Geophilosophy and Creative Milieus

Günzel, Stephan

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“…It is worth considering the implications of the linguistic choice of ‘milieu’ here in contradistinction to environment, situation, world, or place. As Günzel ( 2009 , p. 269) highlights “[w]ithin an environment a person is still someone in it, with nature or the social world around it. By contrast, ‘in’ a milieu (which literally means ‘middle’ or ‘medium’) implies that there is no outside and, hence, no inside: A milieu by definition is absolute, extensive, and embracing”.…”

Section: The Geo-mentioning

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Geophilosophies: towards another sense of the earth

Keating

Williams

2022

Subjectivity

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The relationship between ‘philosophy’ and the ‘geo’ has received renewed attention with the rise of the terrestrial and the planetary as leitmotifs for thinking about the collective subjectivation of particular kinds of world. In some of these conversations, this relationship is developed to consider how social collectives emerge with the production of particular kinds of territorial abstraction. Three decades since Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari published What is Philosophy ?, book that has a lasting legacy in developing geophilosophy as a particular mode of transcendental empirical enquiry, this special issue revisits the relationship between geophilosophy and the production of an alternative sense of the earth. In this introduction, we approach geophilosophy in its pluralism by showing how the concept does not only concern the question of how to retain a sense of difference and contingency in thought, but also concerns a mode of enquiry that presents opportunities to experiment with alternative forms of collective subjectivation. Assaying the legacy of Deleuze and Guattari’s geophilosophy on contemporary forms of earth-thinking, the article identifies the unique demands and geophilosophical possibilities taken up by the contributors to this issue that question how to recuperate another sense of the earth.

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Section: The Geo-mentioning

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Geophilosophies: towards another sense of the earth

Keating

Williams

2022

Subjectivity

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Creating social innovation in urban development through collaborative processes

Schnurbein

Potluka

Mayer

2021

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

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Uncertainty is a major factor in urban development as a consequence of a changing society. Major theoretical approaches to urban development, such as place-based leadership or coproduction, emphasize the importance of the public sector. This study aims to enhance the understanding of urban development processes as a collaborative and participatory concept through social innovation. We apply the concept of socially creative milieus to analyze the emergence of social innovation under the constraint of uncertainty. The criteria 'agents of innovation', 'adopters', 'diffusion channels', 'constraints', 'inertia', and 'impacts' are analyzed using a holistic case study in the field of urban development. Our results show that the presence of high social capital supersedes the coercive power of the public sector. By applying the creative milieus approach, environments like the density of networks and contacts in the governance of urban places make innovative development possible.

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Geophilosophy and Creative Milieus

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Geophilosophies: towards another sense of the earth

Geophilosophies: towards another sense of the earth

Creating social innovation in urban development through collaborative processes

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