Knowledge and action

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Knowledge, Action, and Space: An Introduction -- Open and Contested Research Questions -- The Neglected Spatial Dimension in Modern Social Theory -- The Problematic Legacy of Homo Oeconomicus and Rational Choice Theories -- Recent Developments in Decision-Making Theories and Geographies of Science: Improvements in the Understanding of Relations Between Knowledge, Action, and Space -- Collective Action -- Aims, Claims, and Content of this Volume -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Action, Knowledge, and Social Relations of Space -- The Relevance of the Spatial Dimension and the Spatial Turn -- The Gaps in Social Theory -- Social Conditions of Scientific Research and the History of Space -- Different Spaces for Different Worlds -- Action, Knowledge, and Space-Space, Knowledge, and Action -- Incorporation of the World and the Construction of Geographical Realities -- Regionalizations and Regions of Meaningful Geographical Realities -- Social Relations of Space -- The Times They Are a-Changing: From Territorial to Digital Social Realities -- Implications: From Space to Action and from Action to the Spatiality of Action -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Rationality and Discursive Articulation in Place-Making -- Late-Modern Action-Theoretic Approaches and "Rational" Interventions -- Poststructuralist Theories of Practice and "Critical" Interventions -- Discursive Articulations and the Return of "Rational" Interventions -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Thought-in-Action/Action-in-Thought -- References -- Chapter 5: Perverse Expertise and the Social Unconscious in the Making of Crisis -- Neoliberalism, Finance Capitalism, and Crisis -- Buying the State -- Finance Capitalism and Environmental Crisis -- Social Unconsciousness -- References.