Reassessing the Role of SCO in the South & Central Asian Context

2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-49
Author(s):  
Mushtak A. Kaw
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
South Central ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Asian Context

Peaceful Nuclear Tests, Eco-friendly Reactors, and the Vantage Point of Tamasha

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-223
Author(s):  
Fathima Nizaruddin
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The South ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Nuclear Tests ◽  
Asian Context ◽  
Epistemological Violence

The article analyzes the role of the documentary form in building pronuclear narratives around the Indian nuclear project. It situates the nuclear films made by two state institutions, Films Division of India (Films Division) and Vigyan Prasar, as part of a network of expert statements, documentary assertions, and state violence that bring into being a pronuclear reality. Through the insights gained from my practice-based enquiry, which led to the production and circulation of a film titled Nuclear Hallucinations, I argue that the certainty of the pronouncements of such documentaries can be unsettled by approaching them as a tamasha. I rely on the multiple connotations of the word tamasha in the South Asian context and its ability to turn solemn assertions into a matter of entertainment or a joke. This vantage point of tamasha vis-à-vis the Indian nuclear project builds upon the strategies of antinuclear documentaries that resist the epistemological violence of pronuclear assertions. In this article, I explore the role of comic modes and irony in forming sites of tamasha to create trouble within the narratives that position nonviolent antinuclear protestors as “antinational” elements. The article also expands on how the point of view of tamasha can engender new solidarities, which can resist the violence of the Indian nuclear project by forming new configurations of possibilities.

scholarly journals Multiethnicity, pluralism, and migration in the south central Andes: An alternate path to state expansion

2015 ◽  
Vol 112 (30) ◽  
pp. 9202-9209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul S. Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Central Andes ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
The South ◽  
Apparent Contradiction ◽  
State Expansion ◽  
South Central ◽  
Archaic States ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Social Entities

The south central Andes is known as a region of enduring multiethnic diversity, yet it is also the cradle of one the South America’s first successful expansive-state societies. Social structures that encouraged the maintenance of separate identities among coexistent ethnic groups may explain this apparent contradiction. Although the early expansion of the Tiwanaku state (A.D. 600–1000) is often interpreted according to a centralized model derived from Old World precedents, recent archaeological research suggests a reappraisal of the socio-political organization of Tiwanaku civilization, both for the diversity of social entities within its core region and for the multiple agencies behind its wider program of agropastoral colonization. Tiwanaku’s sociopolitical pluralism in both its homeland and colonies tempers some of archaeology’s global assumptions about the predominant role of centralized institutions in archaic states.

scholarly journals Role of gender in health disparity: the South Asian context

BMJ ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 328 (7443) ◽  
pp. 823-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fariyal F Fikree ◽  
Omrana Pasha
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Health Disparity ◽  
The South ◽  
Asian Context

scholarly journals Institutions and mechanism of regional integration in the South Central Coast

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Nguyen Quoc Toan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
The South ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Central Coast ◽  
South Central ◽  
Regional Coordination ◽  
The Cost

The regional integration is a relatively complex social phenomenon that requires a variety of theoretical frameworks/approaches. The paper proposes and analyzes the framework for assessing the role and level of regional integration in economic development in the South Central Coast. The results of the study show that the level of regional integration is not tight and of mere formality as the cost of regional integration is higher than the benefits and the institution of regional coordination has not been effective. These result in the fact that the role of regional integration in promoting economic spillovers and enhancing competitiveness . is not commensurate with expectations. Through the analysis, the paper proposes some guidelines to enhance the role and increase the level of regional connectivity in the South Central Coast in the future.  

Exotic Goods and Everyday Chiefs: Long-Distance Exchange and Indigenous Sociopolitical Development in the South Central Andes

2000 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 335-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul S. Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Central Andes ◽  
Sociopolitical Development ◽  
Complex Societies ◽  
The South ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
South Central ◽  
Stylistic Elements ◽  
Moquegua Valley ◽  
Regional Settlement

AbstractLong-distance exchange of exotic preciosities, while it can occur in any sociopolitical context, may be associated with both chiefly formation and state hegemony. In the south central Andes, shared stylistic elements in early complex societies of Paracas-Nasca on the Peruvian south coast and Pukara in the altiplano suggest their contact via intermediate areas. Unfortunately, interpretations of the interaction of these great traditions tend to neglect indigenous sociopolitical development in regions between the two culture areas. Recent systematic survey in one such intermediate region, Peru's Moquegua Valley, has shed light on an indigenous pre-Tiwanaku culture with distinctive regional settlement patterns, complex mortuary practices, and a local ceramic tradition known as Huaracane (385 cal B. C-cal A. D. 340). Surface collections and test excavations confirm a minimal presence of exotic Pukara and Paracas-Nasca ceramics and textiles in association with elite local residential contexts and a late Huaracane mortuary tradition known as “boot tombs” that appears after 170 cal B. C. As there is no general emulation of foreign styles, domestic activities, or practices, an agency-oriented local perspective is favored over globalist colonial or clientage models to explain the role of exotica in a climate of competitive sociopolitical development.

The role of deformation in controlling depositional patterns in the south-central Niger Delta, West Africa

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 847-859 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Hooper ◽  
Roy J. Fitzsimmons ◽  
Neil Grant ◽  
Bruno C. Vendeville
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
The South ◽  
South Central ◽  
Depositional Patterns

scholarly journals AGE AND COMPOSITION OF THE EARLY PALEOZOIC MAGMATIC ASSOCIATIONS AND RELATED RARE-ELEMENT PEGMATITES IN THE SOUTH-EASTERN PART OF THE SANGILEN BLOCK, TUVA-MONGOLIAN MASSIF

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-286
Author(s):  
L. G. Kuznetsova ◽  
S. P. Shokalsky ◽  
S. A. Sergeev ◽  
S. I. Dril
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Compositions ◽  
Early Paleozoic ◽  
Fold Belt ◽  
The South ◽  
Rare Element ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Granitic Magmatism ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Collisional Orogeny

The article presents new data on ages (U-Pb zircon dating, SIMS SHRIMP-II) and chemical compositions of rocks from gabbro-granitic and granite-leucogranitic magmatic associations. These rocks preceded the formation of Li-enriched spodumene pegmatites of the Tserigiyngol-Burchin ore cluster (Russian: ЦБРУ), one of the main clusters in the South Sangilen pegmatite belt (SSB) located in the Tuva-Mongolian massif being a part of the Central Asian Fold Belt. We investigated the rocks from the Upper Tserigiyngol, Uchuglyk and Temenchulu plutons, and pegmatites from two neighbouring fields. We distinguish three impulses of granitic magmatism (517±7, 508±7, and 488±6 Ma), which are attributed to different stages of the Early Paleozoic collision orogeny (520-480 Ma). The period when the Li-enriched pegmatites were formed (494±7 Ma) is close to the magmatism impulse at 488±6 Ma. Differences are discovered in compositional and isotopic (Sm-Nd) features of granites dominating at the following stages of collisional orogeny: (1) early collision (517±7 Ma) – I-type granites, eNd(T)=0–1.5, TNd (DM-2st)=1.2–1.1 b.y., and (2) late collision (488±6 Ma) – A-2-type granites, eNd(T)=–3.0…–1.6, TNd (DM-2st)=1.5–1.4 b.y., which are due to different sources. Our study shows that facies transitions are absent between the late-collision granites (488±6 Ma) and the spodumene pegmatites from the Tserigiyngol-Burchin ore cluster (494±7 Ma), although these rocks are close in age. In terms of geochemical features, the spodumene pegmatites from the cluster are strongly different from both the late-collision granites and spodumene pegmatites from other SSB fields, including the large Tastyg lithium deposit. We have analysed the role of interactions between the crustal and mantle materials in the formation of granitoid sources in the Tserigiyngol-Burchin ore cluster, and described their evolution in time and the influence on the pegmatite rare-element specialization.

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