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Mid-Range Concepts—The Lego Bricks of Meaning-Making: An Example from Khorezm, Uzbekistan

verfasst von : Anna-Katharina Hornidge

Erschienen in: Area Studies at the Crossroads

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

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Abstract

Drawing on the intricate pattern of boundary negotiations in Uzbekistan’s water management (Hornidge et al. Natural Resources Forum 35(4); 251–268, 2013) as an example of first-level abstraction in local governance research, this chapter illustrates how such first-level abstractions—grasped and objectified as mid-range concepts—can act as entry points for understanding (in line with Max Weber) local society in the interconnectedness of meaning and being (as stressed by Karl Mannheim). Just like Lego bricks, these first-level abstractions act as building blocks of sense- and meaning-making and, thus, of the ontologies and epistemologies we/society lives in and that guide processes of social differentiation (inherent to any existing form of governance) through the ever continuing processes of boundary-making, -weakening and -renegotiating. To enable Area Studies students to identify first-level abstractions, instead of getting lost in the increasing empirical complexities of a mobile world, it is pertinent to systematically strengthen critical social theory in Area Studies teaching.

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Titel: Mid-Range Concepts—The Lego Bricks of Meaning-Making: An Example from Khorezm, Uzbekistan
verfasst von: Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Buch: Area Studies at the Crossroads
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-95011-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-59834-9

Copyright-Jahr: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59834-9_12