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- Title Pages
- Figures and table
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
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1 Introduction: The power of pragmatism -
2 Habits of social inquiry and reconstruction: A Deweyan vision of democracy and social research -
3 Appreciating the situation: Dewey’s pragmatism and its implications for the spatialisation of social science -
4 Mead, subjectivity and urban politics -
5 Rorty, conversation and the power of maps -
6 Embodied ignorances: A pragmatist responds to epistemic and other kinds of frictions in the academy -
7 Truth and academia in times of fake news, alternative facts and filter bubbles: A pragmatist notion of critique as mediation -
8 Learning from experience: Pragmatism and politics in place -
9 Reflections on an experiment in pragmatic social research and knowledge production -
10 Ecological crisis, action and pragmatic humanism -
11 Pragmatism, anti-representational theory and local methods for critical-creative ecological action -
12 Pragmatism and contemporary planning theory: Going beyond a communicative approach -
13 Exploring possibilities for a pragmatic orientation in development studies -
14 The quest for uncertainty: Pragmatism between rationalism and sentimentality -
15 Who’s afraid of pragmatism? - Index
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- Title Pages
- Figures and table
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
-
1 Introduction: The power of pragmatism -
2 Habits of social inquiry and reconstruction: A Deweyan vision of democracy and social research -
3 Appreciating the situation: Dewey’s pragmatism and its implications for the spatialisation of social science -
4 Mead, subjectivity and urban politics -
5 Rorty, conversation and the power of maps -
6 Embodied ignorances: A pragmatist responds to epistemic and other kinds of frictions in the academy -
7 Truth and academia in times of fake news, alternative facts and filter bubbles: A pragmatist notion of critique as mediation -
8 Learning from experience: Pragmatism and politics in place -
9 Reflections on an experiment in pragmatic social research and knowledge production -
10 Ecological crisis, action and pragmatic humanism -
11 Pragmatism, anti-representational theory and local methods for critical-creative ecological action -
12 Pragmatism and contemporary planning theory: Going beyond a communicative approach -
13 Exploring possibilities for a pragmatic orientation in development studies -
14 The quest for uncertainty: Pragmatism between rationalism and sentimentality -
15 Who’s afraid of pragmatism? - Index
