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The power of pragmatism : Knowledge production and social inquiry /
This book makes the case for a pragmatist approach to the practice of social inquiry and knowledge production. Through diverse examples from multiple disciplines, contributors explore the power of pragmatism to inform a practice of inquiry that is democratic, community-centred, problem-oriented and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2020
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.