Tensional Landscapes The Dynamics of

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.

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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

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Tensional Landscapes The Dynamics of Boundaries and Placements

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