A ‘Remote’ Town in the Indian Himalaya

2014 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
NAYANIKA MATHUR
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Indian Himalaya ◽  
Northern India ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Town ◽  
The Himalaya

AbstractThis article studies the impact of the creation of a new state in northern India through an analysis of space. The space under consideration is the town of Gopeshwar, which serves as the administrative headquarters of a district in the state of Uttarakhand. Uttarakhand was created as a distinct Himalayan state in 2000 after a prolonged period of mass agitation to this end. The movement for statehood had emphasized historical neglect coupled with exploitation of the mountains of Uttarakhand by the plains. Beginning with an analysis of the town plan, this article moves on to describe how this place is made into a space by everyday practices. In particular it concentrates on the narratives of agents of the state who express a longing to escape this ‘remote’ town. Through an interrogation of the trope of remoteness, this article argues that the creation of the new state has served, ironically enough, to accentuate the traditional characterization of the Himalaya as a backward, inferior space within India.

BEYOND BUTRINT: THE ‘MURSI SURVEY’, 2008

2016 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 269-297
Author(s):  
Richard Hodges ◽  
Erika Carr ◽  
Alessandro Sebastiani ◽  
Emanuele Vaccaro
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Short Report ◽  
Mediterranean Landscapes ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
History Of ◽  
Byzantine Period ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Town

This article provides a short report on a survey of the region to the east of the ancient city of Butrint, in south-west Albania. Centred on the modern villages of Mursi and Xarra, the field survey provides information on over 80 sites (including standing monuments). Previous surveys close to Butrint have brought to light the impact of Roman Imperial colonisation on its hinterland. This new survey confirms that the density of Imperial Roman sites extends well to the east of Butrint. As in the previous surveys, pre-Roman and post-Roman sites are remarkably scarce. As a result, taking the results of the Butrint Foundation's archaeological excavations in Butrint to show the urban history of the place from the Bronze Age to the Ottoman period, the authors challenge the central theme of urban continuity and impact upon Mediterranean landscapes posited by Horden and Purcell, inThe Corrupting Sea(2000). Instead, the hinterland of Butrint, on the evidence of this and previous field surveys, appears to have had intense engagement with the town in the Early Roman period following the creation of the Roman colony. Significant engagement with Butrint continued in Late Antiquity, but subsequently in the Byzantine period, as before the creation of the colony, the relationship between the town and its hinterland was limited and has left a modest impact upon the archaeological record.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF CONFUCIAN VALUES ON CHINA’S FOREIGN POLICY DURING THE PERIOD OF “REFORMS AND OPENNESS”

2020 ◽  
pp. 100-113
Author(s):  
Tetyana Meteliova ◽  
Vira Chghen
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
The State ◽  
Confucian Values ◽  
China’S Foreign Policy ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact

The article is devoted to identifying the role of the Confucian component in shaping China’s foreign policy during the period of “reforms and openness”. The author analyzes the Chinese “soft power” model and its differences from the classical one, the theoretical foundations of which were formulated by J. Nye, and discovers the China’s “soft power” features in foreign policy and establishes its meaningful connection with Confucian values and concepts. The article provides an overview of “soft power” interpretations in the main works of Chinese scholars, examines the reflection of Confucian “soft power” ideas in the state and party documents and decisions of the period of “reforms and openness”, shows the application of Confucian principles in the foreign policy of China. It is shown that the creation of effective Chinese “soft power” tools is becoming a part of a purposeful and long-term policy of the state. Such tools include the swift reform of leading media, TV and radio companies using modern technologies and focusing on foreign audience abroad, promoting China’s traditional and modern culture in foreign cultural markets, increasing China’s presence on the world market, spreading and promoting the Chinese language, “Education Export” and widening educational contacts, economic ties development and scientific and technical cooperation, public diplomacy development, support of the compatriots living abroad. Geopolitically, China’s soft power strategy is focused on developing relations with its close neighbors and creating a security belt around China. It has been proved that modern China seeks to proclaim itself as a new “soft power” center, the creation of which is a part of the State purposeful long-term policy. It is accompanied by the active appeal of Chinese ideologists to the country's traditional cultural heritage and basing of this new foreign policy on the conservative values of Confucianism, which is a kind of civilizational code determining all aspects of social life for China.

Study of the Characterization of Smectitic Clays from a Town in the State of Paraíba

2015 ◽  
Vol 820 ◽  
pp. 51-55
Author(s):  
I.A. Silva ◽  
I.D.S. Pereira ◽  
W.S. Cavalcanti ◽  
F.K.A. Sousa ◽  
Gelmires Araújo Neves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Specific Area ◽  
Mineralogical Composition ◽  
Exchange Capacity ◽  
The State ◽  
Chemical Behavior ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Technological Improvements ◽  
The Town

The State of Paraíba has gained prominence in the production of raw bentonite in Brazil, where a new deposit has been found in the town of Sossego-PB, besides the deposit in the town of Boa Vista-PB. With the raise in the demand, the traditional reserves are depleting after several years of exploration, and this fact may result in a higher dependence on imported clays, thus existing a great interest in the discovery and characterization of new deposits, also guaranteeing technological improvements for the region. So, the objective of this work is to characterize the new deposits of the State of Paraíba, aiming at analyzing the characteristics the prove their classification as smectitic clays. The characterization was made through the analysis of chemical composition by X-ray fluorescence (EDX), X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermogravimetric analysis and thermal differential analyses (TG and DTA), cation-exchange capacity (CEC) and specific area (SA). The results prove that the studied samples presented, in their mineralogical composition, smectite, kaolinite and quartz, besides thermal and chemical behavior typical smectitic clays.

Racialization and the State: The Housing Act of 1934 and the Creation of the Federal Housing Administration

2000 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Fox Gotham
Keyword(s):  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
The State ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Federal Housing Administration ◽  
Federal Housing ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Corporate Interests ◽  
The Impact

Research examining the impact of corporate interests, state structures, and class contradictions on the state policy formation process has been dominated by three major theoretical perspectives: business dominance theory, state-centered theory, and Marxian structuralism. I argue that these existing perspectives pay insufficient attention to race and racial discrimination as a central component in the formulation and implementation of state policy. This article uses the concept of racialization to reframe existing theories of the state to explain the origin of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) through the Housing Act of 1934. As an integral component of New Deal legislation, the FHA was created for the purpose of salvaging the home building and finance industries that had collapsed during the Great Depression. I draw on government housing reports and analyses, real estate industry documents, and congressional testimony to examine the racial dynamic of the FHA's housing policies and subsidies. The analysis demonstrates the value of employing a racialization framework to account for the racial motivations surrounding the origin of state policies, the racial basis of corporate interests, and the impact of race and racial discrimination on the creation and development of state structures.

scholarly journals Historical and evolutional analysis of the formation and development of management accounting as an independent science

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
Алексей Бобрышев ◽  
Aleksey Bobryshev ◽  
Елизавета Медведева ◽  
Elizaveta Medvedeva
Keyword(s):  
Management Accounting ◽  
The State ◽  
Evolutionary Development ◽  
Evolutionary Processes ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Evolutionary Aspects

The article describes the evolutionary aspects of the formation of man- agement accounting as an independent science, given the prerequisites that influenced the creation of management accounting in our country, highlight- ed and characterized the main stages of the development of management accounting. According to the results of the study, a number of regularities of the historical and evolutionary development of management accounting were formulated, in particular, the discrepancy between the periodization of the development of management accounting in Russia and global practice; the impact of evolutionary processes in the economy on the formation of management accounting tools; the focus of domestic accounting practices on the implementation of the fiscal functions of the state; mismatch of ob- jects and objects of management accounting, etc.

scholarly journals The impact of petroleum contamination on the ecological conditions of the Dendrological park “Oleksandriya”

2021 ◽  
pp. 317-320
Author(s):  
O. M. Shpak ◽  
R. B. Havryliuk ◽  
O. G. Kurilo ◽  
L. Y. Pleskach
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
The State ◽  
Petroleum Contamination ◽  
Industrial Park ◽  
Subsurface Contamination ◽  
Ecological Conditions ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Loaded Area

Within the territory of the Dendrological park Oleksandriya subsurface contamination with petroleum prod- ucts, the source of which is a former aircraft repair plant, has existed for a long time. The circumstances of the formation of ecological and hydrogeological situation on the territory of the dendrological park under the influence of petroleum con- tamination from the technogenic loaded area are considered in order to create the system of control of potentially negative impact on the environment and planning of remediation actions. The creation of the eco-industrial park Bila Tserkva will minimize the man-made impact on the state of the underground hydrosphere of the dendrological park.

scholarly journals Smelting Industry in the Second Republic

2017 ◽  
pp. 49-69
Author(s):  
Anna Jarosz-Nojszewska
Keyword(s):  
Steel Industry ◽  
The State ◽  
Iron And Steel Industry ◽  
Second Republic ◽  
Iron And Steel ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Available Resources

The article discusses the iron and steel industry of the Second Polish Republic. It starts with an assessment of the state of the sector at the beginning of independence, and the impact of incorporating parts of Silesia into the country, in particular in terms of available resources. While local coal was fit for processing into coke, special types of coal needed to be imported. The situation improved after the occupation of Zaolzie. Apart from prospecting works, the article explores investment processes in the sector, and the creation of conglomerates

scholarly journals Impact of Snow-Darkening by Deposition of Light-Absorbing Aerosols on Snow Cover in the Himalaya-Tibetan-Plateau and Influence on the Asian Monsoon: A Possible Mechanism for the Blanford Hypothesis 

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William K. Lau ◽  
Kyu-Myong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Snow Cover ◽  
Asian Monsoon ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Surface Solar Radiation ◽  
Gangetic Plain ◽  
Northern India ◽  
Absorbing Aerosols ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Himalaya

The impact of snow darkening by deposition of light absorbing aerosols (LAAs) on snow cover over the Himalaya-Tibetan-Plateau (HTP) and influence on the Asian monsoon are investigated using the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System Model Version 5 (GEOS-5). We find that during April-May-June, deposition of LAAs on snow leads to a reduction in surface albedo, initiating a sequence of feedback processes, starting with increased surface solar radiation, rapid snowmelt in HTP and warming of the surface and upper troposphere, followed by enhanced low-level southwesterlies and increased dust loading over the Himalayas-Indo-Gangetic Plain. The warming is amplified by increased dust aerosol heating, and subsequently amplified by latent heating from enhanced precipitation over the Himalaya foothills and northern India, via the Elevated Heat Pump (EHP) effect during June-July-August. The reduced snow cover in the HTP anchors the enhanced heating over the Tibetan Plateau and its southern slopes, in conjunction with an enhancement of the Tibetan Anticyclone, and the development of an anomalous Rossby wavetrain over East Asia, leading to weakening of the subtropical westerly jet, and northward displacement and intensification of the Mei-Yu rainbelt. Our results suggest that atmosphere-land heating by LAAs, particularly desert dust play a fundamental role in physical processes underpinning the snow-monsoon relationship proposed by Blandford more than a century ago.

scholarly journals Assessing the stability of hydraulic structures to the impact of hazardous factors of hazardous natural phenomena

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-546
Author(s):  
A.V. Rybakov ◽  
◽  
E.V. Ivanov ◽  
D.S. Sibgatulina ◽  
G.S. Alyoshkin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stability Index ◽  
The State ◽  
Earth Dam ◽  
Hydraulic Structures ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Earth Dams ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact

The article shows the procedure for determining the values of the stability index of hydraulic structures (earth dams). An approach to the creation of an engineering methodology for carrying out operational calculations for predicting the state of an earth dam under the influence of known characteristics of damaging factors of rapidly developing dangerous natural phenomena and man-made processes is presented. One of the directions of application of the proposed approach is shown — the definition of rational parameters for the protection of hydraulic structures and the development of a plan of measures to achieve them.

scholarly journals International legislation as an important instrument in the creation of geoparks in Ukraine

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-227
Author(s):  
Oleh V. Yaholnyk
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Geological Heritage ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Natural Heritage ◽  
Natural Objects ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Levels

The article considers international legislation as an instrument in the process of establishment of Geoparks in Ukraine. Because the notion “geopark” is relatively new to Europe, and even newer to Ukraine, it is necessary to study the legal aspects of this issue. It was determined that the establishment of geoparks in Ukraine is hindered by numerous problems, particularly: absence of target-legislation, unproductive dialogue with authorities, from local to national and difficult economic conditions. We found that solving the problems should start from the assessment of state and international normative-regulatory acts and characterization of the impact of the latter in the legal field of Ukraine. We found that domestic scientific works do not have many references to the international legislation. Therefore, the necessity arises of developing an international “legal map” in the issue of protection of geoheritage. For this purpose, we analyzed 14,335 international documents relevant for the territory of Ukraine with their respect to their relationship to the protection of nature, natural and cultural heritage, out of which 79 were analyzed in detail. We determined the peculiarities, according to which the international legal acts can be identified and can characterize them by 3 groups: Treaties between states on collaboration; Treaties between states on particular natural objects; important international documents. We determined that 48 of them have different levels of importance in the issue of establishment of Geoparks. We determined that many international documents recommend, encourage, obligate the authorities to support protection of nature, the natural heritage, including geoheritage. With active use of such documents, it is possible to significantly advance in solving the abovementioned problems of establishing Geoparks. Most characterized normative-regulatory acts which are directly or indirectly related to natural objects and territories that could be included in future Geoparks, making them an important tool in preservation of geoheritage. The presented results correspond to all the recent changes in the legislation as at the beginning of 2019. The results can be used by scientists in the process of establishment of real Geoparks in Ukraine, as well for preservation of geological heritage in general.

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