Feelings of distance and proximity: exploring the emotional geographies of men caregiving for family members with multiple chronic conditions

Care exchanges are imbued with emotion, yet few geography of caregiving researchers have explored how emotions shape such experiences. Furthermore, the emotions of caregiver men have been largely overlooked. As such, this secondary analysis aims to geographically explore the emotion discourse of a diverse group of men caregiving for family members with multiple chronic conditions. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with nineteen men caregivers in Canada, our thematic findings reveal that the men’s discourse portrayed emotions experienced relationally at three levels: Between the caregivers and their own selves, others and the wider community. It was also found that the men commonly expressed their emotional experiences using geographic notions of distance (e.g. feeling far, isolated) and proximity (e.g. feeling close, connected) and that these emotions were further complicated by the participants’ diversity or situated ‘place-in-the-world’. Overall, our findings demonstrate the importance of emotional geographies in caregiver men’s lived realities and how they move between distance and proximity in order to manage their emotions as caregivers. By considering caregiver diversity and the role emotions play in shaping caregiver experiences, programs, services and best practice can become better informed on ways to enhance the provision of more context sensitive and equitable caregiver support.     

职业道德语境下博物馆的公众服务功能

为社会公众提供优质的服务,无疑是所有现代意义博物馆的天职,其对博物馆事业健康发展的重要性是毋庸置疑的。博物馆公众服务功能的发挥需要多维度的考虑,既有诸如《博物馆条例》等制度性设计作为保障,更要有博物馆职业道德准则的自律与约束,而后者是衡量博物馆行业是否成熟的重要标准。在博物馆界,《国际博物馆协会博物馆职业道德准则》被公认为博物馆及其从业者的最低标准,比较清晰地反映了当代博物馆发展的新形势和新要求。它的相关原则在博物馆公众服务领域的引入,不仅约定了博物馆与公众的关系,弥补了博物馆法律工具的滞后性,而且帮助博物馆在利益博弈中做出正确判断。值得关注的是,中国博物馆在引入上述职业道德准则的过程中,如何制定资助和创收政策,如何解读和展示敏感文化物品,如何尊重所处或所服务的社区,如何对待非传统服务对象等,仍需要业界理性面对、深入讨论。     

A gendered media analysis of the prime ministerial ascension of Gillard and Turnbull: he’s ‘taken back the reins’ and she’s ‘a backstabbing’ murderer

In contemporary Australian politics, challenges to the Prime Ministerial role have become more common. Australia saw five Prime Ministers from 2010 to 2015 including Australia’s first ever woman Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. A stark contrast is evident in media portrayals of Gillard and her male counterparts, apparent most recently in the response to Malcolm Turnbull’s ascension to the Prime Ministership. A range of evidence has been produced, in disciplines including political science and media studies, suggesting the existence of systemic gender bias in the mainstream media in English-speaking democracies. This article is the first to compare the media portrayals of Gillard and Turnbull’s respective ascensions to leadership, which it does drawing on Judith Butler’s concept of gender performativity and using a content and discourse analysis. It contributes further evidence of gender bias in the coverage of political leaders.     

An Analysis of Native American/ Colonialist Interaction in the Southeastern United States

Historic documents are a useful tool in understanding post-contact archaeological sites. Documents can show different forms of interaction between Europeans and Native Americans and chronicle events that are invisible in the archaeological record. Using interactions between the Lower Creek and Westerners as a case study, a sample of 300 historic documents, written between 1620 and 1840, were analyzed and quantified. Results indicate that this method of quantification reflects historic events seen both in the documents and archaeological records and measures the level of interaction between Native Americans and colonialist through time.     

Landscape and warfare in Anglo‐Saxon England and the Viking campaign of 1006

This paper outlines the state of research into early medieval conflict landscapes in England and sets out a theoretical and methodological basis for the sustained and systematic investigation of battlefield toponymy and topography. The hypothesis is advanced that certain types of place were considered particularly appropriate for the performance of violent conflict throughout the period and that the social ideas that determined the choice of locale are, to some degree, recoverable through in‐depth, interdisciplinary analysis of landscapes, place names and texts. The events of 1006 and the landscape of the upper Kennet are introduced as a case study that reveals the complex interplay of royal ideology, superstition and place that were invoked in the practice of violence in late Anglo‐Saxon England. In the course of the discussion, this paper seeks to demonstrate the value of applying a similar approach to the full range of evidence for conflict landscapes in early medieval England and beyond.     

五代敦煌与中原间的画稿交往--读敦煌地理文书札记

敦煌石窟佛教艺术的发展规模和艺术水平深受中原地区佛教艺术的影响,而画样传入是影响的主要渠道,五代时敦煌佛教艺术风格程式化严重,这种情况与画稿单一不无关系。是敦煌与外部联系不畅还是其他原因,经研究,五代敦煌与中原仍存在画稿交往,程式化是当时中国佛教艺术的趋势在敦煌地区的表现。     

Assessing Poverty and Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from West Bengal

Recent interest in poverty and poverty relief has included debates that have moved beyond narrow concerns of consumption and income generation. Sen's research on entitlements and capabilities revolutionized approaches to poverty in the 1980s, and his work has itself been open to critical appraisals that have stressed empowerment and vulnerability as issues of equal importance. Some of these theoretical debates are briefly reviewed here, after which the frameworks for analysis that they suggest are applied to the study of rural poverty in West Bengal. The two tasks that the paper then sets itself are to illustrate the empirical value of broader conceptualizations of poverty, and to highlight the methodological difficulties that they raise.     

关于建设我国北方集装箱枢纽港问题的思考

集装箱运输是世界交通运输发展的趋势,在这一进程中,集装箱枢纽港与支线港的形成与分化日益明显,它是集装箱运输规模效益发展的必然结果。随着我国集装箱运量的增加,合量布局我国集装箱枢纽港和支线港的问题日益突出,目前,香港和上海作为我国南方和中部集装箱枢纽港的地位已确立,而北方形成了大连、青岛、天津三足鼎立格局,合理布局北方集装箱枢纽港是我国北方各省区社会经济发展的客观要求。文章深入分析了北方主要集装箱港口的现状和潜力,并提出了我国北方集装箱枢纽港未来的发展战略。     

An investigation of climatic change in the holocene epoch using archaeological charcoal from Swaziland, Southern Africa

A methodology is described for the analysis of Holocene charcoals excavated from a rock shelter in the Lubombo Mountains of northeast Swaziland. Scanning electron microscopy was used to compare these with modern reference woods. Of the ancient material 96·6% could be identified, in some cases at specific level. It is in such a subtropical area, where the woody flora is so rich, that assemblages of local taxa can be used in palaeoclimatic reconstructions. The changing taxa indicated by the charcoal fragments from the rock shelter clearly reflect minor shifts in Holocene climate, from moist to dry and back to moist in recent times. This is of relevance to the fluctuations in Stone Age populations in southern Africa. The wider use of such evidence to complement other palaeoenvironmental and archaeological data is advocated.