为了寻求真谛——读本源先生《历史学理论·方法论发凡》

2006年1月。连日阴雨间隔,使隆冬时节的上海,更显湿冷难耐了。一天上午,也是阴雨霏霏的日子,我从校门西侧的邮局,取回了一个纸箱邮包,那里面存放着本源先生的压卷大作《历史学理论.方法论发凡》的手稿,拎在手上感觉沉甸甸的,份量很重,很重。我之所以不堪重负,主要不是体力的承重而是精神的负担,先生嘱我为他的书写序,在发怵与惊恐之后,我清醒地意识到了一份责任,在那里需要学术链条的赓续,更需要精神传统的衔接;又分明感受到了一种情怀,在那里有太多的挚爱,太多的期盼……我正这么想着,不觉思绪一下把我带回到上个世纪40年代末。1949年,对于…     

解说缘起、发展与研究方法进展

解说(Interpretation)是我国国家公园建设的重要组成部分,是促进生态保护、加强生态文明建设、提高国民科学素养的重要手段.解说的概念自20世纪90年代末引入我国学术界以来出现了不少名词释义上的混淆,同时缺乏有效的评价方法,阻碍了解说在自然保护地和旅游区的推广.本文综合提尔顿(Tilden)对解说释义以及西方多个关于解说概念的阐述,明确了亲身体验与交流联系是解说的两个最主要特征.与环境教育不同,解说是在自然环境中对主动学习的游客开展的活动.近年来兴起的眼动追踪技术和参与式GIS制图等方法,为解说效果评估研究的发展提供了新借鉴,具有推广价值.本文厘清了国内的解说概念,明确解说本身是对过程的描述,其核心是解释,这对于进一步推进我国国家公园建设具有积极作用.     

Underwater Archaeology in Colombia: Between Commercial Salvage and Science

International Journal of Historical Archaeology - This article summarizes the progress and current state of underwater archaeology in Colombia over the past three decades. It also presents the...     

Transdisciplinary Archaeology and the Future of Archaeological Practice: Citizen Science,Portable Science,Ethical Science

This paper presents a vision and a pathway for the future of archaeological practice, in which several fields that are currently considered distinct, including community-based collaborative archaeology, indigenous archaeology, and applied archaeology, could become the norm. Inspired by personal encounters with some exceptionally open and collaborative archaeology projects, as well as by recent advances in archaeological science, which are starting to make it more portable, this paper sets out an agenda for a more open approach to archaeological practice. It advocates a method of producing knowledge about the past that does not privilege one investigator over another, but gives everyone who is interested and wants to participate an opportunity to do. Specific methodological challenges that are discussed include the need to ‘flip’ the public outreach element of research designs, to embed open participation from the outset by nurturing relationships of mutual respect and trust, and to take advantage of, and improve, the portability of archaeological science, so that it can be done in and by local communities. It is argued here that the opening of archaeological research, including the archaeological sciences, to a wider range of participants, is the most ethical approach to archaeological practice in a pan-disciplinary research environment.     

European Spatial Planning Between Competitiveness and Territorial Cohesion: Shadows of Neo-liberalism

This paper analyses the use of the concept of territorial cohesion in policy documents produced by the European Union. It is an idea celebrated in community documents, such as cohesion reports, the Territorial Agenda of the European Union and the Green Paper on Territorial Cohesion; after more than a decade of political debate, the concept is about to gain a legitimate institutional role, after being included in the Lisbon Treaty, and is among the competences that the EU shares with other member states. At first, territorial cohesion seems to oppose the logics of neo-liberalism by reinscribing welfare problems and policies in spatial terms. However, using the analytical framework of cultural critics, and intending cohesion to be a discourse carried on by a community of European scholars and policymakers, the research will discuss the conceptual relationship between competitiveness and territorial cohesion in European policies and narratives.