The purpose of this article is to examine the interconnections between embodiment and masculinity. Departing from the predominant discursive view of masculinity, I explain how a phenomenological, post-dualistic approach, inspired by Merleau-Ponty and Butler, can be mobilized to conceptualize masculinity as an embodied, performative accomplishment that reverberates around socio-material relations. Towards this end, this article traces the masculine regulation of the body schema as it develops in reciprocal relations between 'self-others-things'. Drawing from reflexive field notes and participant interviews, gathered over a 5-year period of observant participation with male motorcycle repairers, the article shows machinic masculinity as an embodied emplacement that is constituted by socio-material entanglements and performative enactments. In so doing, the article conceptually reframes how masculinity and embodiment are understood in Consumer Culture Theory (CCT).
The mid-first millennium CE represents a crucial period in the emergence of early polities in Southeast Asia. However, disagreement remains between archaeologists and art historians as to the precise dating of this shift from prehistory to history. This article focuses on the Dvāravatī period and re-evaluates evidence in Thai and Western language publications. A growing number of sites excavated over the past two decades in particular show occupation from c. the fourth to fifth century onwards while others provide a continual sequence stretching back well into the Iron Age. I argue that evidence from these sites makes a strong case for postulating a proto-Dvāravatī period spanning c. the fourth to fifth centuries. In doing so this article proposes this period as the timeframe within which the nascent traits and characteristics of what becomes Dvāravatī in the seventh to ninth centuries are present and gradually developing.
This article employs the research paradigm of historical ecology to investigate the spread and development of early Buddhism in the Khorat Plateau during the Dvaravati period. The movement of this religion into the region was largely determined by preexisting settlement patterns, with moated sites being particularly important. The arrival of Buddhism also introduced monumental architecture and a definable art style. These moated settlements were dependent on large-scale river systems such as the Mun and Chi, particularly in regard to water management, agriculture, transport, and communication. A study of the distribution of sema stones also provides evidence for the spread of Buddhism, while Buddha images carved into rock faces on mountaintops and evidence for rock shelters illustrate that the tradition of forest monks was functioning alongside the more established urban monasticism. The relationship between Buddhism and society is explored, illustrating how the arrival of this religion resulted in new cognitive and physical conceptions of the landscape best demonstrated by changes in settlement planning. Finally, it is shown that Buddhism did not function outside of society but existed in an interdependent relationship with both the lay community and local rulers, with patronage being granted in return for not only spiritual guidance but political legitimization.
Dong Mae Nang Muang, in Banpotpisai district, Nakorn Sawan province is the present-day name for the site of Thanya Pura, one of the northernmost settlements of Dvaravati culture (6th–11th centuries CE) in central Thailand. Research conducted to date extends from the first surveys and excavations by the Fine Arts Department in 1956 and 1967 to recent projects of master's degree students of the Faculty of Archaeology, Silpakorn University and the Fine Arts Department, Lopburi, 2008–2009. The material culture and archaeological record of the site, its period of occupation, state of preservation of extant monuments and new evidence of inhumation practices are discussed. The evidence shows that Dong Mae Nang Muang was an important political, economic, religious and artistic centre in the Upper Chao Phraya Basin.
Studies of early Southeast Asia focus largely on its 'classical states', when rulers and their entourages from Sukhothai and Ayutthaya (Thailand), Angkor (Cambodia), Bagan (Myanmar), Champa and Dai Viet (Vietnam) clashed, conquered, and intermarried one another over an approximately six-century-long quest for legitimacy and political control. Scholarship on Southeast Asia has long held that such transformations were largely a response to outside intervention and external events, or at least that these occurred in interaction with a broader world system in which Southeast Asians played key roles. As research gathered pace on the prehistory of the region over the past five decades or so, it has become increasingly clear that indigenous Southeast Asian cultures grew in sophistication and complexity over the Iron Age in particular. This has led archaeologists to propose much greater agency in regard to the selective adaptation of incoming Indic beliefs and practices than was previously assumed under early scholarship of the nineteenth and early to mid-twentieth century.
Studies of early Southeast Asia focus largely on its 'classical states', when rulers and their entourages from Sukhothai and Ayutthaya (Thailand), Angkor (Cambodia), Bagan (Myanmar), Champa and Dai Viet (Vietnam) clashed, conquered, and intermarried one another over an approximately six-century-long quest for legitimacy and political control. Scholarship on Southeast Asia has long held that such transformations were largely a response to outside intervention and external events, or at least that these occurred in interaction with a broader world system in which Southeast Asians played key roles. As research gathered pace on the prehistory of the region over the past five decades or so, it has become increasingly clear that indigenous Southeast Asian cultures grew in sophistication and complexity over the Iron Age in particular. This has led archaeologists to propose much greater agency in regard to the selective adaptation of incoming Indic beliefs and practices than was previously assumed under early scholarship of the nineteenth and early to mid-twentieth century.
Considering the future: anticipating the need for ecological restoration / Young Choi -- The principles of restoration ecology at population scales / Stephen D. Murphy, Michael McTavish, and Heather Cray -- Landscape-scale restoration ecology / Michael Perring -- Understanding social processes in planning ecological restorations / Stephen R. Edwards, Brock Blevins, Darwin Horning, and Andrew Spaeth -- The role of history in restoration ecology / Eric Higgs and Stephen Jackson -- Social engagement in ecological restoration / Susan Baker -- Restoration and ecosystem management in the boreal forest : from ecological principles to tactical solutions / Timo Kuuluvainen -- Restoration of temperate broadleaf forests / John Stanturf -- Temperate grasslands / Karel Prach, Peter Torok, and Jonathan Bakker -- Restoration of temperate savannas and woodlands / Brice Hanberry, John M. Kabrick, Peter W. Dunwiddie, Tibor Hartel, Theresa B. Jain, and Benjamin O. Knapp -- Restoring desert ecosystems / Scott Abella -- Ecological restoration in mediterranean-type shrublands and woodlands / Ladislav Mucina, Marcela A. Bustamante-Sánchez, Beatriz Duguy Pedra, Patricia Holmes, Todd Keeler-Wolf, Juan J. Armesto, Mark Dobrowolski, Mirijam Gaertner, Cecilia Smith-Ramírez, and Alberto Vilagrosa -- Alpine habitat conservation and restoration in tropical and sub-tropical high mountains / Alton Byers -- Restoration of rivers and streams / Benjamin Smith and Michael A. Chadwick -- Lake restoration / Erik Jeppesen, Martin Søndergaard, and Zhengwen Liu -- Restoration of freshwater wetlands / Paul Keddy -- Saltmarshes / David Burdick and Susan Adamowicz -- Oyster-generated marine habitats : their services, enhancement, restoration, and monitoring / Loren Coen and Austin Humphries -- Ecological rehabilitation in mangrove systems : the evolution of the practice and the need for strategic reform of policy and planning / Ben Brown -- Tropical savanna restoration / Jillianne Segura, Sean Bellairs, and Lindsey Hutley -- Restoration of tropical and subtropical grasslands / Gerhard Overbeck and Sandra Cristina Muller -- Tropical forest restoration / David Lamb -- The restoration of coral reefs / Boze Hancock, Kemit Amon Lewis, and Eric Conklin -- Ecological restoration in an urban context / Jessica Hardesty Norris, Keith Bowers, and Stephen D. Murphy -- International law and policy on restoration / An Cliquet -- Governance and restoration / Stephanie Mansourian -- Restoration, volunteers, and the human community / Stephen Packard -- Building social capacity for restoration success / Elizabeth Covelli Metcalf, Alexander L. Metcalf, and Jakki J. Mohr -- Ecological restoration : a growing part of the green economy / Keith Bowers and Jessica Hardesty Norris -- Restoration and market-based instruments / Alex Baumber -- Profit motives and ecological restoration: opportunities in bioenergy and conservation biomass / Carol Williams -- Ecological restoration and environmental change / Stuart K. Allison -- Invasive species and ecological restoration / Joan Dudney, Lauren Hallett, Erica Spotswood, and Katharine Suding -- Restoration and resilience / Libby Trevenen, Rachel Standish, Charles Price, and Richard Hobbs -- Ecological restoration and ecosystem services / Robin Chazdon and Jose Rey-Benayas -- The economics of restoration and the restoration of economics / James Blignaut -- Better together : the importance of collaboration between researchers and practitioners / Robert Cabin -- Less than 140 characters : restorationists use of social media / Liam Heneghan and Oisin Heneghan
Although the skilful body has been ever-present in research accounts of consumption experiences, no sustained attention has been given to the acquisition of skills necessary for successful engagement with those experiences. In the present study, we report an empirical investigation of the acquisition and diffusion of embodied competencies among high-speed motorcyclists. In doing so, we mobilize the concept of reflexive body techniques in order to unpack the social, physical and mindful aspects of skilled embodiment. We demonstrate that skill acquisition is a necessary precursor to successful immersion into certain kinds of consumption experiences offered by the marketplace. Further, we underline the role of skill acquisition in subject formation.
This article presents four case examples that illustrate various strategies used by agency personnel to promote job supports for employees with disabilities while minimizing the intrusion of supported employment personnel. Specific strategies include: (a) using personal connections to enhance social support, (b) matching individual preferences and attributes to work-site social climates, (c) collaborating with work-site personnel to develop adaptations and modifications, (d) facilitating and supporting the involvement of work-site personnel; and (e) providing general consultation focused on person-environment factors that promote both the success of the supported employee and the overall business. Each of these strategies is discussed within a natural support framework in relation to reexamining job coach roles. The implications of the four case examples are discussed and areas for further research are suggested.
