Part I: The power of pragmatism
1 Introduction: The power of pragmatism – Jane Wills and Robert W.
Lake
Part II: Key thinkers, core ideas and their application to social
research
2 Habits of social inquiry and reconstruction: A Deweyan vision of
democracy and social research – Malcolm Cutchin
3 Appreciating the situation: Dewey’s pragmatism and its
implications for the spatialisation of social science – Gary
Bridge
4 Mead, subjectivity and urban politics – Crispian Fuller
5 Rorty, conversation and the power of maps – Trevor Barnes
Part III: ‘Truth’, epistemic injustice and academic practice
6 Embodied inequalities: Can we go beyond epistemologies of
ignorance in pragmatic knowledge projects? – Susan Saegert
7 Truth and academia in times of fake news, alternative facts, and
filter bubbles: A pragmatist notion of critique as mediation –
Klaus Geiselhart
8 Learning from experience: Pragmatism and politics in place –
Alice Huff
9 Reflections on an experiment in pragmatic social research and
knowledge production – Liam Harney and Jane Wills
Part IV: Disciplinary applications in pragmatic research
10 Ecological crisis, action and pragmatic humanism – Meg
Holden
11 Pragmatism, anti-representational theory and local methods for
critical-creative ecological action – Owain Jones
12 Pragmatism and contemporary planning theory: Going beyond a
communicative approach – Ihnji Jon
13 Exploring possibilities for a pragmatic orientation in
development studies – Alireza F. Farahani and Azadeh Hadizadeh
Esfahani
Part V: Conclusion and postscript
14 The quest for uncertainty: Pragmatism between rationalism and
sentimentality – Robert W. Lake
15 Postscript: Who’s afraid of pragmatism? – Clive Barnett
Jane Wills is Professor of Geography at the Centre for Geography
and Environmental Science and the Environment and Sustainability
Institute at the University of Exeter
Robert W. Lake is Professor in the Edward J. Bloustein School of
Planning and Public Policy and a member of the Graduate Faculties
in Geography and Urban Planning at Rutgers University
'In a world in which ideological boundaries are increasingly
impermeable and cross-political debates mere shouting matches,
pragmatism offers not just an escape but entry into a world of
mutual respect, justice, and democracy. This book is a contribution
to hope at a time when despair seems unavoidable.'
Robert A. Beauregard, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University
'The Power of Pragmatism is so much more than just a model of
pragmatist scholarship, old and new. It offers a timely message
about how a living tradition of thought can embrace a world of
uncertainty and competing truths without itself seeking guarantees.
Genuinely multidisciplinary, the collection champions a political
stance as much as a philosophical one: the pressing need to create
shared, collective responses to the social, political and
environmental challenges that confront us today.'
John Allen, Professor Emeritus, Open University
'This excellent book offers a vital approach to knowledge as a
collective and participatory process of experiment and action for
an unstable and complex world. A diverse set of outstanding authors
contribute innovative insights on a wide range of fields including
geography, politics, environmental studies, economic development
and urban planning. This impressive and hugely encouraging text
convincingly shows how intelligence, conversation, and
collaboration can produce useful knowledge that provides ways to
cope with emerging problems and threats of change.'
Peter Sunley, Professor of Economic Geography, University of
Southampton
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