Table Of ContentPeter Meusburger · Benno Werlen
Laura Suarsana
Editors
Klaus Tschira Symposia Knowledge and Space 9
Knowledge
and Action
Knowledge and Space
Volume 9
Series editor
Peter Meusburger, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg,
Germany
Knowledge and Space
This book series entitled “Knowledge and Space” is dedicated to topics dealing with
the production, dissemination, spatial distribution, and application of knowledge.
Recent work on the spatial dimension of knowledge, education, and science;
learning organizations; and creative milieus has underlined the importance of spatial
disparities and local contexts in the creation, legitimation, diffusion, and application
of new knowledge. These studies have shown that spatial disparities in knowledge
and creativity are not short-term transitional events but rather a fundamental
structural element of society and the economy.
The volumes in the series on Knowledge and Space cover a broad range of topics
relevant to all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences focusing on
knowledge, intellectual capital, and human capital: clashes of knowledge; milieus
of creativity; geographies of science; cultural memories; knowledge and the
economy; learning organizations; knowledge and power; ethnic and cultural
dimensions of knowledge; knowledge and action; and mobilities of knowledge.
These topics are analyzed and discussed by scholars from a range of disciplines,
schools of thought, and academic cultures.
Knowledge and Space is the outcome of an agreement concluded by the Klaus
Tschira Foundation and Springer in 2006.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/7568
Peter Meusburger • Benno Werlen
Laura Suarsana
Editors
Knowledge and Action
Editors
Peter Meusburger Benno Werlen
Department of Geography Department of Geography
Heidelberg University Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Heidelberg, Germany Jena, Germany
Laura Suarsana
Department of Geography
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg, Germany
ISSN 1877-9220
Knowledge and Space
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Acknowledgements
The editors thank the Klaus Tschira Stiftung for funding the symposia and book
series on Knowledge and Space. The staff of the Klaus Tschira Stiftung and Studio
Villa Bosch always contributes a great deal to the success of the symposia.
Together with all the authors in this volume, we are especially grateful to David
Antal for his tireless dedication to quality as technical editor of the chapters. We are
also indebted to Patricia Callow for her assistance on the editing of Chaps. 9 and 15.
Volker Schniepp at the Department of Geography at Heidelberg University has been
an enormous support in getting the figures and maps to meet the high standards of
publication. We also thank the students of Heidelberg University’s Department of
Geography who helped organize the 9th symposium and prepare this publication,
especially Heike Dennhard, Helen Dorn, Maike Frank, Andreas Kalström, Claudia
Kämper, Frederike Kempter, Nathalie Krabler, Laura Krauß, Julia Lekander, Pia
Liepe, Anna Mateja Schmidt, Veronika Walz, Florence Wieder and Angela Zissmann.
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Contents
1 Knowledge, Action, and Space: An Introduction ................................. 1
Peter Meusburger and Benno Werlen
2 Action, Knowledge, and Social Relations of Space .............................. 31
Benno Werlen
3 R ationality and Discursive Articulation in Place-Making................... 57
Huib Ernste
4 T hought-in-Action/Action-in-Thought ................................................. 67
Gunnar Olsson
5 Perverse Expertise and the Social Unconscious
in the Making of Crisis ........................................................................... 89
Richard Peet
6 How Much Knowledge Is Necessary for Action? ................................. 99
Joachim Funke
7 Knowing and Not Knowing .................................................................... 113
Nico Stehr
8 How Representations of Knowledge Shape Actions ............................. 127
Ralph Hertwig and Renato Frey
9 Reflection and Impulse as Determinants of Human Behavior ........... 145
Anand Krishna and Fritz Strack
10 Planning and the Control of Action ....................................................... 169
Frank Wieber and Peter M. Gollwitzer
11 Pragmatic Philosophy and the Social Function of Knowledge ........... 185
Tilman Reitz
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12 Semantic Knowledge, Domains of Meaning and Conceptual
Spaces ....................................................................................................... 203
Peter Gärdenfors
13 So What Do You Do? Experimenting with Space for Social
Creativity ................................................................................................. 221
Ariane Berthoin Antal and Victor J. Friedman
14 T he Decision to Move: Being Mobile and Being Rational in
Comparative Anthropological Perspective ........................................... 253
Thomas Widlok
15 C ontinuity and Change in Older Adults’ Out- of- Home Mobility
Over Ten Years: A Qualitative-Quantitative Approach ....................... 267
Heidrun Mollenkopf, Annette Hieber, and Hans-Werner Wahl
The Klaus Tschira Stiftung ............................................................................ 291
Index ................................................................................................................. 293
Contributors
Ariane Berthoin Antal Research Group Science Policy Studies, WZB Berlin
Social Science Center, Berlin, Germany
Huib Ernste Department of Human Geography, Radboud University, Nijmegen,
The Netherlands
Renato Frey Center for Cognitive and Decision Sciences (CDS), Department of
Psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Victor J. Friedman Department of Sociology and Anthropology/Department of
Behavioral Sciences, Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Jezreel Valley,
Israel
Joachim Funke Department of Psychology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg,
Germany
Peter Gärdenfors Department of Philosophy, Lund University Cognitive Science,
Lund, Sweden
Peter M. Gollwitzer Department of Psychology, New York University, New York,
NY, USA
Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Ralph Hertwig Center of Adaptive Rationality (ARC), Max Planck Institute for
Human Development in Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Annette Hieber German Center for Research on Aging, Heidelberg University,
Heidelberg, Germany
Anand Krishna Institute for Psychology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg,
Germany
Peter Meusburger Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg,
Germany
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Heidrun Mollenkopf German Center for Research on Aging, Heidelberg
University, Heidelberg, Germany
Gunnar Olsson Department of Social and Economic Geography, University of
Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
Richard Peet Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA,
USA
Tilman Reitz Institute of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena,
Germany
Nico Stehr Karl Mannheim Professor for Cultural Studies, Zeppelin University,
Friedrichshafen, Germany
Fritz Strack Institute for Psychology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg,
Germany
Laura Suarsana Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg,
Germany
Hans-Werner Wahl Institute of Psychology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg,
Germany
Benno Werlen Department of Geography, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena,
Germany
Thomas Widlok African Studies Institute, University of Cologne, Cologne,
Germany
Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, Radboud University,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Frank Wieber School of Health Professions, Institute for Health Sciences, ZHAW
Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland
Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
