清末放垦蒙地的实质及其对蒙古经济社会发展的影响

20世纪初,清政府面临内忧外患、财政拮据的严重危机,这一背景决定了清末放垦蒙地的实质就是聚敛蒙财,以充帑银。放垦蒙地虽然使蒙古地区的农耕业有了空前的扩展,丰富了蒙古地区的经济生活,但从总体上来说,导致了严重的农牧冲突,激化了民族和阶级矛盾,造成了影响深远的生态环境破坏。因此,清末放垦蒙地对蒙古经济社会的发展所带来的主要是负面效应。     

西宁市区的居住格局与回汉族居民的社会交往

本文以西宁市区这个典型的多民族聚居城市为对象,基于回汉族居民在居住场所及学校中的分离指数的测算,分析西宁市区回汉族居民的居住格局及形成此格局的主要因素。回族主要聚居于城东区,但总体而言,西宁市区的回汉族人口混居程度较高,形成目前西宁市区回汉族居住格局的最主要原因是历史因素与宗教文化因素。     

Making sense of ‘Price Tag’ violence: changing contexts,shifting strategies,and expanding targets

Writings on the fringe Jewish settler grassroots network known as the Hilltop Youth have proliferated in recent years, following the increase in violent activism associated with the network. But knowledge on this violent activism, called Price Tag, has remained conflicting and problematic. Central questions persist: What is the meaning of Price Tag violence? What explains the increase in the rate and salience of Price Tag violence? What are the social-political implications of Price Tag violence? This article argues that Price Tag violence represents a new strategy of contention taking shape in the context of a fundamental reconfiguration of relations within Israel’s institutional and non-institutional radical Right, and that it represents a highly consequential social and political phenomenon with destabilizing and destructive effects nationally and regionally.     

“Settlers” and Zimbabwe: Politics,Memory, and the Anthropology of Commercial Farms During a Time of Crisis

This article examines the contested politics surrounding the participation of white farmers in the national public sphere in Zimbabwe. It examines how farm workers have acted as an “interior frontier” to white farmers and how this has helped to shape the public identification of white farmers in colonial and postcolonial Zimbabwe. In so doing, the differential use of the term settlers and the memory of colonialism within the current violence surrounding land reform and democratization are analyzed. Through addressing some of the engagements with this ambiguous identification of white farmers, the politics of analysing “settlers” within anthropology and postcolonial studies is raised.     

Twice removed: Mizrahi settlers in Gush Katif

What does ethnicity (or race) have to do with the struggle over land in post-1967 Israeli occupied territories? On the Israeli scene, post-1967 settlers tend to be depicted as religiously motivated Jews of Ashkenazi descent and often Anglophone origin, while Jews from the Middle East and North Africa (Mizrahim) tend to be associated with development towns and other locations known for high unemployment and generally depressed socio-economic situations. Prior to the Israeli disengagement of 2005 there was a great deal of public attention focused on the controversy surrounding settlement in the occupied territories. The conflict often appeared in stark oppositions of ‘left-wing secular liberals’ against ‘right-wing religious radicals.’ The most outspoken messianic settlers and those often depicted in mainstream media tended to be of Ashkenazi origin, a representation that denies the presence of Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent (Mizrahim) in the settlements then slated for evacuation. This article raises a set of questions about the hegemonic representation of the Israeli socio-political-religious scene regarding the relative absence of representations of Mizrahi Jews who lived in the settlements of Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip. It asks both what this representation accomplishes and what is at stake in recognizing the Mizrahi presence as settlers in post-1967 occupied territories.