Geographers in the U.S. Government in Washington,DC, during World War II

Geographers in Washington, DC, during World War II and the agencies in which they worked are recalled through the naming of geographers engaged in wartime work during this seminal period in the development of the geography profession in the United States. The five agencies then employing the largest number of geographers were the Research and Analysis Branch of the Office of Strategic Services, the Topographic Branch of the Military Intelligence Division of the War Department, the Board of Economic Warfare (later the Foreign Economic Administration), the Board on Geographic Names, and the Office of the Geographer, Department of State. The impacts of this period on individual geographers, the professional organization of geographers, cartography, higher education, and the government are suggested.     

Geographers in the U.S. Government in Washington,DC, during World War II

Geographers in Washington, DC, during World War II and the agencies in which they worked are recalled through the naming of geographers engaged in wartime work during this seminal period in the development of the geography profession in the United States. The five agencies then employing the largest number of geographers were the Research and Analysis Branch of the Office of Strategic Services, the Topographic Branch of the Military Intelligence Division of the War Department, the Board of Economic Warfare (later the Foreign Economic Administration), the Board on Geographic Names, and the Office of the Geographer, Department of State. The impacts of this period on individual geographers, the professional organization of geographers, cartography, higher education, and the government are suggested.     

Assembling insurgent citizenship: immigrant advocacy struggles in the Washington DC metropolitan area

This article examines the political and spatial registers of struggles against exclusionary local immigration policies and for more welcoming policies in the Washington DC metropolitan area, one of the hotspots for both local anti-immigration policies and immigrant advocacy in the United States. We conceptualize immigrant advocacy not simply as an alliance, but instead as an assemblage that brings together a diverse set of differently positioned actors and nonhuman actants. The assemblage enacts a diverse politics that deploys different forms of activism, while engaging different publics (e.g., religious communities, unions, the larger public sphere in public spaces, etc.) and the state in complex ways. From acting outside the state to engaging in claims-making towards the state, immigrant advocates are making claims and actions that challenge and go beyond dominant conceptions of citizenship rights and liberal democratic politics. The spatial register is similarly diverse. The immigrant advocacy assemblage is confronted with and enacts a different politics of place in central cities and inner- and outer-ring suburbs. Contestations of exclusionary local policies, however, are not simply about a local politics of place. To the contrary, some actors and actants in the assemblage are actively involved in extra-local networking, collaborating across jurisdictional boundaries—between central cities and inner-and outer-ring suburbs within the Washington DC metropolitan area and across the United States. The complexities of these contestations call into question post-political narratives of “proper” politics, underscoring the need for an empirically grounded critical theory of democracy. This article contributes to this task by providing a geographically and historically sensitive analysis of the immigrant advocacy assemblage.     

论东亚地区期货市场的发展趋势

本文从东亚地区期货市场发展的基本特征出发，针对期货市场发展中存在的主要问题，分析了它未来的发展趋势。认为其发展将趋于集中化，主核心将日渐清晰，走彼此协同的合作发展道路。     

莆田夹漈草堂风景区客源市场分析与定位

本文首先对夹漈草堂风景区区位条件和莆田市及周边县市旅游产品的竞争分析,选择其目标市场,并确定目标市场规模,然后对其客源市场进行定位与营销策划.     

陕西关中地区工业水价调整研究

分析关中地区工业水价现状和问题,认为工业水价基本到位,工业用水价格调节空间不大,提出了价格杠杆调节关中工业用水的措施,包括:对自备井征收高额水资源费;确定合理水价结构;实施用水定额等。     

2005年全球华人地理学家大会在北京召开

The 2005 W orld Conference ofChinese Geographerswasheld on August16-17,2005 atPeking University,Beijing, China. A total of more than 1000 Chinese geographical researchers and educators from USA,the United Kingdom ,Austria,Canada,France,Ireland,Japan and C…     

攀西地区特色水果的市场定位

攀西地区具有发展各类果树得天独厚的自然资源优势。根据攀西特色水果的特点和产业发展的条件,在大区域背景下,分析了攀西地区特色水果在国内市场的竞争优势,明确了攀西地区特色水果的市场定位:大力发展早熟枇杷、石榴和晚熟芒果及深加工,以品质的优良、上市时间的优势占领高端市场,把资源优势转化为产品优势和经济优势。在此基础上,提出了攀西地区特色水果发展中需要重视的问题。     

西方地理学思想史略及其启示——克拉瓦尔《地理学思想史》评介

西方地理学思想经历了启蒙主义时代、实证主义时代、马克思主义和人本主义时代,目前又进入后现代主义时代.地理学思想的每一次转变都反映了环境和社会的格局和过程变化,应社会之需而生,并受当时整体学术思潮的影响.先后出现的各种地理学思想并非简单地后者否定前者,地理学思想的多样性正如地理本身的多样性一样,既是合理的,也是有益的.对西方地理学思想的借鉴是现代中国地理学发展的一个重要源泉,但要运用之、发展之,则必须理解之,且结合中国的国情消化之.这就需要对各种地理学思想知其然且知其所以然,需要了解其产生的社会背景和知识环境.