‘You can get away with loads because there’s no one here’: Discourses of regulation and non-regulation in English rural spaces     

Sarah Neal  Sue Walters 《Geoforum》2007,38(2):252-263

Using qualitative data from a research project investigating contemporary rural identities in England this paper examines the apparently contradictory discursive claims that are made on rural spaces. It looks in particular at the ways in which these are narrated - through the notions of rural space as a site of safety, orderliness and community on the one hand and as a site of freedom, anti-order and non-regulation on the other. While the former is a familiar, entrenched and critiqued representation of rurality, the latter narrative has a more marginal and ambivalent place in the dominant rural imaginary. Drawing on Foucault’s concepts of panopticism and heterotopia the paper demonstrates the ways in which the rural is a highly labile concept and emphasises its continual ‘unfinishedness’. However, alongside this, the paper suggests that the tensions and contradictions of the orderly and anti-orderly discourses are underpinned by a particular coherency that is driven by senses of community, belonging and self-regulation. While these do not resolve the contradictions of the discursive claims the potency of such drivers are sufficient to produce a particular inclusive spatiality which is able to accommodate and incorporate the different discursive positions and the practices that are associated with each.  相似文献   

Extensional neotectonics around the bend of the Western/Central Alps: an overview     

Christian Sue  Bastien Delacou  Jean-Daniel Champagnac  Cécile Allanic  Pierre Tricart  Martin Burkhard 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2007,96(6):1101-1129

The Western Alps’ active tectonics is characterized by ongoing widespread extension in the highest parts of the belt and transpressive/compressive tectonics along its borders. We examine these contrasting tectonic regimes using a multidisciplinary approach including seismotectonics, numerical modeling, GPS, morphotectonics, fieldwork, and brittle deformation analysis. Extension appears to be the dominant process in the present-day tectonic activity in the Western Alps, affecting its internal areas all along the arc. Shortening, in contrast, is limited to small areas located along at the outer borders of the chain. Strike-slip is observed throughout the Alpine realm and in the foreland. The stress-orientation pattern is radial for σ3 in the inner, extensional zones, and for σ1 in the outer, transcurrent/tranpressional ones. Extensional areas can be correlated with the parts of the belt with the thickest crust. Quantification of seismic strain in tectonically homogeneous areas shows that only 10–20% of the geodesy-documented deformation can be explained by the Alpine seismicity. We propose that, Alpine active tectonics are ruled by isostasy/buoyancy forces rather than the ongoing shortening along the Alpine Europe/Adria collision zone. This interpretation is corroborated by numerical modeling. The Neogene extensional structures in the Alps formed under increasingly brittle conditions. A synthesis of paleostress tensors for the internal parts of the West-Alpine Arc documents major orogen-parallel extension with a continuous change in σ3 directions from ENE–WSW in the Simplon area, to N–S in the Vanoise area and to NNW–SSE in the Briançon area. Minor orogen-perpendicular extension increases from N to S. This second signal correlates with the present-day geodynamics as revealed by focal-plane mechanisms analysis. The orogen-parallel extension could be related to the opening of the Ligurian Sea during the Early-Middle Miocene and to compression/rotation of the Adriatic indenter inducing lateral extrusion.  相似文献   

Late Neogene extension in the vicinity of the Simplon fault zone (central Alps, Switzerland)     

Grégory Grosjean  Christian Sue  Martin Burkhard 《Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae》2004,97(1):33-46

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Present-day geodynamics in the bend of the western and central Alps as constrained by earthquake analysis   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Bastien Delacou  Christian Sue  Jean-Daniel Champagnac  Martin Burkhard 《Geophysical Journal International》2004,158(2):753-774

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The relationship between trends in a condition index of the American oyster,Crassostrea virginica,and environmental parameters in three Virginia estuaries     

Herbert Austin  Dexter S. Haven  Mary Sue Moustafa 《Estuaries and Coasts》1993,16(2):362-374

Oyster Condition Index (CI) was partitioned, using a moving average filter, into seasonal cycles and long-term trends in the James, York, and Rappahannock rivers for the period 1970–1983. Seasonal cyclic fluctuations in CI could be explained partially by changes in salinity and number of days within various temperature regimes. Long-term trends in the James River show a steady increase in CI over the study period, while a concurrent decline was noted in the Rappahannock River. Superimposed on these trends is a 4 to 5 yr cycle that is in synchrony with river discharge (salinity). In the York River, CI peaked in 1975–1976 at all stations. Measured environmental parameters do not sufficiently explain the trends. We speculate that the differences in the Rappahannock and James rivers may be due to a decline in bottom oxygen as a result of gravitational circulation differences.  相似文献   

Therm odynamics of Diagenetic Fluid and Fluid／Mineral Reactions in the Eogene Xingouzui Formation,Oil Field T,Jianghan Basin     

Ni Shijun  Luo Yutian  Liu Lihua  Wang Xuben  Li Sue  Luo Yangdi  Han Dingrong 《中国地球化学学报》1994,13(3):193-201

This study focuses on the thermodynamics of diagenetic fluid from the Eogene Xingouzui Formation which represents the most important reservoir in Field Oil T in the Jianghan Basin. The measured homogenization temperatures (110–139 °C) of fluid inclusions in diagenetic minerals fell within the range of 67 –155 °C at the middle diagenetic stage. The pressure of diagenetic fluid is estimated at 10.2 –56 MPa. The activity of ions in the fluid shows a tendency of Ca²⁺ > Mg²⁺ > Na⁺ > K⁺ > Fe³⁺ > Fe²⁺ for cations, and HCO ₃ ⁻ > SO ₄ ²⁻ > F⁻ > Cl⁻ > CO ₃ ²⁻ for anions. For the gaseous facies, there is a tendency of CO₂> CO> H₂S> CH₄> H₂. According to the thermodynamic calculations, the pH and Eh of the fluid are 5.86–6.47 and −0.73–−0.64V, respectively. As a result of the interaction between such a diagenetic fluid and minerals in the sediments, feldspars were dissolved or alterated by other minerals. The clay mineral kaolinite was instable and hence was replaced by illite and chloritoid. This project was jointly funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (49133080) and the Open Laboratory of Ore Deposit Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.  相似文献   

The drying up of Britain? A national estimate of changes in seasonal river flows from 11 Regional Climate Model simulations     

Christel Prudhomme  Andy Young  Glenn Watts  Tracey Haxton  Sue Crooks  Jennifer Williamson  Helen Davies  Simon Dadson  Stuart Allen 《水文研究》2012,26(7):1115-1118

As climate change may modify the hydrological cycle significantly, understanding the impact on river flow is important because it affects long‐term water resources planning. Here, we describe a high‐resolution British assessment of changes in river flows in the 2050s under 11 different realisations of HadRM3. In winter, river flows may either increase or decrease, with a wide range of possible decreases in summer flow. These results should encourage adaptation that copes with a broad range of future hydrological conditions. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Paper publishing is here to stay     

Sue Bowler 《Astronomy& Geophysics》2000,41(2):2.33-2.33

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A new deal for lone parents? Training lone parents for work in West London     

Fiona Smith  John Barker  Emma Wainwright  Elodie Marandet  Sue Buckingham 《Area》2008,40(2):237-244

In this paper we explore the impacts of the training programmes offered to lone mothers with young children on the Government's 'New Deal for Lone Parents' in one local labour market: West London. Our research suggests that regulatory workfare policies are (re)producing and reinforcing gendered inequalities in the labour market by encouraging lone mothers to undertake training in feminised occupational areas such as childcare. We will argue that in a local economy such as West London where more childcare workers are desperately needed to enable other more highly skilled workers to take up employment opportunities, such training programmes may be doing little more than exacerbating the already gendered and class-based polarisation of the labour market – embedding low-skilled, poorly qualified lone mothers into low-paid jobs.  相似文献   

The flat primordial universe     

Sue Bowler  Editor 《Astronomy& Geophysics》2000,41(3):3.4-3.4

Tim Sumner of Imperial College summarizes the community report on fundamental physics in Britain prepared for PPARC.
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