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Ralf Dahrendorf (1929 to 2009) has worked in sociology, political practice and political philosophy, and is associated with significant impulses in role theory and conflict theory.
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Ralf Dahrendorf (1929 to 2009) has worked in sociology, political practice and political philosophy, and is associated with significant impulses in role theory and conflict theory.
1 207 kr
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The authors provide a highly unusual and innovative blending of concepts about space and landscape through a deeply theoretical exploration of liberalism. Liberalism is often problematized in contemporary discussions with regard to gentrification, environmental problems and inequality.
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The authors provide a highly unusual and innovative blending of concepts about space and landscape through a deeply theoretical exploration of liberalism. Liberalism is often problematized in contemporary discussions with regard to gentrification, environmental problems and inequality.
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This book addresses the highly differentiated spatial, social, cultural and demographic structure(s) of Germany, with a particular focus on the reciprocal relations between different levels of spatial development.The historical development of Germany serves as a background in order to provide context for the development of spatially relevant ideas and ideals (whether in relation to politics, landscape, or culture). In this regard, questions of divergence and convergence become highly salient.The book makes the complexity of spatial and social developments in Germany comprehensible. The neopragmatic approach adopted here allows bringing together different theoretical strands while providing a basis for independent regional geographic research at the same time. Beginning with an overview of the physical structures of Germany which provides the material point of departure for the societal development of Germany, key aspects of the German history are discussed. Particular attention is paid to the reciprocal influence between material substrate and notions of landscape. Here, specific ‘German’ trajectories of aesthetic and normative conceptions of landscape become clear.A common theme throughout the book are questions of divergence and of efforts towards convergence, which become evident when considering past and present economic, political, and demographic developments. Efforts to tackle current challenges, such as adapting to climate change and mitigating it, or securing raw materials, also become apparent. The complexity of spatial processes in Germany is illustrated in case study regions dealing with the challenges of structural change in traditional industrial regions (such as the Ruhr area), or e.g. efforts of Berlin to position and find itself as the capital of a unified Germany.Overall, the book shows how theory-driven regional geographic research can make spatiotemporal complexities tangible and comprehensible.
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This book addresses the highly differentiated spatial, social, cultural and demographic structure(s) of Germany, with a particular focus on the reciprocal relations between different levels of spatial development.The historical development of Germany serves as a background in order to provide context for the development of spatially relevant ideas and ideals (whether in relation to politics, landscape, or culture). In this regard, questions of divergence and convergence become highly salient.The book makes the complexity of spatial and social developments in Germany comprehensible. The neopragmatic approach adopted here allows bringing together different theoretical strands while providing a basis for independent regional geographic research at the same time. Beginning with an overview of the physical structures of Germany which provides the material point of departure for the societal development of Germany, key aspects of the German history are discussed. Particular attention is paid to the reciprocal influence between material substrate and notions of landscape. Here, specific ‘German’ trajectories of aesthetic and normative conceptions of landscape become clear.A common theme throughout the book are questions of divergence and of efforts towards convergence, which become evident when considering past and present economic, political, and demographic developments. Efforts to tackle current challenges, such as adapting to climate change and mitigating it, or securing raw materials, also become apparent. The complexity of spatial processes in Germany is illustrated in case study regions dealing with the challenges of structural change in traditional industrial regions (such as the Ruhr area), or e.g. efforts of Berlin to position and find itself as the capital of a unified Germany.Overall, the book shows how theory-driven regional geographic research can make spatiotemporal complexities tangible and comprehensible.
Del 1 - Neopragmatic Horizontal Geographies
Redescribing Horizontal Geographies
A Neopragmatist Approach to Spatial Contingency, Complexity, and Relationships
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
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The first book in the series provides the concept of a theoretical redefinition of 'horizontal geographies'. These denote the spatial syntheses as undertaken in various disciplines, whether as regional studies, area studies, new regional geography, and many more. The basis of the redescription is philosophical neopragmatism, which has occasionally been taken up in the spatial sciences, but has never been differentiated into a theory-driven empirical research program. This development of the research program guides the present book.Philosophical neopragmatism, especially as conceptualized by Richard Rorty, focuses in particular on contingency of society, self, and language, which also allows spatial syntheses to be understood not as 'images of reality' but as contingent proposals for redescribing spaces. As a result of the complexity of spatial processes, their horizontal geographic study requires a triangulation of theories, methods, researcher perspectives, data, and the involvement of people without expert special knowledge. To highlight the contingency of the spatial syntheses, the presentation of the results - —here especially graphic and cartographic - —resorts to the attitude of irony. Regarding the six levels of trigangulation, neopragmatism acts as a meta-theoretical orientation framework.Against the background of the complexity of spatial developments on the one hand and to operationalize Rorty's principle of private self-creation and public solidarity on the other hand, Ralf Dahrendorf's concept of life chances is drawn upon. Especially in the differentiation of this concept made in this book, it serves on the one hand for an understanding access of the (also spatial) expression of options and ligatures,, and on the other hand it offers a normative framework for the evaluation of socio-spatial developments. The reference to neopragmatic studies on spatial syntheses conducted to date and evaluated in this book shows the potential of the approach elaborated here in conceptual detail for the first time.
Del 1 - Neopragmatic Horizontal Geographies
Redescribing Horizontal Geographies
A Neopragmatist Approach to Spatial Contingency, Complexity, and Relationships
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
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The first book in the series provides the concept of a theoretical redefinition of 'horizontal geographies'. These denote the spatial syntheses as undertaken in various disciplines, whether as regional studies, area studies, new regional geography, and many more. The basis of the redescription is philosophical neopragmatism, which has occasionally been taken up in the spatial sciences, but has never been differentiated into a theory-driven empirical research program. This development of the research program guides the present book.Philosophical neopragmatism, especially as conceptualized by Richard Rorty, focuses in particular on contingency of society, self, and language, which also allows spatial syntheses to be understood not as 'images of reality' but as contingent proposals for redescribing spaces. As a result of the complexity of spatial processes, their horizontal geographic study requires a triangulation of theories, methods, researcher perspectives, data, and the involvement of people without expert special knowledge. To highlight the contingency of the spatial syntheses, the presentation of the results - —here especially graphic and cartographic - —resorts to the attitude of irony. Regarding the six levels of trigangulation, neopragmatism acts as a meta-theoretical orientation framework.Against the background of the complexity of spatial developments on the one hand and to operationalize Rorty's principle of private self-creation and public solidarity on the other hand, Ralf Dahrendorf's concept of life chances is drawn upon. Especially in the differentiation of this concept made in this book, it serves on the one hand for an understanding access of the (also spatial) expression of options and ligatures,, and on the other hand it offers a normative framework for the evaluation of socio-spatial developments. The reference to neopragmatic studies on spatial syntheses conducted to date and evaluated in this book shows the potential of the approach elaborated here in conceptual detail for the first time.
Redeskriptionen horizontaler Geographien
Ein neopragmatistischer Ansatz räumlicher Kontingenzen, Komplexitäten und Relationen
Häftad, Tyska, 2024
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Räumlichen Synthesen (Landeskunden, Regionalen Geographien etc.), hier als ‚horizontale Geographien‘ bezeichnet, haben in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten eine sehr ambivalente Entwicklung genommen: Auf der einen Seite ist die Nachfrage in der Öffentlichkeit, aber auch in der Wissenschaft, hoch, auf der anderen Seite wurden ihr – im Vergleich zu geographischen Spezialdisziplinen – theoretische Defizite attestiert. Grundlage der hier vorgenommenen Redeskription ist der philosophische Neopragmatismus, der nie zu einem theoriegeleiteten empirischen raumwissenschaftlichen Forschungsprogramm ausdifferenziert wurde. Der philosophische Neopragmatismus, insbesondere in der Konzeption von Richard Rorty, fokussiert insbesondere auf Kontingenz von Gesellschaft, Selbst und Sprache. Somit werden auch ‚horizontale Geographien‘ als kontingente Vorschläge für eine Neubeschreibung von Räumen verstanden. Diese basieren auf der gerechtfertigten Triangulation von Theorien, Methoden, Quellen, Forschendenperspektiven, Perspektiven von Lai~innen und (ironischen) Darstellungsformen. Hinsichtlich der Triangulationsebenen fungiert der Neopragmatismus als meta-theoretischer Orientierungsrahmen. Vor dem Hintergrund der Komplexität räumlicher Entwicklungen einerseits und zur Operationalisierung des Rortyschen Prinzips der privaten Selbsterschaffung und der öffentlichen Solidarität wird auf das Lebenschancenkonzept von Ralf Dahrendorf zurückgegriffen. Dieses wird in diesem Buch sowohl hinsichtlich der Optionen als auch der Ligaturen weiter differenziert. Damit trägt dieses Buch zur Beseitigung des vielfach attestierten Theoriedefizits bei.
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Deviant landscapes can be physical, or digital or outright fictitious. Whatever their nature or context, they do not conform to normality. Deviant landscapes can be encountered on the face of the earth, on computer screens, in people's minds.This anthology presents varying perspectives on deviant landscapes, widening the theoretical framework of spatial-and-landscape research by delving into the hitherto almost uncharted realm of deviant landscapes in a way that is missing in the academic literature.It exposes a variety of perspectives on deviant landscapes, from disparate scientific domains (i.e. geography, literary studies, sociology, game studies, cultural studies) and delivers useful insights into the diverse theoretical approaches that can be adopted to examine such landscapes (neopragmatist, social constructivist, scientometric, art theoretical etc.).
Maps as Media Constructs
Exploring Theory, Practice, Critique, and Neopragmatism
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
536 kr
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This book fills a gap in the market by taking an introductory look at cartographic representations as multimedia constructs, from theory to critique to neopragmatist perspectives and in practice.
Landscape – Tourism – Food
Contributions to European Touristscapes and Foodscapes
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
1 278 kr
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Landscape and food - there is hardly a form of tourism that is not oriented towards one or the other (often both). As a result of this close connection, our anthology explores the different facets of these links. Drawing on the concepts of Touristscapes and Foodscapes, an international group of authors provide theoretical considerations as well as overviews of larger spatial units and local and thematic case studies. What the contributions have in common is their focus on a synthetic-landscape view of the topics dealt with, ranging from the investigation of post-socialist material substrates for the development of current touristscapes and foodscapes, to the touristic use of socialist heritage and phenomena of dark tourism, to the development of gastronomic offers and their significance for the construction of identities, but also the staging of places for social media contexts. Contributions from authors, particularly from the fields of geography, economics and sociology, highlight the diversity of perspectives on the rapidly developing research field of landscape, food and tourism.
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This handbook presents different perspectives on landscapes and illuminates various landscape understandings from different disciplines. Written by experts in the field, it provides an overview of landscape research’s current status and sheds light on the future of the field. The handbook examines theoretical perspectives of landscape research, landscape in the context of disciplinary references, meta-perspective approaches to landscape, methods of landscape research and practice, and fields of investigation of landscape research. Therefore, this handbook is an excellent resource for students, lecturers and researchers of landscape architecture, urban and regional planning, social sciences, and geography.
Del 2 - Neopragmatic Horizontal Geographies
Neopragmatism - Inverse Landscape - (Carto)graphic Representation
From Critique to Further Development
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 701 kr
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The contingency of landscape becomes clear in inverse landscapes, which illustrate states and processes that are not impossible, but also not requisite. The concept of inverse landscape is subjected to criticism in various ways, from internal criticism to metatheoretical criticism to life-related pragmatic criticism.
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After a low-threshold introduction, this book offers an orientation on various theories of social conflict and their potential for understanding conflicts in order to be able to deal with them constructively.
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When science directs its theoretical and empirical tools toward itself, metatheoretical reflections or sociological studies of science emerge. It examines the function of science for society and explores its relationship to politics. This book does all of this (to some extent). In a different way. Ironically and satirically. It is largely based on the phenomenological, everyday experience of this 'system' and its peculiarities. This experience, captured in caricatures, is in turn linked back to theoretical considerations, particularly neopragmatism with its constitutive ideas of contingency, the importance of language, and irony as a tool for coping with the world. And, of course, its contribution to problem-solving. The book is aimed at people involved with university life—directly or indirectly. But it is particularly aimed at people who are just approaching university life, who react with alienation to customs and incomprehension to certain rituals. It's also aimed at people who are irritated by the demands made by and of universities, on the one hand, and by what they find there, on the other. And those who want to smile about that—and perhaps even at themselves as part of this network.
- Nyhet
Del 3 - Neopragmatic Horizontal Geographies
Sustainable Development and Life Chances
A Redescription From a Neo-Pragmatist Perspective
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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Sustainable development is now considered one of the major narratives shaping society's future. At the same time, it is proving to be an area of conflict where expectations, morals, politics, and ideas of scientific evidence collide. This book shows why current discourses on sustainability are reaching their limits. But it also shows how a new, openly conceived approach to sustainable development can emerge. Based on Richard Rorty's neopragmatism and Ralf Dahrendorf's concept of life chances, Olaf Kühne, Karsten Berr, and Irina Silina develop an innovative perspective: sustainable development is not understood as a teleologically defined goal but as a contingent, dialogical process that must be constantly reshaped, in which people generate life chances. The focus is on questions such as how people create meaning, how conflicts can become productive, and how individual freedom can be linked to collective responsibility. The book combines theoretical foundations, from vocabulary analyses to various forms of criticism of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a comprehensive redescription of sustainable development. Following the guiding principle of liberal ironist Richard Rorty, an approach is developed that understands freedom from humiliation, compassion, processes of understanding, and the expansion of the "we" as prerequisites for a resonant culture of sustainability.The book is a committed and reflective plea for sustainability research that does not cover up conflicts but takes them seriously—and thinks of the future as a shared, open possibility, giving high priority to individual life chances.
- Nyhet
Panrelations and Vocabularies on the Way to a Neopragmatist Synthesis for Social and Spatial Sciences
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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This book presents neopragmatism as a fresh theoretical framework for the social and spatial sciences. Instead of relying on fixed truths or rigid subject-object divisions, it moves beyond traditional theoretical oppositions. At its core, the book applies Richard Rorty’s vocabulary theory and a panrelationalist perspective, viewing the world as a dynamic network of relations shaped through language. This approach is enriched by insights from discourse theory, conflict theory, and actor-network theory, offering a comprehensive lens for understanding social and spatial phenomena. Concepts like landscape, region, or city are treated as contingent and contested constructions, rather than stable categories. The framework is tested through case studies on biography construction and landscape conflicts, demonstrating how it captures complexity and provides practical tools for addressing social issues.The book is intended for readers seeking both theoretical depth and practical applicability in fields such as sociology, philosophy, geography, political science, and interdisciplinary studies of society and space.
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This book examines the power definiteness of landscape from a social constructivist perspective with a particular focus on the importance of aesthetic concepts of landscape in development. It seeks to answer the question of how societal notions of landscape emerge, how they are individually updated and how these ideas affect the use and design of physical space. It also analyzes how physical manifestations of societal activity impact on understandings of individual and societal landscapes and addresses the essential aspect of the social construction of landscape, cultural specificity, which in turn is discussed in the context of the expansion of a western landscape concept. The book offers an unprecedented, comprehensive and detailed examination of societal power relations in the context of landscape development. The numerous case studies from the physical manifestation of modern spatial planning in the United States, the power discourses concerning the design of model railway landscapes, and the medial production of stereotypical landscape notions shed light on the complex and multilayered interactions of collective and individual landscape references. It is a valuable resource for geographers, sociologists, landscape architects, landscape planners and philosophers.
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This book examines the power definiteness of landscape from a social constructivist perspective with a particular focus on the importance of aesthetic concepts of landscape in development.
551 kr
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Heimat in Zeiten erhöhter Flexibilitätsanforderungen
Empirische Studien im Saarland
Häftad, Tyska, 2010
502 kr
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Stadt - Landschaft - Hybridität
Ästhetische Bezüge im postmodernen Los Angeles mit seinen modernen Persistenzen
Häftad, Tyska, 2012
700 kr
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In dem Buch werden die wesentliche Einflussfaktoren auf den Entwicklungspfad des Großraumes Los Angeles untersucht. Dabei werden lokale Eigenlogiken ebenso betrachtet wie die lokalen Ausprägungen globaler Einflüsse. Eine besondere Berücksichtigung findet dabei die Fragen in welcher Form ästhetische Vorstellungen von Raumgestaltung und in welcher Form sich die Ergebnisse von Angst bedingtem Handeln in den physischen Raum einschreiben. Die Untersuchung basiert auf der sozialkonstruktivistischen Landschaftstheorie, die insbesondere die sozialen Konstruktionsmechanismen von Landschaft in das Zentrum ihrer Betrachtungen stellt.
Wahrnehmung von Umweltbelastung und die Handlungsbereitschaft für die Umwelt in Polen
Häftad, Tyska, 2007
353 kr
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Transformation und Landschaft
Die Folgen sozialer Wandlungsprozesse auf Landschaft
Häftad, Tyska, 2015
502 kr
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Gesellschaftliche Transformationsprozesse manifestieren sich sowohl in physischen Räumen als auch der sozialen Konstruktion von Landschaften. Mit dem Wechsel vom sozialistisch-modernen zum postmodernen Gesellschaftssystem gestalten sich die Transformationsprozesse in Ostmittel- und Osteuropa besonders deutlich.
Landschaftshandeln
Grundzüge, Potenziale und Zukunft der Europäischen Landschaftskonvention
Häftad, Tyska, 2022
383 kr
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Die von 40 Staaten unterzeichnete und 2004 in Kraft getretene Europäische Landschaftskonvention stellt ein zentrales Dokument der Befassung mit Landschaft dar. Es basiert in großen Teilen auf einer konstruktivistischen Vorstellung von Landschaft und stellt Menschen bei Erhaltung und Entwicklung von Landschaft in den Mittelpunkt. In diesem Buch befassen sich namhafte Autor*innen mit Fragen der rechtlichen, sozialen, politischen und planerischen Bedeutung der Konvention. Neben Fallbeispielen der Umsetzung in verschiedenen europäischen Ländern geht es auch um die Frage, warum Deutschland mit der Unterzeichnung der ELK zögert und wie sich eine Umsetzung in Deutschland gestalten könnte.
San Diego
Eigenlogiken, Widersprüche und Hybriditäten in und von ‚America´s finest city‘
Häftad, Tyska, 2014
517 kr
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?Die Entwicklungspfade von San Diego sind beeinflusst von der sozialen, kulturellen und ökonomischen Verschiedenheit der beiden Räume San Diego und Tijuana.
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Im Zuge der politischen, sozialen und ökonomischen Diskussionen um die spezifischen Stärken und Schwächen, wie auch Entwicklungschancen auf mittlerer räumlicher Maßstabsebene, hat das Thema der Regionalentwicklung besondere Aktualität erhalten.
Landscape Culture - Culturing Landscapes
The Differentiated Construction of Landscapes
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
536 kr
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In this book an international group of authors reflects mechanisms of the cultural and social construction of landscapes. International migration and global exchange are associated with a multitude of different cultural meanings of landscapes. The logics of multi-cultural perceptions and meanings of landscape call for trans-disciplinary research, and for guidance on addressing culturally sensitive issues and inclusion in practical planning.
Demographischer Wandel in Unternehmen
Alternsgerechte Arbeitsbedingungen aus Arbeitnehmersicht
Häftad, Tyska, 2015
452 kr
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Der demographische Wandel verändert nahezu alle Lebensbereiche nachdrücklich. Besonders wirksam wird er in der Arbeitswelt. In der qualitativen wie quantitativen Studie werden Einflüsse auf die Arbeitsfähigkeit älterer Arbeitnehmer in saarländischen Industrieunternehmen aus der Perspektive der Arbeitnehmer selbst untersucht und dabei insbesondere die sogenannten weichen Faktoren wie Arbeitsklima, Zufriedenheit, Wohlbefinden, Partizipation oder Ansprüche an Führungskräfte, berücksichtigt. Damit richtet sich das Buch insbesondere an Personalverantwortliche, Betriebsräte, aber auch an WissenschaftlerInnnen, die sich mit dem demographischen Wandel, insbesondere in der Arbeitswelt, befassen.