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The power of pragmatism : knowledge production and social inquiry /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and table
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Part I : The power of pragmatism
- Introduction: The power of pragmatism
- Part II : Key thinkers, core ideas and their application to social research
- Habits of social inquiry and reconstruction: A Deweyan vision of democracy and social research
- Appreciating the situation: Dewey's pragmatism and its implications for the spatialisation of social science
- Mead, subjectivity and urban politics
- Rorty, conversation and the power of maps
- Part III : 'Truth', epistemic injustice and academic practice
- Embodied ignorances: A pragmatist responds to epistemic and other kinds of frictions in the academy
- Truth and academia in times of fake news, alternative facts and filter bubbles: A pragmatist notion of critique as mediation
- Learning from experience: Pragmatism and politics in place
- Reflections on an experiment in pragmatic social research and knowledge production
- Part IV : Disciplinary applications in pragmatic research
- Ecological crisis, action and pragmatic humanism
- Pragmatism, anti-representational theory and local methods for critical-creative ecological action
- Pragmatism and contemporary planning theory: Going beyond a communicative approach
- Exploring possibilities for a pragmatic orientation in development studies
- Part V : Conclusion and postscript
- The quest for uncertainty: Pragmatism between rationalism and sentimentality
- Who's afraid of pragmatism?
- Index