Tunisia's Peripheral Cities: Marginalization and Protest Politics in a Democratizing Country

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-98
Author(s):  
Larbi Sadiki
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Marginalized Youth ◽  
The South ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Corporate Elites ◽  
Center Periphery

This article investigates Tunisia's southern "periphery within the periphery," drawing on original interviews to examine marginalization and center-periphery relations in the country since the 2011 revolution. Comparisons are drawn between the informal economy of cross-border smuggling in Ben Guerdane and the jobless youth of Tataouine being left behind as corporate elites and companies become wealthy from the natural resources extracted from the area. This had led to an embrace of "unruly" protest politics, rebelling against the postrevolutionary political establishment. A trend toward disillusionment with democracy might be on the horizon for the marginalized youth in the south, exacerbating regional cleavages and posing a potential crisis for Tunisia's democratization.

scholarly journals Spatial Distribution and Geographical Mechanism of Natural Resources in China under the Orientation of the New Economic Demands

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7956
Author(s):  
Xiangmin Zhang ◽  
Bin Yu ◽  
Hailong Yu ◽  
Zhuofan Li ◽  
Shen Luo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
New Economy ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Ecological Resources ◽  
Demand Structure ◽  
Administrative Units ◽  
Location Map ◽  
Resource Elements

The demand structure of resources for new economy is different from the traditional one in that its development may significantly change China’s economic location map and spatial pattern. Based on 343 administrative units of prefecture-level cities in China, this research constructs the measurement index system of terrestrial surface natural resources under the orientation of the new economic demands; this research mainly analyses the spatial distribution characteristics and geographical mechanism of natural resources by means of the spatial autocorrelation and spatial similarity calculation methods. The results show that: (1) The structure and endowment of natural resources under the orientation of the new economic demands need to be reexamined. The significance of a good environment and ecological resources has been highlighted. The coupling of resource elements better reveals the availability of natural resources. (2) The natural resources decrease from southeast to northwest, showing a pattern of “abundant in the south and east and scarce in the north and west”. Natural resources have a significant positive correlation in spatial distribution with two types of agglomeration: high-high agglomeration and low-low agglomeration, showing the local agglomeration feature of “high in the south and low in the north”. (3) Natural factors such as temperature, precipitation and altitude affect the spatial distribution of natural resources, with the temperature being the most significant. This indicates that the original natural environment and its role are the geographical mechanism for the formation and distribution of natural resources. The results could provide a reference for the development and the optimization of China’s new economy.

Two New Byzantine Churches in Cilicia

1982 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 23-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Edwardś
Keyword(s):  
Field Survey ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
The South ◽  
Taurus Mountains ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
General Field

The Byzantine churches of Cilicia have attracted considerable attention during the last 80 years. Often scholars have focused on the urban centres of Cilicia Pedias, the coastal settlements of Cilicia Trachea, and the monasteries near the important roads. However, the Taurus mountains, those lofty barriers which surround the fertile plain, have been ignored by most modern investigators. In the late antique world Greek communities found protection and sustenance in the isolated Highlands. While not as wealthy or numerous as their more urbane cousins to the south, these Cilician Greeks also have left behind monuments of their worship.In the summer of 1979 I was fortunate to locate and survey in the Highlands two Byzantine churches which hitherto had not been published. The study of these buildings was part of a more general field survey of classical and medieval sites. Since no excavations were undertaken all descriptions and surveys are based on surface remains. The purpose of this paper is to describe the location, masonry and plan of each church and to offer rudimentary conclusions based on a comparison with the known Cilician churches.

scholarly journals Legal regulations of mountain biodiversity as an important factor in sustainable environmental policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 105-112
Author(s):  
Elnur Hasanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Actual State ◽  
Single System ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Life Space ◽  
Mountain Areas ◽  
Interstate Cooperation ◽  
Cross Border

The paper understands that cross-border natural resources include a totality of characteristics of local ecological systems in mountain areas, which can act as regulators of human’s life space. The authors state that the uniqueness of this phenomenon is defined by the fact that all natural resources act as a single system of planet scale. The system of providing biodiversity is one of such parameters. In the paper the legal characteristics of the issue are identified with respects to the actual state of interstate cooperation. Additionally, the opportunity of its expansion within the already existing interstate formation is determined.

scholarly journals The Ancestral Caddo Ceramic Vessel Sherd and Ceramic Pipe Sherd Assemblage from the A. C. Saunders Site (41AN19) in the Upper Neches River Basin, Anderson County, Texas

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
East Texas ◽  
Outdoor Activity ◽  
The South ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Ceramic Pipe ◽  
Ceramic Vessel ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Neches River ◽  
Activity Areas

The A. C. Saunders site (41AN19) is an important ancestral Caddo settlement in the upper Neches River basin in Anderson County in East Texas. The site is one of only a few ancestral Caddo sites with mound features in the upper Neches River basin, particularly those that are known to date after ca. A.D. 1400, but this part of the upper Neches River basin, including its many tributaries, such as Caddo Creek just to the south and west, was widely settled by Caddo farmers after that time. These Caddo groups left behind evidence of year-round occupied settlements with house structures, middens, and outdoor activity areas, impressive artifact assemblages, as well as the creation of numerous cemeteries, most apparently the product of use by families or lineage groups.

scholarly journals Silicon Valley in the South

2001 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 744-762
Author(s):  
MITSUHIRO KAGAMI ◽  
AKIFUMI KUCHIKI
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
Brand Names ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
The South ◽  
Original Design ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Production Platform ◽  
It Revolution

ABSTRACT New trends are now taking place within manufacturing industries led by multi-national corporations (MNCs). Globalization and liberalization together with the information technology (IT) revolution has accelerated “fables” industry in the network economy, i.e. outsourcing production processes and global parts procurement by MNCs. As a consequence of this, the primary function of the MNC has changed from that of manufacturer to ‘service’ provider by outsourcing production processes to foreign contract manufacturers (CMs). NAFTA in fact mutated Mexico into a production platform toward the US and Canada as well as Latin American countries. We can observe these dramatic changes, for instance, in Guadalajara in Mexico, now called the “Silicon Valley in the South”. Since MNCs use their brand names to sell products, their business function becomes close to that of the fashion industry. They market their products in the same way as Gucci and Chanel sell products of original design carrying their brand names. Therefore, product design and marketing become highly important for MNCs to achieve success in business while domestic providers have been left behind for their parts and components supply in this new global supply chain.

XIV.—The Heraldry in the Cloisters of the Cathedral Church of Christ Canterbury

Archaeologia ◽  
1915 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 447-568
Author(s):  
Ralph Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Church Of Christ ◽  
The South ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The North

Towards the close of the fourteenth century extensive building operations were undertaken at Canterbury Cathedral. The more important of these were the rebuilding of the nave and the erection of a new chapter-house. At Canterbury, as at Gloucester, the cloister was to the north of the nave, and as the chapter-house was erected to the east of the cloister it was necessary to reconstruct in some measure the roof of both the south and east walks, but the opportunity was taken to construct an arcading on each side of the cloister garth, and to throw a vaulted roof across from the arcade to the walls. This work was in hand during the time of Prior Chillenden—prior from 1391 to 1411—and he proceeded in the cloisters with a brutal disregard for the beautiful work left behind by his predecessors, whose walls he used so far as they served him. The prior had been munificently assisted by a wealthy archbishop, viz. Archbishop Courtenay, who died the 31st July, 1396.

Gariwerd

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Wilkie
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
National Park ◽  
Ecological Significance ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western Victoria ◽  
The 19Th Century

People have been visiting and living in the Victorian Grampians, also known as Gariwerd, for thousands of generations. They have both witnessed and caused vast environmental transformations in and around the ranges. Gariwerd: An Environmental History of the Grampians explores the geological and ecological significance of the mountains and combines research from across disciplines to tell the story of how humans and the environment have interacted, and how the ways people have thought about the environments of the ranges have changed through time. In this new account, historian Benjamin Wilkie examines how Djab wurrung and Jardwadjali people and their ancestors lived in and around the mountains, how they managed the land and natural resources, and what kinds of archaeological evidence they have left behind over the past 20 000 years. He explores the history of European colonisation in the area from the middle of the 19th century and considers the effects of this on both the first people of Gariwerd and the environments of the ranges and their surrounding plains in western Victoria. The book covers the rise of science, industry and tourism in the mountains, and traces the eventual declaration of the Grampians National Park in 1984. Finally, it examines more recent debates about the past, present and future of the park, including over its significant Indigenous history and heritage.

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