Tensional Landscapes The Dynamics of Boundaries and Placements

by Backhaus, Gary; Murungi, John; Arntzen, Sven; Hazard, Ethel; Luutz, Wolfgang; Monahan, Michael J.; Mussett, Shannon M.; Reid, Herbert G.; Rose, John M.; Ryks, John; Scott, John A.; Skocz, Dennis E.

• ISBN13: 9780739105610
• ISBN10: 0739105612
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-25
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

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. This unusual book, which covers 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

Figures	vii
Preface	ix
Introduction	xi
1 On the Threshold of History: The Role of Nature and Africa	1	(18)
in Hegel's Philosophy
Shannon M. Mussett
2 Mapping Cultures, Histories, and Economic Development:
Anthropology and the Colombian Carribean	19	(32)
Ethel Hazard
3 Earthling or Cosmopolitan? The Limits of Interlocution	37	(14)
Dennis E. Skocz
4 Democratizing the Transnational Corporate State:
The Question of Environmental Nationalism	51	(12)
Herbert G. Reid
5 Castles Made of Sand: Territoriality and Exclusion
in Coastal Aotearoa/New Zealand	63	(16)
John Ryks
6 Landscape and Meaning: The Immaterial Dimension
of Environmental Preservation	79	(34)
Sven Arntzen
7 Spatial Boundaries-Spatial Visions: The Case of Saxony	103	(10)
Wolfgang Luutz
8 Knowing Our Places in Old and New	113	(24)
Knowledge-Based Economies
John A. Scott
9 Athens, Alexandria, Jerusalem: Heidegger and Levinas
on the Other and the City	137	(16)
John M. Rose
10 Contracting Neighborhood: Social Reality
and Human Nature at Work in Suburbia	153	(10)
Michael J Monahan
11 The Trail of the Tears of Ground Zero	163	(14)
John Murungi
Selected Bibliography	177	(10)
Index	187	(8)
About the Contributors	195