Rights and Urban Controversies in Hong Kong: From the Eastern and Western Perspectives

Yung, Betty, Mok, Francis K. T., Wong, Baldwin

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-05-22
  • 售價: $4,630
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$4,399
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 199
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 9819912741
  • ISBN-13: 9789819912742
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商品描述

This book examines the "ethics in relation to city and urbanism" by evaluating the strengths and limitations of rights as a conceptual tool from the comparative East-West perspective in resolving urban controversies (involving conflicts of rights between different classes, different groups within the present generation, present vs future generations, human vs animals, human vs plants and nature), thereby facilitating urban policy-making and good urban governance.

This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach integrating political theory, ethics, urban studies, public policy, making applications of ethics and political philosophy to social sciences to examine controversial urban issues in the Hong Kong context. It challenges the general conception that philosophy and ethics are detached from everyday life, with the philosophers engaging mainly in abstract intellectual pursuit and some of them even disdaining "pedestrian" applications of abstract thinking. This book makesapplications of ethics and political philosophy to real-life urban contexts in Hong Kong, thereby trying to highlight the normative in order to throw new light to the general approach and strategy to deal with practical urban issues, facilitating "out-of-the-box" thinking in the field of housing and urban studies, stimulating scholars, researchers, and students in the fields, urban planners, urban managers, and other professionals as well as urban policy-makers.


商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書從東西方比較的角度,評估權利作為一個概念工具在解決城市爭議(涉及不同階級、現今世代內不同群體、現在與未來世代、人類與動物、人類與植物及自然之間的權利衝突)時的優點和限制,從而促進城市政策制定和良好的城市治理。

本書採用跨學科的方法,將政治理論、倫理學、城市研究、公共政策相結合,將倫理學和政治哲學應用於社會科學,以香港的具體背景來研究有爭議的城市問題。它挑戰了一般觀念,即哲學和倫理學與日常生活脫節,哲學家主要從事抽象的智力追求,其中一些人甚至輕視對抽象思維的實際應用。本書將倫理學和政治哲學應用於香港的實際城市情境,試圖突顯規範性,以便為處理實際城市問題的一般方法和策略提供新的視角,促進住房和城市研究領域的創新思維,激發學者、研究人員和學生,以及城市規劃師、城市管理者和其他專業人士以及城市政策制定者。

作者簡介

Betty Yung is Visiting Fellow in the Department of Public and International Affairs at City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests are Normative Dimensions of Public Policy through Applications of Philosophy to Public Policy, Housing Policy and Social Policy, Urban Studies and Housing Studies as well as Hong Kong Studies.. She published a book related to "justice in Hong Kong housing policy" (Hong Kong University Press) and co-edited a book on "ethical dilemmas in public policy" (Springer) and another book on "land and housing controversies in Hong Kong" (Springer). Francis K. T. Mok is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the Education University of Hong Kong. His academic interests lie mainly in applied ethics, with special focus on ethical issues related to admission of immigrants and care workers. His publications include a book monograph on the moral responsibility of civilian participants in the CulturalRevolution of China (published by Routledge) and two book chapters, one on the admission of Mainlanders to Hong Kong and another on environmental justice (both published by Springer). Baldwin Wong is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University. He holds a PhD in Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His academic interests lie mainly in public justification and Confucianism. His works were published (and forthcoming) in American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Journal of Social Philosophy, Philosophia, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Social Theory and Practice, and Res Publica.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Betty Yung是香港城市大學公共與國際事務系的訪問學者。她的研究興趣包括將哲學應用於公共政策的規範維度、住房政策和社會政策、城市研究和住房研究,以及香港研究。她出版了一本關於「香港住房政策中的正義」的書(香港大學出版社),並共同編輯了一本關於「公共政策中的倫理困境」(Springer)和另一本關於「香港土地和住房爭議」(Springer)的書籍。

Francis K. T. Mok是香港教育大學社會科學系的助理教授。他的學術興趣主要集中在應用倫理學,特別關注與移民和照顧工作者相關的倫理問題。他的出版物包括一本關於中國文化大革命期間平民參與的道德責任的專書(Routledge出版),以及兩篇書章,一篇關於內地人進入香港的問題,另一篇關於環境正義(均由Springer出版)。

Baldwin Wong是香港浸會大學宗教與哲學系的助理教授。他擁有倫敦政治經濟學院政府學博士學位。他的學術興趣主要集中在公共合理化和儒家思想。他的作品已發表(和即將發表)在《美國政治科學期刊》、《應用哲學期刊》、《社會哲學期刊》、《哲學》、《道:比較哲學期刊》、《國際社會與政治哲學評論》、《社會理論與實踐》和《公共事務》等期刊上。