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• Capitalism
  ...but there are still contradictions and inequalities (Schumpeter, 1994). In practice, this means most of the time that the people with money, power, knowledge e Founding father of todays capitalism is [[Karl Marx]] (1818-1883). His theory was about unfairly economic distinctions in society between lower class peo
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• Discourse
  ...guage used in a certain given field of intellectual enquiry and of social practice, such as legal discourse, medical discourse, etc. *Jørgensen, M.W. & Phillips, L. (2002). Discourse analysis: as theory and method. Sage, London
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• Dividing practices
  This is a key concept of [[Derek Gregory]] in his postcolonial theory. ...rientalism]] that the representation of the east by the west is a dividing practice which makes spaces outside the west different from and subordinate to the w
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• Duality (of structure)
  ... of [[structure]] and [[agency]]. On opposition of this, the structuration theory argues that social structures are the medium and the outcome of human agenc ...attern of relations between people. These patterns are organized as social practice. So, because of structure rules are placed upon people. An example of this
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• Edward Said
  ...is theory and help to explain his uncertain relationship with contemporary theory" (p.5) ...lonial theory is very well explained by Ashcroft and Ahluwalia (2001): The theory is focussed on investigating "the cultural and political impact of European
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• Everyday creativity
  ... his work ‘The practice of everyday life’ De Certeau (1984) presents a theory on production and [[consumption]] (which includes things like reading and w ... the main contribution of De Certeau to social theory has been “to posit practice as the ground of resistance to domination (in addition to the reproduction
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• Everyday regionalisation
  ...nd act upon as meaningful places or 'regional' entities. In that sense the theory relies very much on constructionism, since meaning of the real world is reg ...ntainers' of human activities, it is suggested to view them as thought-and practice constructs of people for whom, for whatever reason, they come to matter and
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• Felix Guattari
  ...ly. A critique of [[Sigmund Freud]]’s psychoanalysis that focuses on its theory of the Oedipus complex. ...d Freud]]’s interpretation which had many shortcomings in basis analytic practice. It is a functional evaluation of the direct investments of desire in a fie
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• Field
  ...h he uses “to convey the routinized, yet indeterminate, nature of social practice” (Gregory, Johnston, Pratt, Watts & Whatmore, 2009, p. 323). Arnoldi, J. (2001). Niklas Luhmann. An Introduction. In: ''Theory, Culture & Society''. Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 1-13.
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• Genealogy
  ... total history - ([[total history vs general history]]) - of Foucault. The theory of genealogy uses many different sources and details. Where [[archaeology]] ... the term ‘’discourse’’, Foucault (1991) refers to a rule-governed practice that includes meanings set within a knowledge system as well as institution
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• Kropotkin Peter
  ...esearch on glaciations in Siberia, Sweden and Finland and developed a new theory about the galaciology and the orography of Asia (Blunt & Willis, 2000, p4) ...rested in physical geography, he is also known for the political ideas and theory’s he develops. In this area he was important for the theoretical framewor
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• Max Weber 2
  ...tionship between the historical development of culture (mainly through the practice of Calvinism and Calvinism being the faith over which the political and cul ...osition, functioning and direction of society as a whole. Furthermore, the theory tries to explain how individuals and society interact. The individuals, als
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• Michel Foucault
  ...ng Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan) who rejected the existentialism theory. The gap between the existentialism, where the emphasis is on the meaning ...c (No. 49, pp. 3-10), the same also published in "language, counter-memory,practice: selected essays and interviews by Michel Foucault" (1977, Bouchard)
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• Nigel Thrift
  ...: international finance, citities and political life, non-representational theory, affective politics and the history of time. ''Second, I continue to work on what I call nonrepresentational theory, especially by expanding on a set of issues. So far as my interest in time
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• Non-Representational Theory
  ... (Lorimer 2005: 83). Thrift recognises this as he say non-representational theory has become increasingly difficult to pin down since its original inception. Cadman, L. (2009). Nonrepresentational Theory/Nonrepresentational Geographies. Elsevier inc., Glasgow.
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• Observation (vs. experience)
  ...imate knowledge of subjects and their habits, which insiders to a realm of practice might not otherwise reveal or are able to reveal, in contrived situations s ...as one of the most prominent thinkers in the field of Sociological Systems Theory. In this work there are three central theme's:
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• Orientalism
  ...as not an European fantasy of the Orient, but created a body of theory and practice in which there has been a considerable material investment (Gregory et al., Said influenced [[human geography]], with his theory of orientalism, so compelling that even for practitioners of today it is mo
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• Pierre Bourdieu
  ...er]] (Lippuner & Werlen, 2009, p.45). He came came up with the [[theory of practice]]. == Theory of Class Distinction ==
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• Post-structuralism
  ...hy as well as literary and cultural studies. These days the poststructural theory has also his impact within human geography and the other social sciences (G ... making visible their power and creating openings for alternative forms of practice and power to emerge, see [[Post-structuralist strategies]].
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• Power (according to Foucault)
  ...'' in Taylor, S., Wetherell, M. & Yates, S.J. (2001). Discourse Theory and Practice. London: Sage publications.
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• Practice (vs. Action)
  ...ation in certain branches of critical sociology and cultural anthropology. Practice theories seek to integrate objectivist theories of society (such as [[struc Practice theory, (or as some name it) [[action theory]],has been associated primarily with four theorists: [[Michel Foucault]] (1
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• Pragmatism
  ...o determined our opinion of what be true or false. When something works in practice it is true. Pragmatism is about finding the best solution through interacti ...geography. The question was: ‘How should geographers research humanistic theory about ‘action roles’ in a pragmatically way?’ (Cloke, Philo & Sadler,
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• Praxis
  Praxis is a term used in [[Structuration Theory]]. It refers to 'the entirety of individual and collective human activities Central to structuration theory is the concept of the [[Duality (of structure)|duality of structure]]. Stru
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• Production (as conceptualised by Henri Lefebvre)
  ...ings in space. Rather cities are made by people who have their own spatial practice, and produce their own space.
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• Regionalisation
  ...em. This notion is developed by [[Anthony Giddens]] in his [[Structuration Theory]].
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• Semiotics
  Semiotics is the practice of writing, ‘language’, and reading [[signs]] (Knox & Marston, 2010). [ Eco, U. (1976). ''A Theory of Semiotics''. Bompiani: Indiana University Press.
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• Social space
  Social space is a vital term in Bourdieu's theory of practice. It's not a geographical space or territory, but it's seen as a relation sp ...989). Social space and symbolic power [Electronic version]. ''Sociological theory'', 7, p. 14-25. Accessed on 12 october 2012.
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• Structuralism
  The '''structuration theory''', who’s main proponents are the Britisch sociologist [[Anthony Giddens] ...ary, 1991, p.7). Another difference is that from the view of structuration theory, structures don’t have power themselves; the main constitutive power is a
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• Structure according to Giddens
  ...]] theory the concept of structure as determined by traditional structural theory changes. According to [[Anthony Giddens|Giddens]] structure is not a group Resources in structuration theory are the collection of actions that an actor can perform to influence or tra
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• Subsystem
  The subsystems are a part of Niklas [[Luhmann's theory of society]]. Subsystems are the individual components of which a larger sy program: laws, decrees, practice of verdicts, contracts
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• Third Way
  ...d with a redevelopment of sociology and the development of [[structuration theory]]. His most recent work deals with modernity and the effects of globalizati ... economics with leftwing social policy. Examples of Third Way politics in practice are the New Labour governments in the UK (under Blair and Brown) and the �
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• Transaction costs
  The transaction cost theory is derived from economics. North (in Sager, 2006) defines transaction costs == Application of the transaction cost theory to critical communicative planning ==
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• World binding
  ...e influence on social realities (ibid.,). World binding is thus a decisive practice contributing to “[[everyday regionalization]]” depending also on contin Werlen, B. (2009). Structuration Theory. In International Encyclopedia for Human Geography. Elsevier.
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• Action theory
  == General overview on Action Theory == ...en, personal communication, September 10th, 2011). See more on [[Schütz's theory of man]].
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• Critical pragmatism
  ...naar, 2011). Forester's book "Critical Theory, Public Policy, and Planning Practice" explicitly states the concept of critical pragmatism. ... actors involved in the planning process. Drawing on Habermas's [[critical theory of communicative action]], critical pragmatism gives central significance t
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• Courage of truth
  ... is being discussed. And, in addition, Foucault almost never uses the term practice in his readings. ..., or, in other words, the arts of existence (life as a work of art). This theory implies, in the context of telling the truth, that one should have the cour
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• Ethnomethodology
  '''Theory''' ...t’s sometimes said that it’s more a practice and that it lacks on real theory. Radical enthomethodolgy does try to find principled, generic, theoretical
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• Heterology
  ...d constitutes a privileged third position that mediates between theory and practice" (Zhange, 2009). Heterology is the opposite of autology. The term is mostly
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• The practice turn
  ...ctice turn is used to define the emergence of practice in social sciences. Practice theories seek to integrate objectivist theories of society (such as [[struc Practice theory is used to explain people's behavior by means of putting the practice as first object of research. Meaning is formed by doing and not an independ
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• Empiricism
  Empiricism is a theory of [[knowledge]] that asserts that knowledge comes only or primarily via se The empiricist draws his rules of practice not from theory but from close observation and experiment, emphasizing inductive rather tha
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• Speech acts vs language
  ...onships and places (ibid., 1984). The act of speaking can be regarded as a practice following De Certeau (ibid., p. 22) or a tactical maneuvre of the art of ma De Certeau, M. (1984). The Practice of Everyday Life. London:University of California Press
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• Agency
  * Barker, C. (2005). Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice. London: Sage. p.448
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• Language
  Language has played an important role in the development of human geography theory, which is reflected in different branches of study, such as ''language geog ...ighly influenced by the changes in twentieth-century philosophy and social theory during the [[linguistic turn]] (Gregory et al., 2011, idem).
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• Spatial justice
  ...he scientific debate and addresses all scales of geography, in theory ánd practice.
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• Imperialism
  ...efers to a system of domination over space, encompassing the practise, the theory and the attitudes of a dominating metropolitan centre ruling a distant terr ...lls, J. (eds.) Dissident Geographies: an introduction to radical Ideas and Practice. Prentice Hall, London.
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• Interpretive turn
  ...tion is conditioned by cultural perspective and is mediated by symbols and practice. ...g of Equality and the Interpretive Turn''. Georgetown Public Law and Legal Theory Research: Georgetown.
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• Theory of place
  ...mine these regions through the analytical frame of the structurationist ‘theory of place’. The concepts place and [[region]] (important in the structurat The theory of place comprises three main points:
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• Critical Discourse Analysis
  ...of change. Discursive practices can be seen as an important part of social practice. They are practices through which texts are created and received and interp ...d. But at the same time it is created by other social practices. As social practice it has a cross relationship with other social dimensions. It does not just
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• Social system according to Giddens
  ...contain moments of structure, that is, institutionalized aspects of social practice that stretch in space and time. * Lippuner, R. & Werlen, B. (2009) Structuration Theory.
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• Marxist Geography
  ...f socio-economic systems, primarily capitalism, using the tools of Marxist theory (Gregory et al, 2009). Marxism first became an important theoretical influe ...tensibly neutral geographical techniques and analyses often were served in practice to enable and perpetuate various relations of domination;
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• Genealogy and discource analysis
  ...so in the [[discourse]]. Following Foucault is a discourse a rule governed practice that includes a meaning set within a knowlegde system as, well as instititu (1) A critical analysis of the violence enacted by any theory or system of meaning.
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• Theodore Schatzki
  ...ies to practice-centered theory and a shift from spatial action to spatial practice. ... of subject-object, structure-agency etc. Central Schatzki's approach is ''practice''.
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