奇迹迪拜 隐蔽在沙漠中的热带雨林

迪拜是一座在沙漠上建造起来的城市,在这里你能发现它的无限可能,这就是一座善于创造奇迹的城市,沙漠上缺什么它就能给你造出什么,比如众所周知的沙漠上建造起世界上最高的大楼,沙漠上建造的世界上最大的花园,沙漠上建造起最大的音乐喷泉等等。同样在沙漠上,它也创造了一个生态系统完备的热带雨林。     

Hidden Child Workers: Young Carers in Zimbabwe

Drawing on an interview‐based case study of young people caring for dependent adult members of their households in Harare, this paper connects the experiences of young carers in Zimbabwe to global forces—namely the HIV/AIDS pandemic and economic liberalisation. It is argued, firstly, that care‐giving by young people is a largely hidden and unappreciated aspect of national economies which is growing as an outcome of conservative macroeconomic policies and the HIV/AIDS explosion. Secondly, that young people have a right to recognition of their work as work. Thirdly, while acknowledging that conceptualising childhood is problematic, there needs to be less emphasis on northern myths of childhood as a time of play and innocence and more attention on defending children's rights to work as well as to be supported in their work under appropriate circumstances. The articulation between global processes and the localised experiences of individual children as providers of care within the home contributes to efforts to re‐introduce social reproduction as an important (but often missing) aspect of debates around globalisation. In addition, this article adds to the growing literature on the geographies of childhood while tackling the imbalance within that literature, whereby working young people and those of the global South are relatively neglected. Suggestions are offered in the conclusions for policy recommendations to recognise and support young carers in Africa, while calling for further research.     

河南之南 散落在大别山深处的古村落

<正>走进新县原生态村落夏至,接到朋友的电话,说咱们去河南新县看看那里的古民居吧。对于喜欢拍老房子建筑的我来说,对古民居自然毫无抵抗力。现在全国各地的古镇古民居到处都是,可惜大多都已经变成商业味儿浓、被外地生意人占领的翻新古镇。对于新县这个以出了93位将军而闻名的小县城来说,那里的古民居也许更值得期待。     

Historic Scientific Relic Hidden in the Palazzo Vecchio

Abstract

In November 1667, the great clock in the tower of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, began to strike the hours. It incorporated the horary inventions of Galileo Galilei, the pinwheel type of escapement and the pendulum regulator. The origin of this historic clock, its installation and subsequent history are here described and illustrated.     

Uncontained accumulation: Hidden heterotopias of storage and spillage

Domestic storage spaces are containers for the concealment of things whose value is inarticulable. Unlike the curation of collections, material accumulations grow of their own accord, accruing mass and animacy and inserting their affective hooks into the tissue of our sociality. Those who fail to contain accumulations are labelled hoarders.