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Joy K. Adams 《GeoJournal》2010,75(3):303-314
Sustained migration of Hispanics and Anglos into Texas’s historical “German belt” has contributed to a significant decline
in the proportion of Central Texans claiming German ancestry. Under these circumstances, ethnic festivals are playing an increasingly
important role in maintaining the German-American identity of many of the region’s people and places. Organizers and participants
frequently tout the events’ inclusiveness, claiming that anyone can temporarily cross ethnic boundaries to become “German
for a day” within the festival context. However, participant observation and surveys of festival participants in three historically
German-American communities (Brenham, Fredericksburg, and New Braunfels) suggest that ethnic-themed events mirror processes
of racialization that have persisted in the region for more than 150 years. In this paper, I argue that, in helping to construct
“German” identities for the region’s people and places, German-themed events in Central Texas are implicitly involved in the
construction of “non-German” and, by extension “non-white,” ethnic identities. Further, event participation patterns reflect
a long-standing black-white racial dichotomy in the region. Within this ethnoracial hierarchy, Hispanics have long occupied
a liminal status that is reflected by their involvement in the production and consumption of German-themed events. I contend
that Hispanics’ participation in German heritage festivals reflects not only a historical process of “whitening” their racial
status but their increasing presence and power within the region. 相似文献
2.
Matthew G. Hannah 《GeoJournal》2010,75(4):397-406
Ewald’s recent genealogy of constructions of risk in Western societies argues that the 1980s saw an important paradigm shift
to the “precautionary principle”. Critical scholars have taken up this idea as a lens through which to interpret the Bush
administration’s ‘war on terror’. I argue that 11 September 2001 actually brought about qualitative changes to this paradigm.
Bush’s pre-emptive doctrine is driven, and perhaps even more importantly, continually justified to the US population, by what
might be called the “trans-precautionary principle”, a move from “decisionism” to “actionism”, and a new radicalization of
the way fear is produced and managed. Donald Rumsfeld’s famous typology of different articulations of knowledge and ignorance
offers an excellent analytical window onto the connections between ignorance, fear and geopolitical action in this new regime.
In the latter part of the essay, his four modes of knowledge/ignorance are arrayed, for heuristic purposes, in an abstract
spatial grid organized along dimensions of the specificity and possession of knowledge. This allows a ‘mapping’ of some of
the Bush administration’s more controversial strategies in the ‘war on terror’, as a set of different pathways through Rumsfeld
Space. 相似文献
3.
Alexander B. Murphy 《GeoJournal》2006,66(4):285-293
Relations between the United States and Europe have been quite volatile over the past five years. This volatility is not just a product of disagreements over the American invasion of Iraq. It is tied to a set of fundamental challenges to the geopolitical arrangements and understandings that emerged in the wake of World War II. Three challenges were of particular importance: the fall of the Iron Curtain, the Balkan crisis of the 1990s, and the election of a presidential administration in Washington, DC, which adopted a neoconservative geopolitical agenda. The global impacts of this agenda were heightened by the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States of America. The U.S. response exposed fundamental differences between the U.S. and Europe on the use of international military forces in the “war on terrorism,” the role of NATO, and the U.S. government’s effort to force “regime change” in Iraq. Europe’s reaction to U.S. policy has not been uniform, however. At the governmental level, fundamental differences have emerged among European countries. The United States has sought to highlight those differences, suggesting that the U.S. favors “disaggregation” in Europe, even as it trumpets the virtues of a uniform response to the threat of terrorism. The future trajectory of U.S.-European relations is likely to be shaped by intersections between Europe’s struggles with integration and the U.S.’s evolving global geopolitical posture, which could move in either a hegemonic or a globalist direction. 相似文献
4.
Ethnic Enclave Reconfiguration: A ‘new’ Chinatown in the Making 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Years of past research on traditional Chinatowns were based on the assumption that Chinatown is an ethnic enclave for a single
ethnic minority, i.e. the Chinese. In recent years, one could observe significant changes over Chinatowns in terms of more
Vietnamese presence. Yet, the transition process as an object of study is much under-represented in the literature on ethnic
enclaves. Looking at ethnic business transition from Hong Kong to Vietnamese in Toronto’s Chinatown West, this paper argues
strongly that ‘multiple ethnicity’ can coexist in an enclave. For this case study, the Chinatown is being reconfigured into a ‘new’ Chinatown. Drawing upon data from the authors’ Vietnamese Business Database that covers information between
1983 and 2003, we present both spatial and temporal analyses that offer insights into how the Vietnamese businesses grow through
time. Our findings support the existence of a Vietnamization process in Toronto Chinatown West. However, its evolution is
still in an infant stage. In some aspects, the incoming Vietnamese businesses display similarities with the remaining Hong
Kong businesses. In sum, a total reconfiguration of Chinatown West in form and business nature is still unaccomplished. The
conventional enclave concept which bases on the singularity of ethnic group has to be abandoned in view of rising occurrence
of ethnic transition, particularly in this globalizing era. 相似文献
5.
There is growing recognition among political ecologists of the need to examine shifting natural resource regimes and their
effects on livelihoods in “First World” places. This emerging literature has variously examined the “Third World within,”
the persistence of “subsistence activities” in the “First World,” and the “reterritorialization” of land tenure and access.
However, much of this work has tended to focus on traditional extractive industries in the American West, indigenous claims
to lands and resources in the U.S. and Canada, and non-timber resources on public lands. In contrast, we use a case study
of African-American sweetgrass basket-makers, associated with the Gullah culture, in South Carolina’s lowcountry to examine
the ways in which ongoing amenity-driven residential development is fundamentally reshaping resource access on private lands.
Historically, basket-makers harvested the materials (primarily sweetgrass or Mulenbergia filipes) needed for their culturally
important art form from accessible, rural, and privately held tracts of land in close proximity to their communities, but
development pressures and changes in resident interpretation of property rights has decreased access to basket-making resources.
The case is particularly illuminating, as it examines the emergence of ‘conservation subdivisions’ in the region and raises
important questions about what “rural uses” and users are being conserved through responses to exurban, suburban, and urban
development in formerly rural areas. 相似文献
6.
As a first approximation, the Earth is a sphere; as a second approximation, it may be considered an ellipsoid of revolution.
The deviations of the actual Earth’s gravity field from the ellipsoidal “normal” field are so small that they can be understood
to be linear. The splitting of the Earth’s gravity field into a “normal” and a remaining small “disturbing” field considerably
simplifies the problem of its determination. Under the assumption of an ellipsoidal Earth model, high observational accuracy
is achievable only if the deviation (deflection of the vertical) of the physical plumb line, to which measurements refer,
from the ellipsoidal normal is not ignored. Hence, the determination of the disturbing potential from known deflections of
the vertical is a central problem of physical geodesy. In this paper, we propose a new, well-promising method for modelling
the disturbing potential locally from the deflections of the vertical. Essential tools are integral formulae on the sphere
based on Green’s function with respect to the Beltrami operator. The determination of the disturbing potential from deflections
of the vertical is formulated as a multiscale procedure involving scale-dependent regularized versions of the surface gradient
of the Green function. The modelling process is based on a multiscale framework by use of locally supported surface curl-free
vector wavelets.
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7.
Kalliopi Sapountzaki 《Natural Hazards》2012,60(3):1267-1285
The article decodes and analyzes the standard functions of social and social-ecological systems when they manage their own
vulnerability. The author acknowledges these as “Resilience functions” or “Operational Resilience”. For this purpose, she
follows a “Vulnerability Actor” (V Actor)-based approach. V Actor is considered as a system faced with multiple hazards, carrying
various vulnerability facets (physical, economic, institutional, etc.) and attempting to transform, transfer, rearrange them
in time and space so as to achieve Actor’s own persistence. It is these processes of vulnerability re-arrangement that are
identified by the author as Resilience functions and which change the vulnerability not only of the V Actor performing resilience
but also others’. Performance of Resilience functions presupposes attraction and employment of resources by the Actor, not
only own, current and inherent but also other resources to be found in spatial and temporal scales external to or beyond the
Actor but which the Actor can appeal to. This attraction most probably leads to deprivation of others of the necessary resources
for their persistence, recovery, etc. When somebody’ vulnerability is reduced sometimes somewhere, it is most probable that
others elsewhere are encumbered with extra vulnerability, currently or in the future. Hence, what resilience can only do is
vulnerability re-arrangement, re-setting and management. The proposed systemic approach is documented on current state of
art regarding interactions between vulnerability and resilience to hazards and on empirical evidence from the international
experience of responses to natural hazards. 相似文献
8.
In this work some examples of “twisting” of the Earth in the geologic past are given: displacement of the northern parts of
the global submeridional structures to the west relative to their southern parts; the rotation of the “geodynamic pair” of
Siberia-Laurentia in the Proterozoic; sinistral displacement of the Northern Hemisphere relative to the Southern Hemisphere
after the collapse of the last Pangaea; the equatorial rotation of the continental plates; oblique orientation of the global
network of planetary fracturing; an inclination of the axis of submeridional compression; sinistral “beveling”; the dextral
“twisting” of Venus. All these examples confirm the idea of possible sinistral “twisting” of the Earth that has been proposed
by many authors. The cause of such “twisting” is unclear, although it is likely connected with the Earth’s rotation around
its axis. Some of these examples show that many paleomagnetic reconstructions can be usefully discussed in a tectonophysical
aspect. Moreover, in connection with this data, the development of a new scientific field, called “paleomagnetic tectonophysics”, is possible. 相似文献
9.
The lack of adequate water supply and sanitation services is a major issue related to sustainable development in many parts
of the developing world. New strategic planning approaches which directly address users’ needs and demand—often referred to
as demand-responsive, community-based or household-centred approaches—are regarded as a crucial step towards improving the
situation. This paper investigates household needs and demand for improved water supply and sanitation services in peri-urban,
low-income settlements, known as “ger areas”, in the city of Darkhan, Mongolia. The paper is based largely on a household
survey conducted in a selected ger area subdistrict in Darkhan. The results reveal a complex picture. Even if the existing
situation can be regarded as largely “improved” in terms of the definitions stipulated by the Joint Monitoring Programme for
water supply and sanitation, it is shown that there is a need for action nonetheless. The paper also argues that the household
survey is a useful method for assessing users’ needs and demand and for meeting the requirements of demand-responsive sanitation
planning approaches. 相似文献
10.
Joaquín A. Cortés 《Mathematical Geosciences》2009,41(7):817-828
The current theoretical development of the analysis of compositional data in the article by Aitchison and Egozcue neglects
the use of Harker’s variation diagrams and other similar plots as “meaningless” or “useless” on compositional data. In this
work, it is shown that variation diagrams essentially are not a correlation tool but a graphical representation of the mass
actions and mass balances principles in the context of a given geological system, and, when they are used correctly, they
provide vital information for the igneous petrologist. The qualitative validity of the “spurious trends” in these diagrams
is also shown, when they are interpreted in their proper geological framework. The example previously used by Rollinson to
test the usefulness of the log-ratio transformation in the Aitchison and Egozcue article is revisited here in order to fully
illustrate the proper use of this tool. 相似文献
11.
A. M. Nikanorov 《Doklady Earth Sciences》2009,429(2):1559-1561
This report gives the conceptual approaches to the development of the theory of the formation of natural water composition
in view of the primary properties of aquatic ecosystems: the “principle of uncertainty” in the estimation of the conditions,
the “continuity” of the changes proceeding, and the “plurality” of water’s natural structure and components (biotic and abiotic),
as well as their interaction processes. The importance and features of each of these basical criteria for characterizing the
conditions of an aquatic ecosystems are substantiated in theory. 相似文献
12.
During the late Early Cretaceous, the shallow-water domains of the western Tethys are characterized by the widespread deposition
of Urgonian-type carbonates rich in rudists, corals and other oligotrophic, shallow-marine organisms. In the Helvetic Alps,
the Urgonian occurrences have been dated by ammonite biostratigraphy as Late Barremian and Early Aptian. For the more proximal
occurrences in the western Swiss Jura, a recent age model based on bio-, chemo- and sequence stratigraphy has been proposed,
which allows for an improved correlation with the Helvetic counterparts. In order to corroborate the recently proposed age
model for the Jura, a set of well-preserved rhynchonellids collected from five different lithostratigraphical formations and
members (“Marnes bleues d’Hauterive”, “Marnes d’Uttins”, basal marly layers within the “Urgonien Jaune”, “Marnes de la Russille”,
“Urgonien Blanc”) has been analysed for its strontium–isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr). In addition, K–Ar dating was performed on well-preserved glauconite grains from two different levels (“Marnes d’Uttins”
and a basal layer within the “Urgonien Jaune”). The correlation of the Sr–isotope data set with a belemnite-based, ammonite-calibrated
reference curve provides an age model which is coherent with recently published ages based on calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy
and the correlation of trends in chemo- and sequence stratigraphy. K–Ar dating on well-preserved glauconite grains from the
“Marnes d’Uttins” and lowermost part of the “Urgonien Jaune” delivered ages of 127.5 ± 2.3 and 130.7 ± 2.6 Ma, respectively.
Whereas the age of the glauconitic level near the base of the “Urgonien Jaune” is chronostratigraphically meaningful, the
K–Ar age of the “Marnes d’Uttins” appears too young relative to the presently used time scale. This may be related to rejuvenation
of the K–Ar chronometer due to post-depositional Ar loss, most likely during hardground formation. The ages obtained here
confirm the Late Barremian age for the onset of the Urgonian platform, an age which is conform with ages obtained in the Helvetic
Alps and elsewhere along the northern Tethyan margin. 相似文献
13.
The properties of giant radio sources (GRS’s) are considered with the aim of identifying conditions contributing to their
formation, using data from the literature, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), and the APM catalog. The optical and radio
properties of normal-size radio sources, (≤1 Mpc), are compared. The following conclusions are reached. (1) The fraction of
objects with broad emission lines among GRS’s with high-excitation spectra is the same as for isotropic samples of radio sources;
in the framework of the “unified scheme,” this testifies to an isotropic distribution of angles between the radio jets of
GRS’s and the line of sight, i.e., GRS’s do not represent a population of objects whose radio jets are in the plane of the
sky. (2) Giant radio sources do not differ from normal radio sources in the distributions of various asymmetry parameters
for their extended radio components; in the unified scheme, the similarity of the asymmetry distributions for giant radio
galaxies and giant radio quasars suggests that the origin of the asymmetry of their extended radio components is inhomogeneity
of the external conditions. (3) The observed powers of the radio jets of giant and normal radio sources do not differ, making
it unlikely that the large sizes of the GRS’s are due to this factor. (4) The richness and character of the environments of
giant and normal radio sources do not differ: giant host galaxies are found in both isolated fields and in clusters of up
to Abell class 1 in richness. This argues against the idea that a low density of the environment is the only origin of GRS’s.
(5) The relatively large fraction of radio sources with two pairs of extended radio components (so-called double-double radio
sources) among GRS’s testifies that the lifetimes of GRS’s are approximately an order of magnitude longer than those of normal
radio sources.Given the equal spatial densities of nearby (z < 0.1) GRS’s and FR II radio sources with powers P
1.4 MHz > 1025 W/Hz, this indicates that ∼10% of FR II radio sources have lifetimes an order of magnitude longer, and evolve into GRS’s.
(6) The small (∼0.1) ratio of the number of known GRS’s to the number of normal FR II radio sources, together with the observed
spatial density of GRS’s at z ∼ 0.6, which is an order of magnitude lower than the predicted value, suggests that a considerable number of GRS’s were missed
by surveys at z > 0.1, possibly due to observational selection effects because of their relatively low radio powers and radio surface brightnesses.
(7) The absence of “double-double” giant quasars suggests that these objects have a shorter activity time scale than GRS’s.
In an evolutionary scenario that is an alternative to the unified scheme uniting “radio loud” quasars and radio galaxies,
radio quasars evolve with time into radio galaxies, and the observed relative number of radio quasars among the GRS’s (∼10%)
can be interpreted as reflecting the existence of a long-lived population of “radio loud” quasars comprising ∼10% of all radio
quasars, with such a population of long-lived radio quasars being the parent population for giant radio galaxies. 相似文献
14.
Government policies intended to reduce flood losses can increase the potential for catastrophe by stimulating development
inside the floodplain, a phenomenon referred to as the “safe development paradox.” New Urbanist design has the potential to
both exacerbate and alleviate flood risks. Because they are built at relatively high densities, New Urbanist developments
can exacerbate risk by placing more people and property in harm’s way. Conversely, New Urbanist design features theoretically
better enable designers of New Urbanist developments to avoid floodplain portions of project sites than designers of conventional
subdivisions. Using a sample of New Urbanist developments in the US that contain floodplain portions within their boundaries,
this paper focuses on whether and why these developments locate built structures inside the floodplain. The authors find that
roughly 30% of the developments locate structures inside the floodplain, and that the odds of locating structures inside the
floodplain increase with the proportion of the project site located inside the floodplain and decrease with the presence of
government policies that prohibit residential development in the floodplain. The authors also identify confusion among government
planners regarding the distinction between pre and postconstruction floodplain boundaries. A subset of New Urbanist developments
is found to have built structures located outside the postconstruction floodplain boundary, but inside the preconstruction
floodplain boundary. This finding is cited as an example of the “safe development paradox” in action. The authors recommend
changes in New Urbanist design codes and local government floodplain management to increasingly direct new development away
from the floodplain. 相似文献
15.
Joseph Palis 《GeoJournal》2009,74(3):227-234
My paper aims to ask what space characterizes the various constructs of orientalism and othering in the early short films
of Thomas Edison. Using Lefebvre’s concept that social space “subsumes things produced, and encompasses their interrelationships
in their coexistence and simultaneity” in these early shorts, I will look at three Biograph actualities found at the Library
of Congress-American Memory page to show how space is manifested and negotiated onscreen. I will examine Edison’s “Filipinos
Retreat From Trenches”, “Capture of Trenches at Candaba” and “U.S. Troops and Red Cross in the Trenches Before Caloocan” which
were all released in 1899. These reenacted short films were shot during the tumultuous years of the Spanish-American War.
In the Biograph shorts, the privileged positions of both Spanish and American forces in relation to the annexation of a foreign
land in world history books is indicative of the tendency to de-emphasize the contribution of the native population in the
war. Manthia Diawara has said that “space is related to power and powerlessness, insofar as those who occupy the center of
the screen are usually more powerful than those in the background or completely absent from the screen.” The spatial hierarchies
and spatially situated images in Edison’s short films show how historically configured power relations encrypted oppression
to its external “others” through the cinematic apparatus.
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This paper juxtaposes the actual areas of settlement and settlement activities of Chinese migrants in Brisbane’s southern
suburbs since the mid-1980s, with the concomitant, ‘government planned’ construction of the city’s Chinatown as an ‘exotic,’
‘ethnic,’ and ‘cosmopolitan’ landmark. It argues that while the latter, as with Chinatowns in other Australian and world cities,
has continued to appropriate the symbols of so-called ‘Chineseness’ to sell the locale to non-Chinese, the former, in recalling
the notion of ‘ethnoburbia,’ significantly evinces actual Chinese migrants’ agency and role in place-making. In the process,
these migrants have not only established a local, ethnically meaningful environment, but also challenged the still current
metonymic Western image of the Chinese as preferring life in ‘ethnic’ urban enclaves that had its origin from early Chinese
settlement and fundamentally detached from the lives of other ethnic groups per se. Indeed greater recognition and comprehension of such locales may go a long way to illustrate that many Chinese living in
Australia today do not fit the territorial, place-based identity often associated with them in the imagination of mainstream
society. 相似文献
17.
Shumei XU Shikui ZHAI Aibin ZHANG Huaijing ZHANG Haijian LU 《Frontiers of Earth Science》2008,2(1):10-16
The grain size and element (including redox sensitive elements and terrigenous elements) concentration of surface sediments
from the Changjiang Estuary hypoxia zone and its adjacent sea area were measured in this research. Based on the obtained data,
the hypoxic environment’s influence on the distribution of elements in surface sediments was further studied. We believe that
the “redox environment effect” greatly influences the distribution of the RSE, which reveals the “patchy enrichment pattern”
offshore in the hypoxia zone, while the distribution of the terrigenous elements which shows the “stripped enrichment pattern”
near shore is mainly affected by “granularity effects”. Due to the existence of the hypoxia zone of the Changjiang Estuary,
the distribution of the RSE such as Mo, Cd and V in the study area exhibits the characteristics of “redox environment effects”.
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Translated from Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, 2007, 27(3):1–8 [译自: 海洋地质与第四纪地质] 相似文献
18.
The impact of atmospheric circulation fluctuations (Vangengeim’s classification) on the zoobenthos dynamics in the Sea of
Azov was studied. The “western” circulation processes lead to zoobenthos biomass decrease, and the opposite pattern was observed
when “eastern” circulation processes prevail. A quasiperiodicity with 3–7 to 10–15 year cycles is revealed for the zoobenthos
biomass dynamics. These changes are closely connected with the climatically induced increase of the zoobenthos biomass in
the Sea of Azov. 相似文献
19.
Gated communities of the Moscow green belt: newly segregated landscapes and the suburban Russian environment 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
The transition from the Soviet to the post-Soviet period in and near Moscow manifested itself in increasing production of
segregated space both in the urban core and suburban areas outside of the beltway to accommodate the preferences of the new
Russian business and governmental elite. This paper focuses on the residential single-family housing inside old and new settlements,
which are frequently gated. Approximately 260 of such suburban communities have been developed within 30 km of the beltway
during the past few years, of which a majority have some form of exclusion mechanism in place, typically tall solid fences,
gates, closed-circuit video surveillance and guarded entry checkpoints. The difference in exclusivity varies from the most
exclusive older communities inside Moscow Serebryany Bor enclave and Rublevskoe highway mansions to less exclusive new developments
along Novorizkhskoe and Dmitrovskoe highways. Despite high rates of construction, based on sociological surveys in 2003, only
about 11% of Russia’s upper class claimed to live in such new “cottages,” with the rest owning condos and luxury apartments
in the inner city or older detached homes in villages and small towns. Therefore, not all the needs have been accommodated
and more development is certain to take place. The environmental impact of such developments is profound. Based on preliminary
LANDSAT image analysis, almost 22% of suburban “green belt” forested land within 30 km zone has been converted to new construction
from 1991 to 2001. New construction is now focusing on the remaining fragments of natural vegetation, which will likely lower
air quality and water quality available for the city. Ironically, the new developments advertise themselves as “clean and
green” with massive investments in unnatural landscaping (seeded lawns, exotic shrubs, river and lake shore “improvements”).
This investment highlights the well-known paradox of development in which people move out of town to live near nature, while
destroying the wild nature they come to enjoy.
“We left city for the weekend
It was raining, saw no stars
There were fences everywhere
Our chiefs behind the bars.”
Gennady Shpalikov 相似文献
20.
Mufide Banar Barbaros Murat Kose Aysun Ozkan Ilgın Poyraz Acar 《Environmental Geology》2009,58(5):1143-1144
This rebuttal was written in response to the rebuttal of the paper “choosing a municipal landfill site by analytic network
process” published in 2007 by M. Sagir. This study was conducted as an application for the landfill site selection in the
environmental engineering discipline. Since ANP was only the “instrument” used in our study, the details of this existing
methodology were referenced, and not presented, due to page limitations and to match the content of the journal. Responses
to M. Sagir’s comments are discussed within the body of this rebuttal. 相似文献