Pragmatism and power, or the power to make a difference in a radically contingent world

Geoforum

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1613-1624

  Allen, John ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anti foundational; Context; Contingency; Experience; Power; Spatial experiments

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; POLITICAL THEORY; POWER RELATIONS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 50049112561     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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