โ Scribed by Peter Meusburger, Benno Werlen, Laura Suarsana (eds.)
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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.Front Matter....Pages i-x
Knowledge, Action, and Space: An Introduction....Pages 1-30
Action, Knowledge, and Social Relations of Space....Pages 31-56
Rationality and Discursive Articulation in Place-Making....Pages 57-66
Thought-in-Action/Action-in-Thought....Pages 67-88
Perverse Expertise and the Social Unconscious in the Making of Crisis....Pages 89-97
How Much Knowledge Is Necessary for Action?....Pages 99-111
Knowing and Not Knowing....Pages 113-125
How Representations of Knowledge Shape Actions....Pages 127-143
Reflection and Impulse as Determinants of Human Behavior....Pages 145-167
Planning and the Control of Action....Pages 169-183
Pragmatic Philosophy and the Social Function of Knowledge....Pages 185-201
Semantic Knowledge, Domains of Meaning and Conceptual Spaces....Pages 203-219
So What Do You Do? Experimenting with Space for Social Creativity....Pages 221-251
The Decision to Move: Being Mobile and Being Rational in Comparative Anthropological Perspective....Pages 253-265
Continuity and Change in Older Adultsโ Out-of-Home Mobility Over Ten Years: A Qualitative-Quantitative Approach....Pages 267-289
Back Matter....Pages 291-300
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