1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910166644403321

Autore

Kleinod Michael

Titolo

The recreational frontier : ecotourism in Laos as ecorational instrumentality / / Michael Kleinod

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2017

Göttingen, Germany : , : Universitätsverlag Göttingen, , 2017

©2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations (some colour); digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

390

Soggetti

Ecotourism - Laos

Nature conservation - Laos

Natural areas - Laos

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Humboldt-Universität Berlin.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Ecotourism and the capitalist crisis --1. Social natures --2. Capitalist natures --3. Ecotourism --4. Recreational landscapes --5. Ecotourism field of Laos --6. Implementing ecotourism --7. Practicing ecotourism --8. Localizing ecotourism --9. Final discussion: the recreational frontier.

Sommario/riassunto

This study treats ecotourism in National Protected Areas of Lao PDR as a “recreational frontier” which instrumentalizes the recreation of human natures in capitalism’s centers for that of nonhuman natures at capitalism’s (closing) frontiers. This world-ecological practice of ecorational instrumentality – i.e. of nature domination in the name of “Nature” – presents a remedy for capitalism’s crisis that is itself crisis-ridden, enacting a central tension of ecocapitalism: that between “conservation” and “development”. This epistemic-institutional tension is traced through the preconditions, modes and effects of ecotourism in Laos by gradually zooming from the most general scale of societal nature relations into the most detailed intricacies of ecotouristic practice. The combination of Bourdieu, Marx and Critical Theory enables a systematic analysis of the recreational frontier as enactment



of various contradictions deriving from the “false-and-real” Nature/Society dualism.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910818525803321

Titolo

Endocannabinoids / / edited by Loren Parsons, Matthew Hill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Elsevier Science, , 2015

ISBN

0-12-801278-1

0-12-801376-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Collana

International review of neurobiology, , 0074-7742 ; ; volume one hundred and twenty-five

Soggetti

Cannabinoids

Cannabinoids - Receptors

Cannabinoids - Physiological effect

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Endocannabinoids; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter One: The Endocannabinoid Signaling System in the CNS: A Primer; 1. Introduction; 2. The Endocannabinoids; 2.1. Definitions; 2.2. Mechanisms of AEA Biosynthesis; 2.2.1. Precursor Synthesis; 2.2.2. NAPE Conversion to NAE: NAPE-PLD; 2.2.3. NAPE Conversion to NAE: Multienzyme Pathways; 2.2.4. AEA Synthesis from AA; 2.2.5. Summary; 2.3. Mechanisms of AEA Hydrolysis; 2.3.1. Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase; 2.3.2. NAE-Hydrolyzing Acid Amidase: A Peripheral AEA Hydrolase; 2.4. Mechanisms of 2-AG Biosynthesis

2.4.1. Diacylglycerol Lipase2.4.2. Mechanisms of DAG Synthesis; 2.5. Mechanisms of 2-AG Catabolism; 2.5.1. Monoacylglycerol Lipase; 2.5.2. Other Enzymes that Hydrolyze 2-AG in the Brain; 2.5.3. Contribution of 2-AG to AA Concentrations; 2.6. Other Inactivation Mechanisms for AEA and 2-AG; 2.6.1. Uptake, Accumulation, and Sequestration; 2.6.2. Oxygenation of the Arachidonate Backbone; 3. Endocannabinoid Receptors; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. CB1 Cannabinoid Receptors; 3.2.1. CB1R Signaling; 3.2.2. CB1R Pharmacology; 4. CB1R



and Retrograde Regulation of Synaptic Activity; 4.1. The Basic Paradigms

4.1.1. Short-Term Depression of Synaptic Transmission4.1.2. Long-Term Depression of Transmission; 5. Summary; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter Two: Evidence for a Role of Adolescent Endocannabinoid Signaling in Regulating HPA Axis Stress Responsivity and E ...; 1. Adolescence and Pubertal Maturation; 2. The Neurobiology of Stress; 3. Adolescent HPA Axis Development; 4. The Developmental Influence of Gonadal Hormones on the HPA Axis; 5. The Endocannabinoid System; 6. Endocannabinoid System Regulation of the HPA Axis in Adulthood; 7. Ontogeny of the Endocannabinoid System

8. Adolescent HPA Axis Function: A Regulatory Role for the Endocannabinoid System?8.1. Adolescent Stress Exposure Modulates Corticolimbic Endocannabinoid Signaling; 8.2. Adolescent Cannabinoid Exposure Modifies Adult Stress-Induced HPA Axis Activity; 8.3. Long-Term Consequences of Adolescent Endocannabinoid System Dysregulation on the Developing Brain and Behavior; 9. Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter Three: The Endocannabinoid System and Its Role in Regulating the Intrinsic Neural Circuitry of the Gastrointestin...; 1. Introduction

2. The Enteric Nervous System and the Brain-Gut Axis2.1. The Structure of the ENS; 3. The Endocannabinoid System; 3.1. Cannabinoid Receptors and Their Ligands; 3.2. Cannabinoid Receptors in the ENS; 3.3. Endocannabinoid Synthesis; 3.4. 2-AG Synthesis and Degradation; 3.5. Anandamide Synthesis and Degradation; 4. Endocannabinoid Signaling Mechanisms; 4.1. Endocannabinoid Transport Mechanisms; 5. Other Receptors, Agonists, and Antagonists; 5.1. Phytocannabinoids; 5.2. Peptide Endocannabinoids; 5.3. Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1; 5.4. Virodhamine, an Endogenous CB1 Antagonist

5.5. G Protein-Coupled Receptor 55



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911008469203321

Autore

Arnds Peter O. <1963->

Titolo

Representation, subversion, and eugenics in Günter Grass's The tin drum / / Peter Arnds

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Suffolk : , : Boydell & Brewer, , 2004

ISBN

1-281-94921-3

9786611949211

1-57113-649-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 178 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Classificazione

GN 5052

Disciplina

833/.914

Soggetti

Eugenics in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-170) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Representing euthanasia, reclaiming popular culture -- Heteroglossia from Grimmelshausen to the Grimm brothers -- The dwarf and Nazi body politics -- Oskar's dysfunctional family and gender politics -- Oskar as fool, harlequin, and trickster, and the politics of sanity -- Gypsies, the picaresque novel, and the politics of social integration -- Epilogue: beyond Die Blechtrommel: Germans as victims in Im Krebsgang.

Sommario/riassunto

In receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999, Günter Grass, a prominent and controversial figure in the ongoing discussion of the German past and reunification, finally gained recognition as Germany's greatest living author, a writer of international importance and acclaim. Grass's 1959 novel 'The Tin Drum' remains one of the most important works of literature for the construction of postwar German identity. Peter Arnds offers a completely new reading of the novel, analyzing an aspect of Grass's literary treatment of German history that has never been examined in detail: the Nazi ideology of race and eugenics, which resulted in the persecution of so-called asocials as 'life unworthy of life,' their extermination in psychiatric institutions in the Third Reich, and their marginalization in the Adenauer period. Arnds shows that in order to represent the Nazi past and subvert bourgeois paradigms of rationalism, Grass revives several facets of popular culture that National Socialism either suppressed or manipulated for its ideology of racism.



In structure and content Grass's novel connects the persecution of degenerate art to the persecution and extermination of these 'asocials,' for whom the persecuted dwarf-protagonist Oskar Matzerath becomes a central metaphor and voice. This comparative study reveals that Grass creates in the novel an irrational counterculture opposed to the rationalism of Nazi science and its obsession with racial hygiene, while simultaneously exposing the continuity of this destructive rationalism in postwar Germany and the absurdity of a 'Stunde Null,' that putative tabula rasa in 1945. Peter O. Arnds is associate professor of German and Italian at Kansas State University.