• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: The Anthropocene and the great transformation: Perspectives for critical governance and transformation research in the spatial sciences
  • Contributor: Bruns, Antje [Author]
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  • imprint: Hannover: Verlag der ARL, 2022
  • Published in: Spatial transformation: Processes, strategies, research design ; Bd. 19
    Forschungsberichte der ARL ; Bd. 19
  • Language: English
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  • Keywords: epistemological orientation ; knowing and nonknowing ; problem framing ; provincialising theories and practices ; reflexivity
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  • Footnote: Veröffentlichungsversion
    begutachtet (peer reviewed)
    In: Larjosto, Vilja (Hg.), Knaps, Falco (Hg.), Abassiharofteh, Milad (Hg.), Göb, Angelina (Hg.), Baier, Jessica (Hg.), Eberth, Andreas (Hg.), Zebner, Fabiana (Hg.), Thimm, Insa (Hg.): Spatial transformation: Processes, strategies, research design. 2022. S. 50-60. ISBN 978-3-88838-109-6
  • Description: This article critically examines the new guiding concept of transformation in the spatial sciences with regard to its underlying narrative - namely the Anthropocene. Without such an examination, spatial science research might contribute to apolitical, spatially undifferentiated and Eurocentric governance and transformation research. Hence, I propose to place political aspects and questions of power more firmly in the focus of theoretical, methodological and empirical interest and to take up a general perspective of inequality. Plurality and diversity (from a social and spatial perspective as well as with regard to knowledge production) therefore become the central transverse dimensions of governance and transformation research, which should essentially be reflexive.
  • Access State: Open Access
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