Doing gender,modestly: Conceptualizing workplace experiences of Pakistani women doctors

Using the theoretical framework of inequality regimes, this article offers a reconceptualization of purdah as it is practised, lived and experienced by women doctors of Pakistan. Based on an ethnographic study of Pakistani women doctors, this research indicates that practising purdah in the workplace is perceived as doing femininity within the hegemonic masculine workplace culture of Pakistan. In Pakistani organizations, individual and institutionalized practices of purdah create a gendered substructure which marginalizes women doctors by dictating the norms of conduct, international ethics, organization of physical space and work allocation. Patriarchal interpretations of religious doctrines of modesty provide legitimacy to the existence of these inequality regimes. Based on this, the article argues for a system‐level theorization of purdah that accounts for both individual and institutional norms of veil. Such conceptualization contributes to our understanding of how religion intersects with gender, class and race to create complex systemic inequities in organizational structure.     

Knowing cows: Transformative mobilizations of human and non‐human bodies in an emotionography of the slaughterhouse

This ‘emotionography’ of the slaughterhouse elucidates how the identities of both human and non‐human individuals are constructed by line and lairage workers. Hegemonic masculine ideals that underpin slaughterhouse work mean that the emotions of workers as well as the emotional experience of cattle are either denied, diminished or repressed. Based on fieldwork in an Irish slaughterhouse, I articulate how the industrial slaughter of animals entangles human and non‐human life in metamorphic processes that seek to diminish the emotionality of individuals, maintaining the boundary between human/non‐human animals. These transformations simultaneously pacify the emotional toll of killing non‐human individuals and reinforce perceptions of cows as sellable, killable and edible in the commodification of bovine bodies. Amidst the relative absence of emotions in slaughterhouse ethnographies, this article reveals how emotions emerge, erupt and confound the act of slaughtering cattle for slaughterhouse workers unsettling categorizations of masculinity and ‘animals as food’.     

打造城市的理想形态——以安徽合肥城市发展为例

城市是文明时代最重要的标志。城市化是不可逆转的世界潮流,要从文化的层面去设计城市。以合肥为例,从提炼城市品格和城市精神入手,认为打造城市的理想形态,城市应朝着生态化方向、人本方向和文化精致方向发展。     

数字城市规划内涵及其共享平台构建

当前诸多学者对数字城市规划的研究成果,及信息时代城市规划的发展态势,认为数字城市规划是传统城市规划理论与方法和现代信息技术发展相结合的必然产物,它既是数字城市中的一个重要的组成部分,又是一种全新的规划理念和方法,其具体内涵表现在信息化、数字化、系统化三个方面。数字城市规划是信息时代城市规划发展的潮流和方向,它的建设是一项复杂的系统工程,针对其当前建设中所出现的一系列问题,认为共享平台的建设至关重要,是整个数字城市规划领域的基础。提出了从数据集成、模型集成、系统实现三个方面建设共享平台的理念,以期有效地提高数字城市规划的工作效率。     

1978年以来的北京史研究综述

本文梳理了1978年以来北京史研究的学术发展脉络,并结合中国城市史研究所面临的问题对北京史研究进行展望,建议开展"城市环境史"的研究。     

西部乡村—城镇转型多元评价指标体系的构建及应用

以乡村综合发展度、乡村—城镇变迁度、乡村—城镇协调度为测度标准,构建一套综合评价指标体系。以中国西部地区为研究对象,对2001—2010年十年间乡村—城镇转型发展态势进行分析和评价。研究结果表明:(1)从整体层面来看,西部地区乡村综合发展度不断提高,乡村—城镇变迁度不断加快,乡村—城镇协调度不断优化;(2)从省际层面来看,不同省区的乡村—城镇转型呈现出不同的发展面貌,具有较大的差距。     

国外的都市农业发展历程研究

都市农业是利用城市间隙进行农作物耕种和家禽家畜养殖的农业活动。文章分析并梳理了都市农业的发展历程,根据不断演变的实践模式,按照时间顺序将其分为1919至1959年、1959至1996年、1996年至今3个主要发展阶段,总结了各阶段特征、优势及发展前景。最后提出都市农业对于我国城市化进程及未来城市发展的启示。     

乡土植物在城市园林绿地中的应用——以榆林市为例

对榆林市园林绿化植物的种类进行调查并对其组成特点进行分析,结果表明：榆林市城市园林植物种类近百种,而园林绿地中应用的乡土植物种类仅40种,乡土植物种类不多,外来物种却占有较大比例。在对榆林地区野外植物资源状况调查的基础上,选择了具有较高观赏价值的10种乔木、10种灌木和5中草本乡土植物,并对其特性及园林用途做了介绍,以期为今后榆林市园林绿化提供依据和参考。     

农村金融困境与非正规金融体系重构

现阶段我国农村金融已出现边缘化的迹象。分析农村金融困境的发生机理,进而引出农村非正规金融制度安排缺失的可能因素,结果表明,统筹城乡失调的农村金融供需结构偏差是其根源。农村非正规金融和统筹城乡进程有密切的逻辑关系。必须以统筹观念为指引,推动以非正规金融组织主导的农村金融体制改革。     

四川盐运古镇仙市旅游开发在城乡统筹发展中的支撑作用

在深入调查研究基础上,本文重点分析了仙市古镇丰厚的盐运文化资源的旅游开发价值,及其旅游开发在推动城乡统筹发展中的支撑作用,并进一步提出了相关的建议。文章为仙市镇及类同区域加快旅游开发与城乡统筹发展提供了有益的参考。