Tensional Landscapes
The Dynamics of Boundaries and Placements
Tensional Landscapes
The Dynamics of Boundaries and Placements
Description
The contributors to this volume address global, regional, and local landscapes, cosmopolitan and indigenous cultures, and human and more-than-human ecology as they work to reveal place-specific tensional dynamics. Essays discuss Kant's theory of cosmopolitanism versus Hegel's philosophy of geographical determinism; the tension of cosmopolitanism versus a closer embeddedness in place-scapes; geographical determinism in the colonial practices of Colombia and in the current political rhetoric surrounding the revival of Saxony; preservational policies in Norway; regulation of gated communities in the United States; and the hermeneutics of Ground Zero. This unusual book, which covers such a wide-ranging array of topics, coheres into a work that will be a valuable reference for scholars of geography and the philosophy of place.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Mapping Cultures, Histories, and Economic Development: Anthropology and the Colombian Carribean
Chapter 3 Earthling or Cosmopolitan? The Limits of Interlocution
Chapter 4 Democratizing the Transnational Corporate State: The Question of Environmental Nationalism
Chapter 5 Castles Made of Sand: Territoriality and Exclusion in Coastal Aotearoa/New Zealand
Chapter 6 Landscape and Meaning: The Immaterial Dimension of Environmental Preservation
Chapter 7 Spatial Boundaries-Spatial Visions: The Case of Saxony
Chapter 8 Knowing Our Places in Old & New Knowledge-Based Economies
Chapter 9 Athens, Alexandria, Jerusalem: Heidegger and Levinas on The Other and the City
Chapter 10 Contracting Neighborhood: Social Reality and Human Nature at Work in Suburbia
Chapter 11 The Trail of the Tears of Ground Zero
Product details
| Published | 25 Feb 2003 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 228 |
| ISBN | 9780739161623 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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