UID:
almafu_9960011151402883
Format:
1 online resource (323 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4438-9313-7
Content:
In the light of the globalization, (post-)modernization, social fragmentation, and economization of many of today's living contexts, local knowledge is receiving increasing attention in various sciences. Commonly, local knowledge indicates a counterpart to both rational forms of an explicit knowledge of facts and knowledge of universal validity. Local knowledge attempts to appreciate a more comprehensive view of people's skills, capabilities, experience, and sophistication. On the other hand, the reference to 'local' implies an idea of bounded applicability of knowledge in a specific environment. Beyond this scope of application, local knowledge can be acknowledged either as instrumental in order to achieve specific goals or as an intrinsic value in order to deal with social relations, solidarity, common values and norms accordingly. Social and spatial settings are influential for everybody's quality of life, personal identity, and political commitment - and local knowledge is the essential foundation in turning these settings into a vivid arena. This volume is a result of a two-day conference held in November 2013 in Salzburg, Austria, dedicated to bringing together researchers from different scientific disciplines, including sociology, philosophy, social geography, economics, history, interpersonal communication studies, cultural studies, and theology, in order to draw distinct trains of thought about local knowledge in a transdisciplinary fashion: the phenomenon, its epistemic and philosophical reflection, its methodological comprehension, and its practical application.
Note:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter I: Different Kinds of Knowledge-Epistemological Approaches -- Introduction -- Onions, soils, and watering plants -- The human sciences versus the post-Soviet humanitarian sciences -- Reconsidering 'Mythic Knowledge' -- Between Maori and Modern? -- Chapter II: Different Settings of Knowledge-Spatial Approaches -- Introduction -- Exploring social and spatial opportunities to move within a city -- Detecting patterns of emergence in urban segregation simulation with local knowledge -- Local knowledge and remote sensing -- Wind energy in Brazil and socio-ecological conflicts -- Chapter III: Different Settings of Knowledge-Social Approaches -- Introduction -- Expertise and local knowledge at Highlander Research and Education Center -- Combatting poverty requires a local approach -- Post-socialist community and local knowledge -- Chapter IV: Different Kinds of Transfer-Socio-Cultural Approaches -- Introduction -- Reflections on oral culture as local knowledge -- When the 'global' marginalizes the 'indigenous' -- Local knowledge as a driving force for intercultural corporate development -- Contributors.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4438-9066-9
Language:
English
Keywords:
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