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Redescribing Horizontal Geographies

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Author : Olaf Kühne
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-06-08

Redescribing Horizontal Geographies written by Olaf Kühne and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-08 with Social Science categories.

The first book in the series provides the concept of a theoretical redefinition of 'horizontal geographies'. These denote the spatial syntheses as undertaken in various disciplines, whether as regional studies, area studies, new regional geography, and many more. The basis of the redescription is philosophical neopragmatism, which has occasionally been taken up in the spatial sciences, but has never been differentiated into a theory-driven empirical research program. This development of the research program guides the present book. Philosophical neopragmatism, especially as conceptualized by Richard Rorty, focuses in particular on contingency of society, self, and language, which also allows spatial syntheses to be understood not as 'images of reality' but as contingent proposals for redescribing spaces. As a result of the complexity of spatial processes, their horizontal geographic study requires a triangulation of theories, methods, researcher perspectives, data, and the involvement of people without expert special knowledge. To highlight the contingency of the spatial syntheses, the presentation of the results - —here especially graphic and cartographic - —resorts to the attitude of irony. Regarding the six levels of trigangulation, neopragmatism acts as a meta-theoretical orientation framework. Against the background of the complexity of spatial developments on the one hand and to operationalize Rorty's principle of private self-creation and public solidarity on the other hand, Ralf Dahrendorf's concept of life chances is drawn upon. Especially in the differentiation of this concept made in this book, it serves on the one hand for an understanding access of the (also spatial) expression of options and ligatures,, and on the other hand it offers a normative framework for the evaluation of socio-spatial developments. The reference to neopragmatic studies on spatial syntheses conducted to date and evaluated in this book shows the potential of the approach elaborated here in conceptual detail for the first time.

Deviant Landscapes

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Author : Fivos Papadimitriou
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2025-04-11

Deviant Landscapes written by Fivos Papadimitriou and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-11 with Social Science categories.

Deviant landscapes can be physical, or digital or outright fictitious. Whatever their nature or context, they do not conform to normality. Deviant landscapes can be encountered on the face of the earth, on computer screens, in people's minds. This anthology presents varying perspectives on deviant landscapes, widening the theoretical framework of spatial-and-landscape research by delving into the hitherto almost uncharted realm of deviant landscapes in a way that is missing in the academic literature. It exposes a variety of perspectives on deviant landscapes, from disparate scientific domains (i.e. geography, literary studies, sociology, game studies, cultural studies) and delivers useful insights into the diverse theoretical approaches that can be adopted to examine such landscapes (neopragmatist, social constructivist, scientometric, art theoretical etc.).

Land Loss In Louisiana

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Author : Olaf Kühne
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-03-06

Land Loss In Louisiana written by Olaf Kühne and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-06 with Science categories.

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: the Mississippi River in particular, with its extensive sediments, has shifted the coastal fringe of present-day Louisiana into the Gulf of Mexico. This land gain is contrasted by natural processes, but also by processes resultant of human intervention which cause marine encroachment. A complex interplay of different aspects is directly and indirectly leading to coastal land loss which makes the question of how to describe emerging hybrid spaces virulent and highlights the limits of a positivist understanding of boundaries that is also physically geographical. In the neopragmatic tradition, positivist research findings will be framed in social constructivist terms and supplemented by phenomenological approaches to Louisiana's coastal space, thus suggesting the need for and potentials of horizontal geographic integration of different theoretical and methodological approaches as well as researcher perspectives and data bases.

Neopragmatism Inverse Landscape Carto Graphic Representation

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Author : Olaf Kühne
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2025-08-05

Neopragmatism Inverse Landscape Carto Graphic Representation written by Olaf Kühne and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-08-05 with Social Science categories.

Landscape appears stable and consistent. At least, this is a common perception of landscape. This view ignores the contingency of landscape, which is evident in the past and future as well as in the present and not just in relation to the physical spaces into which 'landscape' is projected but also in relation to social constructions and individual experience. The contingency of landscape becomes clear in inverse landscapes, which illustrate states and processes that are not impossible, but also not requisite. In this way, inverse landscapes form a tool for operationalizing the neopragmatist idea of expanding contingency. The concept of inverse landscape is subjected to criticism in various ways, from internal criticism to metatheoretical criticism to life-related pragmatic criticism. This critique is performed from an interdisciplinary perspective. The aim of this book is to further develop the concept, both regarding a more differentiated understanding of the contingency of landscape and also concerning the question of how it can help to solve practical problems in the context of 'landscape'.

Maps As Media Constructs

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Author : Helena Atteneder
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2025-03-29

Maps As Media Constructs written by Helena Atteneder and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-29 with Social Science categories.

This book fills a gap in the market by taking an introductory look at cartographic representations as multimedia constructs, from theory to critique to neopragmatist perspectives and in practice. It offers an interdisciplinary analysis from the fields of media and communication studies as well as geography and cartography to examine how cartographic representations as constructions of multimedia shape our options for appropriating space and possessing space-generating qualities. Examples from current social discourses such as the COVID-19 pandemic, debates on climate change, and sustainability plus the war in Ukraine show how multimedia cartographic representations are part of the communicative negotiation processes in public media spheres. The book offers insights into the theoretical foundations, historical developments, and practical applications of cartography, with a particular focus on the critical reflection of power structures and interests. It is aimed at students, researchers, and teachers, thereby inviting each to understand maps not only as technical artifacts but also as complex multimedia constructions.

Landscape Tourism Food

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Author : Olaf Kühne
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2025-06-16

Landscape Tourism Food written by Olaf Kühne and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-06-16 with Social Science categories.

Landscape and food - there is hardly a form of tourism that is not oriented towards one or the other (often both). As a result of this close connection, our anthology explores the different facets of these links. Drawing on the concepts of Touristscapes and Foodscapes, an international group of authors provide theoretical considerations as well as overviews of larger spatial units and local and thematic case studies. What the contributions have in common is their focus on a synthetic-landscape view of the topics dealt with, ranging from the investigation of post-socialist material substrates for the development of current touristscapes and foodscapes, to the touristic use of socialist heritage and phenomena of dark tourism, to the development of gastronomic offers and their significance for the construction of identities, but also the staging of places for social media contexts. Contributions from authors, particularly from the fields of geography, economics and sociology, highlight the diversity of perspectives on the rapidly developing research field of landscape, food and tourism.

Theories Of Social Conflict

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Author : Ansgar Thiel
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2025-07-21

Theories Of Social Conflict written by Ansgar Thiel and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-21 with Social Science categories.

After a low-threshold introduction, this book offers an orientation on various theories of social conflict and their potential for understanding conflicts in order to be able to deal with them constructively. Classic theories of social conflict are presented briefly first. Based on this, two selected theoretical perspectives on social conflict, the conflict theory approaches of Ralf Dahrendorf and Niklas Luhmann, are further developed. Dahrendorf's conflict theory is combined with a differentiated variant of his life chances approach. Luhmann's conflict theory is expanded to include a theoretical discussion of escalation dynamics and de-escalation archetypes. Using a case study on landscape conflicts in the context of the energy transition, the authors illustrate the potential of the theories discussed to explain the emergence, stabilization and escalation of such conflicts. The book will end with a focus on current discussions about the significance of feelings in social conflicts and how to deal with them.

Transnational Infrastructures And The Transformation Of Global Orders

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Author : Hans-Jürgen Bieling
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2025-05-22

Transnational Infrastructures And The Transformation Of Global Orders written by Hans-Jürgen Bieling and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-22 with Social Science categories.

This book offers a multidisciplinary insight into the significance of infrastructural change for global orders. While infrastructures form the material basis of our everyday lives and their design and use determine the further development of our societies, infrastructures themselves often remain invisible in everyday life. Although they are and have always been subject to political conflicts their contestation often only becomes visible when the circulation of data, goods and people is disrupted. Rarely has this been more evident than at the moment, when we are experiencing a multitude of overlapping global crises. The threat of the nearing climate catastrophe shows us the inadequacies and climatic impacts of our energy and transport systems. The Russian war of aggression in Ukraine and the subsequent energy crisis underline how dependent we are on infrastructures and how their political instrumentalization contributes to the escalation of conflicts. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed the vulnerability not only of national infrastructures but also of global supply chains. These crises illustrate twofold: first they show that transnational infrastructures are no longer only deepening ties between individuals, societies, and states. This was for long the hope of transnational actors. Infrastructures may still stabilize global orders, but they also foster their reconfiguration, facilitating the establishment and rise of certain political actors and the decline of others. Second, these crises force us to ask about the significance of transformed infrastructures for global orders; how this transformation manifested itself historically and how it is shaping the present and future alike. What can a comprehensive understanding of the impact of infrastructures on global orders contribute to the challenges of the 21st century? With this anthology we approach this question from different perspectives. The book deals with infrastructures in different fields – from energy to transport, from communication to migration – and at different levels of society – local, regional, global. What unites all the contributions is an interest in showing what the respective dynamics within and among these fields as well as the driving forces behind these developments mean for our society. This book is aimed at a wide audience from infrastructure researchers to IR experts as well as from colleagues with expertise in specific policy fields to the general reader interested in the effects often invisible transnational infrastructures have on the organization of their everyday life.

Transformation Processes In Europe And Beyond

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Author : Florian Weber
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-07-05

Transformation Processes In Europe And Beyond written by Florian Weber and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-05 with Social Science categories.

Europe and the world in all their diversity and complexity have always been – and continue to be – in a state of change. Recent (geo)political, environmental, social, and economic developments demonstrate a world in constant flux. These ever-changing framework conditions require corresponding transformations in many different structures. This anthology takes these observations as a starting point to illuminate theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches, and empirical insights related to recent transformation processes in Europe and beyond – with a special focus in this respect on the USA. In view of their comprehensive nature, transformation processes cannot be analysed from a single perspective – a uniform approach or theory would fail to address their complexity and contingency. In this sense, “horizontal geographies” serves as our theoretical framework. The concept refers to comprehensive, synthesizing regional analyses which collect, structure, and reflect on knowledge with diverse spatial, social, and cultural contexts. The interdisciplinary and international authorship does justice to the idea of horizontal, multi-perspective geographies, and considers a wide range of transformation processes in Europe and beyond.

Partizipation In Der Stadtentwicklung

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Author : Anna-Maria Weber
language : de
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Release Date : 2024-11-21

Partizipation In Der Stadtentwicklung written by Anna-Maria Weber and has been published by Springer-Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-21 with Social Science categories.

Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung wurde viele Jahre als Allheilmittel für eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung von Stadtplanungs- und -entwicklungsprozessen angesehen. Immer deutlicher jedoch wird, dass die alltäglichen Erfahrungen auf kommunaler Ebene häufig stark von den normativen Erwartungen und Anforderungen der Theorie abweichen und unintendierte Nebenwirkungen auftreten. Daran anknüpfend wirft die Arbeit einen kritischen Blick auf die Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung bei Stadtplanungs- und -entwicklungsprozessen und untersucht am Beispiel der Stadt Riedlingen, was die Gründe für den (Miss-)Erfolg von Partizipationsprozessen sind. Anhand von qualitativen leitfadengestützten Interviews mit Bürger*innen und Vertreter*innen von Stadtverwaltung und den beauftragten planenden und beratenden Büros sowie auf Basis eines sozialkonstruktivistischen Zugriffs kombiniert mit der Systemtheorie nach Luhmann kann aufgezeigt werden, dass die Konstruktion der Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung sowohl von den individuellen Erfahrungen und persönlichen Interessenslagen, als auch den systemischen Logiken der involvierten Akteure abhängig ist, wodurch eine erfolgreiche Kommunikation zwischen den involvierten Akteuren unwahrscheinlich wird. Aus den empirischen Befunden geht überdies hervor, dass die Erfahrungen mit und Bewertungen von den gegenwärtigen Beteiligungsverfahren in Riedlingen überwiegend negativ gefärbt sind. Als Gründe für den Misserfolg der Partizipationsprozesse werden vor allem die geringe und selektive Beteiligung, die begrenzten Möglichkeiten der Einflussnahme, fehlendes Lokalwissen der beauftragten Büros, die Unübersichtlichkeit der Verfahren und deren Einbettung in die Projektplanung sowie die unzureichenden Umsetzungen der geäußerten Anliegen hervorgehoben. Anhand der Ausführungen der Interviewpartner*innen wird deutlich, dass die Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung in Riedlingen eher zu Frustration und Vertrauensverlust führt, statt in einer gesteigerten Legitimation und Akzeptanz von Planungsprojekten resultiert und es daher einer kritischen Selbstreflektion und Nachjustierung von Partizipationsprozessen bedarf.