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UNINA9910166644403321 |
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Autore |
Kleinod Michael |
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The recreational frontier : ecotourism in Laos as ecorational instrumentality / / Michael Kleinod |
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Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2017 |
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Göttingen, Germany : , : Universitätsverlag Göttingen, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations (some colour); digital, PDF file(s) |
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Ecotourism - Laos |
Nature conservation - Laos |
Natural areas - Laos |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Humboldt-Universität Berlin. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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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. |
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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 |
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of various contradictions deriving from the “false-and-real” Nature/Society dualism. |
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UNINA9911008469203321 |
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Arnds Peter O. <1963-> |
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Representation, subversion, and eugenics in Günter Grass's The tin drum / / Peter Arnds |
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Suffolk : , : Boydell & Brewer, , 2004 |
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1-281-94921-3 |
9786611949211 |
1-57113-649-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 178 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-170) and index. |
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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. |
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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, |
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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. |
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