The State of Canadian Studies at the Year 2000: Some Observations

2000 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.H.B. Symons
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Canadian Studies ◽  
Year 2000

Three acronyms, two opportunities, one millenium: ruminations on the present and future states of art Librarianship in Britain, occasioned by the 25th birthday of ARLIS/UK & Ireland

1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Clive Phillpot
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
The State ◽  
Bibliographic Database ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
National Library ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
State Of Art ◽  
Missed Opportunity

ARLIS/UK & Ireland can be proud of the achievements of its first 25 years, but might benefit both from re-examining its objectives and by broadening its constituency. The fact that the National Art Library (NAL) is now fulfilling a role commensurate with that title is welcome indeed, but art libraries should be wary of depending too much on the leadership of a national library. The Visual Arts Library and Information Plan (VALIP) offers a not-to-be-missed opportunity for ARLIS and the NAL together to ensure the continuing development of art librarianship in Britain into the foreseeable future; the absence of a national bibliographic database, however, must be a handicap to future progress, while the state of art provision in public libraries is a matter of concern. ARLIS is working too exclusively for specialists; as it approaches the year 2000 its biggest challenge may be the needs of people at large. (The text of a paper presented at the ARLIS/UK & Ireland Members’ Day at the Tate Gallery, London, on the 8th November 1994).

The new millennEM

Geophysics ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen R. Christopherson
Keyword(s):  
Commodity Prices ◽  
Oil Prices ◽  
The State ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Politics And Government ◽  
The Past ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Economics And Politics

Writing this piece about the state of electromagnetic (EM) geophysics in the year 2000, I am influenced by the fluctuation in commodity prices and other factors that affect our part of the industry. In the past two years, oil prices have halved and then nearly doubled, gold prices have dropped by about 15%, the geothermal industry has been hit hard by Asian economics and politics, and government policies control environmental concerns.

China's Continuing Urban Transition

2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (9) ◽  
pp. 1571-1589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifton W Pannell
Keyword(s):  
Census Data ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
The State ◽  
Socialist Economy ◽  
Central State ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
State Sector ◽  
Urban Transition ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Year 2000

Urban growth in China has proceeded in step with the growth and transition of the socialist economy. Year 2000 Census data indicate an urban population of 456 million; this is 36% of the total population and is increasing much more rapidly than the overall population. Several factors drive this rapid urbanization and growth of cities and towns: continuing, although diminishing, population growth; migration of rural people, as regulations on rural and urban household registration change; rapid structural shift in employment activities and the decline of farm employment; foreign trade and foreign investment, especially in coastal areas; restructuring of state-owned enterprises and growth of private enterprises and activities; and allocation of domestic funds in fixed assets for urban infrastructure, also concentrated in coastal areas. Key issues for continuing urbanization focus on the capacity of the emerging private sector in parallel with the state and collective sectors to generate new jobs, and the willingness of the central state to reconcile the subsidies and privileges of state-sector urban employees with other recent migrants in cities and towns who do not enjoy the state-sector subsidies.

Questioning the Revival

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-33
Author(s):  
Douglas M. Gildow
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Ritual Performance ◽  
Republican Period ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Basic Facts ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Buddhist Monasticism ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

A common narrative of Buddhist monasticism in modern China is that monastic institutions were virtually eliminated during the Cultural Revolution period (1966–1976) but have undergone continuous revival since that time. This simplistic narrative highlights differences in state-monastic relations between the Maoist and post-Maoist eras, even as it oversimplifies various developments. In this article, I analyze the notion of revival and assess the state of Han Buddhist monasticism in the prc. My focus is on clarifying the “basic facts” of monasticism, including the numbers and types of monastics and monastic institutions. I draw on studies published since Holmes Welch’s works as well as on my own fieldwork conducted in China since 2006. This article questions the revival metaphor and shows that it is misleading. First, as Welch noted for the Republican period, recent developments are characterized by innovations as much as by revivals. Second, evidence for the growth of monasticism from around the year 2000 is weak. Yet in two aspects, monasticism today revives characteristics of Republican-period monasticism: ritual performance is central to the monastic economy, and Buddhist seminaries are important for monastic doctrinal education.

Challenges of State Institutions in Environmental Protection: A Case of Taraba State, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 22-27
Author(s):  
E.D Oruonye ◽  
◽  
Wilson-Osigwe Menwo Ukechi ◽  
Babanyaya Mohammed Bashir
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Capacity Development ◽  
State Institution ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Qualified Personnel ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Budgetary Allocation

This study examined the challenges of state institutions in environmental protection in Nigeria using the case of Taraba state. The institution theory was used as a theoretical framework for the study. The study adopted a descriptive design method using desktop review of secondary materials. Content analysis was used in analyzing the data. The findings of the study revealed that some of the challenges of the state environmental protection institutions include lack of political will, inadequate funding, inadequate qualified personnel, inadequate environmental protection infrastructures, poor condition of environmental protection laboratory, lack of office buildings for staff and poor capacity development. The study also revealed that since the creation of the Ministry of Environment in year 2000 in Taraba state, it is only in 2001, 2013 and 2014 that the ministry received up to 4% of the budgetary allocation of the state. The myriad of challenges have greatly constrained the capacity of the state institution to effectively achieve its mandate of environmental protection. Based on the findings, the study recommends the need for more political commitment to the issues of environmental protection through increased funding, employment of qualified personnel, establishment of environmental protection laboratories and increased capacity development. Environmental protection, institutional framework, Ministry of environment, State Institution and Taraba state.

The Party-State in the Land Occupations of Zimbabwe: The Case of Shamva District

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Bhatasara ◽  
Kirk Helliker
Keyword(s):  
Land Reform ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
The State ◽  
Central Province ◽  
Reform Programme ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Ruling Party ◽  
Party State

There has been significant debate about the land occupations which occurred from the year 2000 in Zimbabwe, with a key controversy concerning the role of the state and ruling party (or party-state) in the occupations. This controversy, deriving from two grand narratives about the occupations, remains unresolved. A burgeoning literature exists on the Zimbabwean state’s fast-track land reform programme, which arose in the context of the occupations, but this literature is concerned mainly with post-occupation developments on fast-track farms. This article seeks to contribute to resolving the controversy surrounding the party-state and the land occupations by examining the occupations in the Shamva District of Mashonaland Central Province. The fieldwork for our Shamva study focused exclusively on the land occupations (and not on the fast-track farms) and was undertaken in May 2015. We conclude from our Shamva study that involvement by the party-state did not take on an institutionalised form but was of a personalised character entailing interventions by specific party and state actors.

scholarly journals Studying Canada in Cuba, Studying Cuba in Canada: A Roundtable Discussion

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Kirk ◽  
Sandra Rein ◽  
Cynthia Wright ◽  
Karen Dubinsky ◽  
Zaira Zarza
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Roundtable Discussion ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
Canadian Studies ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Future ◽  
Historical Relationship ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Cuban Studies

Canada and Cuba have a long historical relationship, in governmental and non-governmental realms alike. While hundreds of Canadian students take part in educational exchanges from a variety of Canadian universities, Canadian/Cuban scholarly ties are not as strong as they are in the US or even the UK.  There are a handful of internationally recognized Cuba scholars who have been working in Canada for some decades, among them John M. Kirk, Hal Klepak and Keith Ellis. Cuban scholarship in Canada is still notably scant and it cannot really be classified in generational terms. However it is clear that the work of these senior scholars is bearing fruit, as other scholars located in Canada are increasingly working in Cuban Studies, in both teaching and research.    A few of these scholars came together recently to discuss their experiences. This isn’t an exhaustive or representative group. The participants in this roundtable conversation include those trained as Cubanists, trained in other fields but with more recent research and/or teaching ties to Cuba, and a Cuban educated in Canada.  We came together to discuss what we see as the state of the field in Cuban/Canadian studies today and in the future.    

scholarly journals Who are the Explainers? A case study at the House of Experiments

2005 ◽  
Vol 04 (04) ◽  
pp. C05
Author(s):  
Miha Kos
Keyword(s):  
Student Services ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
The State ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Science Centers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Science Centre ◽  
Small Science ◽  
Year 2000

Hiša Eksperimentov (The House of Experiments) is a very small science centre. We are situated in the centre of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. The gross area of the centre is only 500 square meters and we meet around 25,000 visitors per year. We were opened for the public in the year 2000. In the Hiša Eksperimentov there are four full-time employees and around 10 persons working and paid by fees. There are specific institutions present in Slovenia so called Student services. They help students in finding paid job on daily basis. The state still encourages students to work by lowering the taxes for their job. There are around 25 students working as explainers in Hiša. Here are some facts about Slovenia. The population is around 2 million in the area of 20,256 square kilometers. There are 18 students per 1000 inhabitants. One can play a game with numbers – taking into account the area of Hiša and the population and area of Slovenia one can calculate that there is one person expected in an area of the size of 20 science centers. And there are even much fewer students present in the same area. But the number of visitors and students working in the center proves the density is larger. Therefore science centers do concentrate the population!

Reflections on the Symons Report: The State of Canadian Studies in 1980

1982 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Robert M. Anderson ◽  
James E. Page
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Canadian Studies
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