This volume explores interdependencies between knowledge, action, and space from different interdisciplinary perspectives. Some of the contributors discuss knowledge as a social construct based on collective action, while others look at knowledge as an individual capacity for action.
1. Knowledge, Action and Space: An Introduction: Peter Meusburger and Benno Werlen.- 2.Action, Knowledge, and Social Relations of Space: Geographies of the Digital Age: Benno Werlen.- 3. Rationality and Discursive Articulation in Place-Making: Huib Ernste.- 4. Thought-in-Action/Action-in-Thought: Gunnar Olsson.- 5. Perverse Expertise and the Social Unconscious in the Making of Crisis: Richard Peet.- 6. How Much Knowledge Is Necessary for Action?: Joachim Funke.- 7. Knowing and Not Knowing: Nico Stehr.- 8. How Representations of Knowledge Shape Actions: Ralph Hertwig and Renato Frey.- 9. Reflection and Impulse as Determinants of Human Behavior: Anand Krishna and Fritz Strack.- 10.Planning and the Control of Action-How the Spontaneous and Strategic Use of Goal-Related Knowledge Supports Goal Attainment: Frank Wieber, Peter M. Gollwitzer.- 11. Pragmatic Philosophy and the Social Function of Knowledge: The Problems of Collective Action and Spatial Dispersion: Tilman Reitz.- 12. Semantic Knowledge, Domains of Meaning and Conceptual Spaces: Peter Gärdenfors.- 13. So What Do You Do? Experimenting with Space for Social Creativity: Ariane Berthoin Antal and Victor Friedman.- 14. The Decision to Move: Being Mobile and Being Rational in Comparative Anthropological Perspective: Thomas Widlok.- 15. Continuity and Change in Older Adults'' Out-of-Home Mobility Over Ten Years: A Qualitative-Quantitative Approach: Heidrun Mollenkopf, Annette Hieber, and Hans-Werner Wahl.- 16. The Klaus Tschira Foundation.- 17 Index.
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