Tensional Landscapes: The Dynamics of Boundaries and PlacementsThe 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. |
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Contents
On the Threshold of History The Role of Nature and Africa in Hegels Philosophy | 1 |
Mapping Cultures Histories and Economic Development Anthropology and the Colombian Caribbean | 19 |
Earthling or Cosmopolitan? The Limits of Interlocution | 37 |
Democratizing the Transnational Corporate State The Question of Environmental Nationalism | 51 |
Castles Made of Sand Territoriality and Exclusion in Coastal AotearoaNew Zealand | 63 |
Landscape and Meaning The Immaterial Dimension of Environmental Preservation | 79 |
Spatial BoundariesSpatial Visions The Case of Saxony | 103 |
Knowing Our Places in Old and New KnowledgeBased Economies | 113 |
Athens Alexandria Jerusalem Heidegger and Levinas on the Other and the City | 137 |
Contracting Neighborhood Social Reality and Human Nature at Work in Suburbia | 153 |
The Trail of the Tears of Ground Zero | 163 |
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About the Contributors | 195 |
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| Title | Tensional Landscapes: The Dynamics of Boundaries and Placements |
| Editors | Gary Backhaus, John Murungi |
| Contributors | Sven Arntzen, Wolfgang Luutz, Ethel Hazard, Michael J. Monahan, Shannon M. Mussett, Herbert G. Reid, John M. Rose, John Ryks, John A. Scott, Dennis E. Skocz |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Lexington Books, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0739105612, 9780739105610 |
| Length | 197 pages |
| Subjects | › › Philosophy / Movements / Phenomenology Social Science / Human Geography |
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