Lake-ian pragmatism and the path to engaged practice

Jon, Ihnji ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3812-8168 2021. Lake-ian pragmatism and the path to engaged practice. Urban Geography 42 (10) , pp. 1410-1414. 10.1080/02723638.2021.1940709

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Abstract

Bob Lake’s writing traces a route from positivism to pragmatism, from market dominance to political possibility, from coercion to persuasion, and from consolatory escapism to engaged practice. His work inspires us to embark on an engaged practice that not only questions the worth of “spectator knowledge” but also reinstitutes the purpose of our everyday participation as members of the academic community. Lake is an anti-essentialist who finds the meaning of knowledge production in interhuman communication and collective engendering of communal values. This has led his work to constantly question the predetermined a priori worldviews, epistemologies, and ideological umbrellas that often occlude the actual realities that real social actors continue to reshape and reinvent. His incessant questioning is not born out of contrarian vanity. Rather, it encourages us to develop and practice habits of creative democracy in our everyday actions of love, care, and solidarity.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Bellweather Publishing
ISSN:	1938-2847
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	4 January 2023
Date of Acceptance:	5 June 2021
Last Modified:	07 May 2023 23:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/153303

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