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The power of pragmatism: Knowledge production and social inquiry

✍ Scribed by Jane Wills; Robert Lake (editors)

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2020
Tongue
English
Leaves
301
Series
Manchester University Press
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Making the case for a pragmatist approach to social inquiry and knowledge production, sixteen contributors illustrate the power of pragmatism to inform democratic, community-centred, action-oriented research.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
List of figures and table
Notes on 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 : β€˜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

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