ISBN:
9789401799607
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
color illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Knowledge and space / Klause Tschira symposia volume 7
Series Statement:
Knowledge and Space Ser. v.7
Parallel Title:
Print version Geographies of Knowledge and Power
DDC:
306.4/2
Keywords:
Geography Social aspects
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Power (Social sciences)
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Knowledge, Sociology of
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Industrial management
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Interest in relations between knowledge, power, and space has a long tradition in a range of disciplines, but it was reinvigorated in the last two decades through critical engagement with Foucault and Gramsci. This volume focuses on relations between knowledge and power. It shows why space is fundamental in any exercise of power and explains which roles various types of knowledge play in the acquisition, support, and legitimization of power. Topics include the control and manipulation of knowledge through centers of power in historical contexts, the geopolitics of knowledge about world politic
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; 1: Power, Knowledge, and Space: A Geographical Introduction; References; 2: Relations Between Knowledge and Power: An Overview of Research Questions and Concepts; No Power Without Knowledge, No Knowledge Without Power; Factual Knowledge and Orientation Knowledge: Differences Between Logos and Mythos; Factual Knowledge; Orientation Knowledge; Conceptions and Definitions of Power and Their Relationship to Knowledge; How Can Power Be Conceptualized and Defined?; How Can Relations Between Knowledge and Power Be Conceptualized and Explained?
Description / Table of Contents:
Asymmetry of Power Relations Can Factual Knowledge Be Clearly Differentiated from Orientation Knowledge?; Factual Knowledge and Power; Functions of Factual Knowledge in Acquiring and Retaining Power; The Search for Absolute Truth or Getting on in the Life World?; Orientation Knowledge and Power; What Functions Does Orientation Knowledge Have for a Social System?; The Role of Orientation Knowledge in the Construction of the Self and the Other; Orientation Knowledge and Moral Exclusion; With Which Methods Do Power Centers Influence the Creation and Spread of Knowledge?
Description / Table of Contents:
Manipulation of Epistemic Perspectives Control of Access to Information, Censorship of Information, Bibliocide, and Memorycide,; Manipulation of Public Attention; Subjectivity and Credibility of Experts; Crisis of Expertise?; Scholars as Instruments of Politics; Conclusion; References; 3: Enabling Knowledge; Knowledgeability and Democracy; Overview; The Terms; Theories of Democracy and Civil Society; Reconciling Democracy and Expertise; Reconciling Democracy and Knowledge as Property; Enabling Knowledge?; Concluding Remarks; References
Description / Table of Contents:
4: Gabriel's Map: Cartography and Corpography in Modern WarI Would Rather Be in France . . .; The Optical War and Cartographic Vision; "Clockwork War" and the Mathematics of the Battlefield; The Corpography of the Slimescape; Conclusion; Coda; References; 5: Telling the Future: Reflections on the Status of Divination in Ancient Near Eastern Politics; References; 6: Who Gets the Past? The Changing Face of Islamic Authority and Religious Knowledge; Competing Claims to Authoritative Religious Knowledge; Public Islam and the Common Good; Public Islam and Modernity
Description / Table of Contents:
Religious and Secular Identities Authorities and Audiences; References; 7: "An Heavenly Kingdom Shall Descend": How Millennialism Spread from New England to the United States of America; Introduction; New England as a Millennial Seedbed; The Impact of the Great Awakening; The Apocalyptic Interpretation of American Wars; The United States as the Apocalyptic "New Order of the Ages"; Conclusion; References; 8: The Power of Words and the Tides of History: Reflections on Man and Nature and Silent Spring; Man and Nature: A Book and Its Reception; Man and Nature: The Fate and Power of Words
Description / Table of Contents:
Silent Spring: The Fate and Power of Words
Note:
"Klaus Tschira Stiftung gemeinnützige GmbH"--Cover
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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