TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wills,Jane
AU  - Lake,Robert
TI  - The Power of Pragmatism: Knowledge Production and Social Inquiry
T2  - Manchester University Press Series
SN  - 9781526134950
AV  - Z7128.P8 .W555 2020
U1  - 144.3 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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