austria—Potentials and Challenges -- Chapter 12. Field and Terrain: The Micro-Politics of Community Leadership in Small, Rural Schools in England -- Chapter 13. Schools, Families and Social Reproduction -- Chapter 14. The Relationship Between School and Neighborhood—Child-Oriented Perspectives on Educational Locations -- Chapter 15. Redefining School: Educational Spaces for Adolescents’ Engagement in Learning -- Chapter 16. Feminization of Teaching: Female Teachers at Primary and Lower Secondary Schools in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany—From its Beginnings to the Present. |
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Geographies of the University / / edited by Peter Meusburger, Michael Heffernan, Laura Suarsana |
Autore | Meusburger Peter |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIV, 676 p. 155 illus., 99 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 911 |
Collana | Knowledge and Space |
Soggetto topico |
Human geography
Education - Economic aspects Science - History Human Geography Education Economics History of Science |
ISBN | 3-319-75593-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: Geographies of the University. An Introduction (Peter Meusburger) -- Part 1: Historical Perspectives -- Chapter 2: The Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG) and the Geography of German Universities and Academics (1350–1550) (Rainer C. Schwinges) -- Chapter 3: Scientific and Cultural Relations between Heidelberg University and Hungary over Five Centuries (Peter Meusburger) -- Chapter 4: Catchment Areas and Killing Fields: Towards an Academic Geography of the Thirty Years' War (Howard Hotson) -- Chapter 5: A Political Geography of University Foundation: The Case of the Danish Monarchy (Hanne Kirstine Adriansen) -- Chapter 6: ‘A Small Town of Character’: Locating a New Scottish University, 1963 - 1965 (Michael Heffernan) -- Part II: Spaces and Governance of Knowledge, Research and Education -- Chapter 7: Knowledge Environments at Universities. Some Theoretical and Methodological Considerations (Peter Meusburger) -- Chapter 8: Quality Cultures in Higher Education Institutions. Development of the Quality Culture Inventory (Christine Sattler) -- Chapter 9: Agnotology: Ignorance and Absence, or Towards a Sociology of Things that Aren’t There (Jennifer L. Croissant) -- part III: Universities and Regional Economies -- Chapter 10: The entrepreneurial university wave: shaping a triple helix for sustainable innovation (Henry Etzkowitz) -- Chapter 11: The Economic Impact of the Universities in the State of Baden-Württemberg (Johannes Glückler) -- Chapter 12: African Universities as Employers of Returning Graduates from Germany. The Example of Ghana and Cameroon (Julia Boger) -- Part IV: Localization, Globalization and Regional Integration of Universities -- Chapter 13: The University in its Place: Thinking in and Beyond Globalization (Allan Cochrane ) -- Chapter 14: The University Unbound: How Roots and Routes Intersect (Jane Kenway) -- Chapter 15: International Education Hubs (Jane Knight) -- Chapter 16: The Nonmetropolitan University’s Regional Engagement in the African Context: The Case of Cameroon (Eike W. Schamp) -- Chapter 17: China’s Southern Borderlands and ASEAN Higher education. A Cartography of Connectivity (Anthony Welch) -- Part V: Universities and the City -- Chapter 18: The Civic University and the City (John Goddard) -- Chapter 19: City and University – Notes of an Architect On an Intriguing Spatial Relationship (Helmut Bott) -- Chapter 20: Campus-city Relations: Past, Present and Future (Alexandra Den Heijer) -- Chapter 21: Coevolution of Town and Gown: The Heidelberg International Building Exhibition in Search of a Knowledge-based Urbanism for the Twenty-first Century (Carl Zillich) -- The Klaus Tschira Foundation -- Index. |
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Knowledge and Action / / edited by Peter Meusburger, Benno Werlen, Laura Suarsana |
Autore | Meusburger Peter |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (X, 300 p. 55 illus., 20 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 304.2 |
Collana | Knowledge and Space |
Soggetto topico |
Human geography
Psychology Social sciences - Philosophy Knowledge, Sociology of Human Geography Behavioral Sciences and Psychology Social Theory Sociology of Knowledge and Discourse |
ISBN | 3-319-44588-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Knowledge, Action and Space: An Introduction: Peter Meusburger and Benno Werlen -- 2.Action, Knowledge, and Social Relations of Space: Geographies of the Digital Age: Benno Werlen -- 3. Rationality and Discursive Articulation in Place-Making: Huib Ernste -- 4. Thought-in-Action/Action-in-Thought: Gunnar Olsson -- 5. Perverse Expertise and the Social Unconscious in the Making of Crisis: Richard Peet -- 6. How Much Knowledge Is Necessary for Action?: Joachim Funke -- 7. Knowing and Not Knowing: Nico Stehr -- 8. How Representations of Knowledge Shape Actions: Ralph Hertwig and Renato Frey -- 9. Reflection and Impulse as Determinants of Human Behavior: Anand Krishna and Fritz Strack -- 10.Planning and the Control of Action—How the Spontaneous and Strategic Use of Goal-Related Knowledge Supports Goal Attainment: Frank Wieber, Peter M. Gollwitzer -- 11. Pragmatic Philosophy and the Social Function of Knowledge: The Problems of Collective Action and Spatial Dispersion: Tilman Reitz -- 12. Semantic Knowledge, Domains of Meaning and Conceptual Spaces: Peter Gärdenfors -- 13. So What Do You Do? Experimenting with Space for Social Creativity: Ariane Berthoin Antal and Victor Friedman -- 14. The Decision to Move: Being Mobile and Being Rational in Comparative Anthropological Perspective: Thomas Widlok -- 15. Continuity and Change in Older Adults’ Out-of-Home Mobility Over Ten Years: A Qualitative-Quantitative Approach: Heidrun Mollenkopf, Annette Hieber, and Hans-Werner Wahl -- 16. The Klaus Tschira Foundation -- 17 Index. |
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Learning Organizations : Extending the Field / / edited by Ariane Berthoin Antal, Peter Meusburger, Laura Suarsana |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
Disciplina | 158.7 |
Collana | Knowledge and Space |
Soggetto topico |
Economic sociology
Industrial psychology Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology Industrial and Organizational Psychology |
ISBN | 94-007-7220-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The Importance of Knowledge Environments and Spatial Relations for Organizational Learning: An Introduction: Ariane Berthoin Antal, Peter Meusburger, and Laura Suarsana -- Learning from Screens: Does Ideology Prevail over Lived Experience? The Example of ERP Systems: François-Régis Puyou -- Organizational Design for Knowledge Exchange: The Hau-Ba Model: Ahmed Bounfour and Gwénaëlle Grefe -- Command or Conviction? Informal Networks and the Diffusion of Controversial Innovations: Johannes Glückler and Robert Panitz -- Collaboration and Knowledge Gains in Organizations: Wolfgang Scholl -- Organizing Relational Distance: Innovation as the Management of Sociocultural and Time-spatial Tensions: Oliver Ibert -- Organizational Learning and Physical Space: How Office Configurations Inform Organizational Behaviors: Kerstin Sailer -- The Unexpected Neighbor: Learning, Space, and the Unconscious in Organizations: Russ Vince -- Can Social Space Provide a Deep Structure for the Theory and Practice of Organizational Learning?: Victor J. Friedman and Israel Sykes -- Learning in Temporary Organizations: The Case of UN Global Conferences: Kathrin Böhling -- When Arts Enter Organizational Spaces: Implications for Organizational Learning: Ariane Berthoin Antal -- Research-based Theater as a Facilitator of Organizational Learning: Anne Pässilä and Tuija Oikarinen -- Creative Space in Organizational Learning and Leadership: 21st-Century Shapeshifting: Shaun McNiff. |
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Mobilities of Knowledge [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Heike Jöns, Peter Meusburger, Michael Heffernan |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (X, 303 p. 23 illus., 12 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 304.2 |
Collana | Knowledge and Space |
Soggetto topico |
Human geography
Educational sociology Anthropology Emigration and immigration Human Geography Sociology of Education Migration |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 3-319-44654-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Mobilities of Knowledge: An Introduction -- References -- Part I: Circulation, Transfer, and Adaptation -- Chapter 2: Spatial Mobility of Knowledge: Communicating Different Categories of Knowledge -- Shortcomings and Disputable Assumptions in Research About the Mobility of Knowledge -- Free Access to Knowledge Is Not Equivalent to Acquisition of Knowledge -- The Impact of New Information and Communication Technologies on the Mobility of Knowledge -- Is Codified Knowledge a Public Good and a Tradable Commodity? The Necessity to Distinguish Between Knowledge and Information -- Nominal and Ordinal Differentiations of Knowledge -- An Attempt to Construct a More Realistic Communication Model -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Papermaking: The Historical Diffusion of an Ancient Technique -- The Early Diffusion of Papermaking -- The Replacement of Papyrus and Parchment -- Cultural Geographies of Papermaking -- Spatial Adaptations in the Technology of Papermaking -- Paper Mills -- Raw Material Used for Papermaking -- Molds and Papermarks -- Further Processing of Paper -- Trade Relations and the Decline of Arab Papermaking -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Circulating Seditious Knowledge: The "Daring Absurdities, Studied Misrepresentations, and Abominable Falsehoods" of William Macintosh -- William Macintosh: A Colonial Life -- Polishing, Publication, and Reception of Macintosh's Travels -- The Reading and Afterlife of Travels -- Macintosh in Leipzig -- Macintosh in Paris -- Conclusion: Text, Translation, and Truth -- References -- Chapter 5: Exploration as Knowledge Transfer: Exhibiting Hidden Histories -- Institutional Context -- Form and Content -- Design Strategies -- Conclusion -- References.
Chapter 6: The Imprecise Wanderings of a Precise Idea: The Travels of Spatial Analysis -- The View from Somewhere: Place and the Spatial Mobility of Knowledge -- Place and Knowledge -- Spatial Mobility of Knowledge -- A History and Geography of Spatial Analysis -- The Early Years -- The Later Years -- Seattle and Iowa City -- Lund -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Knowledges in Disciplines and Cities: An Essay on Relations Between Archaeology and Social Sciences -- Preamble: Knowledges -- Introductions -- The Times and Spaces of Academic Social Knowledges -- Practical Knowledges in, Through, and Out of Cities -- Indictments -- Of Mainstream Social Science -- Of Mainstream Archaeology -- Debates Generated by Bringing Cities Back In -- Cities and the Creation of States -- Cities and the Development of Agriculture -- Conclusion: The Limiting Case of Uncertainty of Knowledge -- References -- Part II: Mediators, Networks, and Learning -- Chapter 8: Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange between Scholars in Britain and the Empire, 1830-1914 -- Motivations Driving Scholarly Networking Within the British Empire -- An International Republic of Letters -- Critiques of Imperialism -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Geographies of Selection: Academic Appointments in the British Academic World, 1850-1939 -- Selection Practices -- Assessing Specialized Knowledge -- Search Committees -- London Selection Committees -- Personalized Trust Versus Government Recruitment -- Geographies of Selection -- Origin and Nationality -- Social Proximity and Distance -- Cultures of Academic Sociability -- References -- Chapter 10: The University of Cambridge, Academic Expertise, and the British Empire, 1885-1962 -- Knowing the Empire -- Capitalizing on the Empire -- Imperial Travels Until 1945 -- Imperial Travels After 1945 -- Empowering the Empire -- Conclusions. References -- Chapter 11: Geneva, 1919-1945: The Spatialities of Public Internationalism and Global Networks -- From the "Spirit of Geneva" to the Spatial Representation of Public Internationalism -- "Inhabité"-Controversies About the International Space or How Public Internationalism Translated into Space -- Tracing Spatial Contexts of Global Organizations -- Religious and Philosophical Networks: Global Knowledge from Other than Diplomatic Perspectives? -- Translating Agencies -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: The Spatial Mobility of Corporate Knowledge: Expatriation, Global Talent, and the World City -- The Firm, International Business Strategy, and Knowledge Management -- Expatriation, Global Talent, and Knowledge Exchange -- World Cities, Expatriation, and the Spatial Mobility of Knowledge -- Global Staffing and Expatriation in Professional Service Firms -- Global Talent in London's Financial District -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 13: Formal Education as a Facilitator of Migration and Integration: A Case Study of Nigerian University Graduates -- Methodology and Data -- Nigerian Migration History: Migration as a Cultural Event? -- Emigration as Culturally Underpinned and Realized Through Education -- Integration Between Structural Forces and Individual Abilities: Migration as a Continuum in Space and Time -- Migration Culturally Underpinned and Educationally Materialized: A Migration Model of Highly Skilled Nigerians -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 14: Trans-knowledge? Geography, Mobility, and Knowledge in Transnational Education -- Geography, Mobility, and Knowledge -- Knowledge, Transnationalism, and TNE -- Moving Ideas: The Transfer of Program Content -- The Transfer of Different Forms of Capital -- How (And the Limits to How) Knowledge Is Transferred in TNE -- Language Issues -- Mobile Academics. Conclusions: So Where Is Knowledge in TNE? -- References -- The Klaus Tschira Stiftung -- Index. |
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