Conserving the Principle of Identity: Identity,Representation and Equivalence

Howie recognizes as a starting position that there is a significant and political problem with judgements that presume an easy and unrestrained identification of a thing or a person, but she is sceptical that all judgements of identity are necessarily implicated in the same politics. She investigates how 'identity' functions in logic, judgement and epistemology, and argues that a dialectical understanding of identity provides the grounds both for a realist appreciation of the world that includes a subjective element and for a recognition that a subject both is and is not how she is and has been identified.     

The Importance and Benefits of Supervision in Youth Work Practice

This article explores the concept of supervision and its implementation within a youth work context. The article describes and explores a process of staff development facilitated by the author which involved providing supervision training to a group of youth work practitioners at Cork YMCA in Ireland and continuing to meet them on a monthly basis over a period of a year in a mentoring capacity. These sessions provided a supportive space for supervisors and aimed to facilitate a reflective process in relation to their own supervisory practice. This article explores the opportunities and challenges of the supervision process, advocates the importance of supervision in ensuring effective youth work practice, and identifies the beneficial impact of this at a number of levels.     

Transforming Perspectives in Children and Youth Education

The purpose of this chapter is to present a new understanding of child and youth care education. The competence perspective, adequate for the training of workers in a specific role, is . less effective in a diversified and maturing profession. To develop new, perspectives that can provide flexibility to perform effectively . in a variety of contexts an educational model must be employed. Ode distinction between a training and an educational model is the opportunity for students to become aware of the assumptions that they maintain about themselves and their world. A transactional perspective is a complementary and necessary component of an educational model in child and youth care, enabling a professional to apply skills and knowledge in a variety of contexts. Child and youth care educators are presented with the task to adjust their curriculum in a manner that facilitates a process of perspective transformation.     

论院校图书资料馆的建设

院校图书馆的建设水平的高低是院校水平的标志 ,是院校图书馆是综合性的知识信息库 ,系图书资料室是院校图书馆的分支和补充 ,是专业性的知识信息库。图书资料网络化是院校图书资料馆建设的方向。     

编辑在文化建构中的作用

在人类精神文化的构建和发展中,编辑具有独特的文化积累、传播和创造作用。它是大众文化传播体系的缔造者和管理者,是文化编辑物的生产者和历史文化的积累者,是现代文化制造和创新的导向中心。     

‘My private kingdom and sometimes my private jail’ The meaning of home in the lives of Bedouin women: changes in the home and social spaces and their implications for Bedouin women

Home has always been significant in the lives of Bedouin women. At times it has been considered a ‘private kingdom’ – an intimate space, a jurisdiction, a sphere of influence and a space of creativity and well-being. In other periods it has been perceived as a ‘private jail’ – suffocating and limiting. The Bedouin communities in southern Israel, which are part of the country’s Arab-Palestinian population, are undergoing major changes – cultural and social, as well as in the form of settlement – imposed largely by the state. The external form of the Bedouin home has changed too, from a tent to a cement-block house, from an open structure to a closed one, from being part of the open space of the desert to being a limited space in a neighbourhood. To understand the changing meaning of home for Bedouin women during this transition, I conducted a narrative study with 30 women who live today in permanent settlements, but who represent three generations that correspond to three periods of settlement and three housing types. I found that each generation ascribes different meanings to the home.     

论求职过程中的礼仪素养

当今社会,人才市场和劳动就业市场活跃,通过招聘市场寻求理想的工作成为普遍现象。求职礼仪是求职者整体素质的一个重要表现,它对于实现求职者的意愿,获得理想的工作岗位起着重要作用。注重求职礼仪,把握求职对仪容、仪表、举止、谈吐等方面的礼仪要求,有助于求职成功。     

对深化维权机制建设的几点思考

要依法落实职代会职权,有效地维护职工的合法权益,把依法维护出资人的所有权、经营者管理权与充分尊重职工群众的民主管理权结合起来。做好维权工作,必须坚持和发展以职代会制度为主体的维权机制;建立和完善以平等协商集体合同制度为根本的维护职工经济利益的协调机制;健全和拓展以企务公开为载体的维护职工知情权和参与权的监督机制;建立和深化以"送温暖工程"为龙头的保障职工具体利益的帮扶机制;巩固和推进以创建安全标准工地为主题的维护职工生命健康权益的劳动保护机制。     

Attention under repair: asceticism from self-care to care of the self

This essay examines the contemporary mindfulness movement as a cultural response to a larger problem of attention in the United States. As raw material for both capital (re)production and subjectivity, attention is a zone of indeterminacy and struggle for workers in a so-called immaterial economy. This essay suggests that the rise of concern around “paying attention” from the 1950s onward is driven by post-Fordist labor requirements more than networked technologies. First, it examines mindfulness as a technique of attention management for businesses and gives a broad survey of its current popularity and prevalence in US culture. Second, it proposes viewing techniques of attention like mindfulness through a triple lens of repair: (1) as managerial tools to repair psychic labor capacity for capital; (2) as practices that subjects use to repair alienation; and (3) as sites for reparative reading. Third, the essay illuminates the ties between Eve Sedgwick’s repair and Michel Foucault’s care of the self in order to suggest that resistance to practicing the self is founded on a paranoid defense. Its central argument is that attention is a method in Foucault's care of the self, and, as such, a potential portal into pleasure and political change rather than a mere feedback loop into capital.     

劳资关系的文化视角

作为社会关系之一的劳资关系 ,既是一种市场经济关系 ,也是一种市场文化关系。这种文化关系的客观存在 ,既因其与经济关系内在有机联系的不可分性所决定 ,又是市场经济发展的必然要求和产物。正确认识把握劳资间的文化关系 ,将给我国社会主义市场经济中新兴的劳资关系铺垫一个自觉合理的文化底蕴和社会氛围 ,同时 ,也为劳资双方调节彼此关系提供一个新的视角和途径 ,更好地实现劳资合作的经济价值和社会价值。     

The corporate shaping of GM crops as a technology for the poor

The status of international agricultural research as a global public good (GPG) has been widely accepted since the Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. While the term was not used at the time of its creation, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) system that evolved at that time has been described as a ‘prime example of the promise, performance and perils of an international approach to providing GPGs’. Contemporary literature on international agricultural research as a GPG tends to support this view and focuses on how to operationalize the concept. This paper adopts a different starting point and questions this conceptualization of the CGIAR and its outputs. It questions the appropriateness of such a ‘neutral’ concept to a system born of the imperatives of Cold War geopolitics, and shaped by a history of attempts to secure its relevance in a changing world. This paper draws on a multi-sited, ethnographic study of a research effort highlighted by the CGIAR as an exemplar of GPG-oriented research. Behind the ubiquitous language of GPGs, ‘partnership’ and ‘consensus’, however, new forms of exclusion and restriction are emerging within everyday practice, reproducing North–South inequalities and undermining the ability of these programmes to respond to the needs of projected beneficiaries.     

Claiming feminism: commentary,autobiography and advice literature for women in the recession

Feminist academics have grown accustomed to the disparagement and misrepresentation of our intellectual endeavours in a climate of antifeminist postfeminism. Yet, in recent years, the position of public feminism has shifted as it is increasingly invoked by celebrities for whom it often functions as a credential of entrepreneurial self-branding. This article identifies and conducts a preliminary analysis of a set of female-authored print texts published in the wake of the ‘Great Recession’ and marked by a distinctly emergent monetisation/corporatisation of feminism. It suggests that these books respond to and further a sense of fraught female aspirationalism in an era of economic contraction and growing signs of neo-patriarchalism.     

Australian news media’s representation of Cate McGregor,the highest ranking Australian transgender military officer

To date, no academic analysis has investigated the representation of transgender individuals by Australia’s news media (ANM). This paper conducts a discourse analysis of ANM’s representation of Cate McGregor, the highest ranking Australian transgender military officer. The author offers this analysis as a case study in which 28 articles were selected from a three-year period, beginning November 2012, when McGregor ‘came out’. By employing a feminist and transgender theory framework the author concludes that, on the one hand, ANM reproduces traditional transgender tropes (e.g. publishing ‘before/after’ photographs). On the other hand, ANM gives voice to McGregor’s views pertaining to living as a woman and a transgender woman, which are aligned with transgender theory. Thus, this author argues that ANM engages in a remediation of transgender theory. McGregor acknowledges that she has enjoyed the privilege of being socialized as a man and therefore her life as a woman, a transgender woman is different to other women. Moreover, as an ‘out’ transgender woman she is refusing to ‘pass’ and hide her sex/gender history. Subsequently, McGregor views on what it means to be a man, a woman, and a transgender woman, are disruptive to sex/gender normativities and she thereby embodies a ‘gender fuck’.     

Hurricane Sandy in Vogue

New York Vogue published a photographic feature just over two months after Hurricane Sandy hit the Eastern seaboard of the USA, to commemorate the work of New York City emergency responders in the wake of the disaster. Juxtaposing fashionably clad models with responders, the feature invoked a gendered and classed rhetoric of fashion, crisis, and temporality to create both a memory of the disaster, and a vision of the metropolis and its future. This article draws on fashion theory, critical disaster studies, and urban geography to show that the feature is emblematic of an emergent approach to disaster recovery and urban development under neoliberalism. In particular, disaster management and recovery protocols benefit from the complex temporality of fashion, with its simultaneous deployment of past, present, and future, to sketch a possible rebuilding of New York City that benefits the transnational capitalist class for whom urban development is increasingly tailored. A close reading of the logics of class, race, and gender in the photographs shows that the imagined future towards which New York's recovery from Sandy might proceed is characterized by a contingent ‘whitening’ of people of colour as they ascend to a transnational elite, and a conception of the city as a site for gendered leisure rather than a zone of social inequalities.     

‘Getting Out and Getting Away’: Women's Narratives of Class Mobility

This article is concerned with the ways in which women narrate a move from a ‘working-class’ position to a position marked (in however fragmentary and complex a way) as ‘middle class’. While such a move might be seen in terms of a straightforward escape from a disadvantaged social position, I argue here that what has to be analysed is the pain and the sense of estrangement associated with this class movement.Drawing on the class narratives of a group of seven white British women, the article uses Bourdieu's concepts of symbolic capital and habitus to explore the cultural and symbolic configurations of class. These configurations may be inscribed into the self, so that the self, itself, is class marked. Since working-class selves are frequently marked in pathological terms, this raises particular difficulties for the idea of an ‘escape’ from such a position. Class in this sense is embedded in people's history and so cannot be so easily ‘escaped’. The usual conventions of life-narratives – in which the self remains the same entity from birth to death and later events are a culmination of earlier ones – are also disrupted in this case.But if a working-class position is marked as pathological, so too is taking on the markers of middle-class existence. To do so is not only to risk ‘getting it wrong’, but it is also to risk the scorn attached to ‘pretentiousness’. There is a particular jeopardy here for women, since it is women who have been especially associated with desires for artefacts associated with bourgeois existence. The article argues for a focus for classed desires and class envy, not in pathological terms, but in terms of a coherent response to political and social exclusions.     

activist-mothers maybe,sisters surely? Black British feminism,absence and transformation

This article, drawing on selected feminist magazines of the 1980s, particularly Feminist Arts News (FAN) and GEN, offers a textual ‘braiding’ of narratives to re-present a history of Black British feminism. I attempt to chart a history of Black British feminist inheritance while proposing the politics of (other)mothering as a politics of potential, pluralistic and democratic community building, where Black thought and everyday living carry a primary and participant role. The personal—mothering our children—is the political, affording a nurturing of alterity through a politics of care that is fundamentally antiracist and antisexist. I attempt to show how Black feminist thought can significantly contribute to democracy in the present and how Black British history and thought, as fundamentally antiracist and anticolonial, can generate a reinvention much needed in the present of a shared British history. I argue for feminist intervention premised upon a politics of care, addressing through activist mothering the urgency of Black absence from prestigious institutions. Such debilitating absence in Britain inhibits the development of scholarship, distorts feminist history and seriously concerns potential Black feminists. From diverse texts, I develop a genealogical narrative supplemented through memory work. This ‘gathering and re-using’ privileges Black women’s theorising as a crucial component of the methodological métissage, which includes auto-theorising to develop ideas of resemblance in relation to Black British feminism and feminist kinship. The resultant ‘braiding’, I suggest after Lionnet, questions the absence of intersubjective spaces for reflection on Black British feminist praxis, indicating a direction for British feminists of all complexions. Attentive to the 1980s as historical context while invoking the maternal, I consider what is required to engage generationally, counterwrite the academy and pursue a dynamic process of transformation within a transnational feminism that challenges Black British absence from academic knowledge production, while nurturing its presence.     

重建影响力:新形势下英国工会面临的挑战与选择

在历史上有重大影响并极富工作经验的英国工会 ,进入 90年代以来随着国内经济结构的调整和在与欧盟相关法律的协调上 ,遇到了一系列重大挑战 ,工会影响力有所下降。重建影响力成为英国工会在新形势下的主要选择和努力方向     

民主管理是企业管理的重要内容

民主管理并非是游离于企业管理之外的管理,它是随着企业管理的发展而呈现的必然要求。在企业管理的对象、范围、方法、目标、基础和趋势等六方面,强调以人为中心的管理,即强调人的作用的发挥在企业管理中的重要作用。实践证明,高度集中的行政指挥,只有建立在决策民主化的基础上才有真正的权威性。因为民主管理是企业实行科学管理的基础和保证。企业民主管理是现代企业管理的大势所趋和重要内容。     

Industrial relations strategy and construction in the UK oil industry: the case of the national agreement

Abstract

This paper is a case study chronicling and analyzing the strategic considerations given to industrial relations in a proposal to upgrade and renew a major production unit in a UK oil refinery. The study is based on interviews and substantial internal documents provided by the case study managers. This represents a unique illustration as to the extent a company goes through in considering the way in which a major capital project needs to consider industrial relations issues before being considered acceptable to the Corporate-level audience and its decision-makers. In particular, the context is interesting – that of an American multinational taking up a national agreement from a process of sector-wide multi-employer bargaining.     

对工会改革中的理论与实践问题的探索和反思

在市场经济条件下 ,在企业进行转机建制的过程中 ,赋予工会工作以新的内容 ,是当务之急。这就要求我们要对以往工会工作、“独立自主”认识上的误区、双向维护中的矛盾、民主管理企业中的焦点及工会在企业中的“地位”等问题进行反思 ,以探索新形势下工会组织的新机制、工会工作的新思路 ,开创工会工作的新局面。