“Anywhere South of the Canadian Border”

2018 ◽  
pp. 174-184
Author(s):  
Mary Weaks-Baxter
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
The South ◽  
Southern Border ◽  
American Society

This chapter reflects on Southern Border Formation Narratives and Border Crossing Narratives within a broader context of 21st Century wall building. Markers of Southernness are fading, yet at the same time, many of those strategies of Southern nation building are rearing their heads in American society. Bringing this chapter back around to the discussion of border building that opened the study, the book closes with a discussion of Southern Border Formation Narratives—especially those that divide races--that have been claimed by groups of people outside the South and how those narratives have blurred the line between South and not-South. Wrestling with questions about 21st Century wall building in the Age of Trump, the book closes by asserting that perhaps Malcolm X’s statement “As far as I am concerned, [the South] is anywhere south of the Canadian border” is even clearer now.

The Archaean Atâ intrusive complex (Atâ tonalite), north-east Disko Bugt, West Greenland

1999 ◽  
pp. 103-112
Author(s):  
Feiko Kalsbeek ◽  
Lilian Skjernaa
Keyword(s):  
Intrusive Complex ◽  
The South ◽  
Original Series ◽  
Early Proterozoic ◽  
West Greenland ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Southern Border ◽  
Area North ◽  
Igneous Layering

NOTE: This article was published in a former series of GEUS Bulletin. Please use the original series name when citing this article, for example: Kalsbeek, F., & Skjernaa, L. (1999). The Archaean Atâ intrusive complex (Atâ tonalite), north-east Disko Bugt, West Greenland. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 181, 103-112. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v181.5118 _______________ The 2800 Ma Atâ intrusive complex (elsewhere referred to as ‘Atâ granite’ or ‘Atâ tonalite’), which occupies an area of c. 400 km2 in the area north-east of Disko Bugt, was emplaced into grey migmatitic gneisses and supracrustal rocks. At its southern border the Atâ complex is cut by younger granites. The complex is divided by a belt of supracrustal rocks into a western, mainly tonalitic part, and an eastern part consisting mainly of granodiorite and trondhjemite. The ‘eastern complex’ is a classical pluton. It is little deformed in its central part, displaying well-preserved igneous layering and local orbicular textures. Near its intrusive contact with the overlying supracrustal rocks the rocks become foliated, with foliation parallel to the contact. The Atâ intrusive complex has escaped much of the later Archaean and early Proterozoic deformation and metamorphism that characterises the gneisses to the north and to the south; it belongs to the best-preserved Archaean tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite intrusions in Greenland.

Neighborhood

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Talen
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Neighborhood Structure ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
Local Participation ◽  
Personal Influence ◽  
Social Mix ◽  
Traditional Sense ◽  
American Society

This book is written in support of those who believe that neighborhoods should be genuinely relevant in our lives, not as casual descriptors of geographic location but as places that provide an essential context for daily life. “Neighborhood” in its traditional sense—as a localized, place-based, delimited urban area that has some level of personal influence—seems a vanished part of the urban experience. This book explores whether 21st-century neighborhoods can once again provide a sense of caring and local participation and not devolve into enclaves seeking social insularity and separation. That the localized, diverse neighborhood has often failed to materialize requires thorough exploration. While many factors leading to the decline of the traditional neighborhood—e-commerce, suburban exclusivity, internet-based social contact—seem to be beyond anyone’s control, other factors seem more a product of neglect and confusion about neighborhood definition and its place in American society. Debates about the neighborhood have involved questions about social mix, serviceability, self-containment, centeredness, and connectivity within and without. This book works through these debates and proposes their resolution. The historical and global record shows that there are durable, time-tested regularities about neighborhoods. Many places outside of the West were built with neighborhood structure in evidence—long before professionalized, Western urban planning came on the scene. This book explores the compelling case that the American neighborhood can be connected to these traditions, anchored in human nature and regularities of form, and reinstated as something relevant and empowering in 21st-century urban experience.

Abraham Maslow, Utopian Realist

2021 ◽  
pp. 002216782110076
Author(s):  
Nadine Weidman
Keyword(s):  
Linear Systems ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Shared Values ◽  
Important Lesson ◽  
Abraham Maslow ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Non Linear Systems ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Ideal

The ideal human community or “Eupsychia” envisioned by Abraham Maslow was a place inhabited by a thousand “self-actualizing people” who shared a devotion to certain higher values. These values were, for Maslow, universally human and biologically rooted, and they included truth, beauty, justice, and the ability to become the best that one was capable of becoming. In addition to imagining it, Maslow searched for Eupsychia in reality and thought he had found it in three California locations: Non-Linear Systems, a technology company; Synanon, a drug rehab center; and Esalen, a hippie retreat. Despite its dependence on shared values, for Maslow Eupsychia was not a perfect place, either in his imagination or in reality, and he realized that its inhabitants would need ways to confront strife and deal with their differences. I suggest that his utopian realism contains an important lesson for our own highly divided 21st-century American society.

scholarly journals The botanical content in the South African curriculum: A barren desert or a thriving forest?

2016 ◽  
Vol Volume 112 (Number 1/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amelia L. Abrie ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
Biology Education ◽  
Plant Biology ◽  
The South ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Assessment Policy ◽  
Policy Statements ◽  
Plant Sciences ◽  
American Society

Abstract Botanists who are interested in education have often expressed their dismay at how plant sciences are neglected in Biology curricula, despite the important roles that plants play. While botanists in several overseas countries have studied the ways in which plant sciences are represented in curricula, no research has been done on how botany is neglected in the South African curriculum. Currently, the South African curriculum is known as the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statements (CAPS) for Grades R–12. In this study, a comparison was made among the content that is generally taught in introductory plant sciences courses, the American Society of Plant Biologists’ principles for plant biology education and the relevant CAPS documents. The time spent on plant, animal or human-focused content was established and compared at both phase and grade level. It was found that while the curriculum addresses all the major concepts in the plant sciences, very little time was being allocated to exclusively plant-focused content as compared to animal and human-focused content. This neglect was particularly prevalent in the Foundation Phase. The way in which the content is structured and presented in the curriculum may in all likelihood not be sufficient to provide a strong knowledge and skills foundation in the plant sciences, nor will it encourage the development of positive values towards plants. While consensus regarding the content of a curriculum will be difficult to achieve, awareness of potential gaps in the curriculum should be brought to the attention of the botanical and educational communities.

How to Build a Positive Core to Liberate Learning: The Case of a Rural School in a Pehuenche Area (Chile)

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 76-90
Author(s):  
Arnoldo Cisternas
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Rural School ◽  
The South ◽  
Positive Core ◽  
Resources And Capabilities

Este artículo narra la historia de cómo una escuela rural al sur de Chile logró descubrir y construir un conjunto de recursos y capacidades (núcleo positivo) para liberar el aprendizaje y potenciar el desarrollo de las competencias de sus niñas y niños para vivir plenamente en el Siglo XXI. This article tells the story of how a rural school in the south of Chile discovered and built a set of resources and capabilities (positive core) to liberate learning and enhance the development of the children’s skills to live to the fullest in the 21st century.

Contribution a l'etude du Quaternaire des Idjibitene et de la bordure meridionale de l'Adrar (El Gletat, Mauritanie)

1966 ◽  
Vol S7-VIII (5) ◽  
pp. 749-759
Author(s):  
Maurice Taieb
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Quaternary Deposits ◽  
Southern Border ◽  
White Sands ◽  
Southwest Border

Abstract Two morphologically different regions are distinguished in the Quaternary of the Idjibitene mountains and along the southern border of the Adrar (El Gletat, Mauritania). Along the south and southwest border of the Adrar, deposits resulting from slope erosion are observed; to the south, dune structures and lake formations with white sands, brown sands, rare ferruginous crusts, and sand cemented by calcite (tarous) are seen. By observation of the terrain, collection of in place Acheulean industries, and study of the sands (granulometric and morphometric) it has been possible to reach an understanding of the stratigraphy. A chronology of Quaternary deposits of the Idjibitene is proposed. Close analogies with the Quaternary formations of Majabat are established.

‘Into A Mirror Darkly’

2020 ◽  
pp. 243-264
Author(s):  
Judith Rauscher
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Star Trek ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
The Political ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Trump Administration

This chapter argues that contemporary representations of border crossing on screen engage with a specifically 21st-century U.S. manifestation of what Lora Wildenthal in following Valerie Amos and Pratibha Parmar calls “imperial feminism.” It examines how the most recent product of the Star Trek franchise, the TV series Star Trek: Discovery (2017–ongoing), interrogates the legacies of U.S. imperialism and, less overtly so, of U.S. imperial feminism. The analysis focuses on the geographical as well as the metaphorical border crossings that occur in the series when the crew of the Federation starship Discovery jumps to an alternative universe which is dominated by the fascist Terran Empire. It argues that Star Trek: Discovery can be read as a feminist text that exposes the limits of two very different kinds of post-sexist futures: one, the Mirror Universe, in which the empowerment of women depends on openly imperialist and racist ideologies and another, the Prime Universe, in which these ideologies threaten to make a comeback in the context of violent conflict. By contrasting these two possible futures and by connecting them through instances of border crossing, Star Trek: Discovery not only speaks to issues of intersectional feminist critique, it also responds to the political, social, and cultural changes in the United States leading up to and associated with the Trump administration.

scholarly journals Analysis of the position and strength of westerlies and trades with implications for Agulhas leakage and South Benguela upwelling

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 847-858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nele Tim ◽  
Eduardo Zorita ◽  
Kay-Christian Emeis ◽  
Franziska U. Schwarzkopf ◽  
Arne Biastoch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Emission Scenario ◽  
Saline Water ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
The South ◽  
Trade Winds ◽  
Benguela Upwelling ◽  
Poleward Shift

Abstract. The westerlies and trade winds over the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean are important drivers of the regional oceanography around southern Africa, including features such as the Agulhas Current, the Agulhas leakage, and the Benguela upwelling. Agulhas leakage constitutes a fraction of warm and saline water transport from the Indian Ocean into the South Atlantic. The leakage is stronger during intensified westerlies. Here, we analyze the wind stress of different observational and modeled atmospheric data sets (covering the last 2 millennia, the recent decades, and the 21st century) with regard to the intensity and position of the southeasterly trades and the westerlies. The analysis reveals that variations of both wind systems go hand in hand and that a poleward shift of the westerlies and trades and an intensification of westerlies took place during the recent decades. Furthermore, upwelling in South Benguela is slightly intensified when trades are shifted poleward. Projections for strength and position of the westerlies in the 21st century depend on assumed CO2 emissions and on their effect relative to the ozone forcing. In the strongest emission scenario (RCP8.5) the simulations show a further southward displacement, whereas in the weakest emission scenario (RCP2.6) a northward shift is modeled, possibly due to the effect of ozone recovery dominating the effect of anthropogenic greenhouse forcing. We conclude that the Agulhas leakage has intensified during the last decades and is projected to increase if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced. This will have a small impact on Benguela upwelling strength and may also have consequences for water mass characteristics in the upwelling region. An increased contribution of Agulhas water to the upwelling water masses will import more preformed nutrients and oxygen into the upwelling region.

A Changing Matrix, 1942–1963

2019 ◽  
pp. 243-264
Author(s):  
Sasha D. Pack
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
The South ◽  
Franco Regime ◽  
Northwest Africa ◽  
The World ◽  
Border Conflicts ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
Authoritarian Government ◽  
Southern Border

This chapter analyzes the regional consequences of the advent of American hegemony over the course of two decades. The smuggling and banditry that long characterized the region continued, ultimately undermining the Franco regime’s efforts to manipulate its currency and build an autarkic economy. Spanish attention to the southern border did not flag, however, as the Franco regime believed a strong authoritarian government in Morocco was necessary to prevent the spread of communism into northwest Africa and eventually Europe. This consideration, rather than the maintenance of a formal colonial position, guided Spanish action in Morocco from the middle of the World War II and throughout the decolonization era. Despite border conflicts further to the south, authoritarian Spain worked to support a strong independent Moroccan monarchy under Muhammad V and Hassan II, even when a revived Riffian movement presented Spain with the opportunity to restore a neocolonial foothold there.

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