The Power of Pragmatism : Knowledge Production and Social Inquiry.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (301 pages)
- Manchester University Press Series .
- Manchester University Press Series .
Front matter -- Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Figures and table -- 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 : '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.
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.