Education for development, CD for Peace: Producing the “globally competitive” child

This paper is set against the backdrop of an increasingly pervasive discursive coupling of peace with development, and of extremism with underdevelopment. An evolving knowledge economy discourse casts education as both a key determinant of economic development, and as a crucial tool in the battle for “hearts and minds” in a global war against terrorism and extremism. Education for development, and education as anti-extremism are the twin goals of the Filipino CD for Peace - a contribution to the UN-backed International Power Users of ICT (Information Communication Technology) Symposium. In this paper, I examine the ways in which this youth Symposium feeds into and mobilizes powerful logics around the links between education and development/counterterrorism. My argument is that education for development, and one of its articulations, the CD for Peace, are undergirded by and reproduce neoliberal development logics in several overlapping respects. I illustrate the ways in which the language of connection and collaboration reproduces a distinct rationality related both to the transformative potential of (private investment in) ICT and to the production of particular kinds of subjectivities: youth as connected, informed, economically valuable global citizens beyond the reach of extremists. The Power Users project works to (re)construct teenagers as “gurus”; conflict (and poverty, and terrorism) becomes solvable through education and ICT. I show how knowledge economy discourse powerfully constructs youth as learning subjects who come to imagine their own roles and identities in specifically neoliberal ways: not only as learners, but also as advocates for this nexus of technology, education, development and peace.     

‘Unionising’ the new spaces of the new economy? Alternative labour organising in India’s IT Enabled Services-Business Process Outsourcing industry

This paper explores the lived experiences and aspirational social constructions of call centre work and employment in India’s high profile IT Enabled Services-Business Process Outsourcing (ITES-BPO) industry; the ways in which they differ from those previously documented amongst call centre workers in the Global North (specifically the UK); and the consequences of that geographical reconfiguration of offshored call centre work for the replicability in India of workplace collective bargaining strategies successfully developed in some UK call centres. These issues are analysed using new empirical evidence from a regional survey of 511 non-unionised ITES-BPO workers and 42 in-depth interviews in India’s National Capital Region. Based on this analysis, the paper then discusses the operation, outcomes and ongoing challenges faced by the newly formed ‘Union for ITES Professionals’ (UNITES Pro) in developing an alternative occupational organising model better suited to the particular needs, motivations and preferences of India’s young, mobile, call centre workers. The empirical analysis presented in the paper is located, therefore, within wider debates on the role of geographical context in shaping possibilities for organising white-collar service workers at different ends of global service chains in the new economy.     

河南省泌阳县贾楼乡陡岸村泥石流灾害及其防治

通过对当地地形地貌、暴雨特征、流域面积、地层岩性、地质构造、水文地质条件、泥石流物源的调查与分析研究,针对该泥石流具有危险度高、流量大、流速缓的特点,结合受灾对象及其分布区域与整体布局和局部治理的关系,按照防治结合、因地制宜、突出重点的原则设置了拦挡滞洪、导流防护、漫水路相结合的综合防治工程措施。拦挡工程为有效发挥工程泻洪、拦渣、调节、固床、稳坡和控制固体物质补给量,预防沟道下切及沟壑发展,减少泥石流对下游村庄危害,起到了积极作用;通过导流堤的建筑限制泥石流的流速、流向,将泥石流顺畅地通过受灾对象比较集中的区域,排入下游非危害区;漫水路为当地群众出行提供方便,又是应急通道。工程实施后综合效益明显。     

汶川震区北川县城泥石流源地特征的遥感动态分析

汶川地震导致山地斜坡积累了大量碎屑物质,在降雨作用下极易成为泥石流源地。震后的2008年9月24日一场暴雨导致北川县境内72条沟同时暴发泥石流。本文选择了汶川地震高烈度区的北川县城8条泥石流沟流域为研究区,基于遥感手段开展了震后和相继暴雨后的泥石流源地变化特征。强震后泥石流流域的重要变化是在沟谷内诱发了大量滑坡。通过开展遥感解译和野外调查,重点分析了研究区泥石流源地的滑坡活动。将512汶川地震后的2008年5月18日获取的航空图像与924暴雨后获取的2008年10月14日SPOT图像相比较,发现泥石流源地的地震滑坡面积由1537104m2增加到暴雨后的1912104m2,即汶川高烈度区一场暴雨过程新增滑坡面积达244%。根据SPOT图像解译,暴雨后泥石流沟床中的松散堆积物增大到97104m2。上述研究结果表明汶川震区在强降雨条件下发生泥石流的敏感性特别高。     

莒县国土资源局信访工作探析

莒县国土资源局干部职工通过走进基层、走进群众中间,摸排国土资源信访矛盾,查找信访苗头线索,及时制定应对方案,筑牢接访三道防线,努力将矛盾化解在萌芽状态,信访工作取得明显成效。     

沂水县杏山官庄铁矿地质特征

在汞丹山凸起中分布的基性一超基性岩体,其磁铁矿含量高者可构成矿体。利用高精度磁测、钻探等方法开展了沂水县杏山官庄铁矿的普查工作,大致查明了该矿体的规模、形态和产状,认为该矿床具有低品位、工程地质条件简单的特点,综合分析矿床成因属岩浆分异型磁铁矿矿床。     

临沭县国土资源局信息化建设的几点做法

开创国土资源管理事业新局面和带出一支高素质的干部队伍成为国土资源管理工作面前的重大课题。临沭县国土资源局以满足经济社会发展和国土资源管理需要为宗旨,以国土资源业务管理为主线,以促进高效管理、科学决策和依法行政为目标,突出现代化、精细化管理特点,走出了一条以信息化建设推进精细化管理的新思路。     

蒙阴县丁家庄地区铜矿（化）地质特征及成矿条件探讨

通过对蒙阴县丁家庄地区地层、构造、岩浆岩、地球化学特征、地球物理特征和矿体特征的论述,对该矿的成矿地质背景进行了探讨;认为丁家庄地区具有以金银铜铅锌为主的多金属综合异常,异常套合较好,矿化明显,是寻找铜及多金属矿的有利靶区,找矿前景较好。     

单县煤田张集井田地质特征与成煤环境分析

区域性张性断裂把鲁西地区分割成凸起、凹陷相间排列的构造格局,控制着该区含煤地层及煤炭资源的分布。山东省单县煤田张集井田位于青崮集凸起（潜）北侧,单县断层以南,含煤地层盖层为第四系、新近系和古近系,厚度约500～700 m,沉积基底为奥陶系,含煤地层为石炭-二叠纪月门沟群,其中山西组是该区最重要的含煤地层。石炭-二叠纪是海相到陆相的过渡时期,在古气候、古环境和古构造的共同作用下,形成了煤层;同时,该区所处的特殊构造位置为煤层的保存提供了有利条件。     

广饶县节约集约利用土地探讨

通过对广饶县土地利用状况进行分析,找出土地利用中存在的建设用地需求量增大、工业项目土地利用率低等问题,并从加强耕地保护工作,拓展发展空间、提供资源保障,加强调控、提升配置效率等方面提出了相应的对策措施。