Overview
- Focuses on the “ethics in relation to city and urbanism” from the perspectives of rights
- Approaches urban issues from a philosophical, ethical, and normative perspective
- Discusses rights not only of human beings but also non-human entities in the context of city and urban development
Part of the book series: Governance and Citizenship in Asia (GOCIA)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conflict of Rights in Urban Issues
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Rights, Interest and Well-being of Human and Non-human Entities
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rights and Urban Controversies in Hong Kong
Book Subtitle: From the Eastern and Western Perspectives
Editors: Betty Yung, Francis K. T. Mok, Baldwin Wong
Series Title: Governance and Citizenship in Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1272-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-1271-1Published: 21 May 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-1274-2Due: 21 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-1272-8Published: 20 May 2023
Series ISSN: 2365-6255
Series E-ISSN: 2365-6263
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 199
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Public Policy, Political Science, Employee Health and Wellbeing