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Space, Place and Educational Settings
This open access book explores the nexus between knowledge and space with a particular emphasis on the role of educational settings that are, both, shaping and being reshaped by socio-economic and political processes. It gives insight into the complex interplay of educational inequalities and practices of educational governance in the neighborhood and at larger geographical scales. The book ado…
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- 978-3-030-78597-0
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- X, 227
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 16)
- Call Number
- 334 SPA
Knowledge and Civil Society
This open access book focuses on the role of civil society in the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in geographical contexts. It offers original, interdisciplinary and counterintuitive perspectives on civil society. The book includes reflections on civil and uncivil society, the role of civil society as a change agent, and on civil society perspectives of undone science. …
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- 978-3-030-71147-4
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- X, 316
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- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 17)
- Call Number
- 306 KNO
Geographies of Schooling
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…
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- 978-3-030-18799-6
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- XII, 359
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 14)
- Call Number
- 334 GEO
Knowledge for Governance
This open access book focuses on theoretical and empirical intersections between governance, knowledge and space from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions elucidate how knowledge is a prerequisite as well as a driver of governance efficacy, and conversely, how governance affects the creation and use of knowledge and innovation in geographical context. Scholars from the fields of …
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- 978-3-030-47150-7
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- XIII, 469
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 15)
- Call Number
- 334 KNO
Geographies of the University
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 origina…
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- 978-3-319-75593-9
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- XIV, 676
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 12)
- Call Number
- 900 GEO
Cycling Through the Pandemic
This open access book provides insight on how the tactical urbanism has the capacity to influence change in mobility practices such as cycling. COVID-19 crisis prompted the public authorities to rethink the use of public space in order to develop means of transport that are both efficient and adapted to the health context and their effects on cycling practices in Europe, North, and South Americ…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-45308-3
- Collation
- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- The Urban Book Series
- Call Number
- 324
Urban Living Lab for Local Regeneration
This open access book provides an integrated overview of the challenges and resources of large-scale social housing estates in Europe and outlines possible interdisciplinary approaches and tools to promote their regeneration. It especially focuses on the tool of urban living labs, as promising in promoting new and more effective local governance and in including the different actors into the pl…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-19748-2
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- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- The Urban Book Series
- Call Number
- 550
Knowledge and Networks
This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, entrepren…
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- 978-3-319-45023-0
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- XII, 386
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 13)
- Call Number
- 334 KNO
Knowledge and Institutions
This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, entrepren…
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- 978-3-319-75328-7
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- X, 310
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 13)
- Call Number
- 334 KNO
Knowledge and Action
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 int…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-44588-5
- Collation
- X, 300
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 9)
- Call Number
- 334 KNO
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