马歇尔出使中国与战后中、美、苏关系

从1945年12月至1947年1月,马歇尔作为美国总统杜鲁门的私人代表,受总统的委托调解国共两党的谈判。华盛顿官方宣布,马歇尔的使命是和解对立的双方、停止中国已开始的内战。 众所周知,马歇尔的调解使命没有成功,国共两党之间没能达成妥协。1947年1月,马歇尔返回华盛顿,被任命为美国国务卿。     

反思与重构:遗产、博物馆再审视——劳拉简·史密斯教授专访

随着批评遗产研究的兴起,国际学界对遗产、博物馆实践进行了深刻的反思.澳大利亚国立大学劳拉简·史密斯教授认为,考古学家和其他学科的专家都需要重新审视自己在遗产实践中的角色及其学术话语带来的政治影响,倾听社区和其他利益相关者的声音;博物馆工作也应寻求与相关利益群体更深层的互动,认识到参观者往往有着复杂的身份认同与情感诉求,避免将之视为简单的被教育对象,要为他们提供激发情感共鸣和自我反思的资源;描述和探讨不同文化语境中的遗产话语是迫切需要的研究课题,亚洲的遗产活动和思维对于遗产的多样性发展具有重要意义,批评遗产研究的"批评"概念需要多元文化思考,遗产理论发展和遗产学专业教育也需要对遗产的多元化理解.     

Australia: a continuing genocide?

Debates about genocide in Australia have for the most part focussed on past frontier killings and child removal practices. This article, however, focuses on contemporary culturally destructive policies, and the colonial structures that produce them, through the analytical lens of the concept of genocide. The article begins with a discussion of the meaning of cultural genocide, locating the idea firmly in Lemkin's work before moving on to engage with the debates around Lemkin's distinction between genocide and cultural 'diffusion.' In contrast to those scholars who prefer the word 'ethnocide,' the underlying conceptual contention is that the term 'cultural genocide' simply describes a key method of genocide and should be viewed, without the need for qualification, as genocide. While direct physical killing and genocidal child removal practices may have ceased in Australia, some indigenous activists persuasively contend that genocide is a continuing process in an Australia that has failed to decolonise. Concurring with these views the article argues that the contemporary expression of continuing genocidal relations in Australia can be seen principally, and perversely, in the colonial state's official reconciliation process, native title land rights regime and the recent interventionist 'solutions' to indigenous 'problems' in the Northern Territory.     

Exploring the resilience of Bt cotton's "pro-poor success story"

Expectations play a powerful role in driving technological change. Expectations are often encapsulated in narratives of technological promise that emphasize potential benefits and downplay potential negative impacts. Genetically modified (GM, transgenic) crops have been framed by expectations that they would be an intrinsically "pro-poor" innovation that would contribute powerfully to international agricultural development. However, expectations typically have to be scaled back in the light of experience. Published reviews of the socio-economic impacts of GM crops among poor, small-scale farmers in the developing world indicate that these effects have been very mixed and contingent on the agronomic, socio-economic and institutional settings where the technology has been applied. These conclusions should modulate expectations about the pro-poor potential of GM crop technology and focus attention on the conditions under which it might deliver substantial and sustainable benefits for poor farmers. However, the idea of GM crop technology as an intrinsically pro-poor developmental success story has been sustained in academic, public and policy arenas. This narrative depends upon an analysis that disembeds the technology from the technical, social and institutional contexts in which it is applied. Agricultural development policy should be based on a more rigorous and dispassionate analysis, rather than optimistic expectations alone.     

上海：中国过去与未来的交汇之外

下雨的时候,数百万骑自行车的行人穿上了黄色、蓝色或红色的雨披,整座城市被柔软、湿润的色彩淹没。街道变成了镜子,映照出路边梧桐树闪着微光的模样——我想,第一次来上海的最佳时机可能莫过于此吧。     

人类最早出现在东北亚高纬度地区的新证据

<正>确定早期人类扩散到亚洲的时间是人类演化研究的中心课题之一。在华北泥河湾盆地马圈沟湖相沉积剖面发掘出四层无可争议的石器层。本项研究的磁性地层学结果表明,这四层石器层的年龄介于Olduvai极性亚时和Cobb Mountain事件之间的近34万年时间间隔内。层位最低的旧石器的年龄约1.66Myr,代表了东亚地区利用石器加工动物遗骨     

Fluid masculinities

Kim Townsend, Manhood at Harvard: William James and Others Naomi Segal, André Gide: Pederasty and Pedagogy Trev Lynn Broughton, Men of Letters, Writing Lives: Masculinity and Literary Auto/Biography