04255nam a22004575i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050000700153072001600160072002300176072001500199100007600214245016500290250001800455264006900473300006400542336002600606337002600632338003600658347002400694490005700718505057800775520205801353650002103411650001503432650001703447650002103464650002403485650001703509710003403526773002603560776003603586776003603622776003603658830005703694856004603751978-3-031-59124-2DE-He21320251030112304.0cr nn 008mamaa240608s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315912427 a10.1007/978-3-031-59124-22doi 4aGF 7aRGC2bicssc 7aSOC0150002bisacsh 7aRGC2thema1 aKühne, Olaf.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aRedescribing Horizontal Geographiesh[electronic resource] :bA Neopragmatist Approach to Spatial Contingency, Complexity, and Relationships /cby Olaf Kühne.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Springer,c2024.  aXII, 260 p. 11 illus., 6 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aNeopragmatic Horizontal Geographies,x2731-989X ;v10 aIntroduction -- Horizontal geographies a definition of the subject -- The quasiontological framework from the theory of three worlds to the theory of three landscapes -- Current c modal approaches in the context of horizontal geographies -- Neopragmatism as a meta-theory philosophical foundations -- Outlines of a Neopragmatist Research Program -- Life chances in an open society as an operationalization of neopragmatism -- Conceptualization of a neopragmatist spatial research -- Case study of neopragmatist horizontal geographies of Louisiana -- Conclusion and Outlook.  aThe 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. . 0aHuman geography. 0aGeography. 0aCartography.14aHuman Geography.24aRegional Geography.24aCartography.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303159123508iPrinted edition:z978303159125908iPrinted edition:z9783031591266 0aNeopragmatic Horizontal Geographies,x2731-989X ;v140uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59124-2