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The extraordinary beauty, cultural wealth, and diversity of EU's
coastal areas have designated them as one of the preferred
destinations for many holiday-goers. The numerous businesses that
operate in these heavily traveled areas have to struggle with other
similarly-minded companies and with providing sustainable practices
for the people and surrounding area. Managing, Marketing, and
Maintaining Maritime and Coastal Tourism is a pivotal reference
source that provides vital material on the application of
multidisciplinary and interdisciplinarity logic surrounding sea
tourism. While highlighting topics such as destination marketing,
event management, and global business, this publication explores
the dynamic capabilities and the methods of overall management of
hospitality by the sea. This book is ideally designed for
marketers, advertisers, tour directors, cruise directors, travel
agents, port managers, coastal cities managers, event coordinators,
academics, students, researchers, policymakers, public managers,
and tourism entrepreneurs.
Commentators have traditionally constructed Hobbes's thinking on
representation too narrowly, as a self-contained area of his
political theory. This book challenges this orthodoxy of Hobbes
scholarship, which owes less to Hobbes s thought than to
contemporary preconceptions of what counts as political thinking.
In her powerful and original analysis, M nica Brito Vieira mines
neglected strands of Hobbes's theory of representation, and
reinstates it in a much wider pattern of Hobbes s theorizing about
human thought and action in relation to widely varied images, roles
and fictions. The result is a compelling portrait of how man's
natural power to form representations through the imagination and
artifice underpins his capacity to break away from nature, and
fashion a world that best suits his needs.
Representation is integral to the functioning and legitimacy of
modern government. Yet political theorists have often been
reluctant to engage directly with questions of representation, and
empirical political scientists have closed down such questions by
making representation synonymous with congruence. Conceptually
unproblematic and normatively inert for some, representation has
been deemed impossible to pin down analytically and to defend
normatively by others. But this is changing. Political theorists
are now turning to political representation as a subject worthy of
theoretical investigation in its own right. In their effort to
rework the theory of political representation, they are also hoping
to impact how representation is assessed and studied empirically.
This volume gathers together chapters by key contributors to what
amounts to a "representative turn" in political theory. Their
approaches and emphases are diverse, but taken together they
represent a compelling and original attempt at re-conceptualizing
political representation and critically assessing the main
theoretical and political implications following from this, namely
for how we conceive and assess representative democracy. Each
contributor is invited to look back and ahead on the
transformations to democratic self-government introduced by the
theory and practice of political representation. Representation and
democracy: outright conflict, uneasy cohabitation, or reciprocal
constitutiveness? For those who think democracy would be better
without representation, this volume is a must-read: it will
question their assumptions, while also exploring some of the
reasons for their discomfort. Reclaiming Representation is
essential reading for scholars and graduate researchers committed
to staying on top of new developments in the field.
Representation is integral to the functioning and legitimacy of
modern government. Yet political theorists have often been
reluctant to engage directly with questions of representation, and
empirical political scientists have closed down such questions by
making representation synonymous with congruence. Conceptually
unproblematic and normatively inert for some, representation has
been deemed impossible to pin down analytically and to defend
normatively by others. But this is changing. Political theorists
are now turning to political representation as a subject worthy of
theoretical investigation in its own right. In their effort to
rework the theory of political representation, they are also hoping
to impact how representation is assessed and studied empirically.
This volume gathers together chapters by key contributors to what
amounts to a "representative turn" in political theory. Their
approaches and emphases are diverse, but taken together they
represent a compelling and original attempt at re-conceptualizing
political representation and critically assessing the main
theoretical and political implications following from this, namely
for how we conceive and assess representative democracy. Each
contributor is invited to look back and ahead on the
transformations to democratic self-government introduced by the
theory and practice of political representation. Representation and
democracy: outright conflict, uneasy cohabitation, or reciprocal
constitutiveness? For those who think democracy would be better
without representation, this volume is a must-read: it will
question their assumptions, while also exploring some of the
reasons for their discomfort. Reclaiming Representation is
essential reading for scholars and graduate researchers committed
to staying on top of new developments in the field.
The extraordinary beauty, cultural wealth, and diversity of EU's
coastal areas have designated them as one of the preferred
destinations for many holiday-goers. The numerous businesses that
operate in these heavily traveled areas have to struggle with other
similarly-minded companies and with providing sustainable practices
for the people and surrounding area. Managing, Marketing, and
Maintaining Maritime and Coastal Tourism is a pivotal reference
source that provides vital material on the application of
multidisciplinary and interdisciplinarity logic surrounding sea
tourism. While highlighting topics such as destination marketing,
event management, and global business, this publication explores
the dynamic capabilities and the methods of overall management of
hospitality by the sea. This book is ideally designed for
marketers, advertisers, tour directors, cruise directors, travel
agents, port managers, coastal cities managers, event coordinators,
academics, students, researchers, policymakers, public managers,
and tourism entrepreneurs.
It is impossible to separate the content of a book from its form.
In this study, Filipe Carreira da Silva and Monica Brito Vieira
expand our understanding of the history of social and political
scholarship by examining how the entirety of a book mediates and
constitutes meaning in ways that affect its substance,
appropriation, and reception over time. Examining the evolving form
of classic works of social and political thought, including W. E.
B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk, G. H. Mead's Mind, Self, and
Society, and Karl Marx's 1844 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts,
Carreira da Silva and Brito Vieira show that making these books
involved many hands. They explore what publishers, editors,
translators, and commentators accomplish by offering the reading
public new versions of the works under consideration, examine
debates about the intended meaning of the works and discussions
over their present relevance, and elucidate the various ways in
which content and material form are interwoven. In doing so,
Carreira da Silva and Brito Vieira characterize the editorial
process as a meaning-producing action involving both collaboration
and an ongoing battle for the importance of the book form to a
work's disciplinary belonging, ideological positioning, and
political significance. Theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly
researched, The Politics of the Book radically changes our
understanding of what doing social and political theory-and its
history-implies. It will be welcomed by scholars of book history,
the history of social and political thought, and social and
political theory.
It is impossible to separate the content of a book from its form.
In this study, Filipe Carreira da Silva and Mónica Brito Vieira
expand our understanding of the history of social and political
scholarship by examining how the entirety of a book mediates and
constitutes meaning in ways that affect its substance,
appropriation, and reception over time. Examining the evolving form
of classic works of social and political thought, including W. E.
B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk, G. H. Mead’s Mind, Self,
and Society, and Karl Marx’s 1844 Economic and Philosophic
Manuscripts, Carreira da Silva and Brito Vieira show that making
these books involved many hands. They explore what publishers,
editors, translators, and commentators accomplish by offering the
reading public new versions of the works under consideration,
examine debates about the intended meaning of the works and
discussions over their present relevance, and elucidate the various
ways in which content and material form are interwoven. In doing
so, Carreira da Silva and Brito Vieira characterize the editorial
process as a meaning-producing action involving both collaboration
and an ongoing battle for the importance of the book form to a
work’s disciplinary belonging, ideological positioning, and
political significance. Theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly
researched, The Politics of the Book radically changes our
understanding of what doing social and political theory—and its
history—implies. It will be welcomed by scholars of book history,
the history of social and political thought, and social and
political theory.
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