218 research outputs found
Below the Belt? Territory and Development in Chinaâs International Rise
Chinaâs internationalization has been heralded by some as a new era of SouthâSouth cooperation. Yet such framings of development are pitched at an abstract space of the âglobal Southâ which conceals more than it reveals. With some theory moving towards ontologies of âglobal developmentâ, we need to capture both the connectedness and the local specificity of increasingly diffuse processes. This article sets out a more fine-grained understanding of how political territories and processes are imagined and produced by and through Chinaâs internationalization, focusing on infrastructure as a âtechnologyâ of territorialization. Much of the focus on Chinaâs internationalization has been on state-to-state relations, but this obscures the âomni-channel politicsâ that China practises. Using a critical literature review and illustrative case study, this article develops the idea of omni-channel politics to posit a view of âtwistedâ territories in which political processes and development outcomes are more complex and contingent
Classic and recent advances in understanding amnesia
Neurological amnesia has been and remains the focus of intense study, motivated by the drive to understand typical and atypical memory function and the underlying brain basis that is involved. There is now a consensus that amnesia associated with hippocampal (and, in many cases, broader medial temporal lobe) damage results in deficits in episodic memory, delayed recall, and recollective experience. However, debate continues regarding the patterns of preservation and impairment across a range of abilities, including semantic memory and learning, delayed recognition, working memory, and imagination. This brief review highlights some of the influential and recent advances in these debates and what they may tell us about the amnesic condition and hippocampal function
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