Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Healing of Wounds

Bernstein, Richard J.

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“…Our position, then, is that there can be no single urban theory of ubiquitous remit, nor should we be satisfied with the relativism (fragmenting pluralism, see Bernstein, ) of different strokes for different folks—different theories for different kinds of cities and regional contexts. Different urban theories gain traction by their capacity to develop compelling explanations of urban processes and spaces suited to particular urban contexts.…”

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Provincializing Critical Urban Theory: Extending the Ecosystem of Possibilities

Leitner

Sheppard

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Advocating a provincialization of critical urban theory, we seek to move beyond current polarizations and disputes over the basis of urban theory, creating space to take seriously the possibility that no single theory suffices to account for the variegated nature of urbanization and cities across the world. Such provincialization requires a serious engagement with both mainstream and critical Anglophone urban theory, challenging the seeming naturalness of knowledge claims through rigorous theoretical and empirical scrutiny from the standpoint of peripheral perspectives located outside the core. This entails recognizing the existence of a shifting ecosystem of critical urban theories, putting these into even-handed critical conversation with one another. The collective resilience of urban theory will be dependent upon ongoing engagement across such diversity. At the heart of such an ecosystem are shifts in practice, seeking a new comparative analytic that destabilizes the universalism of the dominant norm, against which all other exemplars are to be compared, with the imperative of taking the field seriously.

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Section: Conceptualizing Provincializationmentioning

confidence: 97%

Provincializing Critical Urban Theory: Extending the Ecosystem of Possibilities

Leitner

Sheppard

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

122

103

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“…works with social relativism because it is sympathetic to democracy and debate and dissent and irreverence, which are vital in today's history writing. Finally, pragmatism moderates a radical structuralist and neohumanist research paradigms because it supports the idea of undermining foundations, collapsing distinctions, and deflating abstractions (Menand, 1997), while not supporting the idea that everything should be questioned (Bernstein, 1999).…”

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The Historical Research Method and Information Systems Research

Porra¹,

Hirschheim²,

Parks³

2014

JAIS

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In this paper, we review the premises and practice of the historical method in order to understand how it can be applied to studying information systems (IS) related phenomena. We first examine the philosophical and methodological foundations of the method. For this purpose, we introduce a four-tiered research framework, which consists of (1) the paradigmatic or meta-theoretic assumptions that guide historical research, (2) pragmatism as an overarching approach or a way of doing historical research, (3) the historical method as the guiding principles for producing history, and (4) a review of some central techniques IS historians have applied in historical research. For point four, we review how McKenney et al. (1997) and Porra et al. (2005, 2006) applied Mason et al.'s (1997ab) seven steps of doing IS history. Finally, we compare the historical method with other methods applied in the IS field today: We compare the historical method with the longitudinal case study, case study, field study, and ethnography.

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“…Moreover, those strategies may not pre-empt the risk that matters-of-concernfor instance, what is a sociotechnical system, what is a city?are treated as matters-of-fact. At the same time, harnessing agnostic-antagonistic modes of interdisciplinarity (Barry et al, 2008) and engaging in methodological experiments (Klenk & Meehan, 2016;Stirling, 2015) risk what Bernstein (1988) called fragmenting pluralism (see also Barnes & Sheppard, 2010). This is a situation in which researchers communicate within narrow, homogenising epistemic communities and become more or less isolated from others working on similar issues.…”

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Thinking complex interconnections: Transition, nexus and Geography

Schwanen

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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More than ever is Geography surrounded by interdisciplinary movements claiming expertise with regard to the interconnections among nature, society and technology. These movements ask questions from Geography and geographers about if and how they can contribute to those movements and what form collaboration might take. This paper analyses Human Geography's interactions with research on sustainability transitions since the early 2000s to think through future interactions between Geography and research on the water–energy–food nexus. It shows that concepts, ideas, logics and methods have travelled from Human Geography into Transition Studies but that exchange between them has so far been partial and asymmetrical. Arguing that common ideas about how interdisciplinarity can be encouraged might be insufficient to change this situation, the paper develops ideas from Stengers, Whitehead, Foucault and others to explain the relations between Human Geography and Transition Studies in terms of modes of abstraction in an evolving ecology of power relations. It makes a case for slowing down modes of abstraction and proposes some ideas for slow collaborative research on sustainability transitions in contact zones. Implications for how Geography and geographers might engage with interdisciplinary nexus research are outlined.

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Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Healing of Wounds

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Provincializing Critical Urban Theory: Extending the Ecosystem of Possibilities

Provincializing Critical Urban Theory: Extending the Ecosystem of Possibilities

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Thinking complex interconnections: Transition, nexus and Geography

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