Theories of circular economies are aspirational,taking ideas from ecology and using them to guide human practice to promote sustainability.While many of the specific elements necessary to create such systems have been...Theories of circular economies are aspirational,taking ideas from ecology and using them to guide human practice to promote sustainability.While many of the specific elements necessary to create such systems have been identified,most examples of applying these ideas have been at farm or,at most,regional scales.Normal science has been extraordinarily successful in describing in detail many of the necessary components in this work,but seems ill-equipped to grapple with and understand the complex,multi-layered,social and ecological context within which these details interact.Post-Normal Science offers a way to re-imagine the problem and begin the important process of understanding these interactions to promote transformational change.展开更多
In his excellent new book Staging Personhood, Wang Guojun explores theatrical costuming not just for what it can tell us about performance history, but as a way of examining attitudes toward changes in ethnic and gend...In his excellent new book Staging Personhood, Wang Guojun explores theatrical costuming not just for what it can tell us about performance history, but as a way of examining attitudes toward changes in ethnic and gender relations in the Qing dynasty. As Wang himself puts it in his epilogue, " Since hairstyle and clothing were at the center of ethnic conflicts, theatrical costuming served as an effective -if not the only-avenue for theatrical producers to respond to changing ethnic and gender relations."展开更多
文摘Theories of circular economies are aspirational,taking ideas from ecology and using them to guide human practice to promote sustainability.While many of the specific elements necessary to create such systems have been identified,most examples of applying these ideas have been at farm or,at most,regional scales.Normal science has been extraordinarily successful in describing in detail many of the necessary components in this work,but seems ill-equipped to grapple with and understand the complex,multi-layered,social and ecological context within which these details interact.Post-Normal Science offers a way to re-imagine the problem and begin the important process of understanding these interactions to promote transformational change.
文摘In his excellent new book Staging Personhood, Wang Guojun explores theatrical costuming not just for what it can tell us about performance history, but as a way of examining attitudes toward changes in ethnic and gender relations in the Qing dynasty. As Wang himself puts it in his epilogue, " Since hairstyle and clothing were at the center of ethnic conflicts, theatrical costuming served as an effective -if not the only-avenue for theatrical producers to respond to changing ethnic and gender relations."
