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  • Land Loss in Louisiana

    A Neopragmatic Redescription

    by Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is oriented on testing and developing the neopragmatic approach of horizontal geographies, in which we follow approaches of natural sciences, social sciences, and cultural studies. Regional focus is thereby put on a rapidly changing elemental space and its social representations, characterized by unstable and not well-defined hybridities: coastal Louisiana. This region is highly dynamic: ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Multisensory Landscapes

    Theories and Methods

    Edited by Lara Koegst, Olaf Kühne, Dennis Edler ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a broad view on multisensory landscapes from multiple perspectives.It includes theoretical perspectives as well as case studies. Different theoretical perspectives on landscape emerging from research in the last decades also require a differentiated approach to landscape phenomena, going beyond the visual. For example, a social constructivist approach to the social world ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Landscape Conflicts

    Edited by Karsten Berr, Lara Koegst, Olaf Kühne ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Landscape conflicts, for example in connection with / in view of the energy transition, climate policy, transport policy, nature conservation, the extraction of mineral raw materials, the design of urban landscapes or tourism are potentially associated with high economic, social and political costs even before a possible escalation. It is therefore undoubtedly useful to gain a better understanding ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Oilscapes of Louisiana

    Neopragmatic Reflections on the Ambivalent Aesthetics of Landscape Constructions

    by Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst, Karsten Berr ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Oilscapes are to be understood as an aestheticized synthesis of objects of extraction, distribution, processing, and consumption of petroleum and petroleum-derived products. Based on the concept of neopragmatic landscape research, this book addresses questions of the social construction of the relationship between the petrochemical industry and the landscape, as well as individual interpretations ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

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    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This open access book describes methods for research on and research through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method for design research because it constantly orients itself, like design projects, towards social realities. In research processes, designers acquire project-specific knowledge, which happens mostly intuitively in practice. When this knowledge becomes the subject of ... Read more

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  • Ignorance and Surprise

    Science, Society, and Ecological Design

    by Matthias Gross ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    The relationship between ignorance and surprise and a conceptual framework for dealing with the unexpected, as seen in ecological design projects.Ignorance and surprise belong together: surprises can make people aware of their own ignorance. And yet, perhaps paradoxically, a surprising event in scientific research—one that defies prediction or risk assessment—is often a window to new and ... Read more

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  • Evidence Contestation

    Dealing with Dissent in Knowledge Societies

    Edited by Karin Zachmann, Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio, Saana Jukola, Olga Sparschuh ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    This book examines the practices of contesting evidence in democratically constituted knowledge societies. It provides a multifaceted view of the processes and conditions of evidence criticism and how they determine the dynamics of de- and re-stabilization of evidence.Evidence is an essential resource for establishing claims of validity, resolving conflicts, and legitimizing decisions. In recent ... Read more

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  • Cities and Fascination

    Beyond the Surplus of Meaning

    Edited by Heiko Schmid, Wolf-Dietrich Sahr, John Urry ...
    Bringing together leading urban scholars, this book discusses the linkages between the economic, social and psychological factors of the urban environment. It focuses on the growth of private urbanity that has led to a 'spectactularization' of the city, the most extreme component of attention being the fascination which is aroused by attractions and state-managed events. The complex ... Read more

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  • The Sociology of Space

    Materiality, Social Structures, and Action

    by Martina Löw ...
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    In this book, the author develops a relational concept of space that encompasses social structure, the material world of objects and bodies, and the symbolic dimension of the social world. Löw’s guiding principle is the assumption that space emerges in the interplay between objects, structures and actions. Based on a critical discussion of classic theories of space, Löw develops a new dynamic ... Read more

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    Edited by Markus Nauser, Dieter Steiner ...
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  • Anthropology

    A Continental Perspective

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  • Doing Discourse Research

    An Introduction for Social Scientists

    by Reiner Keller ...
    This book provides an introduction to the basic principles of discourse research, offering practical research strategies for doing discourse analyses in the social sciences. The book includes guidance on developing a research question, selecting data and analyzing it, and presenting the results. The author has extensive practical experience in the field of discourse research and shows, throughout, ... Read more

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