Situating Action
A Special Issue of Ecological Psychology
Published on 1. December 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-0-8058-9888-0 (ISBN)
Description
This special issue provides examples from a variety of problem areas and disciplines of how "situating action" can serve both as a critique and an alternative approach to research and theory. The contributors hail from many different fields of study including psychology, architecture, communication, social theory, and anthropology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Mahwah
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-8058-9888-0 (9780805898880)
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Content
Contents: Introduction. A. Costall, I. LeudarSituating Action I: Truth in the Situation. W.W. Gaver, Situating Action II: Affordances for Interaction: The Social is Material for Design. G. Ribeiro, Situating Action III: Acting, Dwelling, and Squatting: An Ecological Approach to the Relation Between Person and Urban Environment. I. Leudar, A. Costall, Situating Action IV: Planning as Situated Action. T. IngoldSituating Action V: The History and Evolution of Bodily Skills. Commentary. T. IngoldSituating Action VI: A Comment on the Distinction Between the Material and the Social.