Through a detailed text examination,this paper contends that albeit Kate Grenville'sThe Secret River is dedicated to interrogate white actions in the colonial past and expects to contribute to the process of recon...Through a detailed text examination,this paper contends that albeit Kate Grenville'sThe Secret River is dedicated to interrogate white actions in the colonial past and expects to contribute to the process of reconciliation in Australia, it engages sympathy of readers through the empathetic personification of the protagonist William Thornhill,who is subtly positioned as a victim forced into morally dubious actions by extraordinary circumstances. The wrongdoing of the white settlers is normalized in a western conception of possessive logic,the plight of the Aborigines authentically diluted and minimized. This paper thus concludes that The Secret River is another white attempt to legitimize dispossession of the Indigenous and a failure of engagement in the national reconciliation process. This paper further points out that repressing the true history will never set Australia free; acknowledging collective guilt is the only way forward.展开更多
The legal systems for the production of hydraulic, wind and solar energy in Brazil will be compared, especially concerning: the ownership of the Federal Union over the potential for generating energy, from the land an...The legal systems for the production of hydraulic, wind and solar energy in Brazil will be compared, especially concerning: the ownership of the Federal Union over the potential for generating energy, from the land and the airspace;the partial or total unfeasibility for other uses and forms of economic exploitation of the land, when destined to the production of energy;land expropriation for energy generation;the existence or otherwise of payment systems for royalties and/or financial compensation for social and environmental impacts;and the participation and/or state intervention in the development process of private generation undertakings. The legal systems that regulate the production of hydraulic, wind and solar electric energy will be analyzed, highlighting the central differences between the systems and their contradictions related to the use and appropriation of space, State intervention and social compensation and environmental duty. The analysis method will be based on the categories of accumulation by dispossession, land rent and land commercialization. As a methodology, the starting point was the analysis of land ownership and natural wealth and the comparison between the legal systems that guide the production of wind and photovoltaic energy with that for the production of hydraulic energy. The hypothesis is that the legal regime for exploiting the potential of hydraulic energy from water has a different nature, with greater control, restriction and compensation imposed by the State on the private sector, in relation to that adopted for wind and solar energy potential.展开更多
基金the National Social Science Fund Key Project--Oceania Literature Research in Multicultural Perspective(16ZDA200) the National Social Science Fund Project-A Critical History of Contemporary Australian Literature(12BWW037).
文摘Through a detailed text examination,this paper contends that albeit Kate Grenville'sThe Secret River is dedicated to interrogate white actions in the colonial past and expects to contribute to the process of reconciliation in Australia, it engages sympathy of readers through the empathetic personification of the protagonist William Thornhill,who is subtly positioned as a victim forced into morally dubious actions by extraordinary circumstances. The wrongdoing of the white settlers is normalized in a western conception of possessive logic,the plight of the Aborigines authentically diluted and minimized. This paper thus concludes that The Secret River is another white attempt to legitimize dispossession of the Indigenous and a failure of engagement in the national reconciliation process. This paper further points out that repressing the true history will never set Australia free; acknowledging collective guilt is the only way forward.
文摘The legal systems for the production of hydraulic, wind and solar energy in Brazil will be compared, especially concerning: the ownership of the Federal Union over the potential for generating energy, from the land and the airspace;the partial or total unfeasibility for other uses and forms of economic exploitation of the land, when destined to the production of energy;land expropriation for energy generation;the existence or otherwise of payment systems for royalties and/or financial compensation for social and environmental impacts;and the participation and/or state intervention in the development process of private generation undertakings. The legal systems that regulate the production of hydraulic, wind and solar electric energy will be analyzed, highlighting the central differences between the systems and their contradictions related to the use and appropriation of space, State intervention and social compensation and environmental duty. The analysis method will be based on the categories of accumulation by dispossession, land rent and land commercialization. As a methodology, the starting point was the analysis of land ownership and natural wealth and the comparison between the legal systems that guide the production of wind and photovoltaic energy with that for the production of hydraulic energy. The hypothesis is that the legal regime for exploiting the potential of hydraulic energy from water has a different nature, with greater control, restriction and compensation imposed by the State on the private sector, in relation to that adopted for wind and solar energy potential.
