‘放下便是’与‘放不下’

‘放下便是’与‘放不下’黄福群老舍先生生前创作时，曾经自己规定任务每天写两千字左右。但就这样的指标他还是不能很好地完成，有时候三天连一个字也写不出，面对着稿纸不知如何下笔。写不出东西往往使作家痛苦万分，同样，一旦文思泉涌来不及写时；也会使作家烦恼不安...     

‘He's snooty ‘im’: exploring ‘white working class’ political disengagement

Using a small pilot qualitative study conducted in the North of England prior to the 2010 general election, we seek to understand why our respondents might feel actively disengaged from mainstream politics. It is argued that one major reason is because politicians are seen as lacking understanding of the local contexts in which these low-wage workers live. The gulf between represented and representative is widened if politicians fail to communicate in a ‘down to earth’ way. This indicates that social inequality between represented and representative is a factor in disengagement, but that such disengagement is not the result of apathy on the part of citizens. Further research is required, but our study suggests that if politicians fail to recognise their privilege and politics fails to address economic disadvantage across ethnic groups then disengagement from mainstream politics is likely to worsen.     

孙亮的‘问’与‘破’

《三国志·吴志·孙亮》里记述了这样一件事: 孙亮有一次要吃生梅,让宦官到内库去取蜜浸梅。蜜取来后,孙亮发现蜜中有鼠屎,就召来管内库的官吏查问。管库的官吏一见蜜中的鼠屎,吓得体如筛糠,连连叩头,回答不出一句话来。对君主的事情如此马虎,这还了得,管库官吏限看就要大祸临头了。     

浅议干部‘用’‘管’脱节问题

很长一段时间以来,在不少地方出现了一种对干部重用轻管,“用”“管”脱节的怪事,严重地腐蚀了干部队伍,贻误了一些能力很强,培养潜力很大的干部的健康成长,在一定程度上阻碍了各项事业的发展。 怪事一,明知不对,也不过问。一些领导同志,对一些干部身上存在的不良现象,看在眼里,记在心中,但就是打不开情面,不敢理直气壮地开展批评,总是采取事不关己,高高挂起的态度。一是明知不对,不敢过问。因为是熟人,有的甚至关系比较密切,对待他们身上的缺点和不足,刚开始时还会很委婉地进行劝说,一旦当事人没有什么反映,就再也不敢去提醒,怕伤了和气。二是明知不对,不去过问。很多同志,自我要求“较严”,对发生在别人身上的问题,总有一种好也好,歹也好,都是别人的事,与自己没有任何关系,不去管为妙,     

新‘官’上任先‘拾柴’

新‘官’上任先‘拾柴’江西王水宝领导干部到了新的工作单位，想把工作干好，并干出政绩来，于是上任伊始便革新图治，方案措施频频出台。这种做法于情于理无可厚非。但也有些新“官”，上任伊始，情况还不熟悉，便盲目地烧起了不切实际的“三把火”，结果适得其反。前段...     

‘实绩’质疑

这些年,各级党委及组织人事部门在用人上都强调注重实绩,注重实绩成为社会共识。然而,就在这一片强调实绩声中,也弹出了几许不和谐的音符,这就是越来越严重的实绩个人功利化倾向和建树实绩中的走样变形问题。 一个时期以来,干部队伍中出现了像一些体育运动员单纯追求金牌一样的实绩观偏转观象,把建树实绩完全看成是一种求取功利的官场个人行为,甚至把实绩当作在个人升迁留转中向组织讨价还价的敲门砖和筹码。个别领导干部,为了达到这种个人目的,不惜杀鸡取卵,饮鸩止渴,牺牲长远利益;不惜以邻为壑,转嫁负担,损人利己,从而造成大量的短期行为、违法乱纪行为和消极腐败现象,给改革开放和经济建设以及人民群众的根本利益带来极大的破坏和损害。 一些领导干部的实绩观和建树实绩的手段,严重背离中央当初强凋“注重实绩”的初衷,这是有其多方面原因的。首先,是个别领导干部本身思想政治素质较差,革命事业心不强,为人民服务的思想树得不牢,小资产阶级个人主义的世界观没有得到彻底改造,经不住市场经济条件下各种名利权     

‘直起’‘旁起’‘逆起’——文章与逻辑漫谈(三)

整篇文章的结构可以分为提出论题、论证论题和归结论题三个基本部分,但每个部分如何构造?它与逻辑有什么关系?这需要分别加以讨论。先说提出论题部分的问题。文章之所以要有这个部分,其目的是为了使读者对文章所论述的问题或论题有一个总的认识。它的作用有两个:一是引起读者的注意和兴趣,其次是把读者的思想集中到文章所论述的问题上来。提出论题部分居于文章之首,它负有引导读者的思想进入证明之路的责任,使之能与作者一起去思考和研究所讨论的问题,走一条共同的思考之路。为此要善于引导,要有一种好的介绍方法。没有好的介绍方法就不可能把读者的思想集中到文章所讨论的问题上来。     

‘I am an American’: protesting advertised ‘Americanness’

How are citizenships and nationalisms constructed, connected, and contested in the post-9/11 USA – performatively, affectively, and visually – and how do their relationships figure ‘Americanness’? This article takes up this question (1) by tracking how Americanness was advertised in the American Ad Council's ‘I am an American’ campaign and (2) by introducing the multimedia project ‘I am an American’: Video Portraits of Unsafe US Citizens, which engages the Ad Council's campaign as a practice-based protest of the Ad Council's advertised ‘Americanness’. The article traces how the Ad Council's campaign advertises what Evelyn Alsultany calls ‘diversity patriotism’. It also constructs a complex, mobile system of differentiation that marks some citizens as ‘safe’ and others as ‘unsafe’, which runs counter to the idealized notion of a unified ‘Americanness’ that it advertises. The article then examines how the practice-based protest project ‘I am an American’ takes these ‘unsafe citizens’ – US citizens who either will not or cannot make their differences normatively conform to the national ideal of the ‘One’ composed of the ‘Many’ propagated by the Ad Council's campaign – as its point of departure to reflect upon how citizenship protests function for and against citizenship, nationalisms, and various figurations of Americanness.     

“‘中国哲学‘合法性''''”讨论的合法性问题

有相当数量的学者认为,中国哲学合法性问题的讨论并不具有实质性的意义或价值,所以对此他们既没有兴趣,更无热情.我并不这样看.因为这样的讨论至少可以使我们深入探究"哲学"究竟为何物,具有什么样的性质,探讨些什么问题等等.     

Theorizing identity: beyond the ‘us’ and ‘them’ dichotomy

ABSTRACT

Yuval-Davis discusses three interconnected questions relating to identity. She first examines whether and in what ways the notion of identity should be theorized, on the one hand, and empirically researched, on the other, focusing on the opposing views of Stuart Hall and Robin Williams. She then examines the contested question of what is identity, positioning it in relation to notions of belonging and the politics of belonging, and in relation to several influential schools of thought, especially those that construct identity as a mode of narrative, as a mode of performativity or as a dialogical practice. Her third interrelated question concerns the boundaries of identity and the relationship between self and non-self. She explores both social psychological and psychoanalytical approaches to that question, and deals with questions such as reflexivity, identifications and forced identities. The last part of the article explores several types of relationships between self and non-self, such as: ‘me’ and ‘us’; ‘me/us’ and ‘them’; ‘me’ and other ‘others’; ‘me’ and the transversal ‘us/them’. Yuval-Davis's basic argument here is that dichotomous notions of identity and difference, when theorizing boundaries of individual and collective identities, are more misleading than explanatory.     

领导班子‘内耗’研究

领导班子“内耗”问题,成因复杂,特点各异,是一个经常发生,又不断进行调整解决的社会问题,也是一个关系到一个部门、一个地区工作和经济社会发展全局的重大问题。领导班子如产生“内耗”而得不到及时解决,轻者伤害班子成员间的感情,影响班子内部团结和工作效能,重者使班子整体功能丧失,给部门或地区造成工作上的严重损害或思想和社会秩序的混乱,危害是十分明显的。剖析领导班子“内耗”的表现形式、产生的原因及其对策,防止和解决领导班子“内耗”是一个具有重要现实意义的课题。 领导班子“内耗”的表现形式 领导班子“内耗”存在于领导班子工作过程、领导班子成员情感世界等许多方面,有的是公开“内耗”,有的还带有较     

‘白条’严重影响教育

四川省彭水苗族土家族自治县由于“白条”无法兑现,一些中小学校教学已难正常进行,失学儿童不断增加。     

提倡‘双向监督’

提倡‘双向监督’湖北马善记报载，辽宁抚顺洗化厂今年推出干部工人互查制，即实行干部与工人双向检查管理，干部可以检查管理工人，而干部在干啥，工人也有权过问。这种双向监督的形式很好，好就好在特别强调了干部要接受工人的监督，从而有利于革除干部单向监督工人的弊...     

政工干部‘十要’

对政工干部的要求,散见于各地报刊的,有十个方面,简称‘十要’。现辑录如下: 一、脑要清——有清醒的头脑,有清晰思维的能力。二、心要诚——做思想政治工作要有诚意,以诚待人。三、气要平——遇到困难和挫折,特别是遇到‘顶牛’的事,要平心静气,不发急,会制怒。四、眼要明——眼观六路,目光敏锐,善于发现新事物。     

‘今世的落叶’

三年前,读陈漱渝先生《丹心白发一老翁——在台北访台静农教授》引台老先生序《浮草》片言,淡极韵极,动人心弦,亟恩拜读全文。然为一衣带水所阻,无任帐惘! 后于上海书店“京版图书门市部”竟然发见一册《台静农散文集》(1947—1989),喜出望外。据陈子善先生《编后记》介绍,《散文集》系经辗转联系,承蒙台老惠允出版“大陆版”,且悉心指点“书名的确定”,“篇目的删选”。《浮草序》落尽豪华,一片真气流行,尤其是《序》中如下一节文字,倍加感人:     

放下‘屠刀’立地成佛

绰号‘二楞子’的小余是位‘打架能手’。年轻时曾因多次打架斗殴被劳教过。回到工厂后,虽已改掉恶习,但不少人还是以老眼光看他,避之惟恐不及,当然也就没人乐意与他交朋友了。一天晚上,车间支部书记老刘发现小余还没走,而且正在‘磨刀霍霍’。老刘很是顾虑,忙问:‘小余,磨刀干什么?’小余吱吱唔唔,说不出个一二三来。老刘见状,心里有了数,连忙拉起小余,     

完善‘避震器’ 增设‘暖气管’——关于社会保障体制改革问题刍议

占世界人口五分之一的中国,处于社会主义初级阶段,经济比较落后,工薪阶层人数相当于一个中等国家,随着社会主义现代化的进程和经济发展及其运行的内在因素,大批人员从其原来岗位富余出来势在必然,目前湖南下岗职工达80余万,全国凡数百万之众,并且还在增加。“银色浪潮”滚滚而来,全国老龄人口接近1.3亿,预计下个世纪30年代将超过4亿。我们面临的养老问题、医疗问题、失业问题、住房问题、就学问题等等,比任何国家都要严竣得多,尖锐得多,复杂得多。通过改革,发展社会主义生产     

The North Korean abduction issue: emotions,securitisation and the reconstruction of Japanese identity from ‘aggressor’ to ‘victim’ and from ‘pacifist’ to ‘normal’

Abstract

After Kim Jong-il's confession in 2002 that North Korean agents had abducted thirteen Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s, North Korea has become the most detested country in Japan, and the normalisation of bilateral relations has been put on the back burner. The abduction issue has taken precedence in Japan even over North Korea's development of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles. It has also grossly overshadowed the atrocities for which Imperial Japan was responsible in the 20th century. Why has there been such strong emphasis on an issue that could be disregarded as comparatively ‘less important’? This article understands the ascendency of the abduction issue as the epitome of an identity shift under way in Japan – from the identity of a curiously ‘peaceful’ and inherently ‘abnormal’ state, to that of a more ‘normal’ one. The differentiation of North Korea as ‘abnormal’ emphasises Japan's own (claim to) ‘normality’. Indeed, by incarnating the perils of Japan's own ‘pacifist’ ‘abnormality’, which has been so central to the collective sense of Japanese ‘Self’ in the post-war period, the abduction issue has become a very emotional argument for Japan's ‘normalisation’ in security and defence terms. The transformation from ‘abnormal’ to ‘normal’ is further enabled by Japan trading places with North Korea in the discourse, so that Japan is defined as ‘victim’ (rather than former aggressor) and North Korea as ‘aggressor’ (rather than former victim). What is at stake here is the question whether Japan is ‘normalising’ or ‘remilitarising’, and the role of the abduction issue discourse in enabling such foreign and security policy change.     

“一不‘做’二不‘休’”可以休矣

“一不做，二不休”，《现代汉语词典》解释为事情既已开始了，就索性做到底。它表明了一种干脆利落、义无反顾的办事态度和果敢风格。可最近看到一则小品文，却赋予“一不做，二不休”另一种含义，看后使人深思，催人警醒。该文说的是A君仕途受挫，上班时萎靡不振，恹恹欲睡，整天无所事事，但是他从来不迟到，不早退，也不请事假、病假，领导百思不得其解。“我上班不干事也不旷工，这叫一不‘做’二不‘休’。”一次A君自己酒后倒出了真言。