1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452052703321

Titolo

Local commons and global interdependence [[electronic resource] ] : heterogeneity and cooperation in two domains / / edited by Robert O. Keohane and Elinor Ostrom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, 1995

ISBN

0-8039-7962-2

1-4462-6517-X

1-283-88137-3

1-4462-3154-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KeohaneRobert O <1941-> (Robert Owen)

OstromElinor

Disciplina

333.7

Soggetti

International cooperation

Environmental protection - International cooperation

Commons

Natural resources, Communal

Communication in international relations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published under the auspices of the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University."

"Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of theoretical politics, vol. 6 (1994), no. 4".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1 - Introduction; Part I - Theoretical Puzzles; Chapter 2 - The Problem of Scale in Human/Environment Relationships; Chapter 3 - The Politics of Scope: Endogenous Actors, Heterogeneity and Institutions; Chapter 4 - Heterogeneity, Linkage and Commons Problems; Part II - Evidence from the Laboratory; Chapter 5 - Heterogeneities, Information and Conflict Resolution: Experimental Evidence on Sharing Contracts; Part III - Evidence from the Field; Chapter 6 - Constituting Social Capital and Collective Action

Chapter 7 - The Conditions for Successful Collective Action Chapter 8 -



Self-interest and Environmental Management; Chapter 9 - Heterogeneities at Two Levels: States, Non-state Actors and Intentional Oil Pollution; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume offers a synthesis of what is known about very large and very small common-pool resources. At an international level, states cannot appeal to authoritative hierarchies to enforce agreements they make to cooperate with one another. In some small-scale settings, participants may be just as helpless in calling on distant public officials to monitor and enforce their agreements.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910495893503321

Autore

Beissinger Margaret H. <1954->

Titolo

Epic traditions in the contemporary world : the poetics of community

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : University of California Press, 1999

ISBN

0-585-13964-4

0-520-91973-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 p.)

Disciplina

809.1/32

Soggetti

Epic literature - History and criticism

Literature and society

Literature - General

Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- SECTION ONE On the Margins of the Scribal From Oral Epic to Text -- 1 Epic as Genre -- 2 Performing Interpretation: Early Allegorical Exegesis of Homer -- 3 The Arabic Epic Poet as Outcast, Trickster, and Con Man -- 4 Epic, Gender, and Nationalism: The Development of Nineteenth- Century Balkan Literature -- SECTION TWO Epic and Authority -- 5 Metamorphosis, Metaphor, and Allegory in Latin Epic -- 6 Tasso's Trees Epic and Local



Culture -- 7 Appropriating the Epic Gender, Caste, and Regional Identity in Middle India -- SECTION THREE The Boundaries of Epic Performance -- 8 Problematic Performances: Overlapping Genres and Levels of Participation in Arabic Oral Epic-Singing -- 9 Worshiping Epic Villains: A Kaurava Cult in the Central Himalayas1 -- SECTION FOUR Epic and Lament -- 10 The Natural Tears of Epic -- 11 The Poetics of Loss in Greek Epic -- 12 The Role of Lament in the Growth and Eclipse of Roman Epic -- SECTION FIVE Epic and Pedagogy -- 13 Epics and the Politics of the Origin Tale: Virgil, Ovid, Spenser, and Native American Aetiology -- 14 Walcott's Omeros The Classical Epic in a Postmodern World -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The epic tradition has been part of many different cultures throughout human history. This noteworthy collection of essays provides a comparative reassessment of epic and its role in the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds, as it explores the variety of contemporary approaches to the epic genre. Employing theoretical perspectives drawn from anthropology, literary studies, and gender studies, the authors examine familiar and less well known oral and literary traditions-ancient Greek and Latin, Arabic, South Slavic, Indian, Native American, Italian, English, and Caribbean-demonstrating the continuing vitality of the epic tradition.Juxtaposing work on the traditional canon of western epics with scholarship on contemporary epics from various parts of the world, these essays cross the divide between oral and literary forms that has long marked the approach to the genre. With its focus on the links among narrative, politics, and performance, the collection creates a new dialogue illustrating the sociopolitical significance of the epic tradition. Taken together, the essays raise compelling new issues for the study of epic, as they examine concerns such as national identity, gender, pedagogy, and the creation of the canon.