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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 On the Threshold of History: The Role of Nature and Africa In Hegel's Philosophy 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
