Christopher Schliephake (140 results)

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Paperback. Condition: New. What can a study of antiquity contribute to the interdisciplinary paradigm of the environmental humanities? And how does this recent paradigm influence the way we perceive human-'nature' interactions in pre-modernity? By asking these and a number of related questions, this Element aims to show why the ancient tradition still matters in the Anthropocene. Offering new perspectives to think about what directions the ecological turn could take in classical studies, it revisits old material, including ancient Greek religion and mythology, with central concepts of contemporary environmental theory. It also critically engages with forms of classical reception in current debates, arguing that ancient ecological knowledge is a powerful resource for creating alternative world views.…

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Softcover. Condition: As New. This Element aims to show why the ancient tradition still matters in the Anthropocene. Revisiting ancient materials alongside central concepts of contemporary environmental theory, Schliephake offers new perspectives and argues that classical ecological knowledge is a powerful resource for creating alternative world views.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. The term "urban ecology" has become a buzzword in various disciplines, including the social and natural sciences as well as urban planning and architecture. The environmental humanities have been slow to adapt to current theoretical debates, often excluding human-built environments from their respective frameworks. This book closes this gap both in theory and in practice, bringing together "urban ecology" with ecocritical and cultural ecological approaches by conceptualizing the city as an integral part of the environment and as a space in which ecological problems manifest concretely. Arguing that culture has to be seen as an active component and integral factor within urban ecologies, it makes use of a metaphorical use of the term, perceiving cities as spatial phenomena that do not only have manifold and complex material interrelations with their respective (natural) environments, but that are intrinsically connected to the ideas, imaginations, and interpretations that make up the cultural symbolic and discursive side of our urban lives and that are stored and constantly renegotiated in their cultural and artistic representations. The city is, within this framework, both seen as an ecosystemically organized space as well as a cultural artifact. Thus, the urban ecology outlined in this study takes its main impetus from an analysis of examples taken from contemporary culture that deal with urban life and the complex interrelations between urban communities and their (natural and built) environments.…

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Softcover. Condition: As New. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen. Nachhaltigkeit ist ein Schlagwort, das in den letzten Jahren verstärkt in aller Munde ist. Aber kannten eigentlich antike Gesellschaften Formen von 'Nachhaltigkeit'? Wie gingen Griechen und Römer mit erschöpfbaren Ressourcen wie Wasser und Holz um? Wurde Abfall wiederverwendet, und gab es überhaupt ein Bewusstsein für menschengemachte Umweltzerstörung? Die Autorinnen und Autoren zeigen, dass die Diskussionen um 'Nachhaltigkeit' eine Ideengeschichte haben, die bis in die Vormoderne zurückreicht, und dass eine Anwendung moderner Begrifflichkeiten auf antike Gesellschaften Probleme, v.a. aber Perspektiven mit sich bringt, die dieser Band grundlegend aufarbeitet. Die antiken Gesellschaften mögen keinen Begriff für 'Nachhaltigkeit' gekannt haben - in den Praktiken ihres Umweltverhaltens bieten sie dennoch reichlich Anschauungsmaterial, das sowohl Parallelen, aber auch wichtige Unterschiede zur Gegenwart erkennen lässt. Und das unser Verständnis der antiken Umweltgeschichte auf eine neue Grundlage stellt.…

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Gr.-8°, Ppbd. 311 S.; mit 8 s/w-Abb. Neuwertiges Ex. / Fine Copy // How did British officers, geographers, and adventurers use the motif of `travelling` in Alexander`s `footsteps` during their respective missions in Central Asia? Christopher Schliephake shows how the reception of Alexander the Great became an integral part of imperial self-representation and colonial identity in the nineteenth century. As Schliephake argues, the experiential framework of the exploration and conquest of regions like the Punjab or Afghanistan turned the abstract notion of following in Alexander`s `tracks` into a highly relevant category for negotiating the relationship between the present and the past, Europe and Asia. However, the further the British explorers advanced, they realized that Alexander had already been waiting for them he came in the guise of Sikander or Iskander and some local indigenous tribes even claimed direct descent from him. The way the writings of the travelers reacted to the cultural confrontation between a `Western` and an `Eastern` Alexander will be one of the main themes of this book. ISBN: 9783515124003 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 674.…

Paperback. Condition: New. What can a study of antiquity contribute to the interdisciplinary paradigm of the environmental humanities? And how does this recent paradigm influence the way we perceive human-'nature' interactions in pre-modernity? By asking these and a number of related questions, this Element aims to show why the ancient tradition still matters in the Anthropocene. Offering new perspectives to think about what directions the ecological turn could take in classical studies, it revisits old material, including ancient Greek religion and mythology, with central concepts of contemporary environmental theory. It also critically engages with forms of classical reception in current debates, arguing that ancient ecological knowledge is a powerful resource for creating alternative world views.…

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