Tourism is generally regarded as the world's largest industry, with massive impact on people's lives. Unfortunately, it also usually exports the values and presuppositions that are associated with its own cultural origins. This book draws upon a variety of important philosophical traditions to develop an original perspective on the relations between ethical, economic and aesthetic values in a tourism context. It considers the ethical/political issues arising in many areas of tourism development, including the profound cultural and environmental impacts on tourist destinations; the reciprocity...
Tourism is generally regarded as the world's largest industry, with massive impact on people's lives. Unfortunately, it also usually exports the value...
Tourism is generally regarded as the world's largest industry, with massive impact on people's lives. Unfortunately, it also usually exports the values and presuppositions that are associated with its own cultural origins. This book draws upon a variety of important philosophical traditions to develop an original perspective on the relations between ethical, economic and aesthetic values in a tourism context. It considers the ethical/political issues arising in many areas of tourism development, including the profound cultural and environmental impacts on tourist destinations; the reciprocity...
Tourism is generally regarded as the world's largest industry, with massive impact on people's lives. Unfortunately, it also usually exports the value...
Mick Smith links together the concepts of the ecological self and an environmental ethos--an ethics of place--as a way to re-engage the moral concerns of radical ecological theories. Best understood as an ethical critique of modernity, radical ecological theory challenges and extends the problematic moral framework now used within the disciplines of philosophy and the social sciences. Remaining true to the spirit of radical ecology, Smith engages with current debates about the status of moral values and theories, the social construction of nature, deep ecology, and non-violent direct action...
Mick Smith links together the concepts of the ecological self and an environmental ethos--an ethics of place--as a way to re-engage the moral concerns...
Against Ecological Sovereignty is a passionate defense of radical ecology that speaks directly to current debates concerning the nature, and dangers, of sovereign power. Engaging the work of Bataille, Arendt, Levinas, Nancy, and Agamben, among others, Mick Smith reconnects the political critique of sovereign power with ecological considerations, arguing that ethical and political responsibilities for the consequences of our actions do not end with those defined as human.
Against Ecological Sovereignty is the first book to turn Agamben's analysis of sovereignty and...
Against Ecological Sovereignty is a passionate defense of radical ecology that speaks directly to current debates concerning the nature, and...
Against Ecological Sovereignty is a passionate defense of radical ecology that speaks directly to current debates concerning the nature, and dangers, of sovereign power. Engaging the work of Bataille, Arendt, Levinas, Nancy, and Agamben, among others, Mick Smith reconnects the political critique of sovereign power with ecological considerations, arguing that ethical and political responsibilities for the consequences of our actions do not end with those defined as human.
Against Ecological Sovereignty is the first book to turn Agamben's analysis of sovereignty and...
Against Ecological Sovereignty is a passionate defense of radical ecology that speaks directly to current debates concerning the nature, and...
