Common sensing: Human-black bear cohabitation practices in Colorado

Current wildlife management practices in western societies must increasingly deal with human-wildlife conflicts. In their attempt to spatially regulate humans and wild animals, the common focus is on containment, endeavouring to facilitate the removal and exclusion of wild animals. Recently, however, ideas of cohabitation have emerged in wildlife management practices, suggesting that humans and wild animals share the same space. We argue that aiming at cohabitation requires that wildlife management be approached as an interactive and dynamic endeavour involving humans, wild animals and landscape. Accordingly, wildlife management should no longer focus on the sole agency of humans; it must also examine the agency of animals and the influence of the landscape in which the interactions takes place. To understand these interactions and dynamics we introduce the concept of multi-sensory writing and reading and apply this to an in-depth study of black bear management on the Colorado Front Range, U.S.A. We analyse our results focussing on the spatial interactions between human, black bear and landscape. We conclude suggesting that cohabitation as a goal of wildlife management requires a radical decentralization and spatialization where humans, wild animals, and the landscape shape interactions co-creatively.     

精彩纷呈 各树一帜——鲁迅、赵树理、高晓声农村题材作品特征评析

鲁迅、赵树理和高晓声都是农村题材创作的代表,然而三大作家的创作都带有明显的时代特点。深入文本,结合作家生活的时代背景和作家的人生经历探究三大作家创作特质及其创作风格的形成,可以让我们更明确地看到时代大环境和个体经历对文学创作的影响。     

重视科技论文摘要的编写提高期刊的办刊质量

针对目前气象科技论文提要撰写中经常出现的一些问题,对科技信息传播方面的影响,重申提要编写的重要性,并提出:(1)应举办面向有关摘要编写的论文作者、编辑的培训班或学习班。(2)编辑工作者应加强各种知识的学习和积累,严把英文摘要关(3)广泛招揽一些学术水平高,各方面素质较高的人才加入到编辑行列中来(4)编辑部应经常开展一些工作研讨,就英文摘要中经常发现的问题进行探讨,不断提高中英文摘要的编写水平等改进摘要编写,提高期刊办刊质量的措施和建议。     

地质科技论文写作规范化的几个问题

地质科技论文中的各类地质术语、专用符号、计量单位、测试数据、标点符号需要规范地使用和表达,参考文献著录须准确地标注。如果对上述地质信息要素使用不当或表达失范,不仅使读者难以准确地理解文章的原意,还会造成地质科学术语和概念表达的混乱,从而影响稿件的整体质量,影响地质科技信息的交流和传播。文章对论文写作中常见的几个规范化问题进行了阐述,以利于地质人员科技论文写作技能的提高。     

数字宿迁建设总体框架编制研究

研究了宿迁市数字宿迁建设的总体框架,阐述了数字宿迁建设的特点与要求,论述了数字宿迁的架构,从政策法规、数据库建设、技术支撑和应用表现四个方面详细阐述了数字宿迁建设的关键内容。     

Writing difference differently

This paper investigates the writing of situated knowledge and explores the possibilities of enacting difference by writing differently. We present a selection of research stories in which carrier bags, sounds, baskets, gardens and potatoes are interpreted less as objects of research or metaphors to aid in analysing phenomena, than as mediators of the stories. Our stories emphasise the ontological politics of engaging with and representing the relational, the messy, the spontaneous, the unpredictable, the non‐human and bodily experiences. These stories demonstrate how writing is performative and how it is integral to the production of knowledge.     

论20世纪90年代中国诗歌创作姿态

20世纪 90年代中国诗歌创作在离经叛道中呈现出非线性的、多元多向发展的、自由散漫的生存状态。一是加强个人化写作 :诗人们以现实生活和个体生命的原生状态为切入点 ,以口语入诗 ;二是凸现逃亡主题 :诗人们进入非主流的、反审美的、对大写的“人”的精神逃逸性写作 ;三是注重心灵剖析 ;诗人们勇敢面对不完美的现实 ,更重视内省 ,从而达到精神的超越     

Savage Jaguars,King Cats,and Ghostly Tigres: Affective Logics and Predatory Natures in Twentieth-Century American Nature Writing

The emerging subfield of historical animal geography provides an opportunity to trace the origins and evolutions of how affective logics framing the conservation of an animal species are co-constituted through embodied interaction between humans and nonhumans, revealing the dynamic ways in which charismatic species are imagined into and out of positions of priority within conservation agendas. This article takes an interest in the shifting perception of predatory species in the environmental conservation movement in the United States, looking to the appearance of jaguars (Panthera onca) in the work of prominent U.S. nature writers Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest Thompson Seton, and Aldo Leopold in the early- to mid-twentieth century. These human–jaguar entanglements reveal a period marked by dynamic changes in the ways in which interspecies encounters were constituted in place; a layering on of affective logics that reveal the complicated origins, practices, and potentialities at the outset of the modern conservation movement. The resulting narratives and images of predatory nature were taken up into dynamic assemblages of jaguar-ness, influencing the formation of new logics that framed public perceptions of predatory natures and provoking a reconsideration of long-held attitudes and policies toward these species.     

Grading Book Review Assignments

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Geographers have a tradition of using novels in the classroom. Given our busy schedules, however, and the need for students to write, instructors may find that it takes too much time to grade writing assignments. This paper provides an efficient method of grading book review assignments. It requires students to use headings and subheadings, which may be internalized as a future organizational scheme for writing assignments. Experience has shown this method to be “grader-friendly” for instructors, making it easier to comment and score.     

BOOK REVIEW

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Children Map the WorldSelections from the Barbara Petchenik Children's World Map Competition Jacqueline M. Anderson, Jeet Atwal, Patrick Wiegand, and Alberta Auringer Wood editors. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press, 2005. 128 pages ISBN: 1-58948-125-9 $24.95

World Atlas of Natural Hazards Bill McGuire, Paul Burton, Christopher Kilburn, and Oliver Willetts Oxford University Press Inc./Arnold Publishers. 2004. 128 pages ISBN 03407640582004 $295.00