Against the Grain: Long-Term Patterns in Agricultural Production in Prehistoric Cyprus

Journal of World Prehistory - Our understanding of the timing and dynamics of the spread of human populations to the island of Cyprus has changed significantly in the last few decades. Ongoing...     

走过草原

古人云,“青海长云暗雪山”。没错,翻过日月山,掠过许多没有名字的山峰,撂下阿尼玛卿雪山,来到巴颜喀拉山区,雪山的背后,大地腹部的深处,藏着许多未被发现的仙境,广袤得不为人知的草原。这是原始的草原,不像纤弱又已经很累的西湖,它们没有承载太多的附加值,没有被人描绘过染指过,美得神奇,许多雪峰草原根本没有名字。     

穿越神山墨尔多

<正>一场薄雾或细雨,给中路乡硬朗的大山增添了几分撩人的醉意,置身在这如画美景中,如同太虚幻境,也许这正是美人谷神秘的面纱吧,像此刻的墨尔多山,远远凝视,颦颦而笑,一切竟在若有似无中……中路:梦中的世外桃源这是我第二次到访四川甘孜州的丹巴县。原计划是到莫斯卡探访一番,但错过了前往的班车,刚好这时候开客栈的朋友向我们推荐了墨尔多神山穿越这条线路。和大多数人一     

Going global: the transnationalization of care

This article critically examines the contours of ‘care transnationalization’ as an ongoing social process and a field of enquiry. Care transnationalization scholarship combines structural understandings of global power relations with an emphasis on social interactions between defined actors in ways that keep sight of human agency, material welfare and wider social development. It has, however, tended to privilege particular forms, dynamics and sites of care transnationalization over others. The body of research on care labour migration, which is otherwise the most developed literature on care transnationalization to date, contains a number of biases and omissions in its coverage of border-spanning relations and their mediation across country contexts. At the same time, other significant forms of care transnationalization, such as those involving consumer-based care migration, corporate restructuring and the formation of care policy, have suffered from comparative neglect. Working towards an integrated agenda that addresses these diverse expressions of care transnationalization and how they ‘touch down’ in a range of sectoral, social and country contexts is of prime importance to policy research agendas directed at understanding the wider development impacts of processes of social and economic restructuring.     

Going to the Chamo Grottoes in Dingye

<正>In 2008,the Third National Archaeological Survey was carried out in full swing in Tibet Autonomous Region(TAR).That summer,reviewing the annual materials sent by the Shigatse Archaeological Survey Team to the Regional Archaeological Survey Office,we,members of the expert panel,all thought the     

走进史前彩陶王国

举世闻名的柳湾原始社会公共墓地,坐落在青海省乐都县高庙镇湟水北岸的柳湾村,这里气候宜人,环境优美,柳树成阴。湟水河从柳湾村南流过,它是青海的母亲河,千百年来,河水堆积了两岸广袤的肥田沃土,孕育了灿烂辉煌的青海远古文化。柳湾因村北约12万平方米的台地上分布着1730余座古墓和近2万件彩陶器而闻名于世,被誉为“彩陶的王国”,柳湾彩陶是继西安兵马俑之后,我国最大的文物发现。柳湾墓地的发现比较偶然。20世纪70年代初期,当地农民在村后旱台上平整土地过程中,一批批后来被定为是国家珍贵文物的精美彩陶在农民的锹镐下露出它昔日的风彩。…     

回归老家的庭院

明月梅花一梦,几处落红庭院。庭院深深深几许,杨柳堆烟,帘幕无重数。     

Going West and Going Out: discourses,migrants, and models in Chinese development

Abstract

In 1999 China announced the launching of the Open up the West campaign, sometimes called “Going West,” to help western China finally catch up to the much wealthier eastern, coastal areas after several decades of lagging behind. The same year, China also announced a “Going Out” strategy to encourage Chinese investment abroad. The 15 years since then have witnessed dramatic Chinese government investment in various development activities in western regions of China, as well as around the world. Though rarely considered together, we argue that there are significant parallels in development discourse, the centrality of physical infrastructure, the characteristics of Chinese labor migration and the nature of migrant-local relations, and the application of “models from elsewhere” in Going West and Going Out. Considering these parallels can help shed light on Chinese development discourse and practice, as China becomes increasingly important in the field of development once dominated by Western countries. Finally, we also consider direct connections and convergences between the two strategies in China’s neighboring countries of Asia and in the One Belt One Road initiative.     

冬季去趟地中海

冬季,走地中海南线是一个不错的选择,推荐去加那利群岛,突尼斯,希腊。到了希腊,经过北非的突尼斯驶进大西洋,直到著名的加那利群岛(Canary Islands)再回航。现在这个时候连希腊都有点冷,旅游者比旺季时少很多,也正是这个原因,在冬季去,反倒避开了熙熙攘攘的人群,能体验到爱琴海岸边清澈的希腊味道。     

Against epistemology

Rick Tilman's new study, Veblen and his European Contemporaries, explores Veblen's conceptual relationship with a host of seminal European thinkers. Among the continuities and differences that Tilman develops, none stands out more than his strikingly original claim that in important ways Veblen's work parallels that of Ferdinand Tonnies. This essay reviews Tilman's study, with a particular emphasis on Veblen's idea of community, particularly its political and utopian aspects. Most notable in these regards is Veblen's idea that a free and insurgent “spirit of insubordination” is the chief animating principle of self-regulating anarchistic communities. The essay examines tensions between Veblen's embrace of the free spirit of anarchism and his belief in the centralizing thrust of modern technology. It suggests, however, that by dramatically curtailing needs for human labor, Veblen's industrial republic might, as most systems do, fumble its way toward a rough working balance between predominant values in conflict, in this case, industry and insubordination.     

Going beyond the grid: literary mapping as creative reading

Drawing from the importance of narrative inquiry in contemporary geographical reasoning and teaching, this paper focuses on some practices set around the relationship between maps and literature. Reader-generated maps, maps produced starting from the reading of a literary text, are at the core of a reflection on the potentialities of literary mapping in higher education; relating maps and literature in an educational environment, I suggest creative reading and creative mapping as co-constructive practices that are able to guide students in addressing and internalising the complexity of spatial categories. Reflecting on the students’ literary mappings, I focus on the various ways that the literary map contributes to mobilising the space of the text, guiding students in approaching spatial issues from a different (and creative) perspective. Time, point of view and literary trans-scalarity are the key narrative concepts that guide and inform possible inductive ruminations on literary mapping as a learning strategy. Following the core question of “what literary mapping might be and do in the digital age”, I aim to resituate contemporary discussions on literary mapping in an educational environment.     

Going It Alone: Belarus as the Non-European European State

In the second paper of a symposium devoted to the contemporary status of Belarus, a noted American specialist on the electoral geography of the states of the former Soviet Union challenges assertions in the preceding article (Ioffe and Yarashevich, 2011) that only Russia and Ukraine are valid comparators against which to gauge the success of the Lukashenka model. Expanding the scope of comparison to include the three other countries neighboring Belarus (Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland), he demonstrates that a broader range of policy changes can be considered by its leadership in efforts to limit damage from the economic crisis in Belarus and position the country for renewed growth within a global economic frame-work. Examination of a wide range of social and economic indicators and government policies reveals, however, that in many ways an unreformed Belarus is poorly positioned for competition in an increasingly interconnected world, in which the elements for successful development are quite different from those providing economic stability in the past. A closing section of the paper revisits the debate on whether most Belarusian citizens actually aspire to a more "European" way of life or instead prefer the "Eastern" alignment and reliance on a Russian benefactor whose own economic future looks increasingly uncertain.