Wolfgang Zierhofer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3718808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolfgang Zierhofer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolfgang |
| FAMILY NAME | Zierhofer |
| SIGNATURE | ZIERHOFER W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Human Geography, University of Nijmegen, PO Box 9108, NL – 6500 HK Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Vernunft Angesichts der Umweltzerstörung
Umwelt Zur Sprache Bringen: Über Umweltverantwortliches Handeln, Die Wahrnehmung der Waldsterbensdiskussion und Den Umgang Mit Unsicherheit
Transdisciplinary Research – a Distinct Mode of Knowledge Production? Problem-Orientation, Knowledge Integration and Participation in Transdisciplinary Research Projects Transdisziplinäre Forschung – …
The debate on transdisciplinary research has so far rarely addressed the epistemological and methodological issues of this new form of scientific practice. With our paper we offer a contribution that attempts to fill this gap. Setting out from a system of knowledge desiderata of "problem-oriented research" we present an empirical analysis of problem-orientation, knowledge integration and participation of non-scientific actors in transdisciplinary…
Einführung: Doing Transdisciplinarity – Analyse und Reflexion einer anspruchsvollen Wissenschaftspraxis
Leitbild nachhaltige Entwicklung - Konsequenzen für die Gesellschaftstheorie. Forschungsdesiderate und Vorschlag einer sozialgeographischen Forschungsprogrammatik
Representative Cosmopolitanism: Representing the World within Political Collectives
Nation-states chop up the modern political sphere into autonomous (sovereign) communities. A vast literature questions the adequacy of this territorial, container-based order in the face of increasingly global patterns of interaction. A remedy is sought in a cosmopolitanization of the political sphere, above all by establishing institutions and by strengthening forms of governance on the international or supranational level. This paper develops a…
Individuals, Collectives, and the Spatial Transformation of the Political
Abschied von der einen Natur - Einführung in eine Grundlagendebatte
Initiated by ecocentrism, (eco-)feminism, science and technology studies as well as postmodern philosophy, the development of social theory during the last two decades has been marked by a critical investigation of central elements in modern thought, particularly into the nature/culture dichotomy and other associated distinctions. This paper introduces us to these debates and focuses particularly on arguments that reject essentialist understandin…
The Unity of Difference: A Critical Appraisal of Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Social Systems in the Context of Corporeality and Spatiality
Niklas Luhmann was one of the most innovative and productive social theorists of the 20th century. He developed a comprehensive and distinctive social theory and his ideas have enriched many disciplines. Yet, only few geographers have engaged with his work. Convinced of its qualities, our intention is to stimulate a critical reception of his theory among human geographers. Here an introduction into his theory of social systems is provided, and th…
Für eine Politik ohne Natur
Was könnten institutionelle Innovationen der Umweltpolitik bieten? Normen? Preise? – Möglichkeiten
Political ecology, territoriality and scale
Speech Acts and Space(s): Language Pragmatics and the Discursive Constitution of the Social
By referring to language-pragmatic versions of action theory, I attempt in this paper to introduce a perspective which overcomes a series of modernistic legacies of earlier action theories in human geography. Such a development allows a nonessentialist stance while preserving the conceptual richness and consistency of action theory. The concept of speech acts will be interpreted as a blueprint for the analysis of interactions in general-not only …
A priori ohne Apriori: A-moderne, Sprachpragmatik und Geographie
A-moderne Denkansätze fragen systematisch nach der Konstitution von Entitäten jeglicher Art durch eine erkennende oder sprechende Instanz. Insofern radikalisieren sie moderne Perspektiven. Indem sie jedoch auch die Dichotomie von Natur und Kultur, die stillschweigend vorausgesetzt die Grundlage für das Selbstverständnis der Moderne bildet, als kontextrelative Konstruktion betrachten, setzen sie sich markant von der Moderne ab. Gerät die Untersche…
Die Ruhe nach dem Sturm: Eine Evaluation der Verarbeitung des Waldsterbens in der Forschung und in den Massenmedien der Schweiz
During the eighties the environmental problem of "Waldsterben" (forest decline, literally: dying forest) gave rise to a lively and polarized political debate. This article resumes an empirical study on the contributions of forestry sciences and mass media to a rational – i.e., well founded and subtly differentiated – treatment of the ,,Waldsterben" in Switzerland. In the first few years of the debate, the scientific representation of the problem …
Geographie der Hybriden
Umweltforschung und Öffentlichkeit
Umweltforschung und Öffentlichkeit: Das Waldsterben und die kommunikativen Leistungen von Wissenschaft und Massenmedien
Das Waldsterben in der Informationsgesellschaft: Zur Anwendung der sprachpragmatischen Handlungstheorie in Sozialgeographie und Humanökologie
Since the eighties action theory and theory of structuration have increasingly been accepted as basic conceptual frameworks for social geography. This article contnbutes to this debate by demonstrating the potential of a certain variant of action theory (see ZIERHOFER 1997) for empirical re search. First the author sets out in detail how this "language pragmatics approach" has been applied in a research pro ject on the processing of "Waldsterben"…
Grundlage für eine Humangeographie des relationalen Weltbildes. Die sozialwissenschaftliche Bedeutung von Sprachpragmatik, Ökologie und Evolution
Umwelt zur Sprache bringen
Speech Acts and Space(s): Language Pragmatics and the Discursive Constitution of the Social
By referring to language-pragmatic versions of action theory, I attempt in this paper to introduce a perspective which overcomes a series of modernistic legacies of earlier action theories in human geography. Such a development allows a nonessentialist stance while preserving the conceptual richness and consistency of action theory. The concept of speech acts will be interpreted as a blueprint for the analysis of interactions in general-not only …
Political ecology, territoriality and scale
Representative Cosmopolitanism: Representing the World within Political Collectives
Nation-states chop up the modern political sphere into autonomous (sovereign) communities. A vast literature questions the adequacy of this territorial, container-based order in the face of increasingly global patterns of interaction. A remedy is sought in a cosmopolitanization of the political sphere, above all by establishing institutions and by strengthening forms of governance on the international or supranational level. This paper develops a…
The Unity of Difference: A Critical Appraisal of Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Social Systems in the Context of Corporeality and Spatiality
Niklas Luhmann was one of the most innovative and productive social theorists of the 20th century. He developed a comprehensive and distinctive social theory and his ideas have enriched many disciplines. Yet, only few geographers have engaged with his work. Convinced of its qualities, our intention is to stimulate a critical reception of his theory among human geographers. Here an introduction into his theory of social systems is provided, and th…
Umwelt zur Sprache bringen
Grundlage für eine Humangeographie des relationalen Weltbildes. Die sozialwissenschaftliche Bedeutung von Sprachpragmatik, Ökologie und Evolution
Umweltforschung und Öffentlichkeit
Umweltforschung und Öffentlichkeit: Das Waldsterben und die kommunikativen Leistungen von Wissenschaft und Massenmedien
Das Waldsterben in der Informationsgesellschaft: Zur Anwendung der sprachpragmatischen Handlungstheorie in Sozialgeographie und Humanökologie
Since the eighties action theory and theory of structuration have increasingly been accepted as basic conceptual frameworks for social geography. This article contnbutes to this debate by demonstrating the potential of a certain variant of action theory (see ZIERHOFER 1997) for empirical re search. First the author sets out in detail how this "language pragmatics approach" has been applied in a research pro ject on the processing of "Waldsterben"…
Die Ruhe nach dem Sturm: Eine Evaluation der Verarbeitung des Waldsterbens in der Forschung und in den Massenmedien der Schweiz
During the eighties the environmental problem of "Waldsterben" (forest decline, literally: dying forest) gave rise to a lively and polarized political debate. This article resumes an empirical study on the contributions of forestry sciences and mass media to a rational – i.e., well founded and subtly differentiated – treatment of the ,,Waldsterben" in Switzerland. In the first few years of the debate, the scientific representation of the problem …
Geographie der Hybriden
A priori ohne Apriori: A-moderne, Sprachpragmatik und Geographie
A-moderne Denkansätze fragen systematisch nach der Konstitution von Entitäten jeglicher Art durch eine erkennende oder sprechende Instanz. Insofern radikalisieren sie moderne Perspektiven. Indem sie jedoch auch die Dichotomie von Natur und Kultur, die stillschweigend vorausgesetzt die Grundlage für das Selbstverständnis der Moderne bildet, als kontextrelative Konstruktion betrachten, setzen sie sich markant von der Moderne ab. Gerät die Untersche…
Für eine Politik ohne Natur
Was könnten institutionelle Innovationen der Umweltpolitik bieten? Normen? Preise? – Möglichkeiten
Political ecology, territoriality and scale
Speech Acts and Space(s): Language Pragmatics and the Discursive Constitution of the Social
By referring to language-pragmatic versions of action theory, I attempt in this paper to introduce a perspective which overcomes a series of modernistic legacies of earlier action theories in human geography. Such a development allows a nonessentialist stance while preserving the conceptual richness and consistency of action theory. The concept of speech acts will be interpreted as a blueprint for the analysis of interactions in general-not only …
The Unity of Difference: A Critical Appraisal of Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Social Systems in the Context of Corporeality and Spatiality
Niklas Luhmann was one of the most innovative and productive social theorists of the 20th century. He developed a comprehensive and distinctive social theory and his ideas have enriched many disciplines. Yet, only few geographers have engaged with his work. Convinced of its qualities, our intention is to stimulate a critical reception of his theory among human geographers. Here an introduction into his theory of social systems is provided, and th…
Abschied von der einen Natur - Einführung in eine Grundlagendebatte
Initiated by ecocentrism, (eco-)feminism, science and technology studies as well as postmodern philosophy, the development of social theory during the last two decades has been marked by a critical investigation of central elements in modern thought, particularly into the nature/culture dichotomy and other associated distinctions. This paper introduces us to these debates and focuses particularly on arguments that reject essentialist understandin…
Transdisciplinary Research – a Distinct Mode of Knowledge Production? Problem-Orientation, Knowledge Integration and Participation in Transdisciplinary Research Projects Transdisziplinäre Forschung – …
The debate on transdisciplinary research has so far rarely addressed the epistemological and methodological issues of this new form of scientific practice. With our paper we offer a contribution that attempts to fill this gap. Setting out from a system of knowledge desiderata of "problem-oriented research" we present an empirical analysis of problem-orientation, knowledge integration and participation of non-scientific actors in transdisciplinary…
Einführung: Doing Transdisciplinarity – Analyse und Reflexion einer anspruchsvollen Wissenschaftspraxis
Leitbild nachhaltige Entwicklung - Konsequenzen für die Gesellschaftstheorie. Forschungsdesiderate und Vorschlag einer sozialgeographischen Forschungsprogrammatik
Representative Cosmopolitanism: Representing the World within Political Collectives
Nation-states chop up the modern political sphere into autonomous (sovereign) communities. A vast literature questions the adequacy of this territorial, container-based order in the face of increasingly global patterns of interaction. A remedy is sought in a cosmopolitanization of the political sphere, above all by establishing institutions and by strengthening forms of governance on the international or supranational level. This paper develops a…
Individuals, Collectives, and the Spatial Transformation of the Political
Vernunft Angesichts der Umweltzerstörung
Umwelt Zur Sprache Bringen: Über Umweltverantwortliches Handeln, Die Wahrnehmung der Waldsterbensdiskussion und Den Umgang Mit Unsicherheit
Political science (14 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Environmental Science and Technology (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works)