The power of pragmatism : knowledge production and social inquiry / edited by Jane Wills and Robert W. Lake.

This book makes the case for a pragmatist approach to the practice of social inquiry and knowledge production. Through diverse examples from multiple disciplines, contributors explore the power of pragmatism to inform a practice of inquiry that is democratic, community-centred, problem-oriented and...

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Other Authors: Wills, Jane (Editor), Lake W. Robert (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
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505 0 |a 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 
505 8 |a 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 
505 8 |a 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 
520 |a This book makes the case for a pragmatist approach to the practice of social inquiry and knowledge production. Through diverse examples from multiple disciplines, contributors explore the power of pragmatism to inform a practice of inquiry that is democratic, community-centred, problem-oriented and experimental. Drawing from both classical and neo-pragmatist perspectives, the book advances a pragmatist sensibility in which truth and knowledge are contingent rather than universal, made rather than found, provisional rather than dogmatic, subject to continuous experimentation rather than ultimate proof, and verified in their application in action rather than in the accuracy of their representation of an antecedent reality. The Power of Pragmatism offers a path forward for mobilizing the practice of inquiry and knowledge production on behalf of achieving what Dewey called a sense for the better kind of life to be led. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
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