萨义德以其独特的双重身份,对西方中心权力话语做了分析,通过对文学作品、演讲演说等文本的解读,将O rie n ta lis m——"东方学",做了三重释义:一门学科、一种思维方式和一种权力话语系统,对东方学权力话语做了系统的批判,同时将东方学放入空间维度对东方学文本做了细致的解读。

萨义德的“Orientalism”释义

The talk with present the key results of the IPCC Working Group III 5th assessment report. Concluding four years of intense scientific collaboration by hundreds of authors from around the world, the report responds to the request of the world's governments for a comprehensive, objective and policy neutral assessment of the current scientific knowledge on mitigating climate change. The report has been extensively reviewed by experts and governments to ensure quality and comprehensiveness.

Climate change 2014 - Mitigation of climate change

The End of History and the Last Man

The effects of observed and future changes in climate are spatially and socially differentiated. The impacts of future changes will be felt particularly by resource-dependent communities through a multitude of primary and secondary effects cascading through natural and social systems. Given that the world is increasingly faced with risks of climate change that are at the boundaries of human experience3, there is an urgent need to learn from past and present adaptation strategies to understand both the processes by which adaptation takes place and the limitations of the various agents of change – states, markets, and civil society – in these processes. Societies have inherent capacities to adapt to climate change. In this article, I argue that these capacities are bound up in their ability to act collectively.

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Social Capital, Collective Action, and Adaptation to Climate Change

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

To better understand the positive contributions return migrants and migrant remittances make in Latin American society, this paper offers a reevaluation of existing conceptual frameworks. Previous research dwelt upon the unproductive nature of expenditures and the difficulties facing return migrants as they reintegrate themselves in home communities, among other problems caused by migration. Drawing upon recent feminist scholarship and the growing body of literature focused on the positive aspects of “migradollars” (U.S. dollars returned by migrants) upon home communities, we propose that remittance investments should be analyzed for their progressive and satisficing effects. We focus on the potential range of household strategies for remittance investment, the ways migrant circulation patterns relate to family and household decision making, and the impact of remittances and migration upon community structure. Finally, using ethnographic data from rural Mexico, we illustrate our argument and demon...

Consequences of Migration and Remittances for Mexican Transnational Communities

For several decades there has been extensive migration from the small island states of the South Pacific and the eastern Caribbean to metropolitan countries, resulting in absolute population decline in some states and new social, economic and political relationships between these island regions and distant worlds. Early research on the consequences for island development of return migration and remittances dwelt upon the unproductive nature of expenditures and the various problems return migration and remittances cause. Questioning this view, a new conceptualization of the influences of migration, circulation and remittances on recipient families, communities and societies in the island states of the South Pacific and the Caribbean is presented. Regional similarities and differences are recognized, yet commonalities of island microstates’ experiences emerge. Remittances are a very significant private transfer of capital and return migrants represent people endowed with human capital, capable of enriching the social and cultural capital stocks of their island communities. In both insular regions, the consolidation of transnational linkages emphasizes the significance of diaspora relations for migrant households at home and abroad and offers some prospects for sustainable development, beyond those offered solely by domestic economic opportunities.

Depuis plusieurs decennies, une migration considerable s’est developpee des petites iles etats du Pacifique du sud et des Antilles de l’est vers les pays metropolitains. Le resultat est un declin du nombre absolu de la population dans certains de ces etats et de nouvelles relations sociales, economiques et politiques entre ces regions des iles et les mondes eloignes. Les premieres recherches sur les consequences pour le developpement des iles de la migration de retour et des envois de fonds insistaient sur la nature improductive des depenses et sur les differents problemes causes par la migration de retour et les envois de fonds. Questionnant ce point de vue, nous presentons une nouvelle conception des influences de la migration, de la circulation et des envois de fonds sur les familles qui en beneficient, sur les communautes et sur les societes des iles etats du Pacifique du sud et des Antilles. Bien que les similarites et des differences regionales soient reconnues, des points communs dans les experiences des micro-etats emergent. Les envois de fonds sont un tranfert prive de capital tres significatif et les emigrants qui reviennent sont dotes de capital humain, capables d’enrichir le domaine social et culturel de leurs communautes des iles. Dans les deux regions insulaires, la consolidation des liens transnationaux demontre la signification des relations de la diaspora pour les familles migratrices chez elles et a l’etranger et offre des possibilites de developpement durable au-dela de ceux offerts uniquement par les opportunites economiques interieures.

Migration and remittances in island microstates: a comparative perspective on the South Pacific and the Caribbean

Tourism, Terrorism And Turmoil In Nepal

Slow tourism represents a progressive genre of alternative tourism for remote locales in the Caribbean beyond mass-tourism complexes. We propose this new form of slow tourism as a viable promotiona...

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Re-Branding Alternative Tourism in the Caribbean: The Case for ‘Slow Tourism’

The experience of return: Caribbean return migrants, Dennis Conway, Robert B. Potter and Joan Phillips The socio-demographic characteristics of second generation return migrants to St Lucia and Barbados, Robert B. Potter 'Tales of Two Societies': narratives of adjustment among second generation return migrants to St. Lucia and Barbados, Robert B. Potter Incorporating race and gender into Caribbean return migration: the example of second generation 'Bajan-Brits', Joan Phillips and Robert B. Potter The Nexus and the family tree: return migration to Grenada and transnationalism in context, Joseph Rodman and Dennis Conway My 'Motherland' or 'My Mother's Land'? return migration and the experience of young British-Trinidadians, Marina Lee-Cunin No place like home: returnee R & R (retention and rejection) in the Caribbean homeland, Roger-Nark De Souza Return migration to Trinidad and Tobago: motives, consequences and the prospects of remigration, Godfrey St. Bernard A gendered tale of Puetro Rican return: place, nation and identity, Gena M. Perez Landscaping Englishness: the postcolonial predicament of returnees in Mandeville, Jamaica, Heather A. Horst Transatlantic French Caribbean connections: return migration in the context of increasing circulation between France and the Islands, Stephanie Condon Expressions of migrant mobilities among Caribbean migrants in Toronto, Canada, David Timothy Duval Transnationalism and return: 'Home' as an enduring fixture and 'Anchor', Dennis Conway Experiencing Caribbean return: societal contributions, adaptions and frustrations, Robert B. Potter and Dennis Conway Index.

Dennis Conway

Papers

Consequences of Migration and Remittances for Mexican Transnational Communities

Migration and remittances in island microstates: a comparative perspective on the South Pacific and the Caribbean

Tourism, Terrorism And Turmoil In Nepal

Re-Branding Alternative Tourism in the Caribbean: The Case for ‘Slow Tourism’

The experience of return migration: Caribbean perspectives