This article argues that China's agreement in 2012 to loan Canada two panda bears is emblematic of animals’ simultaneous material‐symbolic inclusion and exclusion in contemporary politics. Employing a material focus, this article draws a connection between the panda gift and the promise to which it is attached: a promise of material flows; of Chinese access to Canadian resources, especially; and controversially, tar sands oil. Common to geographical flows of both pandas and oil is a devaluation of nonhuman life. In one flow, two pandas cross the Pacific for a decade of captivity at the Toronto and Calgary Zoos, where visitors will pay to view the permanently visible pandas. In the other instance, oil will be shipped across the same ocean, oil whose production comes at great cost to wildlife, including caribou, birds, and fish, and whose spill at any point along its journey to China would devastate marine and terrestrial wildlife populations. Stark power imbalances between species are at the heart of both of these flows and their material consequences. This article argues that, in emphasizing what the pandas symbolize, the extent to which their own and others’ lives are materially affected is elided.相似文献
The economic empowerment of women is emerging as a core focus of both economic development and gender equality programmes internationally. At the same time, there is increasing importance placed on measuring outcomes and quantifying progress towards gender and development goals. These trends raise significant questions around how well gender differences are understood, especially in economies dominated by the informal sector and characterised by a highly gendered division of labour, as is the case in many Pacific countries. How well do existing international and national indicators of gender equality reflect the experiences and aspirations of Pacific women and men? What do concepts such as gender equality and economic empowerment mean in this geographical context? How might local attitudes and practices be identified and measured? In this paper, we draw on Boaventura De Sousa Santos’ call to recognise and value knowledges of the majority world that have been rendered either largely invisible or non-credible by mainstream development and human rights policy agendas. Reflecting on an action research project conducted with partner organisations in Fiji and the Solomon islands, we explore a more nuanced place-based approach to understanding and measuring gender equality and economic empowerment. This approach takes account of diverse economic practices, such as non-market transactions, and forms of non-cash exchange and unpaid labour, and recognises the imbalance in women’s and men’s household and care work. 相似文献
Attitudes towards autonomy and personal freedom changed in the 1960s in England, but hardly touched the needs of dependent older people. In particular, deeply embedded public and professional attitudes and priorities linked to little change in ‘psychogeriatric’ treatment for those who were mentally unwell. Total beds in psychiatric hospitals decreased, but those remaining were increasingly and disproportionately occupied by older people receiving custodial care, often long term, despite evidence that appropriate treatment could prevent admission and facilitate discharge. Widely publicised scandals of inhumane care of older people in psychiatric hospitals prompted a more responsive government approach to improving services. 相似文献
Sea otters have barely survived centuries of colonial and capitalist development. To understand why, I examine how they have been oriented in capitalist social relations in Alaska, and with what effects. I follow sea otters through three overlapping political economic episodes, each of which shapes the next: colonial expansion and the fur trade; petro‐capitalism and the negligent neoliberal state, culminating in the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill; and finally, spill cleanup and “green” capitalism, when sea otters are produced as data points and spectacle. In each episode, I describe (1) sea otters’ orientation in relation to capitalism and the state, and (2) the nature and temporality of violence and ecological loss that attends their orientation. In conversation with theorisations of extinction as a “slow unravelling”, I suggest animal life can unravel less slowly than haltingly—quick, quick, slow—and that the unravelling and animals’ orientation in capitalism are co‐constituted. 相似文献
A principal focus in GIS higher education has been with developing curricula or accommodating new technologies to reflect the needs of the developing discipline. Pedagogy has largely reflected traditional metaphors of acquisition and transfer in the context of formal education, and this extends to preparation of students for the workplace. In this paper, the authors explore the potential for communities of practice, and in particular virtual communities of practice as a complement to more formal GIS education to provide a route to more situated, participatory learning. In so doing, the emphasis towards creating a GIS professional community of practice offers both the recognition of the role of situated knowledge in developing professional GIS expertise, and provides an important bridge from higher education to the workplace. 相似文献
DEFEATING COMMUNIST INSURGENCY: EXPERIENCES FROM MALAYA AND VIETNAM. Sir Robert Thompson. Chatto & Windus, 1966. Pp. 171. $3.60.
THE REVOLUTION IN EGYPT'S ECONOMIC SYSTEM. FROM PRIVATE ENTERPRISE TO SOCIALISM 1952–1965. P. O'Brien. Oxford University Press for R.I.I.A., 1936. Pp xviii + 354. $8.55.
SOUTH ASIAN POLITICS AND RELIGION. Donald E. Smith (editor). Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1966. Pp. 563. $15.00 (U.S.).
THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN ASIA. A STUDY OF ASIAN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. Lalita Prasad Singh. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1966. Pp. xiii + 271. $7.00 (U.S.).
THE ORIGINS OF MALAY NATIONALISM. W. R. Roff. Yale Southeast Asia Studies, 2. Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, University of Malaya Press; New Haven and London, Yale University Press. 1967. Pp. 297. $10 (Malaysian).
UNITED NATIONS PEACE‐KEEPING OPERATIONS — HIGHER CONDUCT. Major General J. J. Rikye. Paris, International Information Centre on Peace‐Keeping Operations, 1967. Pp. 17. $U.S. 1.00.
SOME PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE‐KEEPING OPERATIONS — A GUIDE FOR SENIOR OFFICERS. Brigadier A. J. Wilson. International Information Centre on Peace‐Keeping Operations, 1967. Pp. 12. $U.S. 1.00.
MILITARY STAFFING AT U.N. HEADQUARTERS FOR PEACE‐KEEPING OPERATIONS — A PROPOSAL. Lt. Col. L. M. K. Stern. International Information Centre on Peace‐Keeping Operations, 1967. Pp. 14. ?U.S. 1.00.
THE SWEDISH U.N. STAND‐BY FORCE AND EXPERIENCE. Colonel Nils Stenqvist. International Information Centre on Peace‐Keeping Operations, 1967. Pp. 18. ?U.S. 1.00.
RESEARCH ON PEACE‐KEEPING OPERATIONS — CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE NEEDS. Albert Legaiult. International Information Centre on Peace‐Keeping Operations, 1967. Pp. 57. $U.S. 1.00.
PEACE‐KEEPING OPERATIONS. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Prepared by Albert Legault. International Information Centre on Peace‐Keeping Operations, 1967. Pp. 203. $U.S. 5.00.
KEEPING THE PEACE. Lt. Col. R. B. Tackaberry. Toronto, Canadian Institute of International Affairs, September 1966. Pp. 26. 35c.
BRITAIN'S WITHDRAWAL FROM ASIA. ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR AUSTRALIA. T. B. Millar (ed.). ANU, 1967. Pp. 114. $2.10. . THE CONCEPT OF A PACIFIC COMMUNITY. National Catholic Rural Movement, 1967. Pp. 79. $0.50.
CHANGING AUSTRALIA'S ROLE IN ASIA. J. F. Cairns. Melbourne University. Democratic Socialist Club, 1967. Pp. 8. $0.15.
AUSTRALIA FACES SOUTHEAST ASIA. THE EMERGENCE OF A FOREIGN POLICY. Awry and Mary Belle Vandenbosch. Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1967. Pp. vi + 175. $5.75 (U.S.).
WHY VIETNAM? Frank N. Trager. Pall Mall Press, 1966. Pp. 238. $5.85. 相似文献
This article considers how insurgent campaigns for housing the poor in New York City and Chicago succeeded in engaging the local state, non‐profits and financial institutions in the creation of community land trusts. These campaigns had long arcs in which victories and losses built from each other, neither as permanent as they initially seemed. The campaigns moved iteratively between spaces of “invited citizenship” (courtrooms, planning committees) and “invented” spaces of collective action (property takeovers). They found their greatest success when, exploiting state incapacity to defend abandoned property, they elicited a degree of complicity from local governments in their takeovers of housing and land. The article thus contests dichotomised accounts of social movements that oppose losses to victories, cooptation to resistance, and movements to institutions. Instead, we call for situated and dynamic accounts of insurgent practice, capable of theorising the long, messy, co‐constituted evolution of political contexts and popular struggle. 相似文献
ABSTRACTThis paper considers the key trends and changes that have taken place in my 25 years of children's geographies research. I reflect on the growing awareness of children in research but also the continued marginalisation of children and children's concerns in my own planning profession, and the continuing need for a greater presence for Majority world children in research. I ask if we as children's geographers can rise to the growing global challenges children face. To do so will require greater interdisciplinary work and recognition of the ever more complex and dynamic nature of societies if we are to create a robust forward-looking research agenda with and for children. 相似文献
By the 1850s, the representation of the spider in Victorian natural history was beginning to change. No longer associated solely with ingenuity and industry, the spider took on more disturbing connotations in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Unable to pin down the creature's precise rhetorical and metaphorical function, naturalists could not decide whether the spider ought to be loved or feared and at the same time the spider began to emerge as a ubiquitous, protean and unstable Gothic trope in popular fiction. While natural history books warned of the hazards of the foreign spider's bite, in adventure fiction the alien arachnid lurks in liminal spaces far from the safety of British shores. Much maligned as the unfamiliar Other, the spider caused – and mitigated – anxieties about the limits of the human. In the Gothic empire fiction of Bertram Mitford and H.G. Wells, the spider takes on the role of the harbinger of death on both sides of the colonial encounter. 相似文献
