1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788028803321

Titolo

The expanding roles of Chinese Americans in U.S.-China relations : transnational networks and trans-Pacific interactions / / Peter H. Koehn and Xiao-huang Yin, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-317-45694-7

0-7656-0950-9

1-315-69980-X

1-317-45695-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Collana

East Gate Book

Altri autori (Persone)

KoehnPeter H

YinXiao-huang

Disciplina

305.895/1073

Soggetti

Chinese Americans

United States Relations China

China Relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"An East Gate Book."

First published 2002 by M.E. Sharpe.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The Chinese American presence : impact and implications -- pt. 2. Contemporary activism : changing orientations and participation in shaping U.S. policy toward China -- pt. 3. Expanding networks and prospects for transnational cooperation.

Sommario/riassunto

This book addresses the historical and contemporary involvement of Chinese Americans from diverse walks of life in U.S.-China relations. The contributors present new evidence and fresh perspectives on familiar and unfamiliar national and transnational networks - including families, businesspersons, community newspapers, students, lobbyists, philanthropists, and scientists - and consider the likely future impact of such contacts on the most important bilateral relationship at the start of the new millennium. The volume makes a multidisciplinary contribution to understanding the extensive and vi



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780660903321

Autore

Biro Andrew <1969->

Titolo

Denaturalizing ecological politics : alienation from nature from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School and beyond / / Andrew Biro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

9786611995416

1-4426-7383-4

0-8020-3794-1

1-281-99541-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

304.2/01

Soggetti

Human ecology - Philosophy

Philosophy of nature

Nature - Political aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Nature or 'Nature'? Ecological Politics and the Postmodern Condition""; ""1 Ecocentrism and the Defence of Nature""; ""2 Postmodernism: The Critique of 'Nature'""; ""3 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Modernity and the Historicization of Alienation""; ""4 Karl Marx: Objectification and Alienation under Capitalism""; ""5 Theodor W. Adorno: From Udeis to Utopia""; ""6 Herbert Marcuse: Basic and Surplus Alienation""; ""7 Denaturalizing Ecological Politics""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""

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Sommario/riassunto

The possibility of bringing the insights of modern political theory to bear on the problems of human ecology has long been plagued by disagreements over the category of nature itself. But with Denaturalizing Ecological Politics, Andrew Biro has found a way of



rescuing environmentalism from the ideological trap of naturalism. Biro develops an environmental political theory that takes seriously both the materiality of the ecological crises generated by industrial and post-industrial society and the anti-foundationalist critiques of 'nature' developed in postmodern social theory. He argues that the theoretical basis for ecological politics can be better advanced through the lens of alienation from nature, sidestepping some of the pitfalls of debates over conceptions of nature itself. Biro traces the development of the concept of alienation from nature through four modern political thinkers - Rousseau, Marx, Adorno, and Marcuse - each of whom are read as arguing that human beings are not biologically separate from the rest of nature, but are nevertheless historically differentiated from it through the self-conscious transformation of the natural environment. In so doing, Biro provides the starting point for a 'denaturalized' rethinking of ecological politics.