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Product Description: Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars, this volume examines the complex and growing debate on citizenship. this volume brings analytical clarity to contemporary debates about citizenship. The contributors not only systematically address the ambiguities of citizenship but also confront the growing marketization of citizenship...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: `Europe is sometimes credited with a `polis,' but not a `demos'. Political integration and economic globalisation cannot diminish local identity and social memories. This fascinating collection of national case studies shows why there will always be a local `demos' located in ecology, economy, and society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In this unique and agenda-setting examination of the relation between nature and culture, Klaus Eder demonstrates our ideas of nature are culturally determined, and explains how the relation between modern, industrial societies and nature is increasingly violent and destructive. Through an analysis of symbolism, ritual and taboo, Eder questions the view of nature as an object. Showing how nature is socially constructed, he presents a critique of Marx and Durkheim while offering a radical reinterpretation of the relationship among society, culture and nature. Eder concludes with an examination of the symbolic order of society and of the role of religion in modern culture. Using a culturalist interpretation, (view table of contents)