Julien Fouret (Consulting Editor): Enforcement of Investment Treaty Arbitration Awards: A Global Guide

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Lessons From A Bound Past

正In this age of extreme body alteration,the history of bound-feet women serves as an invaluable warning When Wei Caibao was 10, she was forced to undergo terrible pain and mutilation as she entered the three-year period     

special guest contribution: is love without borders possible?

We set out by noting the preference for circular flows in ecological thought, and the related abhorrence of inefficiency and waste that Western ecology shares with mainstream economic thinking. This has often been manifest in a shared disdain both for uncontained, free-burning fire and for ‘unmanaged’ sexual desire. The paper constructs a ‘pyrosexual’ counter-narrative that explores the mutually constitutive and generative implication of sex and fire. Bringing together the solar ecology of Georges Bataille, feminist and queer thinking about sexuality and reproduction, and a range of ways of theorising biological life and fire, we explore how fire mediates between organismic desire and the energetic dynamics of the earth and solar system. The first section takes a genealogical approach to fire and sex that traces their entanglement from the initial ‘assembling’ of fire through to the emergence of a fire-handling creature. The second section looks at how fire has been contained and intensified by human actors, and the role that heat-driven transformations of inorganic matter have played in the incitement and channeling of desire in urban spaces. The third section addresses the development of industrial ‘heat engines’ and the implications for desire and reproduction of tapping vast reservoirs of subterranean solar energy. We round off by beginning to consider what alternative possibilities might lie in the renegotiation of sex and fire on a planet undergoing rapid change.     

The Transformation Of a Village

<正>How an American put a fading community on the tourist map Jim Spear was minding his own business when the village loudspeaker crackled into life and he heard the booming voice of Li Lianting,the village head,asking him to report at the village office right away.     

The Circle of Happiness

<正>Retired science teacher promotes Tibetan dancing for greater cultural understanding For years,Li Guang taught computer science and management.Then two years before retirement,the burly,affable teacher decided to take a new step.He’s still teaching but no longer at the Yanshan Education Institute for Adults in southwest Beijing and no more computer science either.Instead,the 62-year-old is teaching guozhuang,a traditional Tibetan dance also known as circle dancing.     

A Wall of Unity

正The Great Wall connects people from all over the worldVusi Nhlapo had a lot of diff iculty covering the stretch of the Great Wall in Beijing known as Mutianyu.It was not because of the steepness of this part of the 14th-century fortification—it was because every two steps,the 43-year-old majestic-looking South African was stopped by strangers who wanted to take self ies with him."It’s been like this all the way,"Nhlapo’s companion Miguel Simoes said wryly.The