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Öztürk’ten Anayasa konferansı
Erzurum Gazetesi
ERZURUM (İHA) – Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi (MHP) Aşkale İlçe Teşkilatı tarafından Halk Eğitim Merkezi Salonu’nda Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi Genel Başkan Yardımcısı Erzurum Milletvekili veAnayasa Komisyon Üyesi Oktay Öztürk’ün konuşmacı olarak
Kuzu: Seçim sürecinde yeni Anayasa çıkmaz
Haber 10
16 GÜNDE DE 17 YILDA DA YAPILAN ANAYASALAR VAR: Prof. Dr. Burhan Kuzu, TBMMAnayasa Komisyonu Başkanı. Başkanlık sisteminin yılmaz savunucusu. TBMM’de her partiden 3 milletvekilinin katılımı ile kurulan uzlaşma komisyonu çalışmalarını
Prof. Dr. Erol GökaYeni Anayasa’da milli kimlik ve Türklük
Haber 10
Geçen yıl yeni anayasamızda kimlik sorunlarının nasıl ele alınması gerektiğine ilişkin genel bir çerçeve çizdik. [www.zaman.com.tr] ) Sözlerimizi, “Kolektif kimlik konusundaki bilimsel
Kocasakal: ”Atatürk’e Veda Anayasası Olacak”
Kanal B
İstanbul Barosu Başkanı Ümit Kocasakal, yeni anayasa ile ilgili önemli değerlendirmeler yaptı. Yeni Anayasa çalışmalarının başarıya ulaşma şansının olmadığını savunan Kocasakal, “Yeni anayasa Atatürk’e, Cumhuriyet’e ve demokrasiye veda anayasası
İ.ü.”de ‘Anayasa’ Konferansı
medya73.com
İnönü Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi tarafından düzenlenen konferansın konusu, “Türk AnayasaHukukunda Güncel Gelişmeler ve Türk Hukukunda Bireysel Başvuru” olarak açıklandı. Konferansa konuşmacı olarak, Hukuk Fakültesi Anayasa Hukuku Anabilim
Görüşmede Yeni Anayasa Vurgusu
Bianet
Görüşmede Yeni Anayasa Vurgusu. PKK Lideri Öcalan ile görüşen Tan, görüşmede yenianayasanın taşıdığı önemden bahsedildiğini açıkladı. Öcalan, görüşlerini detaylı olarak mektupla anlatacak. Görüşmeyle ilgili detayların, bugünkü grup toplantısında
CHP’Lİ SEÇER ANAYASA VE BARIŞ SÜRECİNİ DEĞERLENDİRDİ
Haber X
MERSİN (İHA) – Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP) Mersin Milletvekili Vahap Seçer, CHP’nin yeniAnayasa yapım sürecine tüm samimiyetiyle destek verdiğini, Türkiye’de çatışma ortamının ve terörün sona ermesi konusundaki samimi yaklaşımlarının da
CHP’li Seçer Anayasa ve Barış Sürecini Değerlendirdi
Haberler
Gençlik Kolları’nın etkinliğinde ve CHP Toroslar İlçe Başkanı Mustafa Erkoç ve partililerle gerçekleştirilen kahvehane toplantılarında yeni Anayasa ve ‘barış süreci’ne ilişkin değerlendirmelerde bulunan Seçer, iktidara yüklendi. Türkiye’de çatışma
Yeni Anayasa ve Kürt sorununun çözümüyle kalkınma hızlanacak
Star Gazete
Toplantının açılışında konuşan TÜSİAD Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı Muharrem Yılmaz, yeniAnayasa ve İmralı sürecine destek verdi. Yılmaz “Demokratik standartları yükselteceğini umduğumuz yeni Anayasa’nın yazılması ve Kürt sorununun çözümüyle birlikte
Darbelerden Hesap Sormak İçin Yeni Anayasa Şart
Haberler
Ayrıca yeni bir anayasanın da şart olduğunu ifade eden Ali Rıza Aka şunları söyledi: ” Yenianayasa ile yeni bir sayfa açalım ve darbeleri tarihe gömelim. Hak ve özgürlüklerin öne çıktığı, bireyin merkeze alındığı, vatandaşını tanımlayan değil, tanıyan
AK Parti Anayasa Komisyonu raporu tamamladı
Olay Gazetesi
AK Parti İl Siyasi ve Hukuki İşler Başkanı Avukat Cemalettin Torun’a bağlı olarak çalışan ve başkanlığını Avukat Mustafa Yavuz’un yaptığı Anayasa ve Hukuk Komisyonu mayıs ayından itibaren yürüttüğü çalışmalarla oluşturulmuş raporu daha sonra İl Başkanı
Cumhurbaşkanı Gül: Anayasa Değişikliği Fırsatı Kaçmaması Gerekiyor (4)
Haberler
Anayasa Mahkemesi ve Hakimler ve Savcılar Yüksek Kurulu’nun yapısının yeniden düzenlenmesine yönelik çalışmalar konusunda da Gül, mevcut düzenlemenin iyi bir düzenleme olduğunu belirterek değişikliğe gerek olmadığını düşündüğünü vurguladı.
Yeni Anayasaya Doğru (Sonuç) Prof. Dr. Ersan Şen
Haber7.com
Kısa ve öz anayasanın, müesseselerin güçlü olduğu ülkelerde yararlı olacağı söylenmektedir. Bu düşünceye göre, kazuistik anayasa ile müesseselerin düzenlenmesi ve dolayısıyla kişi hak ve hürriyetlerinin korunması gerekir. Aksi halde, otorite
Alkoç; “Darbelerin Bir Daha Yaşanmaması İçin Yeni Bir Anayasa Şart”
Haberciniz
Eğitim Bir Sen Aydın Şubesi Şube Başkanı Süleyman Alkoç, “28 Şubatların, 12 Eylüllerin, 12 Martların ve 27 Mayısların bir daha yaşanmaması yeni bir anayasanın bir an önce hayata geçirilmesini istiyoruz” dedi. – Eğitim Bir Sen Aydın Şubesi Şube Başkanı
28 Şubat Mağduru Mühendis, Yeni Anayasa Talep Ediyor
Haberciniz
Çağrı Turgut – Uğur Subaşı – Araştırma görevlisi olarak çalıştığı 28 Şubat sürecinde eşinin başörtüsü nedeniyle baskılara dayanamayıp Sakarya Üniversitesi’ndeki (SAÜ) görevinden istifa eden elektronik mühendisi, tüm hakların teminat altına alınacağı
İnce’den anayasa tepkisi
Kanal A Haber
CHP statükocu, gerici, AKP ilerici bir anayasa istiyor şeklinde gösteriliyor. Haksızlık yapıyorlar. Arkadaşlarımızı çağırayım, grup başkanvekilimiz olarak, bir grup milletvekiliyle bize yapılan bu haksızlığı anlatın” dediğini aktaran İnce, ancak daha
Öcalan’dan Habermas referanslı anayasa tartışması
soL Haber Portalı
Abdullah Öcalan’ın BDP heyeti ile yaptığı görüşmenin ardından görüşme tutanakları bugün basına sızdı. Tutanaklarda yer alan birçok ilginç bölümden birisi de Habermas’lı anayasatartışması bölümü… PKK’nin “Yeni Anayasa’da Kürtlerin halk olarak
Kılıçdaroğlu: Yeni Anayasa 12 Eylül Yasalarını Değiştirmekle Başlayalım
Haberler
CHP Genel Başkanı Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, yeni anayasa çalışmalarının 12 Eylül darbesinin getirdiğini yasaların da değiştirilmesiyle başlanılması gerektiğini söyledi. Kılıçdaroğlu, “CHP Genel Başkanı olarak açık çek veriyorum. AK Parti, demokrasi ve
“Anayasa değişikliğine çok ciddi katkı veriyoruz”
CNN Türk
CHP Genel Başkanı Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Türkiye Finans Yöneticileri Vakfı tarafından Maslak Sheraton Otel’de düzenlenen “Küresel Ekonomik Gelişmeler Işığında Türkiye Ekonomisi” toplantısına katıldı. Toplantıda konuşan CHP lideri Kılıçdaroğlu, anayasa
Baş: Meclis’e sivil bir anayasa yapmak yakışır
Haber7.com
Önerilerde bulunduklarını anlatan Baş, “Önerilerin en başında da sivil ve demokratik biranayasanın Meclis tarafından yapılması. Halen daha çok büyük bir bölümü değiştirilmiş olsa bile 12 Eylül 1980 darbesi sonrası yapılan vesayetçi anlayışı yansıtan
“Toplum barış ve yeni anayasa istiyor”
medya73.com
ŞIRNAK – Cizre Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası Başkanı Adnan Elçi yazılı bir açıklama yaparak, “Toplumun barış ve yeni anayasa istediğini, bunun ülkemiz için büyük bir şans olduğuna inanıyorum. Ülkemize barış ve kardeşliğin gelmesiyle, ülkemiz dünya
“Yeni Anayasa Sivil Toplumun Katılımıyla Yapılmalı”
Bianet
Demokratik anayasa talebiyle bir araya gelen 86 sivil toplum örgütünün kurduğu Denge ve Denetleme Ağı, bugünkü basın açıklamasıyla yeni anayasa yapım sürecinin önemine dikkat çekti. Meclis’te gazetecilere yapılan ”Sivil Toplumdan Anayasa İçin Uyarı”
Kars Kafkas Üniversitesi”nde “nasıl Bir Anayasa” Konulu Konferans
Pirsus Haber
armara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Anayasa Hukuku Anabilim Dalı Başkanı Prof. Dr. İbrahim Kaboğlu, “Ana dilin öğrenilmesi, ana dilin öğretilmesi, ana dilde eğitim. Bu tartışmanın temelinde yer alıyor. Çatışmaların temelinde yer alıyor, bunu biliyorum
İü’de ‘Anayasa’ Konferansı Düzenlendi
Haberciniz
İnönü Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi tarafından düzenlenen “Türk Anayasa Hukukunda Güncel Gelişmeler ve Türk Hukukunda Bireysel Başvuru” konulu konferansa konuşmacı olarak, Hukuk Fakültesi Anayasa Hukuku Anabilim Dalı öğretim üyeleri Prof.
Kaü’de “Nasıl Bir Anayasa” Konferansı
Haberler
Marmara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Anayasa Hukuku Anabilim Dalı Başkanı Prof.Dr.”Anayasa süreci, bizim de birbirimizi daha yakından tanımamız için, çatışmacı dili uzlaştırıcı dile dönüştürebilmek için bir vesile olmalıydı, beceremedik onu.
STK’larda anayasa endişesi
Yeni Asya
86 sivil toplum kuruluşunun oluşturduğu Denge ve Denetleme Ağı, yeni anayasa yapım sürecinde gelinen noktadan büyük endişe duyduklarını belirterek, siyasî kaygılarla yenianayasa fırsatının kaçırılmamasını istedi. Yeni anayasa yapımı için siyasî
Toplum barış ve yeni anayasa istiyor”
Pirsus Haber
ŞIRNAK – Cizre Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası Başkanı Adnan Elçi yazılı bir açıklama yaparak, “Toplumun barış ve yeni anayasa istediğini, bunun ülkemiz için büyük bir şans olduğuna inanıyorum. Ülkemize barış ve kardeşliğin gelmesiyle, ülkemiz dünya
Türkiye’de Anayasa Süreci Şeffaf İşlemiyor’
Amerika’nın Sesi
ALMANYA, BERLIN — Türkiye’deki yeni anayasa çalışmalarında gelinen noktada pek bir ilerleme olmadığı dikkati çekiyor. Nitekim Başbakan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’ın da son günlerde yaptığı açıklamalarda Anayasa Uzlaşma Komisyonu’nun çalısmalarını
Related posts:
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Yeni Anayasa gündemi. TESEV Anayasa İzleme Komitesi ve diğer haberler…
Yeni Anayasa gündemi: “CHP ve BDP’nin Anayasa önerileri TBMM’de…
Yeni Anayasa Gündemi: Başkanlık taslağa girsin mi girmesin mi…
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Erkan in the Army now...: Yeni Anayasa Gündemi.. Kuzu ilan etti: Seçim sürecinde yeni anayasa çıkmaz… Öcalan’dan Habermas referanslı anayasa tartışması…
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Jason Baird Jackson: Campus Salon on Academic Publishing in the Sciences
On Monday I will be helping host the second in a series of campus solons focused on the changing scholarly publishing landscape. While keyed to the campus science faculty, all campus researchers are invited to come and participate. The invitation appears below. Information on the series is available here. * * * The Advisory Committee [...]
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The Subversive Archaeologist: Vancouver, B.C. My Home and Native Land!
Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. The stadium in the centre recently acquired a retro-fitted retractable roof. It's old inflatable roof was called the Mushroom in Bondage. I'm thinkin' Slumbering Porcupine might best describe it now.I'm not braggin' I'm just sayin' ... [Oh, what the Hell!] 90% of those high-rises are residential. That's the downtown core. It's the vibrant heart of Vancouver. No concrete canyons. Instead it's rivers of people all year long. Well, almost. Miles of sandy beaches within walking distance. The City of North Vancouver snuggles up to those 1500 m-high mountains. Three ski resorts within a 20 minute drive of these buildings---one just off the left edge; another two hiding off to the right. Perennially voted one of the most livable cities on the planet. No freeways in sight---the major north--south highway, by design, bypasses the whole of Vancouver's central business district and adjacent suburbs on its way to Horseshoe Bay and its ferries to Vancouver Island. The Sea to Sky Highway continues from there, past Squamish and the new Quest University, then on to Whistler--Blackcomb, the alpine event centre during the 2010 winter olympic games. A jewel.Light a candle. I'll be back soon!SA announces new posts on the Subversive Archaeologist's facebook page (mirrored on Rob Gargett's news feed), on Robert H. Gargett's Academia.edu page, Rob Gargett's twitter account, and his Google+ page. A few of you have already signed up to receive email when I post. Others have subscribed to the blog's RSS feeds. You can also become a 'member' of the blog through Google Friend Connect. Thank you for your continued patronage. You're the reason I do this.
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The Subversive Archaeologist: Complete This Sentence: Put That In Your Pipe ...
Thanks to Phys dot org for this really cool home-grown archaeological news. Ceçi c'est une pipe!Residues trumpet tobacco use by the ninth century C.E. in what's now northern-most California. Chew on that for a while *cough*. UC Davis in the news courtesy of a just-published article in Journal of Archaeological Science!Camel will be wanting to change its name to Megatherium. To the right is my suggestion for new packaging artwork.SA announces new posts on the Subversive Archaeologist's facebook page (mirrored on Rob Gargett's news feed), on Robert H. Gargett's Academia.edu page, Rob Gargett's twitter account, and his Google+ page. A few of you have already signed up to receive email when I post. Others have subscribed to the blog's RSS feeds. You can also become a 'member' of the blog through Google Friend Connect. Thank you for your continued patronage. You're the reason I do this.
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anthropologyworks: Preventing sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict situations
A November 2012 conference at Wilton Park, England, addressed “Preventing sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict situations.” Key points from the conference are provided in a report that concluded:
Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams speaks at a 9/25/12 event. Credit: UN Women Gallery “Preventing sexual violence in conflict and challenging the culture of impunity is a global responsibility and is vital to building sustainable peace. There is increased international momentum, appetite and ambition to address this issue and end the scourge. The Foreign Secretary, in his keynote address outlined the UK government’s approach; stating that the approach will be: ‘increasing our support to UN efforts, raising the profile of the need to confront sexual violence in conflict in every way we can, and proposing new action that we hope will be adopted by many nations in a new collective effort for our generation.’ The Foreign Secretary affirmed; the need for justice to be viewed in its fullest sense and for the sexual violence agenda to be part of a broader effort to empower women through women’s rights, participation and education. In conclusion, to advance the preventing sexual violence in conflict agenda requires; better coordination between the humanitarian, development and security sector; national ownership and a shift in the balance of shame from survivors to the perpetrators.”
The Elliott School’s Global Gender Program is committed to promoting research, teaching, and engagement to build sustainable peace and prevent sexual violence. Please join us for our celebration of International Women’s Day on Monday, March 4 when speakers from around the world will join Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams in advancing peace and gender equality.
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hawgblawg: Did you know that a Syrian Jew was at the top of the UK charts in 1968?
I didn't either, I just learned it.Esther Zaied was born in Safed, Palestine in 1941 to Syrian Jewish parents. She grew up in Haifa. In 1959 she married Abi Ofarim (born Abraham Reichstadt, also born in Safed, in 1937). Singing solo, Esther took 2nd place in the 1963 Eurovision contest, singing "T'en va pas" as an entry for Switzerland. (How she represented that country is unclear.) Esther and Abi then formed a singing duo (Abi played guitar as well), and they began to enjoy some international success in Germany in 1966 with the hit "Noch einen Tanz." (Interesting, no, that an Israeli duo would have a hit in Germany in the 1960s and also that they would sing in German. From Abi's born name, I guess he was from a German family.)Esther and Abi Ofarim topped the English charts in 1968 for three weeks with the novelty song "Cinderella Rockefella." I do remember the song (though I didn't remember the name of the duo), as I lived in Lebanon at the time and we used to hear all the English hits there. I don't remember it fondly, however, and it belongs in the category of other one-off novelty tracks of the time, like "Winchester Cathedral." (Ester yodels -- ugh -- and it has a 1920s feel.) The song was written by Mason Williams (of "Classical Gas" fame) and Nancy Ames. Incidentally, "Cinderella Rockefella" toppled Manfred Mann's "Mighty Quinn" (written by Bob Dylan) from the #1 slot. You may have a more favorable impression of Esther and Abi, however, if you check out this track, "Morning of My Life," which was written by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, and also recorded by the latter. It was a hit for the Israeli duo in Germany. It's really a great track, done folk-rock style. It shows off Esther's very impressive voice, and it's reminiscent (to me at least) of Ian and Sylvia. I love it. And doesn't the dress that Esther wears for this live TV performance have just a hint of "ethnic" to it? (I prefer this live version to the recorded one. It's impressive that they could turn in such a great live performance.) Esther split up from her husband but continued her recording career. One of her recent albums (Esther Ofarim in London, 2009) was produced by Bob Johnston, who has worked with Bob Dylan, among other notables. (Johnston produced Highway 61 Revisited and Nashville Skyline, among other masterpieces.) Here's one track, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." Esther's English vocals are remarkable for being entirely unaccented. Read more about her here, courtesy Allmusic.com. Allmusic says "Little information about Ofarim, however, circulates in the English-speaking record collecting community, a situation that will no doubt change in the 21st century as cultists look for something relatively undiscovered to mine."What about Syrian Jews and Safed? Safed was a "mixed" city with Arabic-speaking Jews and Muslims from at least the Middle Ages. It was famous in the Ottoman period as a center of Kabbalah, a destination for Jews fleeing from Spain after the reconquista. It was common for Jewish Arabs to move around in the region during the Ottoman period. According to Esther Ofarim's website, her ancestors migrated many generations ago from Syria and Lebanon. Likely they were attracted by Safed's spiritual reputation. Safed is located in the Galilee, in northern Palestine, and so is quite close to Syria (it's only 60 miles form Damascus).Like other "mixed" cities in Palestine during the Mandate period, Safad was a flashpoint, and 20 Jews were massacred there during the so-called "riots" in Palestine in 1929. Fuad Hijazi of Safad was executed by the British for his role in the killings; he is considered a Palestinian national martyr, and he and the other two who were executed by the British, 'Ata al-Zayr and Muhammad Jumjum, are the subject of a famous poem by Nuh Ibrahim, called "Sijn 'Akka" (Acre prison, the site of their execution), which has been set to music. Many nationalist Palestinian music groups have recorded the song, most notably al-'Ashiqin, and the song is very well-known. As I noted in my book, Memories of Revolt, the celebrated Palestinian novelist and Communist Emile Habibi told me that he thought that the Palestinian movement had no business turning men who had murdered Jewish civilians into heroes. I'm not sure many have listened to him.Safed and its Jewish quarter also came under attack during the 1936-39 revolt, so it would have been a tough time for the families of Esther and Abi. The Jewish community at Safed was also under threat during the 1947-48 war, but eventually the Zionist forces prevailed and the Palestinian Arab population was expelled (some 12-15,000 people). Today their homes serve as a tourist attraction, a quaint-looking artists' colony, and the old mosque is the General Exhibition Hall for local artists. (Or at least it was when I visited there in 1985).
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tabsir.net: Halal in the Family
In case you were too busy eating your Valentine candy on February 14 and missed a rather hilarious interview of The Daily Show’s John Oliver with Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, head of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, this is available online here. My question is: how does The Daily Show, which is all about satire, schedule serious people for interviews?
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C L O S E R: Closing the week 8 – Anthro, Islam, Evangelicals, The West, Dutch and Other Affairs
Closer Blog: Back from toobusyland: A weekly round up of writings on the Internet, some relevant for my research, some political, some funny but all of them interesting (Dutch/English). (As usual to a large extent based upon suggestions from Dutch, other European, American and Middle Eastern readers. Thank you all.) (As usual to a large extent based upon suggestions from Dutch, other European, American and Middle Eastern readers. Thank you all.)Read more: Closing the week 8 – Anthro, Islam, Evangelicals, The West, Dutch and Other Affairs
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Neuroanthropology: X-Labs: Science Communication Meets A Rock Concert
A fire tornado! Tesla coils playing music! Exploding microwaves! That’s the X-Labs at the University of South Florida, a student initiative to promote science and engineering.
Take stage production, add in social media skills, and apply that to science. That’s what the X-Labs delivered at the USF’s 41st Engineering EXPO last weekend. I went to the Expo with my ten-year old son, and we had a blast seeing all the great projects geared towards kids and adults alike. The X-Labs show was our grand finale.
Smoke rings and candy liberally doused the audience even before the event began, all part of getting the audience geared up. Then the show started, with a robot playing drums, music and fire mixed together to show sound waves, and spinning chicken wire to create a flaming spiral. That one was entrancing! The photo above doesn’t do it justice. It was like the best souped-up campfire ever.
Then came the video of the thermite explosion – yes, just a video, not a live demonstration.
And finally the music-playing Tesla coils. Followed afterwards by a Q & A about each of the demonstrations, which really got into the science and engineering behind each project. It was definitely one of the most innovative science communication projects I’ve seen. Makes a blog seem all fuddy-duddy. Obviously my ten-year-old loved it!
The Mario video doesn’t quite do justice to the final live demonstration, where they had two coils in action!
But you can see the two of them in action, and get a sense of the show itself, in this video of the 2012 X-Labs Engineering Expo production.
Link to USF Engineering Expo, and a story on the 20,000 parents and children who attended it
Link to USF X-Labs webpage
X-Labs on Facebook
X-Labs on YouTube
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Shenzhen Noted: what does china mean to you?
Currently circulating on we chat, another of those punny jokes that do political analysis so well: How do you pronounce the English word “China”? The single man says “Where’s my wife?” The lover… Read More →
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Erkan in the Army now...: Deniz Erkmen: Bırakın boş dursun: Tabiatı Koruma Kanun Tasarısı, Doğa ve İnsan Olmak Üzerine
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Bırakın boş dursun: Tabiatı Koruma Kanun Tasarısı, Doğa ve İnsan Olmak Üzerine
Deniz Erkmen
Son günlerde Tabiatı ve Biyolojik Çeşitliliği Koruma Kanun Tasarısı ile ilgili haberleri okurken aklıma yazın gazetelerde yer alan, Bodrum’da 2nci derece SIT alanı Cennet Koyunda Mandarin Oriental’in inşaası ile ilgili haberler geldi. Bir tanesinde Bodrum kaymakamı Mehmet Gödekmerdan şöyle diyordu:
“Son haline uzaktan gidip baktım. Bölgedeki en büyük yatırım. Bodrum büyüyor. Yatırımlar geliyor. Büyük markalar geliyor. Mandarin onlardan biri. [...] Yatırımın gelmesi bizim için yadırganacak, kötü bir şey değil. Bunlar yapılırken doğaya zarar vermemesi önemli. Bir milyon bitki / ağaç diktiler, daha da dikecekler. Orası normalde taşlık, kayalık bir yerdi, bittiğinde cennet gibi olacak. İtalya’dan özel olarak çok büyük ağaçlar getirildi. Bir yandan inşaat devam ederken, diğer yandan yeşillendirme devam ediyor.”
Ortaya koyduğu, dile döktüğü anlayış itibari ile Mehmet Gödekmerdan’in söyledikleri çok açıklayıcı. “Taşlık, kayalık yer” “cennet” karşıtlığı, “doğayı korumak” için bir yandan inşaat yaparken bir yandan İtalya’dan özel olarak getirilen ağaçlar ile “yeşillendirme” vurgusu… Bir de arka planda ne yani, taş toprak boş boş duran koylar mı daha iyi, yoksa “yatırım” mı sorusu ve hissiyatı. “Yatırım” kötü bir şey olabilir mi, haşaa” durumu…
Yasalaşmak üzere olan ironik isimli Tabiatı ve Biyolojik Çeşitliliği Koruma Kanun Tasarısı’nın derdi belli; doğal alanları korumak yerine “işletmek” kararını Bakanlar Kuruluna ve onların belirleyeceği ne olduğu belirsiz “üstün kamu yararı” tanımlarına bırakmak… Oysaki baraj açılışında “helalinden firmalara bol kazanç ihsan buyur” diye dua eden devlet büyüklerimizden “ekonomik büyüme/yatırım/işletim/bol kazanç”tan başka bir türlü “kamu yararı” tanımı yapmaları beklenilebilir mi, özellikle çevre konusunda? “Yatırım,” hele şişme inşaat sektörüne olanı, şu anda Türkiye’nin kabesi… Yatırımdan büyük kamu yararı mı olur?
Ben ekolojik dengelerden, tür çeşitliliginden, “taş toprak”in ekolojik açıdan anlamından bahsetmek istemiyorum ki ondan da bahsetmek lazım – dünyada korunmaya değer yegane doğanın ağaçlar, korumanın da yol kenarlarına çiçek ekmek demek olmadığını tekrar tekrar anlatmak lazım, o ayrı. Doğal alanların ayrıca sürdürülebilir turizm ile ilişkisinden bahsedilebilir, o da ayrı. Ben kendimce işletilmeyen doğal alanlara bana hissettirdiklerinden dolayı bir güzelleme yazmak istiyorum…
Benim taş toprak kayalık yerlerle haşır neşir olmam aslen üniversitede başladı. Ondan önce de bayılırdım tek başıma ağaçların arasında koşturmaya, kayalara tırmanıp ortadan kaybolmaya ama aslen Boğaziçi Üniversitesinde okurken dağcılık kulübü sayesinde şehri gerçekten geride bırakıp dağlarda vakit gecirir oldum. Kaçkar dağlarıydı, Aladağlardı (ki bunların ikisi de yeni yasa ile bakanlar kurulunun keyfine bırakılacak, toplamda 41 tane olan Milli Parklarımızdan), günlerce yürünerek ulaşılan yaylalarda, yüksek kamplarda, vadilerde vakit geçirmeme vesile oldu kulüp. Giriş o giriş, ondan sonra da yıllar içinde oraya buraya taşınırken, bir bölge çıksa da hayatımdan bir başkası girdi; dağcılık olmasa tırmanış oldu, yürüyüş oldu; ama insanlardan uzak, vahşi, taş toprak dolu kayalık mekanlar hiç çıkmadı hayatımdan – çıksınlar da istemedim zaten… Şimdi durup bakınca bana öyle geliyorki sanki bu vakit geçirdiği doğa parçaları olmasaydı hayatımda, biraz daha mutsuz olurdum, biraz daha huzursuz, eksik kalırdım biraz daha…
Doğada olmanın yavaşlatıcı bir etkisi var. Şehrin, toplumun belirlediği tempodan, elektrikten, bilgisayarlardan, restorantlardan, barlardan, ofislerden uzakta günün uzunluğunu gerçekten de güneşin doğuşu ve batışı belirliyor. Yapılacak işler, görülecek, bakılacaklar o anda önünüzde olan ile, içinde bulunduğunuz yer ile sınırlanıyor. Bir yandan daralıyor dünyanız, tam o anda olduğunuz yere ve zamana – karşınıza bir sorun çıktığında kaçamıyorsunuz – ama bir yandan da ilginç bir sekilde genişliyor – genişliyor çünkü her zaman içinde bulunduğunuz kalabalıktan çekilip çıkmak kendinizi yeni şekillerde algılamak için bir fırsat da olabiliyor. Kocaman bir dağın üstünde, en yakın kasabadan üç yürüyüş günü uzakta, dağin, fırtınanın, rüzgarın keyfine kalmışken insan ne kadar ufacık, ne kadar güçsüz bir şey olduğunu farkediyor bu dünyanın üstünde. Orada gökyüzünde uçan atmaca da, taşın üstündeki kertenkele de, yerdeki yosun da, bir taş da, sen de aynı değerdesiniz. Orada dağin da dünyanın da umrunda değil sen deli gibi para mı kazanmışsın, harika kitaplar mi yazmışsın, hangi şirketi yönetmişsin… Bir noktasın, o kadar.
Bunu hissetmek, kavramak o kadar da korkunç bir sey değil zannımca. Tam tersine hiç durmadan egolarımızı beslemeyi, güçlendirmeyi öğrendiğimiz, dünyanın kendimizin ve insanların etrafında döndüğünü zannettiğimiz modern hayatlarımızda gerekli bir ders. Çünkü biz ne kadar ısrarla öyle değilmiş gibi de yapsak, ısrarla kendi bildiğimiz gibi yakıp yıksak da, doğa bir şekilde hatırlatıyor insan dediğimiz varlığın da daha büyük bir düzenin parçası olduğunu; taşan derelerle, depremlerle, tsunamilerle, ısınan okyanuslar, yükselen sular ile…
Doğada, özellikle estetik açıdan milli park olabilecek nitelikte yerlerde bulunmanın bir de çarpıcı bir yanı var, ki bunu hissetmek için öyle günlerce yürümeye gerek yok, kolay ulaşılabilir fakat iyi korunmuş doğal alanlar da aynı etkiyi yaratıyor. Geçenlerde okuduğum bir yazıda insanı çarpan, bakış açısını değiştirmeye zorlayan, dünya ve ötesi arasındaki mesafenin azaldığı, ilahi olanı hissetmenin mümkün olabildiği “incelmiş mekanlardan” bahsediyordu yazar. İlham veren, cezbeden, insanın içini karıştıran, uyandıran yerler; doğada olmasına gerek yok, şehirlerde, insan yapımı, insanla içiçe de bulunabilir. Fakat benim (ve bir dolu başkası) için işte, yüksek dağlarla, suların oyduğu kanyonlar, uçsuz bucaksız bozkırlarla, vadilerle karşılaşmanın, ezber bozan bir fotorafa, inanılmaz bir resme bakmak, etkileyici bir müzik parçasını dinlemek, ya da şaheser bir kilise ya da caminin kapısından adım atmaya benzer bir etkisi var[1]. Bir an nefessiz kalmak gibi; çarpılmak. Bir saniye boşluk, düşünememek, sadece hayranlık hissetmek. Kendinizden büyük olana, anlaşılmaz olana, güzel olana karşı bir hayranlık duymak… Buraları benim için “incelmiş mekanlar…” Residanslarla, avmlerle, ve bunların arasına dikilen ağaçlarla “cennet” haline getirilmelerine gerek yok; zaten varsa daha büyük bir güç, ben buralarda hissediyorum bunu…
Belki de bu yüzden doğada ufacık ve önemsiz hissetmek yalnız hissetmek anlamına gelmiyor. Tam tersine, bir taş ile, bir kertenkele ile, bir dağ çiçeği ile beraber dağın merhametine kalmış olmak, dev gökyüzünün altında, dünyanın güzelliğine, gücüne şaşmak aslında bir aidiyet duygusu da geliştirebiliyor – dünyaya, doğaya, evrene karşı. Kimlik dediğimiz olgu illa milletimizden, dinimizden, sınıfımızdan, ailemizden mi gelmeli? Bir yere “ait olmak” ya da bir yeri sevmek için o yerin illa “milli” bir referansa dayanarak mı adlandırılmış, şekillendirilmiş olmasi lazım? Biraz safça gelse de kulağa, hepimiz bu dünyaya aidiz, farketsekte farketmesekte. Belki de en çok bunu kavrıyorum ben dağda taşta vakit geçirdiğim günlerde – insan olduğumu, inanılmaz güzellikte, vahşilikte doğanın bir parçası olduğumu, bir gün ölüp gideceğimi ve bunun da, tam anlamıyla işte, dünyanın sonu olmayacağını…
Herkes hayatta başka başka dersler öğreniyor, başka başka yerlerde. Ama her gün birilerinin birilerini kesip üçüncü sayfalara haber olduğu, farklı görülen her kimliğin ezildiği, horgörüldüğü, aşağılandığı memlekette biraz daha az benmerkezci hissedebilmenin, kimlikleri sarsmanın, insanın daha büyük bir düzenin parçası olduğunu kavrayabilmenin (kendileri de bir dışlama mekanizması haline gelmiş camilerin ve din derslerinin dışında) fırsatlarını sağlamak “kamu yararı” sayılmaz mı? Herkesin zaten üst üste oturup da sinirden gerim gerim gerildiği şehirleri yeni başka beton çöplüklerle çevrelemektense nefes alacak, bir dakika koşmadan duracak ve ne olduğumuzu, kim olduğumuzu düşünebileceğimiz; tam da anlamadığımız bir sistemi kendi vizyonumuza göre paramparça etmektense, o sistemin parçası olduğumuzu hatırlatacak yerleri korumamız kamu yararı değil mi?
Vizyonunuz cebinize (hem de kısa vadede) girecek kar ile sınırlı ise değil tabii. Ama evrenin vizyonu üç bes aylık değil işte. Onun için ısrar etmeli: bırakın bir yerler de boş dursun. Bırakın da nefes almaya devam edelim…
[1] Mesela bu blogda yazar doğal mekanların dönüştürücü etkisinden bahsediyor Amerikanın güneyindeki Hueco parkını örnek olarak kullanarak. “İncelmiş mekan” kavramına ben bu yazıda rastladım…
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Erkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere roundup: “Stephane Hessel: the ultimate European”,
Stephane Hessel: the ultimate European
from open Democracy News Analysis – by Patrice de Beer
How could someone be more European than Hessel by origin, shared culture and values – his cross-border, supranational vision making us ashamed of our weaknesses, our lack of vision and courage ?
Stéphane Hessel, who died in Paris on Wednesday, February 27, 2013, and was born in Berlin in 1917, the very month the Russian Revolution started, was probably the last of the great Europeans.
France, UK appear headed for about-face on campaigns in Africa
by EU-Digest
Not long after France sent soldiers to Mali to prevent what was becoming a militant Islamist rout of that country’s forces, the talk in London was of a “new front in the war on terror” in North Africa, led by the United Kingdom and Europe taking the place of an increasingly hesitant United States.
Hollande least popular French president for three decades
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Here comes … the German Anti-Euro Party
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From Monti, a warning to France…and others
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Pro-lifers claim abortion is holding the Swiss economy back
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MAIN FOCUS: Farewell to Benedict XVI | 28/02/2013
from euro|topics
Pope Benedict XVI bid farewell to believers in his last general audience on Wednesday before stepping downtoday. Some commentators observe that Benedict has left many problems unsolved. Others are impressed by the energy he has put into restoring the credibility of the Church in his last days in office
And the winner is… Reflections on post-electoral politics in Italy
from open Democracy News Analysis – by Carlo Ungaro
With no clear winner emerging out of the election, a new era of uncertainty opens for Italian politics. How can the country get out of the post-electoral impasse?
Italian Elections: Uncertainties Ahead for Italy and Europe
from Public Affairs 2.0 by Vassia Popova
Bulgaria to hold early elections
from FT.com – World, Europe
President Rosen Plevneliev aims to avoid a political crisis after prime minister resigned last week following protests against high electricity prices
Self-Immolations Energize Bulgarian Protests
from Global Voices Online by Ruslan Trad
Protests continue in Bulgaria for 20 days without stopping. In the latest major protest, on Feb. 24, more than 200,000 people took to the streets of the biggest cities in the country – Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna. Their demands against monopolies in the energy sector and revision of the political system remain unfulfilled. Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev, speaking on Feb. 28, said he would create a caretaker government formed with the participation of civil society organizations. But the protests continue – on March 3, Bulgaria’s National Day, there will be new rallies.
The New Political Geography of Europe
from Docuticker
Source: European Council on Foreign Relations From the Introduction: The euro crisis has revolutionised politics across Europe. Established political parties are fighting for their lives; countries that thought of themselves as part of the European core are finding themselves on the periphery; and a huge gulf has emerged in the core
Stadiums Vs. Schools: Slovakia’s Misplaced Priorities
from Global Voices Online by Tibor Blazko
When at the end of 2012 thousands of Slovak teachers went on nationwide strike, demanding a 10-percent pay rise, they ended up getting only about 5 percent – along with the Education Minister’s explanation that “if there was money in the state treasury box, teachers would get as much as 20 percent.”
Could the UK be asked to contribute to a Cypriot bailout?
by Open Europe blog team
As we have noted before, the potential impact of the Cypriot bailout has the capacity to extend well beyond what would be expected of a country accounting for only 0.2% of eurozone GDP. This impact is now also lapping at the UK shores.
Whistleblowing in the UK – in part, it really is about culture
from open Democracy News Analysis – by Julien Etienne
The Mid Staffs scandal asks a number of serious questions about failures to raise the alarm over standards of care. Yet even without legislation, other countries have a much better record on whistleblowing – why?
MAIN FOCUS: Swiss limit managers’ salaries | 04/03/2013
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A clear majority of Swiss voted in favour of the so-called “fat cat initiative” in a referendum held on Sunday. In future shareholders are to have the final say regarding the remuneration of top managers, which will limit extremely high salaries and bonuses. Some commentators call the vote a victory against arrogance and greed. Others fear that national provisions cannot replace a global regulation.
Calling Italy’s Tune: I Pagliacci? La Forza del Destino?
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It’s been less than a week since the cataclysmic vote counts came in, but somehow it feels as though we’ve lived through an entire season of some new psychodrama. Or, recalling how the sequence began with Monti’s technocratic government falling to the tune of Lohengrin, are we perhaps trapped in a little-known Verdi opera? Allow me to offer a synopsis:
Former Polish president: U.S.-EU ties ‘too weak’
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How does our prediction on Spanish regions’ deficit stand up?
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MAIN FOCUS: Brussels caps banker bonuses | 01/03/2013
from euro|topics
Representatives of the EU Parliament and member states decided on Thursday to limit bonus payments to bankers. Starting 2014, bonuses may not exceed twice a manager’s annual salary. Some commentators warn that the plan will weaken Europe as a financial location. For others, this measure in the battle against excessesin the banking sector does not go far enough.
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Erkan in the Army now...: EFD Rights Watch: Turkish Army denies claims of German troops’ mistreatment…mistreatment is for locals… Website Campaigns For Turkey’s Foreign Inmates..
Turkish Army denies claims of German troops’ mistreatment
from Hurriyet Daily News
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Psychiatrist Reacts Ministry’s Sex Segregation
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Police detain suspect in assaults on Armenian women in Samatya
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Turkish premier says there is no headscarf ban in the Constitution, signaling.
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Erkan in the Army now...: Greek PM Samaras in Turkey, all parties wish for dialogue… A FP roundup…
Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul receives Greece’s Prime Minister Antonis Samaras (L) in Istanbul March 4, 2013. REUTERS/Mehmet Demirci/Presidential Press Office/Handout (TURKEY – Tags: POLITICS)
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Turkish President Abdullah Gül received Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.
Turkey, Greece Vow Dialogue to Overcome Rifts
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US, Turkey divided on Israel after PM Erdoğan’s Zionism remarks
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John Kerry to urge Turkey to patch up relations with Israel after Zionism row
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On June 29, 1949, eight men gathered in New York to announce the establishment of The American Turkish Society. At the time, none of them could have guessed that it would last nearly six decades and boast so many success stories. The organization came to life at the end of a long and tumultuous decade that saw the end of World War II. The Society’s founding members were Selim Sarper, Ernest Jacks, Asa W. Jennings, Lewis R.Cohen, Charles R. Wylie and three Turkish representatives, ex-officio. These eight men knew the world was on the verge of a new horizon. In 1947 they had seen the Marshall Plan begin; in 1949, it was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Clearly a better relationship between Turkey and the U.S. would benefit both nations
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anthropologyworks: Anthro in the news 3/4/13
• Economic anthropologists sought to enrich poor numbers
According to a book review in The Financial Times, “A tendency to issue doubtful data is rooted in colonial days and still creates problems for the [African] continent, according to an important study: Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled By African Development Statistics and What To Do About It, by Morten Jerven. The review goes on: “There are lies, damned lies and then there are African statistics. If economic figures everywhere are a work in progress — regularly rebased and updated to take into account fresh data — those from Africa are the most open to question and the most unreliable in their revision.”
Credit: Cornell University Press
The reviewer considers Poor Numbers to be an important contribution to the subject. Morten Jerven, an assistant professor at the school for international studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, builds the case for renewed scrutiny. Pointing to “huge discrepancies and alarming gaps” in African figures, he writes: “Datasets are like guns. Someone will use them if they are left lying around.”
And, further [and now we are getting to the connection with anthropology], Jerven calls for a focus on strengthened national statistical capacity, the use of “economic anthropologists,” and greater transparency on the underlying assumptions and weaknesses of existing data.
As Jerven rightly concludes: “Numbers are too important to be ignored, and the problems surrounding the production and dissemination of numbers are too serious to be dismissed.”
• The real news in anthropology is not about Chagnon
In the Huffington Post, Paul Stoller, professor of anthropology at West Chester University, comments on the latest “flare up” in the news surrounding Napoleon Chagnon‘s memoir, Noble Savages (and see below in this aitn). He states: “In the sweep of time, though, Chagnon’s work is but a blip on the screen. In the nanosecond reality of the media universe, Chagnon’s ideas and struggles will quickly revert back to what they are: ‘very old news.’ The real news…is the ongoing work on structures of poverty and social inequality, work that exposes how contemporary economic practices trigger widespread real world suffering. That scholarship produces results that are politically threatening to men like Rick Scott, Scott Walker and Rick Perry. That’s why they’re slashing higher education budgets. What better way to undermine anthropology, sociology, and the humanities and protect their economic and political interests?”
• Rethinking boarding schools for Aboriginal children
Professor Marcia Langton denies suggestions that sending more Indigenous students to boarding schools, rather than learning in their own communities, would create a new “stolen generation.”
Source: marcialangton.blogspot.com She has put forward a plan to close the education gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students by sending Indigenous students to private, metropolitan schools. She argues that the Australian education system must stop treating Indigenous students differently from their non-Indigenous peers. She proposes more Indigenous teachers, flexibility in the timing of the school year, and cross-cultural training for Aboriginal children to improve students’ marks.
She is quoted as saying: “It’s quite wrong to refer to this as … a new stolen generation because Aboriginal parents willingly send their children to these schools. They want their children to have a good education so the conditions are there for them to perform much better.” Professor Langton blames a severe lack of resources and constant experimentation for the failures in the current education system for Indigenous students. An audio interview is included.
• On South Korea’s adoption program
Shannon Heit, who is pursuing a master’s degree in anthropology at Hanyang University, published an article in The Korea Times, analyzing Korea’s adoption program and how to avoid running the risk of the program regressing. Heit is a Korean adoptee who came to a family in the United States when she was 4 years old. She has been living in Seoul for the past six years and volunteering at the Korean Unwed Mothers’ Families Association for the past two and a half years.
Shannon Heit/Korea Times The Examiner picked up on Heit’s article, commenting: “New Korean adoption laws went into effect in August 2012 … Korean officials wanted a greater emphasis on in-country foster care and adoptions, making international adoptions a last priority…” Heit argues for a nationwide study should be conducted to assess the numbers of children put up for adoption to provide solid data before trying to revise the law.
• Haiti expert comes to Northern Illinois University
According to The Mid-Week news of DeKalb, Illinois, the Northern Illinois University Center for Non-Governmental Organization Leadership and Development (NGOLD) and the Department of Anthropology announced that Mark Schuller has accepted a joint appointment as an assistant professor.
Schuller was hired following a national search, and is the first joint appointment between NGOLD and anthropology. Supported by the National Science Foundation, among others, Schuller’s research on globalization, NGOs, gender and disasters in Haiti has been widely published. Most recently, he is the author of Killing with Kindness: Haiti, International Aid, and NGOs. He is the co-director and co-producer of the documentary Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy. Schuller is also a regular contributor for The Huffington Post. He chairs the Society for Applied Anthropology’s Human Rights and Social Justice Committee.
• Take that anthro degree…
…and run for political office in Kenya. In Kenya, the race for Kakamega governor will come to an end on Monday with the vote. A contender in the race is Albert Mwilitsa, a first timer and the youngest of the candidates. A former DC for Turkana North district, he holds a BA degree in Governance and Anthropology from University of Nairobi.
• Very old maize
Science Daily reported on new findings by archaeologists related to the emergence of a distinct South American civilization during the Late Archaic period (3000-1800 B.C.E.) in Peru. A persistent question is the role of agriculture and particularly corn (maize) in the evolution of complex, centralized societies. The prevailing theory was that marine resources, not agriculture and corn, provided the economic basis for the development of civilization in the Andean region of Peru.
Peruvian purple corn (Credit: © Ildi / Fotolia)/Science Daily
New research led by Field Museum curator Dr. Jonathan Haas offers a resolution to the debate by analyzing microscopic evidence found in soil, on stone tools, and in coprolites. Haas and his colleagues have concluded that during the Late Archaic, maize (Zea mays, or corn) was a primary component in the diet of people living in the Norte Chico region of Peru.
The researchers concluded that the prevalence of maize in multiple contexts and in multiple sites indicates this domesticated food crop was grown widely in the area and constituted a major portion of the local diet and not used just on ceremonial occasions. Findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
• Chagnon commentary continues
The recent publication of Napoleon Chagnon’s memoir, Noble Savages, continues to prompt commentary as well as several “letters to the editor.” This past week, biological anthropologist at William and Mary College, Barbara King, wrote for NPR: “The debates surrounding his work are burning brightly once again with the publication of Chagnon’s memoir, Noble Savages. The book received lacerating reviews by anthropologists Elizabeth Povinelli in The New York Times and Rachel Newcomb in The Washington Post. Then, as reported by Inside Higher Ed on Monday, Sahlins resigned his membership in the National Academy of Sciences.
Sahlins cited the Academy’s “large moral and intellectual blunder” in electing Chagnon as one reason for his decision. (The other reason involves Sahlins’ objection to collaborative projects between the NAS and the military, an issue that has nothing to do with Chagnon).
I know neither Sahlins nor Chagnon personally. But for a biological anthropologist like myself, these recent, dizzying and highly agitated events surrounding Chagnon and his work are important to try and understand … As an anthropologist, I know that my field is so much better — more elegant, more nuanced — than one that paints non-Western peoples’ behavior as strongly rooted in evolutionary biology or as throwback to times past… So, what now? Am I suggesting that Chagnon not be read? Not at all. Read Chagnon, of course [and other anthropologists]… reading widely and deeply in anthropology is the best antidote to inappropriately reductionist science.
Hugh Gusterson, professor of cultural anthropology at George Mason University, wrote a letter to the editor of The New York Times, contesting Chagnon’s claim that the Yanomamö lived “in a state of nature” before his arrival and noting the need to avoid creating and perpetuating mythologies of the “primitive.”
Napoleon Chagnon wrote a letter to the editor of The New York Times commenting that the preferred spelling is Yanomamö, not Yanomami.
Immediately following Chagnon’s letter to the editor is another letter from Steven Gold, director of health and community services, Macomb County, Michigan: “In 1970-71, I transported vials of Yanomami blood to the genetics lab of Dr. James Neel. I used to muse on how the blood had flowed a day earlier in the veins of fierce Yanomami warriors in the Amazon rain forest. Little did I know of the fierce academics whose sublimated conflicts flowed in the corridors of the Anthropology Department.”
[Blogger's notes: apparently Steven Gold didn't receive the updated spelling guide from Chagnon. Much more seriously, ethical issues were involved in taking blood from the Yanomamö and transporting it to the U.S. without their understanding of how the blood would be used or the implications for them of having their blood kept for many years in the U.S. After a protracted period of negotiation, the blood samples were returned to the Yanomamö in 2010. Here are links to some resources on the blood aspect of the wider Yanomamö controversy related to research ethics.]
• Welcome to my fossil lab
Credit: Penguin NBC News carried a piece, with a video interview, on Professor Charles Musiba‘s recent opening of his research lab to 650 high school students across the U.S. through a video-conference program. “It was exciting to be able to do that,” said Musiba, associate professor of anthropology at Colorado University at Denver. Musiba is part of the Scientists in Action program put on by the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. This is one of only two programs nationwide bringing real world scientists into classrooms across the country through video-conferencing technology.
• Woof: survival of the friendliest
During last February, several media sources discussed the research of Duke University biological anthropologist Brian Hare on the evolution of dogs and canine intelligence and his new book, The Genius of Dogs.
This past week, The Scotsman carried an article about his work: “Dogs, not primates, are the animal kingdom’s clever clogs. Not only that, he claims everything we thought we knew about dogs and their evolution is wrong. We didn’t domesticate them; they domesticated themselves, because cosying up with mankind was the best way for their wild ancestors to get fed and, therefore, survive.”
Perhaps the most ground-breaking discovery of all, according to Hare, is that both our development and that of dogs is not down to survival of the fittest at all. It’s about survival of the friendliest. However, he believes dogs may have reached their evolutionary peak: “But I don’t know. Evolution is strange in many ways…”
• Kudos
Dame Anne Salmond/U. of Auckland Dame Anne Salmond, DBE, FRSNZ, FBA, and Distinguished Professor of Maori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland, has been named New Zealander of the Year.
Honouring the achievements and contributions of an inspirational Kiwi, the Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year is awarded to someone who has given outstanding service to the country and provided inspiration to New Zealanders through their achievements. Dame Anne received the title for her contribution to Maori and Pacific studies.
She is author of seven award-winning books and many articles on Maori life and cross-cultural encounters in New Zealand and the Pacific. She is the recipient of many honours and titles. She is Project Sponsor for the Starpath Partnership for Excellence, which aims to ensure that Maori, Pacific and low income students achieve their potential through education.
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hawgblawg: Kufiyas in Wallander #1
I recently watched the Swedish Wallander series on netflix (I much prefer it to the PBS version starring Kevin Branagh) and spotted kufiyas a few times. Here's a photo of one time: it's Hanna, the daughter of the character Katarina Ahlsell, the district prosecutor (played by Lena Endre, who is also in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy -- she plays Erika Berger, co-owner of Millennium and some-time lover of Mikael Blomkvist). Here Hanna is taking a photo of her "boyfriend." I'm not sure which episode this is from. Sometime I'll go back and check.In Sweden they simply call a kufiya a Palestinian scarf, or Palestinasjal.
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anthrostrategist: Defining Context
Planners, researchers and marketers increasingly think about consumer in complex ways. We understand that in a changing digital landscape, where people are dialed in 27/7, the context in which they learn and shop is incredibly important and influences what messages … Continue reading →
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Neuroanthropology: Andreas Roepstorff on Neuroanthropology
Andreas Roepstorff is one of the leaders of neuroanthropology. A professor in both anthropology and integrative neuroscience at Aarhus, Roepstorff is co-director of the MINDLab there.
MINDLab is based on fruitful collaborations among leading research groups across Faculties and Institutes at Aarhus University… addressing central scientific problems within culture, music, language and memory. Combining this knowledge with research on novel technologies to examine the living brain, and on the most devastating neurological and psychiatric disorders, we hope to create new means to preserve and recover function and quality-of-life in relation to diseases accounting for 35% of the disease burden in Denmark. MINDLab will also develop new forms of teaching and sharing of knowledge, exploiting crucial synergies across traditional disciplines.
LEVYNA – the Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion – has posted an interview with Roepstorff where he discusses his synthetic work in neuroanthropology.
It’s a real pleasure to hear Roepstorff, as I’ve never met him in person. Big hat-tip to Micah Allen for bringing the video to my attention.
If you want more from Roepstorff, you can access a list of all his publications here. One of the best overviews of his approach to neuroanthropology is the paper co-authored with Jörg Niewöhnerc and Stefan Beck, Enculturing brains through patterned practices (pdf available here).
LEVYNA also features a series of interviews with other great scholars, including Harvey Whitehouse and Paulo Sousa.
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Language Log: Nerd, geek, PK: Creeping Romanization (and Englishization), part 2
The question of whether or not there's a word for "nerd" in Chinese has recently come up, in Mark Liberman's "'Your passport has just been stamped for entry into the Land of Bullshit'".
Mark quotes Tom Scocca, who cites three terms: fáwèi de rén 乏味的人 ("a dull and tasteless person"), diànnǎomí 电脑迷 ("someone excessively enthusiastic about computers"), and shūdāizi 书呆子 ("bookworm; pedant").
But none of these expressions comes close to functioning the way "nerd" does in contemporary American society. The first, fáwèi de rén, is a makeshift, ad hoc dictionary definition that explains a small part of what "nerd" signifies, but is not a set term that has the social-intellectual resonance and reach of "nerd". The second, diànnǎomí, is simply incorrect as even a translation of "nerd", since some people have called me a nerd, but I am absolutely terrified of computers (all of my good friends know that very well), though it might serve as a partial definition-explanation of "geek" (more about that below). The third, shūdāizi, is often invoked as a Chinese functional equivalent of "nerd", but even many of the people who mention it do so a bit sheepishly and admit that it's not really the same thing as "nerd", whereas most people (myself included) will say that it's not even remotely equivalent to "nerd".
I would like to discuss the problem of "nerd" in Chinese from a broader standpoint, namely, how ideas and concepts — and the words that signify them — pass from one culture to another.
So let's continue our examination of the question of how to say "nerd" in Chinese. First of all, we have to know what "nerd" itself means. It doesn't just signify a bookish or pedantic person, but rather someone who is socially inept or square (try finding an exactly equivalent word for that in Chinese!), perhaps, but not necessarily, because of a consuming commitment to intellectual or technical pursuits (in my case it's Language Log).
I asked about thirty native speakers of various Sinitic languages and topolects how they would say "nerd" in Chinese. Around half of them flat out said that you cannot say "nerd" in Chinese, but must borrow the English word. Roughly another quarter mentioned shūdāizi ("bookworm"), or variants thereof, while another quarter listed all sorts of colorful terms meaning — more or less — "fool; blockhead; dolt; dunce; dullard; simpleton; numskull"; etc.), none of which are really comparable to "nerd". I'll just list a few of the more interesting Chinese terms of the latter sort:
Mandarin:
chǔnrén 蠢人 ("dolt") — note the two "worm / bug" radicals!)
dāizi 呆子 ("fool; sucker; idiot; goon; gawk; simpleton; calf; blockhead") — this is the shūdāizi 书呆子 ("bookworm") discussed above, but without the book at the beginning
shǎguā 傻瓜 ("muddle-headed melon") — this is one of my favorite words in Mandarin; can be used endearingly
chǔnhuò 蠢货 ("stupid goods")
Here follow some expressions from topolects whose pronunciations I'm not sure about, so I will usually give only the characters and the meanings, though I will make a stab in the dark for some of the pronunciations where I have a bit of a clue.
Cantonese:
zaak6 naam4 宅男 ("home boy / man") — see the brief discussion of Japanese otaku and the derived Cantonese terms below
电车男 ("trolley / tram / streetcar boy / man")
书虫 ("bookworm")
隐蔽青年 ("secluded / hidden / sequestered youth") — mostly used in very formal situations, like news broadcasting and in printed media
憨居 or 憨居居 ("silly; simple-minded") — tends to have a more derogatory meaning than the above words, indicating someone who is easily deceived or flat out stupid; "doesn't capture the entire meaning of nerd, it simply describes the person as foolish, gullible, and socially handicapped"
薯仔 ("yam young'un") — "has multiple meanings, but is mostly used to describe a person who is dowdy, unhip, and a bit antediluvian"
Shandongese:
愣子 ("person who is dazed / blank / dumb")
楞蛋 ("angular / square egg") — close to the "square" I talked about above
愣头青 ("blank-head youth")
Sichuanese:
憨包 ("foolish bag")
猪脑壳 ("pig skull")
哈儿 ("gaper" [?] — I honestly don't know the derivation of this term)
闷（达儿) ("imbecile" [?])
莽子 ("boor" [?])
Suzhouese and Shanghainese:
gangnin (don't know the tones) 戆[赣 above 心 below]人 ("muddlehead") — one of my informants comments:
There is a word that sounds like gǎngníng 港宁 [VHM: "port middle", but the characters are here being used strictly for the purpose of transcribing the Shanghainese sounds of the word in question], yet it does't exactly mean "nerd". It can be used affectionately towards children when they are acting silly, or towards somebody close who is "dorky". I think "dork" would be closer to the meaning? Either way, it's more of an affectionate name than an actual title. The more hostile version of 港宁, which is gǎngdù 港度 (it sounds like that, I'm not sure how to write the words) [VHM: neither my informant nor I know how to write this Shanghainese word in characters, nor how to transcribe it in Roman letters], which is "idiot". It can be used both affectionately and offensively.
N.B.: It is widely believe that this Shanghainese and Suzhouese term should be written as 憨人 ("simpleton") in characters, but the proper characters are as given above (see Wāng Píng 汪平, Xuéshuō Sūzhōu huà《学说苏州话》(Learning to Speak Suzhouese).
书毒头 ("egghead" [?]) — has a complimentary connotation
书蠹头 ("book worm-eaten/infested head")
This is obviously another way of writing the previous term, which — character by character — literally means "book poison head"! Clearly, there is no consensus among Wu speakers about how to write the second syllable. One informant put it this way: "…[It]'s impossible to write it. However, I'm guessing that the first character is 书 ["book"], and the last is 头 ["head"], but nobody in our family knew what the middle 'duh' is. It could be 读, or 独. Or maybe nothing at all, just a sound." Another informant told me it might be 倒.
I'm not sure how to transcribe the pronunciation of this word in either Suzhouese or Shanghainese, but it's something like siduhdeu.
Hunanese:
书迂子 ("pedant")
Hokkien:
"…people would say something that sounds like 'come-come'; it's not a literal term but very commonly used in daily conversation; can be derogatory or complimentary, depending upon the context"
All of these terms, and I could list many more, attest to the rich vocabulary for referring to fools and simpletons in Chinese, but none of them means what "nerd" does.
Here are some new usages in Mandarin that aren't really stabilized yet (in many cases, it is not evident how or why they have come to mean something like "nerd"):
Kǒng Zǐ 孔子 ("Confucius")
lǐkē nán 理科男 ("science male") — colloquial
èr 二 ("two") — a couple of my informants mentioned this as recently being used in contexts that resemble those in which "nerd" appears in English
zháinán/nǚ 宅男／女 ("home boy / girl") — these and related terms with zhái 宅 ("home; residence") in them must derive from Japanese otaku. For the origins of this usage in Japanese, Wikipedia puts it this way:
Otaku is derived from a Japanese term for another's house or family (お宅, otaku). This word is often used metaphorically, as an honorific second-person pronoun. In this usage, its literal translation is "you"…. The modern slang form, which is distinguished from the older usage by being written only in hiragana (おたく) or katakana (オタク or, less frequently, ヲタク), or rarely in rōmaji, appeared in public discourse in the 1980s, through the work of humorist and essayist Akio Nakamori. His 1983 series An Investigation of "Otaku" (『おたく』の研究 "Otaku" no Kenkyū?), printed in the lolicon [VHM: "Lolita Complex"] magazine Manga Burikko, applied the term to unpleasant fans in caricature.
The Japanese Wikipedia page on otaku reads:
中森が連載した『「おたく」の研究 』（1983年）の中で、アニメや漫画の愛好者が二人称として「御宅」という語を使う異質性から、その人間類型をおたくと呼称することが提案された。中森 はオタクを非常に否定的な文脈で記述しており、
A rough translation: "In the 1983 column Otaku no kenkyuu, Nakamori Akio proposed to call anime and manga enthusiasts 'otaku' based on the bizarreness of their use of the term as the second-person pronoun. Nakamori used the term in an extremely negative context."
But Japanese doesn't have one specific word for "nerd," as evidenced in part by the translation of Revenge of the Nerds as ナーズの復讐 (ふくしゅう), where the English word is transcribed in katakana (nāzu).
One of my correspondents tells me that her Korean friends say something like "pabao" to mean "nerd".
On the internet, we often encounter guàikā 怪咖 ("weirdo; freak") — this started in Taiwan among Taiwanese speakers but has now been picked up by Mandarin speakers as well. One of my correspondents suggested this as a possible Chinese equivalent for "nerd". I suspect, rather, that it is a fusion of the Chinese word for "strange / odd / queer" and the English word "geek", the second syllable serving as a transcription of the final consonant of the English word. And this brings up the problem of "nerd" versus "geek", another word whose meaning and nuances are very hard to express with a single Chinese word.
In this case, rather than relying on approximations like shūdāizi 书呆子 ("bookworm; pedant") or borrowing the English word directly, it seems that transcription is favored, e.g., jíkè 极客, qíkè奇客. There are many transcriptional forms for "geek(y)" in Hong Kong Cantonese, such as 騎呢, 怪鸡，搞机… too many to list.
In Japanese, for "geek", one might in some situations say -kon 控. See "Morpheme(s) of the Year".
In Cantonese, as in Japanese and other East Asian languages, "nerd" and "geek" seem to get blended together. Here are relevant entries from Bob Bauer's forthcoming ABC Cantonese-English Dictionary:
zaak6 naam4 宅男 (lit., "house male") term was likely originally borrowed from Japanese into Taiwan Mandarin in 2005 in connection with the broadcast of the popular Japanese TV drama "Densha otoko" 电车男 ("train man"); term is similar in meaning to duk6 naam4 毒男 (lit., "poisonous male") DEFINITION: nerd, geek: a young man who barricades himself in his room at home and spends most of the time surfing the internet on his computer, playing video games, avoiding face-to-face interaction and communication with other people, esp. women, and neglecting his physical appearance and personal hygiene
duk6 naam4 毒男 (lit., "poisonous male") term is similar in meaning to zaak6 naam4 宅男 (lit., "house male") young man who is single, introverted, socially-inept, unpopular with girls, and spends most of his time shut up in his room surfing the internet
We've often discussed the problem of "letter words" and English terms becoming a part of the Chinese lexicon and indeed of the alphabet becoming a part of the Chinese writing system, e.g., this post and the references therein.
A very common expression in China nowadays is "PK". It most likely comes from "player killer" in "Counter-Strike" and other popular video games in net cafe culture (though there are competing theories of its origins) and means "to thoroughly dominate" or "to beat" in competition. It may also be used in the sense of "call out" or "make a comparison between multiple contestants."
Several things to note about PK:
1. People who left China just a few years ago simply do not know this kind of very popular language.
2. PK is not an abbreviation or acronym of a Chinese term, but it now has become Chinese.
3. People who use terms such as PK freely must, whether directly or indirectly, consciously or unconsciously, be aware of their basis in English.
4. PK and such terms are part of global culture. They are neither merely English nor borrowed Chinese terms.
5. As so often happens when words cross from one language to another language, it does not mean exactly the same thing in Chinese ("to thoroughly dominate; to beat" [in one-on-one or multiple competition]) that it means in English ("player killer").
Brendan O'Kane and Matt Smith have done a considerable amount of research on this term (PK) in Chinese. If anyone has a particular interest in the origins and usage of "PK" in China, I could share their notes.
To sum up, even those informants who said that shūdāizi ("bookworm") is the closest you can get to "nerd" in Chinese recognize that it is very different from the latter word in English. Many young people, especially in Hong Kong and also in Taiwan, simply use the English word "nerd"; the English word is also increasingly used on the Mainland. A graduate student from the Mainland states: "I've never heard a translation for 'nerd'. If someone in China says it, the word must be in English." Another graduate student from the Mainland declares: "When we talk about a geek in Chinese, we only say 'geek', using the English word. No Chinese word can deliver the exact meaning."
Many Chinese speakers are aware of the subtle differences and similarities between "nerd" and "geek", as is evidenced by this article, which comes with a neat Venn diagram.
And here is an English article that distinguishes among "geek", "nerd", "dork" and "dweeb", which comes with an even neater Venn diagram.
To return to the main theme of this essay, "how ideas and concepts — and the words that signify them — pass from one culture to another", this is what borrowing is all about. When one culture in contact with another culture discovers an idea / term that it considers to be lacking in its own culture and feels the need to acquire it, there are many different strategies for doing so. Sometimes they borrow the idea / object / technique and give it a new name of their own; sometimes they borrow the idea / object / technique together with its name, which they may accept as is or which they may alter to their own taste and needs. "PK" has come into Chinese as a "letter word" (zìmǔ cí 字母词), "nerd" has entered Chinese directly as a borrowing, but also through various approximations and adaptations, while "geek" has been assimilated through partial and full transcription, plus outright borrowing. One thing is certain: words, ideas, objects, and techniques travel far and wide across the globe, leading to cross-fertilization and mutual enrichment of the cultures that belong to the human family.
[A tip of the hat to Sanping Chen and thanks to Matt Smith, Brendan O'Kane, David Lancashire, Nathan Hopson, Hiroko Sherry, Yunong Zhou, Melvin Lee, Liwei Jiao, Xu Wenkan, Zhenzhen Lu, Gianni Wan, Mandy Chan, Annie Chan, Rebecca Fu, Jing Wen, Sophie Wei, Wu Yue, Alan Chin, Tyler Cheung, Fan Jiayang, Cao Lin, Cheng Fangyi, Wu Yuchang, Chen Wenjie, Zōu Chénkē, Bob Bauer, Don Snow, and Summer Hu]
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