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Regionalist parties in Western Europe
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ISBN: 1134712006 1134712014 9786610111275 1280111275 0203169395 9780203169391 9780415164375 0415164370 6610111278 9781280111273 9781134712007 9781134712014 9781134711963 Year: 1998 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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African philosophy.
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ISSN: 14692864 Year: 1998 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; Cambridge, MA : Carfax,

Remaking reality : nature at the millenium
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ISBN: 1134824998 128015098X 0203983963 9780203983966 9780415144933 0415144930 9780415144940 0415144949 9786610150984 6610150982 9781134824991 9781134824946 1134824947 9781134824984 113482498X 0415144930 0415144949 Year: 1998 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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For critics and activists alike, Remaking Reality provides essential theoretical and political tools to rethink environmentalism and progressive social natures for the twenty-first century.


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Morel tales
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ISBN: 0674036859 9780674036857 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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In this thoughtful book, Gary Fine explores how Americans attempt to give meaning to the natural world that surrounds them. Although "nature" has often been treated as an unproblematic reality, Fine suggests that the meanings we assign to the natural environment are culturally grounded. In other words, there is no nature separate from culture. He calls this process of cultural construction and interpretation, "naturework." Of course, there is no denying the biological reality of trees, mountains, earthquakes, and hurricanes, but, he argues, they must be interpreted to be made meaningful. Fine supports this claim by examining the fascinating world of mushrooming. Based on three years of field research with mushroomers at local and national forays, Morel Tales highlights the extensive range of meanings that mushrooms have for mushroomers. Fine details how mushroomers talk about their finds--turning their experiences into "fish stories" (the one that got away), war stories, and treasure tales; how mushroomers routinely joke about dying from or killing others with misidentified mushrooms, and how this dark humor contributes to the sense of community among collectors. He also describes the sometimes friendly, sometimes tense relations between amateur mushroom collectors and professional mycologists. Fine extends his argument to show that the elaboration of cultural meanings found among mushroom collectors is equally applicable to birders, butterfly collectors, rock hounds, and other naturalists.

Making the invisible visible
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ISBN: 0585054010 0520918576 9780520918573 9780585054018 0520207343 0520207351 Year: 1998 Publisher: Berkeley

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The history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These essays counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with alternative histories that reveal hitherto invisible planning practices and agendas. While the official story of planning celebrates the state and its traditions of city building and regional development, these stories focus on previously unacknowledged actors and the noir side of planning. Through a variety of critical lenses--feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial--the essays examine a broad range of histories relevant to the preservation and planning professions. Some contributors uncover indigenous planning traditions that have been erased from the record: African American and Native American traditions, for example. Other contributors explore new themes: themes of gendered spaces and racist practices, of planning as an ordering tool, a kind of spatial police, of "bodies, cities, and social order" (influenced by Foucault, Lefebvre, and others), and of resistance. This scrutiny of the class, race, gender, ethnic, or ideological biases of ideas and practices inherent in the notion of planning as a modernist social technology clearly points to the inadequacy of modernist planning histories. Making the Invisible Visible redefines planning as the regulation of the physicality, sociality, and spatiality of the city. Its histories provide the foundation of a new, alternative planning paradigm for the multicultural cities of the future.

Feminism and ecological communities
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ISBN: 1280334681 0203003195 9780203003190 9780415158053 0415158052 9780415158060 0415158060 0415158052 0415158060 9781134726943 9781134726981 9781134726998 1134726988 Year: 1998 Publisher: London New York

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Feminism and Ecological Communities presents a bold and passionate rethinking of the ecofeminist movement. It is one of the first books to acknowledge the importance of postmodern feminist arguments against ecofeminism whilst persuasively preseenting a strong new case for econolocal feminism. Chris J.Cuomo first traces the emergence of ecofeminism from the ecological and feminist movements before clearly discussing the weaknesses of some ecofeminist positions. Exploring the dualisms of nature/culture and masculing/feminine that are the bulwark of many contemporary ecofeminist positions and questioning traditional traditional feminist analyses of gender and caring, Feminism and Ecological Communities asks whether women are essentially closer to nature than men and how we ought to link the oppression of women, people of colour, and other subjugated groups to the degradation of nature. Chris J.Cuomo addresses these key issues by drawing on recent work in feminist ethics as well as teh work of diverse figures such as Aristotle, John Dewey, Donna Haraway adn Maria Lugones. A fascinating feature of the book is the use of the metaphor of the cyborg to highlight the fluidity of the nature/culture distinction and how this can enrich econfeminist ethics and politics. An outstanding new argument for an ecological feminism that links both theory and practice, Feminism and Ecological Communities bravely redraws the ecofeminist map. It will be essential reading for all those interested in gender studies, environmental studies and philosophy.


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Annals of the University of Craiova.
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ISSN: 20696191 Year: 1998 Publisher: Craiova, Dolj County, Romania : Universitaria Publishing House

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Las regiones ante la globalización. : competividad territorial y recomposición sociopolítica

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Las transformaciones del orden productivo y de la restructuración confieren a las regiones y localidades ciertas especializaciones que las definen con un determinado perfil en la división espacial del trabajo. Por ello, la dimensión territorial adquiere cada vez mayor importancia como el lugar donde ocurren los procesos de restructuración productiva. Esto significa que los agentes regionales y locales; las instituciones sociales y gubernamentales; los dirigentes económicos y otros actores, cobran gran relevancia para hacer valer su capacidad de intervención. Las regiones se ven emplazadas para transformarse por sus requerimientos internos y por los apremios de la globalización. Su valor en el paradigma de la competencia internacional consiste en aprovechar las ventajas materiales, geográficas y sociales sobre su capacidad de innovar y modernizar la vida económica y de participar en la confección de vínculos con el exterior que les permitan insertarse sin menoscabo de sus valores económicos, sociales y culturales.

The tender carnivore and the sacred game
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ISBN: 0820342327 9780820342320 0820319813 9780820319810 Year: 1998 Publisher: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press,

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