Knowledge and Action (häftad)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
300
Utgivningsdatum
2017-01-18
Upplaga
1st ed. 2017
Förlag
Springer International Publishing AG
Medarbetare
Meusburger, Peter (ed.), Werlen, Benno (ed.), Suarsana, Laura (ed.)
Illustratör/Fotograf
Bibliographie
Illustrationer
20 Illustrations, color; 35 Illustrations, black and white; X, 300 p. 55 illus., 20 illus. in color.
Dimensioner
234 x 156 x 19 mm
Vikt
613 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
1 Hardback
ISBN
9783319445878

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This volume explores interdependencies between knowledge, action, and space from different interdisciplinary perspectives. Some of the contributors discuss knowledge as a social construct based on collective action, while others look at knowledge as an individual capacity for action. The chapters contain theoretical frameworks as well as experimental outcomes. Readers will gain insight into key questions such as: How does knowledge function as a prerequisite for action? Why are knowledge gaps growing and not diminishing in a knowledge society? How much knowledge is necessary for action? How do various types of knowledge influence the steps from cognition to action? How do different representations of knowledge shape action? What impact have spatial conditions for the formation of knowledge? What is the relationship between social and geographical space? The contributors consider rationality in social and economic theories as well as in everyday life. Attention is also given to action theoretic approaches and rationality from the viewpoints of psychology, post-structuralism, and human geography, making this an attractive book for students, researchers and academics of various backgrounds. This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
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Peter Meusburger, Prof. Dr. (*1942) graduated in Geography at Innsbruck University. 1983 2007 he held a full Professorship of Economic and Social Geography at the Department of Geography at Heidelberg University. He was visiting scholar in Japan, USA, Hungary, China and Brazil. Since 2007 he is Distinguished Senior Professor of Heidelberg University. He published more than 300 articles and wrote and edited 28 books. His recent research interests include Geographies of Knowledge, Science and Education (Spatial disparities of knowledge and educational achievement; relations between knowledge and power; the nexus between knowledge and space; milieus of creativity; spatial mobility of knowledge; knowledge and action; knowledge in organizations; knowledge and economic performance; schooling situation in sparsely inhabited peripheral areas) Geography of Labor and Economic Geography (Educational achievement and professional skills of the labor force; spatial mobility, career and networks of scientists; spatial concentration of jobs for the highly skilled labor force; spatial disparities of the feminization of professions; female employment rates; economic and social transformations in Hungary after the change of the political system (1989); Liechtenstein as a tax-haven) Ethnic Minorities (Educational achievements of ethnic and religious minorities; the cultural dimension of knowledge; minorities in the public school system). Benno Werlen, Prof. Dr. (*1952) studied geography, sociology, cultural anthropology and economy at the Universit de Fribourg (Switzerland). He got his PhD from the faculty of philosophy of the University of Fribourg and his Habilitation from the faculty of natural sciences of the university of Zurich. As guest professor he was working at the universities of Salzburg, Jena, Geneva and Nijmegen as well as at the Swiss Federal Technical Institute of Technology Zrich (ETH), as visiting scholar he worked at the universities of Cambridge, the London School of Economics, and at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Since 1997 he holds the chair of social geography at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena. He is the founder of action centered geography, the initiator and the Executive Director of the 2016 International UN-Year of Global Understanding proclaimed by the International Sciences Councils of the Natural, Social and Human Sciences (ICSU, ISSC, CIPSH), Chair of the IGU-Commission Cultural Approach in Geography (204-2106), and was a Panel Member of the European Research Council (Brussels) from 2008-15. His main interests are theory and methodology of the action centered geography, social spatiality, and (empirical) studies of political regionalism and nationalism/regional and national identities, processes of globalization and urbanization.Book Publications (selection) Gesellschaft, Handlung und Raum. Grundlagen handlungstheoretische Sozialgeographie. [Sociaty, Action and Space. Foundation of Action Theoretical Social Geography]. Stuttgart: Steiner 1987 (3th edition: 1997) Society, Action and Space. An Alternative Human Geography. Preface by Anthony Giddens. London: Routledge 1993 Kulturen und Raum. [Cultures and Space] Zrich: Regg Verlag 1993 Zur Ontologie von Gesellschaft und Raum. [On Ontology of Society and Space] Stuttgart: Steiner 1995 (2nd ed: 1999) Globalisierung, Region und Regionalisierung. [Globalization, Region, and Regionalization] Stuttgart: Steiner 1997 (2nd ed. 2007) Sozialgeographie. Eine Einfhrung. [Social Geography. An Introduction] Bern: Haupt/UTB 2000 (3th ed. 2008) Gesellschaftliche Rumlichkeit. Bd. 1: Ort der Geographie; Bd. 2: Konstruktion geographischer Wirklichkeiten. [Societal Spatiality. Vo. 1: Places of Geography; vol 2: Construction of Geographical Realities]. Stuttgart: Steiner 2010 Global Sustainability. Cultural Perspectives and Challenges for Transdisciplinary Integrated Research. Cham/Heidelb

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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 ActionHow 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 Grdenfors.- 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.