04602nam a22005415i 4500 978-3-031-59124-2 DE-He213 20251030112304.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240608s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031591242 978-3-031-59124-2 10.1007/978-3-031-59124-2 doi GF RGC bicssc SOC015000 bisacsh RGC thema Kühne, Olaf. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 70577 Redescribing Horizontal Geographies [electronic resource] : A Neopragmatist Approach to Spatial Contingency, Complexity, and Relationships / by Olaf Kühne. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XII, 260 p. 11 illus., 6 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Neopragmatic Horizontal Geographies, 2731-989X ; 1 Introduction -- 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. 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. . Human geography. 58506 Geography. 62292 Cartography. 71342 Human Geography. 58506 Regional Geography. 66451 Cartography. 71342 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031591235 Printed edition: 9783031591259 Printed edition: 9783031591266 Neopragmatic Horizontal Geographies, 2731-989X ; 1 78453 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59124-2 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 60610 60610