Von Interaktion zu Transaktion – Konsequenzen eines pragmatischen Mensch-Umwelt-Verständnisses für eine Geographie der Mitwelt
| Autor: | C. Steiner |
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| Jazyk: | German<br />English<br />French<br />Italian |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Geographica Helvetica, Vol 69, Iss 3, Pp 171-181 (2014) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0016-7312 2194-8798 |
| DOI: | 10.5194/gh-69-171-2014 |
| Popis: | Questions about how human-environment-relations can be conceptualized in a non-dualistic way have been intensively discussed throughout the last decades. The majority of the established realist and constructivist perspectives aim at explaining a given situation by analytically dissecting it. Unfortunately, such an interactionist perspective systematically reproduces the dualistic division between humans, environment and nature. In contrast, this paper offers a transactive perspective origin in classical pragmatism and discusses its meta-theoretical consequences for human-environment-research. A transactionist perspective interprets the world as a flow of unique and entangled events. Instead of ontologically separating humans and environment, it advocates to look at their relations as being part of a "connatural world". Such a point of view raises new ethical and political questions for geographical human-environment research, argues for a renaissance of ideographic methodologies and hints to a fruitful unity of geographical inquiry. |
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