scholarly journals Museums, Socio-Ecological Thinking, and Activist Pedagogies of Imagination

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-78
Author(s):  
Lauren Spring ◽  
Darlene E. Clover
Keyword(s):  
Contact Zone ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Aesthetic Engagement ◽  
And Control ◽  
Ecological Thinking

This article explores the complex, “contact zone” nature of museums within the context of the current environmental crisis threatening our planet. Historically and even today, museums have engaged in a practice of “monocultural” thinking which is mired in a pretext to neutrality that has advanced the patriarchal capitalist neoliberal status quo and maintained a vision of a human/non-human binary of power, dominance, and control. However, there is also growing evidence that museums are shifting their approaches. Focusing on examples from Canada, we discuss how museums are using exhibitions and pedagogical and community outreach strategies to render visible deeply problematic and global “technofossil” practices, encourage activism through aesthetic engagement, encourage dialogue between community and industry as well as engage in imaginative decolonising initiatives that remap our understandings of who we are and where we need to go. We argue that in taking up environmental issues in politically intentional ways, museums create “oppositional views” that act as pedagogical sites of resistance.

scholarly journals Gold–Carbon Nanocomposites for Environmental Contaminant Sensing

Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 719
Author(s):  
Shahrooz Rahmati ◽  
William Doherty ◽  
Arman Amani Babadi ◽  
Muhamad Syamim Akmal Che Mansor ◽  
Nurhidayatullaili Muhd Julkapli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollutants ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
World Population ◽  
Chemical Contaminants ◽  
Carbon Nanocomposites ◽  
Minimal Sample ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
And Control ◽  
Analytical Tools

The environmental crisis, due to the rapid growth of the world population and globalisation, is a serious concern of this century. Nanoscience and nanotechnology play an important role in addressing a wide range of environmental issues with innovative and successful solutions. Identification and control of emerging chemical contaminants have received substantial interest in recent years. As a result, there is a need for reliable and rapid analytical tools capable of performing sample analysis with high sensitivity, broad selectivity, desired stability, and minimal sample handling for the detection, degradation, and removal of hazardous contaminants. In this review, various gold–carbon nanocomposites-based sensors/biosensors that have been developed thus far are explored. The electrochemical platforms, synthesis, diverse applications, and effective monitoring of environmental pollutants are investigated comparatively.

Perceived Social Mobility and Political Trust in China

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenhua Su ◽  
Yang Cao ◽  
Jingkai He ◽  
Waibin Huang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
World Values Survey ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Control

Existing studies have traced China’s high political trust to three sources: traditional culture, the state’s success in fostering economic growth, and ideological propaganda. We identify a fourth source: perceived social mobility. We argue that when people perceive a reasonable chance for upward mobility based on personal initiatives and efforts, the status quo becomes more justifiable because individuals are responsible for their own successes and failures. Perceived social mobility thus instills a sense of optimism and fairness and exonerates the regime from many blames, thereby enhancing political trust. Regression analysis of the China portion of the 2007 World Values Survey data shows that respondents who saw themselves as having choices and control in life were indeed more likely to trust the ruling communist party. The respondents’ overall level of perceived social mobility is also high, which is consistent with the massive shake-up of the preexisting social order in China’s reform era.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTASI TANGGUNGJAWAB REKLAMASI PERTAMBANGAN TIMAH DI PULAU BELITUNG

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 2083-2101
Author(s):  
Dwi Haryadi ◽  
Darwance Darwance ◽  
Reko Dwi Salfutra
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Mining Areas

Mining is one of the sectors that becomes an economic country’s support until now. Environmental issues is kind of difficult things and can’t even be separated from mining activities. Belitung island is as part of the largest tin-producing province in Indonesia that has been exploited since the 18 century. It also has experienced the environmental crisis as well as other mining areas has in Indonesia. This research is conducted as an effort to discover and unravel the problematic implementation of reclamation on the ex-tin mine’s land in Belitung Island by using a conceptual approach and legislative approach. Based on the observation’s result, it shows that the reclamation’s result in Belitung Island has not been successful. Data from PT Timah (Persero) Tbk about the reclamation in Belitung Island also shows that the realization is far from the plan. There is no target that achieved successfully every year, also there is no reclamation that reaches 50 percent, the maximum is only 25 percent in 2016. th

Review: Isabelle Stengers, In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 259-264
Author(s):  
Nicholas Beuret
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
General State ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Status ◽  
Isabelle Stengers ◽  
Ecological Catastrophe

In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism (2015) offers a welcome intervention into the current state of global political impasse and ecological catastrophe. Less a cautionary tale or a series of political injunctions, In Catastrophic Times sets out a clear account of how the ‘cold panic’ induced by looming ecological crises such as climate change is actively produced by the managers of the status quo – those Stengers calls ‘Guardians’. Stengers claims it is the convergence of governance without legitimacy with enclosed knowledges and the cult of expertise that has produced a general state of panicked political impotence. Against this mode of governance, Stengers offers a series of tactical experiments, from paying attention as intervention to acts of scientific commoning, articulated through what she calls the GMO event, that seek to seize environmental issues and sociotechnical problems as political questions in order to resist the devolution of modernity into a global social apartheid state.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Police Government Microblog and Government Tik Tok

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ainan Zhu ◽  
Xia Li
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Public Security ◽  
Guidance And Control ◽  
The Status ◽  
On Line ◽  
Government Propaganda ◽  
Control Work ◽  
And Control ◽  
Chinese Police

Based on "government micro-blog" and "government tiktok" of Chinese Police Online, this paper collects data with the help of Octopus Collector and Python, then studies the status quo of Chinese police on-line through two new government media platforms: Weibo and Weibo public security organs to use new media to carry out government propaganda and public opinion guidance and control work.

ENVIRONMENTAL TENDENCIES IN MODULAR GREEN INSTALLATIONS

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 195-221
Author(s):  
Anamaria Andreea Anghel ◽  
Irina Mohora ◽  
Alma-Dia Preda (Hapenciuc) ◽  
Diana Giurea ◽  
Flaviu Mihai Frigura-Iliasa
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Modular Systems ◽  
Ecological Aspects ◽  
Green Walls ◽  
New Research ◽  
Ecological Thinking

There are two main approaches when discussing living green walls: an ecological one and an artistic one. Ecological thinking mainly considers environmental aspects, comfort enhancement and energy consumption and oversees human interaction and actual proximity to plants. In opposition, art or architecture installations that involve vegetation, lack technical and ecological aspects, aiming to raise awareness on environmental issues using human interaction either physically (direct) or emotionally (indirect). The present paper aims to analyze methods of combining the two directions, in a functional, ecological, yet aesthetically pleasing composition. In order to further develop previous experiences gathered by the team members, authors of this article, a green installation concept made out of interactive modular systems unites all the knowledge into a new, living, moving, dynamic, interactive structure whose inspiration is taken from nature while using biomimicry as main principle for its development. This new concept responds and is influenced by both external, natural stimuli and by the human factor. Multidisciplinarity is a key element in developing this project, involving architecture, art, interior and landscape design, botany, geometry, mechanical and electrical engineering, leading towards new research directions and innovative approaches in greenery—interior environment connections.

The Study of the Beijing Traffic Noise Pollution Control Countermeasures

2014 ◽  
Vol 641-642 ◽  
pp. 853-859
Author(s):  
Wei Wang ◽  
Hui Zhao ◽  
Guan Xing Wang ◽  
Hua Zhen Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Road Traffic ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Traffic Noise ◽  
Noise Pollution ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Road Traffic Noise ◽  
Typical Time ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Control

Traffic noise is a major source of noise pollution in the urban environment, including road traffic noise and rail traffic noise, which has become one of the domestic large and medium cities in environmental issues to be solved. This paper analyzes the status of the Beijing traffic noise pollution and control strategies, and a typical apartment block selected as a case, analyzes its noise pollution elements, severity, time distribution, and draws a noise map of the plane area and a dormitory building in the noise conditions typical time. Last we discussed and gave the method based on noise control measures.

scholarly journals Generation I(mmersion) – How to Meet Learner Expectations of Tomorrow

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Erenli
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Generation X ◽  
Generation Y ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
The Status ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
And Control

Today’s teachers mainly belong to the so-called “Generation X” while learners are most often described as “Generation Y” or “Millennials”. Most current discussions of learning methods are being held in view of the status quo. But what about the learners of tomorrow? What expectations do the learners of tomorrow have? Which methods and tools will the teachers of tomorrow have in stock to meet these expectations? “The old learning spaces, dominated by the immensely successful organizations of the industrial era like schools and universities, are struggling to maintain authority and control over the definition and certification of knowledge while at the same time remaining true to the stated mandate of helping to equip people and society for a life where learning is much more heterogeneous and heterarchical”[11]. Therefore, wouldn´t it be good to have a toolset ready and be able to choose the appropriate tools and techniques right on time? Reflecting on publications, expert interviews and state-of-the-art best practices, this paper attempts to draw a picture of the future (e-)learning scenario. To give the next generation a name, “Generation I(mmersion)” has been chosen. Despite breaking the X, Y, Z sequence, this name highlights the state of “Immersion”, which educators and learners of tomorrow will/might find themselves in.

Eliciting Students' Understandings: Necessary Steps in Environmental Education

1993 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 95-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Industrial Effluent ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Lifestyle Choices ◽  
State Of Affairs

One difficulty in conceptualising the scope of environmental education results from the tremendous breadth of environmental issues which need to be addressed. Environmental issues may be considered, for example, in terms of ‘an interlinked array of political, social, economic and biophysical environmental factors’ (O'Donoghue & McNaught 1991, p.391; see also Di Chiro 1987, p.25). This conception portrays environment as not just natural systems alone, but as ‘a human creation, a result of the way we use nature and its resources to satisfy our needs and wants’ (Fien 1993, p.3). These conceptual developments are consistent with the growing realisation that environmental issues cannot be understood, let alone addressed, in isolation from social and political values and lifestyle choices (Capra, 1982; Devall, 1988; Guha, 1989). Illustrating this thinking, Livingston (in Evernden 1993, p.xii) portrays environmental issues as analogous to the tips of icebergs: they are simply the visible portion of a much larger entity, where the ‘submerged mass constitutes the fundamental problem, that domain of unspoken assumptions which legitimates the behaviour which precipitates the state of affairs we designate as “the environmental crisis”’. Evernden (1993, p.xii) proposes that a consideration of environmental issues must begin with the recognition that their source ‘lies not without but within, not in industrial effluent but in assumptions so casually held as to be virtually invisible’. These interpretations of root causes of environmental issues have important implications for environmental education research and teaching practices.

Research on Developing Countermeasures for Environmental Monitoring in China

2013 ◽  
Vol 864-867 ◽  
pp. 1008-1012
Author(s):  
Dian Xing Zhu ◽  
Xin Li
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Ecological Environment ◽  
Environment Monitoring ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
The Status

Environmental issues have become an important problem must be faced, which can not be avoided during economic development. To improve the living and ecological environment,environmental monitoring plays an important role in maintaining rapid and sustained economic development. It can response to the phenomenon and trends of environmental management accurately and comprehensively, and provides the basis of pollution control and environmental planning. This paper briefly described the definition and importance of environmental monitoring, then analyzed the status quo of the environmental monitoring, and pointed some of the deficiencies in the presence of current environmental monitoring. Finally, this paper proposed some suggestions during environmental monitoring to provide reference for environment monitoring in China.

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