Anti-ism thinkers: The post-May Fourth schism in political thought

Abstract

This article is a continuation of “Advent of the Age of Isms,” which primarily discusses a period teeming with various “isms” (主義 zhuyi). During this time, there were in fact a number of figures who held overtly or covertly opposing attitudes, in both cases giving rise to a phenomenon of fragmentation and asystematicness. Whether consisting of negative responses to the new political theory of “isms,” this “remedy for all ills,” or of piecemeal, asystematic criticism, the phenomenon itself served as a foil to the colossal intellectual forces of the Age of “Ismization.” This article offers a preliminary discussion of this phenomenon.     

The future role of GIS education in creating critical spatial thinkers

Teaching of critical spatial thinking in higher education empowers graduates to effectively engage with spatial data. Geographic information systems (GIS) and science are taught to undergraduates across many disciplines; we evaluate how this contributes to critical spatial thinking. The discipline of GIS covers the whole process of spatial decision-making, but GIS modules often ignore the context setting of spatial problems, and just cover the technical aspects of how to use GIS software. We outline how some existing GIS practicals could be improved to focus on the development of critical spatial thinking skills, competences and abilities that are valuable to graduates.     

Poetic child realism: Scottish film and the construction of childhood

With this essay I suggest a move towards poetic realism in the representation of children in Scottish movies. After a brief discussion of the landscape context of film geographies I turn to the roots of Scottish film realism in British Free Cinema, with specific reference to filmmakers’ use of landscape and place‐characters. I then argue that Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay moves most fully towards the context of poetic child realism. Ramsay frames and foments a quirky poetic realism with non‐professional child actors placed in carefully crafted landscapes to create important moral and social stories that evolve from a series of shocks and an emotive collision of ideas.     

The impact of the school space on research methodology,child participation and safety: views from children in Zanzibar

ABSTRACT

This paper discusses the impact of school environments as research spaces on participatory research methods, children’s agency and safety. The article draws on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork on children’s perceptions of protection programmes in state and Qur’anic schools in Zanzibar Town. Working with ‘draw & write’ and photovoice approaches disclosed issues with children’s safety in schools and highlighted limitations of participatory research in educational spaces. Drawing on Zanzibari children’s perspectives, I suggest that to improve fragile theoretical ideals about children’s participation in participatory approaches in educational settings, research processes need cultural sensitization and conceptualization in relation to the intersecting notions of place and personhood. This, as the paper shows, needs to guide and can help develop a respectful understanding of children’s lives. This paper contributes to discussions on childhood research ethics and constructions of ‘safe research spaces’.     

中国版本学及其研究方法

一、版本学的脱胎与体现 中国版本学,迄今为止主要指的还是古书版本学,晚近图书的版本研究尚没有形成强劲的气候,所以我这里谈的仍是古书版本学. 关于什么是古书版本学,叶德辉在其<书林清话>卷一"板本之名称"中有过如下议论:"近人言藏书者,分目录、板本为两种学派.大约官家之书,自<崇文总目>以下,至乾隆所修<四库全书总目>提要,是为目录之学;私家之藏,自尤袤遂初堂、明毛晋汲古阁,及康、雍、乾、嘉以来各藏书家齗齗于宋元本、旧抄,是为板本学.然二者皆兼校雠,是又为校勘之学."①这段话说得模棱两可,谁从这里也难以归纳出科学的版本学概念.但有一点值得注意,这就是他把目录、版本、校勘三者的关系联系了起来,并谓:"本朝久治,超轶宋、元,皆此三者为之根柢."这三者为何?这三者就是版本学、目录学和校勘学.这对我们探讨什么是版本学有很大的启发.     

Challenging the discipline of migration: militant research in migration studies,an introduction

Abstract

In the last two decades, we have witnessed a proliferation of studies on migrations that, taking human mobility as their focus, contributed to the profiling of migrations as an object of research and to the institutionalization of its stakes. While, on the one hand, this has coincided with the becoming a discipline of migrations (i.e. their acquiring the status of a specific field of scholarly knowledge), it has, on the other hand, coincided with a disciplinarization of migrations themselves, a sort of disciplining effect of migrations' contested politics at the very moment of their academic heyday. This contribution interrogates the discipline of migrations as an academic domain of knowledge, as the governmental conduct of mobility, and as the governmentality at the intersection of these two layers.     

Sociocultural research contributions to alcohol studies: More apparent than real

B. Kissin and H. Begleiter, eds. Social Aspects of Alcoholism. The Biology of Alcoholism. Vol. 4. New York: Plenum Press, 1976. xxiv + 643 pp. List of contributors, contents of earlier volumes, chapter references, index.

J. Leland. Firewater Myths. Monograph No. 11. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, 1976. xv + 158 pp. Tables, charts, bibliography, index of subjects.

J. B. Roebuck and W. Frese. The Rendezvous: A Case Study of an After‐Hours Club. New York: The Free Press, 1976. x + 278 pp. Bibliography, index.

E. E. LeMasters. Blue‐Collar Aristocrats: Life‐Styles at a Working‐Class Tavern. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1975. ix + 218 pp. Footnotes to chapters, index.     

The Adoption of Agriculture in Ireland: Perceptions of Key Research Challenges

This paper outlines the results of a project carried out 2007–2008 providing oversight of key challenges in the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in Ireland as understood by those researching the period. The project involved interviews with practitioners from a variety of fields in order to obtain qualitative data. The resulting synthesis is not a ‘consensus’ statement of priorities, but a reflection of a very diverse research field. Given that the project took place at a time of considerable change in Irish archaeology, the strengths and weaknesses of research into the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition are of broader relevance.