Full Description
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 as an individual capacity for action. The chapters contain theoretical frameworks as well as experimental outcomes.
Readers will gain insight into key questions such as: How does knowledge function as a prerequisite for action? Why are knowledge gaps growing and not diminishing in a knowledge society? How much knowledge is necessary for action? How do various types of knowledge influence the steps from cognition to action? How do different representations of knowledge shape action? What impact have spatial conditions for the formation of knowledge? What is the relationship between social and geographical space? The contributors consider rationality in social and economic theories as well as in everyday life. Attention is also given to action theoretic approaches and rationality from the viewpoints of psychology, post-structuralism, and human geography, making this an attractive book for students, researchers and academics of various backgrounds.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
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.
