Gay-riatrics: spatial politics and activism of gay seniors in Tel-Aviv’s gay community centre

This paper discusses aspects of spatial politics and activism at the municipal Gay Community Centre in Tel Aviv. It focuses on one marginal group within the LGBT community that is active in the centre – gay seniors. Drawing on theories of queer geography, queer gerontology and geographies of activism and social movements, the qualitative research reported here uses in-depth interviews and participant observations to demonstrate how these men construct the space for their activity both inside and outside the centre. On the one hand, this spatial politics shifts along a delicate axis between proximity to the municipality and community hegemony, looking ‘inside’ the community on the one hand. On the other, it subverts and challenges the existing communal order, looking ‘outside’ to the surrounding society. However, these two directions are not necessarily binary; rather, as the paper shows, they stand in a dialectic that holds them in tension. This tension is evident in the ways in which the group operates from within the core of the hegemony, creating a complex non-dichotomous reality that enables politics that acts within – and despite – the mainstream.     

陕西横山黑水沟遗址出土铸铜遗物的初步研究

本文对陕西横山黑水沟遗址出土炉渣、坩埚残片及铜器残块等进行了科学分析研究。结果显示,经分析的炉渣样品皆为较典型的合金熔炼渣,炉渣内普遍存在铜合金颗粒;锡石、铅氧化物等物相的存在,证实了锡、铅等合金元素曾参与了熔炼反应。部分样品中高锡铜颗粒的存在,显示此过程系有意识的合金化生产活动,且使用了铜、锡(铅)等较纯的金属物料。铜器残块的分析结果还显示该遗址存在对铜器的回收、重熔。作为陕北地区目前所见最早的青铜冶铸遗存,黑水沟遗址铸铜遗物的研究对于认识该地区先秦时期青铜产业发展及其与中原地区的关系具有重要意义。     

嘉兴博物馆所藏南湖风景作品探析

嘉兴南湖旧称滮湖、马场湖、东湖、鸳湖,与南京玄武湖、杭州西湖并称江南三大名湖。从古至今,南湖秀逸,风景宜人,素来以"轻烟拂渚,微风欲来"著称于世,画家笔下的南湖,才墨之薮,倍受青睐,由此遗留了诸多关于南湖古色遗韵之作,嘉兴博物馆就藏有以南湖景致为题材的书画藏品五件,现作初浅的梳理与分析探讨。     

文物保护中传统工艺科学化研究探析

近年来,中国传统工艺的研究不但取得了丰硕的成果,还逐步进入了新的研究高潮,中国文物保护修复界已率先提出了"传统工艺科学化研究"的呼吁。本文对目前国内出现的古建彩绘保护技术、古建琉璃构件保护技术、古纸修复技术等相关领域的传统工艺科学化研究案例进行分析,认为:传统工艺科学化研究是一种以传统工艺实地调查为基础、以现代科学知识和科学方法为科学化分析手段,并利用现代科学原理、科技理念进行工艺解释,最终实现建立一套规范化的传统工艺科学化体系的目的。但是,对传统工艺进行科学化研究也不可避免地具有方法上的局限性,因此在对传统工艺研究过程中仍需要尊重传统工艺的真实性,辨别使用科学化研究的方法。     

贵族话语与雅典民主政治的关系——以“刺杀僭主”叙事为中心

传统观点认为,虽然古典时期的雅典人创造了民主制,但并未发展出相应的民主政治话语,贵族的传统价值观和意识形态始终在民主政治中居于主导地位。然而,对"刺杀僭主"叙事的分析表明,贵族发明的话语传统可以在公共空间内被大众转化为城邦的政治话语,进而在新的历史语境中被民主化,为民主政治话语提供符号、仪式和形象,成为民主制的有机组成部分。这说明,古典时期雅典民主政治对旧时代政治符号的继承,并不等于贵族话语对民主政治的胜利。能够在新的政治语境中对旧叙事进行创造性改编,反而说明民主政治有能力利用旧传统的养分,创造出属于自身的政治话语。     

故宫博物院藏《感遇诗》作者考辨

故宫博物院所藏《感遇诗》页,长期以来被视为元代著名书画家王冕的书法作品,迄今见刊于多种出版物。本文借助台北故宫博物院藏苏轼书《桤木诗》后题跋等相关文献,并结合书法风格的比较分析,提出了新的观点,将《感遇诗》归于元末明初文人严陵金冕的名下。     

陈昌远先生的历史地理学贡献

一引言陈昌远先生,河南大学教授,2017年12月11日因病不幸辞世。先生毕生从事历史地理学与先秦史研究,在历史地理学、先秦史等诸多领域里建树颇丰。在长达六十余年的学术生涯中,先生共发表论文100余篇,开拓了先秦历史地理与中原历史地理研究的诸多领域,为中国历史地理学,特别是中原历史地理研究的繁荣与发展做出了重要贡献。     

Capturing spatial patterns of rural landscapes with point cloud

Over the past few decades, rural landscapes have been the subject of increasing international cultural heritage research, and one of the most important issues under investigation at both theoretical and pragmatic levels concerns how to identify the spatial character of rural landscapes for conservation purposes. This article establishes an innovative approach adopting a cultural landscape perspective with the support of point cloud technologies to capture spatial patterns of rural landscapes. This approach was explored by reference to Tunpu villages in Guizhou, China—these being a specific kind of military fortress settlement. Cultural landscape values and landscape characters of Tunpu villages were identified using historical research and document analysis. Aerial and terrestrial photogrammetry and laser scanning systems were combined to collect and process spatial information at environmental, village, and architectural scales. Point cloud models can quantitatively represent villages' spatial patterns and inform the interpretation of their heritage significance. We conclude that the strengths of point cloud technologies could meet the requirements of rural landscape heritage documentation from a cultural landscape perspective. This mixed‐technology approach could also greatly improve the efficiency and precision of traditional rural landscape documentation, which has the potential to change methodologies applied to rural landscape research and management.     

Takeaway food,waste, and their geographies in workplaces

This article draws on empirical research to develop an understanding of the social and cultural geography of food and its waste in the workplace. Our aim is to contribute to the wider body of literature on everyday geographies of waste and wasting in relation to food, paying attention to the complex trajectories of the disposal of the waste produced by food consumption beyond the scale of the household. On that basis, the work explores the distinct ways in which the waste produced by takeaway food consumption is managed in workplaces and examines how food consumption and wasting manifest in relation to both workplace contexts and wider sociocultural and material factors in urban China. Such matters are still under‐researched there. Specifically, we identify the different conduits through which food and food packaging become waste in workplaces. Food is transformed into waste soon after it becomes surplus, whereas food packaging becomes waste through two conduits: the conventional way of binning and the alternative way of reusing.