Knowledge and Action

Knowledge and Action

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. 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 a...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Meusburger, Peter (Editor), Werlen, Benno (Editor), Suarsana, Laura (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Series:Knowledge and Space, 9
Subjects:
Social sciences.
Sociology.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Human geography.
Experiential research.
Social Sciences.
Human Geography.
Psychology Research.
Social Theory.
Knowledge - Discourse.
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44588-5
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 Action—How 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 Gärdenfors
  • 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.

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