Landscape Conflicts—A Theoretical Approach Based on the Three Worlds Theory of Karl Popper and the Conflict Theory of Ralf Dahrendorf, Illustrated by the Example of the Energy System Transformation in Germany

KN J. Cartogr. Geogr. Inf.

2021

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Since the 1980s, ‘critical cartography’ has been developing. Its merits lie in its awareness of the socially constructed nature of cartographic representations, the power relations involved, and the process-bound nature of cartographic practices. The ‘post-critical’ cartography proposed here takes up these merits but does so without following the categorical rejection of positivist ‘traditional’ cartography or the moral demarcation of what can and cannot be represented as well as the subordination of theories to the ‘critical’ paradigm. Instead, the ‘post-critical’ approach relies on the struggle for suitable theoretical frameworks—the normative reference horizon within the endeavor of cartography is the enhancement of life chances. In this respect, the prefix ‘post’ refers not only to a temporal ‘after’, but also to the perpetuation of central concerns of ‘critical’ cartography, simultaneously freeing it from such limitations.

Section: Starting Points Of a 'Post-critical' Cartographymentioning

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Section: Two Brief Case Studies For Illustrationmentioning

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Contours of a ‘Post-Critical’ Cartography—A Contribution to the Dissemination of Sociological Cartographic Research

KN J. Cartogr. Geogr. Inf.

2021

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“…The "world 2" in turn affects "world 1", in that the human being, mediated by his body, materializes his ideas. These conceptions again he does not give birth from himself, but they originate in an argument with the contents of the "world 3" (see also Figure 2; for more on Karl Popper's three worlds theory and its operationalization for spatial and landscape research, see, among others: [67,[69][70][71]). Following this, we use in particular the superposition of the three worlds to three spaces by understanding "space 1" as material space, "space 2" the individual conceptions of space, "space 3" as the shared patterns of interpretation and evaluation of space.…”

Section: The Neopragmatic Approach To Regional Geographymentioning

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Baton Rouge—A Neopragmatic Regional Geographic Approach

Jenal

2021

Urban Science

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The present contribution to a neopragmatic approach to regional geography attempts to collect, structure, and reflect knowledge with different spatial, social, and cultural references. This is not a matter of designing a classical regional or landscape “compartmentalization” of distinct spatial units, which are characterized by a specific reciprocal shaping of culture and the initial physical substrate, but of investigating and reflecting the reciprocal influences of different levels of scale as well as the construction mechanisms and contingency of spatial units. By means of “theoretical” and also empirical “triangulation”, a differentiated picture of complex research objects—here Baton Rouge, LA—is generated, whereby (partial) contradictions between theoretical approaches and the relationship between the various appropriately chosen theories and equally well-chosen empirical methods are also accepted.

“…The foundation of this essay is in landscape theory as developed in detail in previous publications (Kühne 2018a(Kühne , 2019a(Kühne , 2020aJenal 2020a, 2020b). The "theory of the three landscapes" is conceptually based on the three world theory by Karl Popper (Popper [1984] 2018; Popper [1987Popper [ ] 2019Popper 1973;Popper and Eccles 1977).…”

Section: The Theory Of the Three Landscapes As The Basis For Further mentioning

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Functions of Landscape in Games—A Theoretical Approach with Case Examples

Jenal

Edler

2020

Arts

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The significance of play in the construction of landscape involving the feedback relationships between social conventions and the individual and between the individual and physical space, contrastingly, has so far received only little scientific attention. Games, however, take on great significance in the process of socialization in order to introduce the socializing person into the interpretations, valuations, and practices of the social world, which applies correspondingly to landscape. Play is an essential element of comprehending the concept “landscape”. Accordingly, this present essay deals with conceptual considerations of the function of games in relation to the social and individual construction of landscape. The theoretical framing of landscape will be carried out within the theory of the three landscapes, following Karl Popper’s three worlds. This theoretical framing also involves fundamental considerations on the connection between games and landscapes, which will be illustrated in more detail by means of two case examples, i.e., model railroads and pinball landscapes. It is shown that the playful engagement with landscape takes place in two dimensions: On the one hand, role expectations, norms, and values associated with landscape are conveyed, thus providing guidance for individual construction and individual experience of landscape. On the other hand, landscape contingencies can be tested. They address norms of interpretation and evaluation of landscape that are considered as bound together. Moreover, innovations can be tested, which may have been established in the social understanding of landscape.