The Nature Of The State

Author : Wilko Graf von Hardenberg,Matthew Kelly,Claudia Leal,Emily Wakild
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351764643

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The Nature State by Wilko Graf von Hardenberg,Matthew Kelly,Claudia Leal,Emily Wakild Pdf

This volume brings together case studies from around the globe (including China, Latin America, the Philippines, Namibia, India and Europe) to explore the history of nature conservation in the twentieth century. It seeks to highlight the state, a central actor in these efforts, which is often taken for granted, and establishes a novel concept – the nature state – as a means for exploring the historical formation of that portion of the state dedicated to managing and protecting nature. Following the Industrial Revolution and post-war exponential increase in human population and consumption, conservation in myriad forms has been one particularly visible way in which the government and its agencies have tried to control, manage or produce nature for reasons other than raw exploitation. Using an interdisciplinary approach and including case studies from across the globe, this edited collection brings together geographers, sociologists, anthropologists and historians in order to examine the degree to which sociopolitical regimes facilitate and shape the emergence and development of nature states. This innovative work marks an early intervention in the tentative turn towards the state in environmental history and will be of great interest to students and practitioners of environmental history, social anthropology and conservation studies.

Author : Gregg Mitman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0226532364

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The State of Nature by Gregg Mitman Pdf

Although science may claim to be "objective," scientists cannot avoid the influence of their own values on their research. In The State of Nature, Gregg Mitman examines the relationship between issues in early twentieth-century American society and the sciences of evolution and ecology to reveal how explicit social and political concerns influenced the scientific agenda of biologists at the University of Chicago and throughout the United States during the first half of this century. Reacting against the view of nature "red in tooth and claw," ecologists and behavioral biologists such as Warder Clyde Allee, Alfred Emerson, and their colleagues developed research programs they hoped would validate and promote an image of human society as essentially cooperative rather than competitive. Mitman argues that Allee's religious training and pacifist convictions shaped his pioneering studies of animal communities in a way that could be generalized to denounce the view that war is in our genes.

Author : Westel Woodbury Willoughby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Political science
ISBN : NYPL:33433075929673

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An Examination of the Nature of the State by Westel Woodbury Willoughby Pdf

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486122144

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Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes Pdf

Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004499621

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The State of Nature: Histories of an Idea by Anonim Pdf

Combining intellectual history with current concerns, this volume brings together fourteen essays on the past, present and possible future applications of the legal fiction known as the state of nature.

Author : Stuart Sim,David Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351891493

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The Discourse of Sovereignty, Hobbes to Fielding by Stuart Sim,David Walker Pdf

In this new study the authors examine a range of theories about the state of nature in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, considering the contribution they made to the period's discourse on sovereignty and their impact on literary activity. Texts examined include Leviathan, Oceana, Paradise Lost, Discourses Concerning Government, Two Treatises on Government, Don Sebastian, Oronooko, The New Atalantis, Robinson Crusoe, Dissertation upon Parties, David Simple, and Tom Jones. The state of nature is identified as an important organizing principle for narratives in the century running from the Civil War through to the second Jacobite Rebellion, and as a way of situating the author within either a reactionary or a radical political tradition. The Discourse of Sovereignty provides an exciting new perspective on the intellectual history of this fascinating period.

Author : Lecturer in Human Geography Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences Mark Whitehead,Mark Whitehead,Rhys Jones,Martin Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780199271894

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The Nature of the State by Lecturer in Human Geography Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences Mark Whitehead,Mark Whitehead,Rhys Jones,Martin Jones Pdf

The complex relationships between the state and nature remain under-theorized and relatively unexplored. Combining original research and theoretical insights The Nature of the State challenges the ways in which social scientists approach questions of socio-environmental power and offers new insights into the history of state-nature relations.

Author : Tony Lawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317530886

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Essays on: The Nature and State of Modern Economics by Tony Lawson Pdf

What do modern academic economists do? What currently is mainstream economics? What is neoclassical economics? And how about heterodox economics? How do the central concerns of modern economists, whatever their associations or allegiances, relate to those traditionally taken up in the discipline? And how did economics arrive at its current state? These and various cognate questions and concerns are systematically pursued in this new book by Tony Lawson. The result is a collection of previously published and new papers distinguished in providing the only comprehensive and coherent account of these issues currently available. The financial crisis has not only revealed weaknesses of the capitalist economy but also highlighted just how limited and impoverished is modern academic economics. Despite the failings of the latter being more widely acknowledged now than ever, there is still an enormous amount of confusion about their source and true nature. In this collection, Tony Lawson also identifies the causes of the discipline’s failings and outlines a transformative solution to its deficiencies. Amongst other things, Lawson advocates for the adoption of a more historical and philosophical orientation to the study of economics, one that deemphasizes the current focus on mathematical modelling while maintaining a high level of analytical rigour. In so doing Lawson argues for a return to long term systematic and sustained projects, in the manner pursued by the likes of Marx, Veblen, Hayek and Keynes, concerned first and foremost with advancing our understanding of social reality. Overall, this forceful and persuasive collection represents a major intervention in the on-going debates about the nature, state and future direction of economics.

Author : Mark Whitehead,Rhys Jones,Martin Jones
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191515132

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The Nature of the State by Mark Whitehead,Rhys Jones,Martin Jones Pdf

The twin categories of the state and nature collectively embody some of the most fundamental reference points around which our lives and thinking are organized. Despite their combined significance, however, the complex relationships that exist between modern states and nature remain under-theorized and are relatively unexplored. Through a detailed study of different sites, moments, and framing strategies The Nature of the State challenges the ways in which geographers and social scientists approach the study of state-nature relations. The authors analyse different instances of state-nature interaction from all over the world, considering the geo-politics of resource conflicts, the operation of natural history museums, the organizational practices of environmental departments and ministries, the regulation of genetic science, and contemporary forms of state intervention within issues of climate change. Introducing original research into the different institutional, spatial, and temporal strategies used by states to frame the natural world this book provides a critical overview of the latest political and ecological theories and addresses a wide range of pressing socio-environmental debates.

Author : Robert Nozick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : 9780631197805

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Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick Pdf

Robert Nozicka s Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age ---- liberal, socialist and conservative.

Author : Graeme Gill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349928804

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The Nature and Development of the Modern State by Graeme Gill Pdf

Despite the increasing globalization of many aspects of social, economic and political life, the state remains the fundamental element of contemporary governance. This fully revised and extended new edition provides a broad-ranging introduction to the origins, role and future of the modern state tracing out how significant shifts in state capacity came about in relation to developments in economic, political and ideological power.

Author : Annabel S. Brett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400838622

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Changes of State by Annabel S. Brett Pdf

This is a book about the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law discourse. Annabel Brett takes a fresh approach by looking at this political entity from the perspective of its boundaries and those who crossed them. She begins with a classic debate from the Spanish sixteenth century over the political treatment of mendicants, showing how cosmopolitan ideals of porous boundaries could simultaneously justify the freedoms of itinerant beggars and the activities of European colonists in the Indies. She goes on to examine the boundaries of the state in multiple senses, including the fundamental barrier between human beings and animals and the limits of the state in the face of the natural lives of its subjects, as well as territorial frontiers. Drawing on a wide range of authors, Brett reveals how early modern political space was constructed from a complex dynamic of inclusion and exclusion. Throughout, she shows that early modern debates about political boundaries displayed unheralded creativity and virtuosity but were nevertheless vulnerable to innumerable paradoxes, contradictions, and loose ends. Changes of State is a major work of intellectual history that resonates with modern debates about globalization and the transformation of the nation-state.

Author : Gianfranco Poggi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745677965

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The State by Gianfranco Poggi Pdf

This book offers a fresh, accessible and original interpretation ofthe modern state, concentrating particularly on the emergence andnature of democracy. Poggi presents an extensive conceptual portrait of the state,distinguishing its early characteristics from those which havedeveloped subsequently and are apparent in contemporary states. Hereviews the 'historical career' of the state, from the dissolutionof feudal forms of rule to the advent of modern, liberal-democraticsystems. Poggi also discusses the nature of liberal-democraticregimes, and the distinctive features of the Soviet one-partysystem. Finally, the chapter discusses the challenges set to thestate by contemporary developments in military affairs, in theinternational economy, and in the ecological sphere.

Author : Woodrow Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Political science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010404924

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The State by Woodrow Wilson Pdf

Author : Susan Kollin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 080784974X

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Nature's State by Susan Kollin Pdf

An engaging blend of environmental theory and literary studies, Nature's State looks behind the myth of Alaska as America's "last frontier," a pristine and wild place on the fringes of our geographical imagination. Susan Kollin traces how this seemingly m