沙中精魂

从空中俯瞰，刻画在沙漠上的线条仿佛长时间暴露在阳光下的画作，轮廓已模糊难辨。飞行员在秘鲁南部纳斯卡镇以北的荒漠高原上空急转盘旋，我只能依稀辨出地面上一系列描绘精美的图形。     

德国社会地理学的发展

社会地理学主要研究由人类集团和社会的基本存在功能所引起的空间组织和空间结构的过程。它是现代人文地理的重要分支,为广大学者所重视。社会地理学在德国人文地理学占有主要地位,代表其发展潮流。需要指出的是,这里的“德国”是指欧洲德语地区的全部,但不包括民主德国,因为那里的人文地理学,在战后走过的是完全不同的历程。一、德国社会地理学的形成     

美国蒙特苏马流域的史前城市居民

关于城市起源和城市生活的发展状况的研究,通常都是以地区为中心的。史前城市一般地出现于中近东、中美洲、秘鲁和中国,这几乎成了一条经验。研究工作一般集中在城市将要与农村开始分离的阶段,可是往往事与愿违,因为可以用来表明城市情况的重要条件是非常贫乏的。但是,美洲西南部的贝勃罗印第安人文明的历史正好给我们提供了了解这方面情况的机会。     

International migration and the politics of admission and exclusion in postwar Europe

"Although nation-states assume territorial, political and cultural boundedness, their boundaries are not uniform barriers, but rather are characterized by varying degrees of openness and closure to international migrants. The manipulation of the permeability of these boundaries constitutes the politics of admission and exclusion....This paper provides a discussion of the complex economic, political and social forces impinging on the politics of admission and exclusion and an analysis of how these forces have been operating in a particular historical and geographical context to determine the admission of international migrants into national territory and community....There are signs that the integration of nation-states into regional blocs such as the EC is shifting the politics of admission and exclusion practised by the dominant member countries to the supra-national scale."