TY  - JOUR
A1  - Steiner, Christian
T1  - Von Interaktion zu Transaktion – Konsequenzen eines pragmatischen Mensch-Umwelt-Verständnisses für eine Geographie der Mitwelt
T2  - Geographica Helvetica
N2  - Questions about how human-environment-relations can be conceptualized in a non-dualistic way have been intensively discussed throughout the last decades. The majority of the established realist and constructivist perspectives aim at explaining a given situation by analytically dissecting it. Unfortunately, such an interactionist perspective systematically reproduces the dualistic division between humans, environment and nature.
In contrast, this paper offers a transactive perspective origin in classical pragmatism and discusses its meta-theoretical consequences for human-environment-research. A transactionist perspective interprets the world as a flow of unique and entangled events. Instead of ontologically separating humans and environment, it advocates to look at their relations as being part of a "connatural world". Such a point of view raises new ethical and political questions for geographical human-environment research, argues for a renaissance of ideographic methodologies and hints to a fruitful unity of geographical inquiry.
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/42466
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-424665
SN  - 2194-8798
SN  - 1946-2014
N1  - © Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
VL  - 69
SP  - 171
EP  - 181
PB  - Verband Geographie Schweiz
CY  - Bern
ER  -