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Land Loss in Louisiana

A Neopragmatic Redescription

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Authors:
  1. Olaf Kühne

    1. Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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  2. Lara Koegst

    1. Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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  • Detailed discussion of the social impacts of natural and anthropogenic land loss in Louisiana
  • Consideration in a neopragmatic setting to illustrate the need for and potentials of horizontal geographies
  • Comprehensive overview of causes and contexts of coastal loss in Louisiana in a neopragmatic manner

Part of the book series: RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft (RFSRL)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst
    Pages 1-3

  3. A Neopragmatic Theoretical Framing and Its Operationalization

    • Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst
    Pages 5-18

  4. The Multiple Causes of Coastal Land Loss in Louisiana—An Overview

    • Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst
    Pages 19-33

  5. The Limits of Representation and Explicitness in Cartographic Representations—A Neopragmatic Redescription of the Louisiana Coast as a Hybrid Spatial Pastiche

    • Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst
    Pages 35-44

  6. Land Loss and Life Chances

    • Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst
    Pages 45-50

  7. The Loss of Coastal Land in Mass Media Representation

    • Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst
    Pages 51-65

  8. Terrestrial Marine Hybrids on the Louisiana Coast—A Phenomenological Access

    • Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst
    Pages 67-76

  9. Conclusion

    • Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst
    Pages 77-83

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 85-107
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About this book

This book is oriented on testing and developing the neopragmatic approach of horizontal geographies, in which we follow approaches of natural sciences, social sciences, and cultural studies. Regional focus is thereby put on a rapidly changing elemental space and its social representations, characterized by unstable and not well-defined hybridities: coastal Louisiana. This region is highly dynamic: the Mississippi River in particular, with its extensive sediments, has shifted the coastal fringe of present-day Louisiana into the Gulf of Mexico. This land gain is contrasted by natural processes, but also by processes resultant of human intervention which cause marine encroachment. A complex interplay of different aspects is directly and indirectly leading to coastal land loss which makes the question of how to describe emerging hybrid spaces virulent and highlights the limits of a positivist understanding of boundaries that is also physically geographical. In the neopragmatic tradition, positivist research findings will be framed in social constructivist terms and supplemented by phenomenological approaches to Louisiana's coastal space, thus suggesting the need for and potentials of horizontal geographic integration of different theoretical and methodological approaches as well as researcher perspectives and data bases.  

Authors and Affiliations

  • Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst

About the authors

Prof. Dr. Dr. ​Olaf Kühne, University of Tübingen, Research Department of Geography

Lara Koegst, University of Tübingen, Research Department of Geography

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Land Loss in Louisiana

  • Book Subtitle: A Neopragmatic Redescription

  • Authors: Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst

  • Series Title: RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-39889-7

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-39888-0Published: 07 March 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-39889-7Published: 06 March 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2625-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2625-7009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 107

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Geography, general, Human Geography, Landscape Architecture

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