Settlers,Workers, and the Logic of Accumulation by Dispossession

This article offers a critique of the Wolfe-an model, which has become so dominant within contemporary Settler Colonial Studies (SCS). It focuses particularly on the central claim made by Patrick Wolfe, and others after him, that settler colonialism is categorically differentiated from other forms of colonialism by its drive to “eliminate the native”, instead of exploiting them. This paper builds on the literature that shows how settler colonies have used elimination as well as exploitation in their relations with indigenous peoples—even transitioning from one to the other. Instead, the paper argues that focusing on accumulation by dispossession allows for an analysis of the specificity of settler social relations to emerge. It highlights the specific ways in which settlers collectively expropriate indigenous peoples and struggle amongst different settler classes over the distribution of the colonial loot.     

修志人员的素质--重读《当代中国志坛群星集》

通过阅读《当代中国志坛群星集》,例举志坛人物的先进事迹,强调修志人员的素质决定志书的质量。号召续志人员要用正确的世界观、高尚的志德、严谨的治学精神、对方志事业痴爱的情感来对待修志事业。只有修志人员具备这些素质,才有望修出名志、佳志。     

东莞因你而美丽:女摄影家实拍长安女工

<正>"这张照片好,这张留下。"2012年4月的一个下午,在长安图书馆摄影之家,这是评委们对中国百名女摄影家走进长安的创作成果进行评奖的场面。通过幻灯片展示女摄影家的作品,评委们一起边点评,边打分,评选出优胜作品。最终胡文的作品《妆》获一等奖,黄晓丽的作品《关注》获二等奖。作为长安"文化关爱·情暖东莞"系列     

Professional Workers in a Risk Society

This paper contributes to the debate on the utility of Ulrich Beck's (1992) notion of the 'risk society' for understanding the positions and experiences of workers who are negotiating more 'flexible' employment contracts. Whilst previous articles in this journal have concentrated upon the lower end of the employment market, I aim to broaden the scope of the discussion by focussing upon professional freelance magazine workers, and ask whether Beck's framework has a different utility in terms of understanding their employment security and risk.¹     

新疆棉田里的拾花工

8月,是新疆棉花成熟的季节.数万名陕西农民搭上专为他们开通的专列远赴新疆,去给农场摘棉花挣钱.年复一年,拾花工像候鸟一样,8月飞出,在冬天雪降大地之前又回到家乡.别井离乡有甜酸苦辣,却给了陕西农民改变生活的希望.     

THREE GENERATIONS OF ROAD Maintenance Workers

April 2005 was the charming spring season in China＇s hinterland, but the snowflakes still flew in the air along the section of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway in the northern plateau of Tibet.     

New Housing for Highway Maintenance Workers

ThisJune,tbrthefirsttimeever,morethan1,000highwaymaintenance'workersontheTibetanplateaulittheirhouseswithelectriclampsandwatchedTV.TheyenjoyedtheseluxuriesatierbeingrealIocatedinto156newmaintenancesquads.TibetistheonlyregioninChinawithoutrailroadsorwatert…     

浅谈方志人的基本素质

从第二轮修志、年鉴编纂、大事记采录等实际情况看,方志人需要具备采、编、写、用的综合能力。     

All Urban Workers to Enjoy Medicare

Tibet started to reform its medical insurance system in 1999. Beginning in 2001, workers in Lhasa were given basic medical insurance on a trial basis. Whether workers in other parts of Tibet will enjoy the same system in the near future? With this in mind, reporters with Tibet Business News interviewed Qi Weiguo, Deputy Director of the Labor and Social Securities Commission of the Tibet Autonomous Region.     

Workers,Unions and the State: Migrant Workers in China's Labour‐intensive Foreign Enterprises

Migrant workers present a new challenge both to China's increasingly diversified industrial relations and to its state–society relationship, especially vis‐à‐vis China's developmental state. Through an examination of the situation of migrant workers in the country's labour‐intensive foreign investment enterprises, this article argues that it is difficult to establish tripartite industrial relations in China and that pluralistic labour organizations will not easily develop into civil society type labour entities. China's developmental state is in an ambiguous process in redefining its role. Its ability to micro‐manage society is weakening substantially. However, its developmental character at the macro‐level largely remains strong, allowing it to continue to restrict progress towards civil society. The future will ultimately depend on a collective determination by key players — the workers, unions and the state — to find a compromise.     

The double reflex of *ai in Avestan*

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the American Oriental Society's 203rd Meeting (Chapel Hill, April 1993), and I am grateful for comments from the participants there, especially William Malandra. Mark Hale, Stanley Insler, Stephanie Jamison, P. Oktor Skjærvø, and Calvert Watkins all deserve special thanks for contributing much time and advice. The research for this paper was made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation.     

“走基层,送爱心” 中国书画家、女摄影家走进农民工子弟学校

<正>乘着"两会"胜利召开的东风,中国网络电视台艺术台、央视国际画院、中国女摄影家协会联合组织书画家、女摄影家来到房山区民仁学校,举办"走基层,送爱心"中国书画家捐赠仪式暨摄影采风活动。这是一次有特殊意义的公益活动,一方面,艺术家、摄影家饱含深情,走进农民工子弟——这个最需要社会关爱的群体,为孩子们捐献作品和衣物;另一方面,民仁学校的孩子们面对面地接触艺术家、摄影家,接受文化的熏陶     

Collaborating With Sex Workers in Oral History

It took several decades for sex workers to become true speakers,rather than testifiers to the speech of others. Tensions understandablyremain about sharing authority with oral historians. This articlereflects on attempts to share authority in setting up, funding,organizing, and publishing from a UK sex work project. It questionswhether commitment to share authority compromises scholarshipand theoretical development, and how an oral historian's roleis affected by a parallel advocacy role. It explores the formationand boundaries of collaborative relationships and briefly raisesthe issue of crossing legal boundaries in less orthodox projectwork and implications for ethical permissions.     

ZONE PRICING*

ABSTRACT. Our purpose is to study a spatial price policy often encountered in the real world, known as zone pricing. This price policy consists in determining simultaneously several delivered prices together with the geographical zones in which they apply. It is shown that zone pricing approximates perfect spatial price discrimination and that the firm's profit increases with the number of zones. Furthermore, the number of markets supplied by the firm rises with the number of zones. Finally, zone pricing is compared to other standard spatial price policies and possible extensions are discussed.