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  • Transformations in Hungary

    Essays in Economy and Society

    Edited by Peter Meusburger, Heike Jöns ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    During the first decade after the turn towards democracy and market economy, Hungary's society experienced profound changes. The book analyses related political, legal, institutional and socio-economic structures and processes in order to contribute to a further understanding of Hungary's ongoing transformation processes and its current situation as one of the leading candidates for EU membership. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Geographies of Science

    Edited by Peter Meusburger, David Livingstone, Heike Jöns ...
    Series Book 3 - Knowledge and Space
    This collection of essays aims to further the understanding of historical and contemporary geographies of science. It offers a fresh perspective on comparative approaches to scientific knowledge and practice as pursued by geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, and historians of science. The authors explore the formation and changing geographies of scientific centers from the sixteenth to the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Cultural Memories

    The Geographical Point of View

    Edited by Peter Meusburger, Michael Heffernan, Edgar Wunder ...
    Series Book 4 - Knowledge and Space
    The revival of interest in collective cultural memories since the 1980s has been a genuinely global phenomenon. Cultural memories can be defined as the social constructions of the past that allow individuals and groups to orient themselves in time and space. The investigation of cultural memories has necessitated an interdisciplinary perspective, though geographical questions about the spaces, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Geographies of Knowledge and Power

    Edited by Peter Meusburger, Laura Suarsana, Derek Gregory ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    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 ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Ethnic and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge

    Edited by Peter Meusburger, Tim Freytag, Laura Suarsana ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents theoretical and methodical discussions on local knowledge and indigenous knowledge. It examines educational attainment of ethnic minorities, race and politics in educational systems, and the problem of losing indigenous knowledge. It comprises a broad range of case studies about specifics of local knowledge from several regions of the world, reflecting the interdependence of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Knowledge and the Economy

    Edited by Peter Meusburger, Johannes Glückler, Martina Meskioui ...
    Series Book 5 - Knowledge and Space
    The broad spectrum of topics surrounding what is termed the ‘knowledge economy’ has attracted increasing attention from the scientific community in recent years. The nature of knowledge-intensive industries, the spatiality of knowledge, the role of proximity and distance in generating functional knowledge, the transfer of knowledge via networks, and the complex interplay between knowledge, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Learning Organizations

    Extending the Field

    Edited by Ariane Berthoin Antal, Peter Meusburger, Laura Suarsana ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is designed to extend the field of organizational learning in several ways. The contributors from three continents bring different perspectives on processes and outcomes of knowledge creation and sharing in and between organizations in diverse contexts. They use approaches and concepts from numerous disciplines including the arts, economics, geography, organizational studies, psychology, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Geographies of the University

    Edited by Peter Meusburger, Michael Heffernan, Laura Suarsana ...
    Series Book 12 - Knowledge and Space
    This open access volume raises awareness of the histories, geographies, and practices of universities and analyzes their role as key actors in today’s global knowledge economy. Universities are centers of research, teaching, and expertise with significant economic, social, and cultural impacts at different geographical scales. Scholars from a variety of disciplines and countries offer original ... Read more

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  • Geographies of Schooling

    Edited by Holger Jahnke, Caroline Kramer, Peter Meusburger ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the complex relationship between schooling as a set of practices embedded in educational institutions and their specific spatial dimensions from different disciplinary perspectives. It presents innovative empirical and conceptual research by international scholars from the fields of social geography, pedagogy, educational and social sciences in Germany, the United ... Read more

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  • Knowledge and Action

    Edited by Peter Meusburger, Benno Werlen, Laura Suarsana ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume explores interdependencies between knowledge, action, and space from different interdisciplinary perspectives. Some of the contributors discuss knowledge as a social construct based on collective action, while others look at knowledge as an individual capacity for action. The chapters contain theoretical frameworks as well as experimental outcomes.Readers will gain insight into key ... Read more

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  • Mobilities of Knowledge

    Edited by Heike Jöns, Peter Meusburger, Michael Heffernan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This collection of essays examines how spatial mobilities of people and practices, technologies and objects, knowledge and ideas have shaped the production, circulation, and transfer of knowledge in different historical and geographical contexts. Targeting an interdisciplinary audience, Mobilities of Knowledge combines detailed empirical analyses with innovative conceptual approaches. The first ... Read more

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