谈当代中国政治文化建构与思想政治工作

全球化导致政治文化的多元化。在全球化背景下, 我们应采取理性的态度来面对全球化对我国政治文化带来的挑战, 正确认识我国政治文化现状, 明确加强思想政治工作对科学建构当代中国政治文化的重要作用。     

全球化背景下的当代中国政治文化建构

全球化导致政治文化的多元化。在全球化背景下,我们应采取理性的态度来面对全球化对我国政治文化带来的挑战,正确认识我国政治文化现状。要通过深化体制改革、加强主流政治文化建设、完善政治社会化渠道、对中西政治文化综合创新和加强思想政治工作来科学建构当代中国政治文化。     

全球化语境下的传统文化教育

经济全球化之势已不可阻挡 ,而其与文化多元化的矛盾亦日渐显现。要使中华文化在多元化文化的发展中得以延续 ,就必须在全球化意识的观照下抓好传统文化教育这一关 ,把传统文化教育纳入我国的文化战略。这样不仅能使传统文化在我国的现代化建设中成为强大的精神支柱 ,而且将使传统文化在世界文化的发展中占有一席之地。     

推进金融企业文化建设的思考

金融是现代经济的核心,金融业的发展离不开企业文化的建设与完善。在推动金融企业抓好＂创先争优＂活动的大背景下,如何推进金融企业的文化建设,使之为金融业的发展提供动力,成为一个重要的研究课题。     

谱写中国工会新篇章——认真学习贯彻胡锦涛总书记“1·7”重要讲话精神

中共中央总书记、国家主席胡锦涛在“2008’经济全球化与工会”国际论坛上发表的重要讲话，在国内外引起强烈反响。胡锦涛总书记在讲话中．从国际国内形势发展的大局出发，对经济全球化的发展方向提出了鲜明主张，对经济全球化大背景下如何实现可持续发展、实现体面劳动作出了深刻阐述，对工会在经济全球化条件下的地位和作用给予了充分强调，对中国工会发展和中国工会与国际工会运动的关系提出了明确要求。胡锦涛总书记的重要讲话，     

新形势下如何加强企业文化建设

在经济全球化的发展趋势下,企业面临来自国内和国际市场的双重竞争,这需要企业不断地实现自身经营管理理念和方式的创新,需要系统化、制度化地建设企业文化。基于此,本文论述了企业文化建设的内容和应注意的问题。     

"体面的劳动"

在经济全球化的背景下,国际劳工组织在1999年第87届年会上提出了"体面的劳动"的概念,认为其意义在于:它是一项反映了全体人民共同愿望的目标,提供了一个政策框架,也是组织计划和活动的一种方法,为外部对话和伙伴关系提供了一个讲坛."体面的劳动"的提出与全球化背景下的社会正义相关.由于发达国家与发展中国家的发展水平不同,经济全球化对各国产生的影响和带来的利益不尽相同.如何在追求"体面的劳动"目标的同时,保护发展中国家及这些国家工人的利益,这是需要考虑的一个现实问题.     

加强新时期职工文化建设的建议

山东省平原县总工会杜长忠撰稿,就加强新时期职工文化建设提出以下建议：1.职工文化建设要创新发展思路,正确把握职工文化建设方向,要做到＂三个结合＂。一是发展职工文化事业与发展职工文化相结合。在国家大力发展文化产业的背景下,     

反思塞缪尔·亨廷顿的"文明的冲突"

塞缪尔·亨廷顿认为,未来世界的国际冲突的根源将主要是文化的而不是意识形态的和经济的;从中东现实问题可以看出西方文明正成为美国等大国控制中东甚至是全世界的有力武器,文明冲突下面掩盖不了国家利益冲突这一本质冲突;在当今,全球化也越来越强化了不同文化之间的融合.因此,要在全球化的语境下跳出文明必定冲突的思维,寻求不同文明之间的积极的融合.     

中西文化比较与代表先进文化的发展要求

中西文化比较研究是全球化的必然要求,是提高"文化自觉"的需要,是进行文化建设、代表先进文化发展要求的需要,是确立正确的文化态度的需要。它不仅对于了解文化的发展及其对人类的贡献和优势、缺点具有重要意义,而且对于推动中国特色社会主义文化建设有重大的现实意义。     

The Between

Thinking with this special issue's group of feminist thinkers – some artists and others scholars – this introduction makes a strong case for co-authorship and a more collaborative humanities, while also insisting that the couple form – that stalwart object of queer and feminist theory – is neither a known quantity nor an exhausted entity, but rather, a field ripe for analysis. Situated squarely within performance studies, this introduction pivots away from questions of ontology and toward method and performativity, in order to ask: what modes of intellectual practice, erotic exchange, political work, and aesthetic experimentation happen uniquely within couple forms, in their most capacious and non-self-same iterations? What queer and feminist work can they do? What, in other words, is possible in the infinity, if indeed it is an infinity, between one and two?     

Other forms of conviviality: The best and least of which is our daily care and the host of which is our collaborative work

In this collaboratively written essay, artists Park McArthur and Constantina Zavitsanos take a queer materialist feminist approach to the entanglement of dependency and reproductive labor, disability, intimacy, and the impossibility of exchanging incommensurables. The text merges the authors' experiences receiving and providing one another care with their artistic practices, and includes instructive performance scores for past, rather than future, events.     

Men in Skirts

There are signs that the wearing of skirts by men appears to be on the increase in the West. Connor's essay provides a series of historical reflections on the signification and cultural phenomenology of male and female apparel. The first appearance of bifurcated dress in the late mediaeval period is considered, along with the struggle between men and women for command of lateral space during the seventeenth century in Europe, as attested to by commentators like John Bulwer and John Evelyn. Explications are offered of the thematics of the fringe and the pocket, as they are dramatized in trousers and skirts, as well as of the logic of lightness and of the pendant. Trousers, Connors concludes, have never lost their fanciful associations with utility, practicality and rationality; they are the signs of occupation, of being taken up in what you do, rather than consumed in what you are. The political victory of the trousered over the untrousered races (Romans, Scots, Indians etc.) is confirmed by its inversion in male masochist fantasies of 'petticoat government', from the late nineteenth century onwards.     

Trauma as Site of Identity: The Case of Jeanette Winterson and Frida Kahlo

B y taking gender seriously, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party in South Africa appeared to reverse the trend set by many liberation movements elsewhere: namely, women being mobilized as agents in struggles around class and race, yet denied the imperative of addressing gender subordination. Shortly after coming to power, the ANC adopted a national strategy for advancing gender equality. By doing so it demonstrated that it could rise above the limitations of its erstwhile 'woman question' position (Beall et al. 1989) and learn from the experience of other countries that had tried to institutionalize gender policies and structures. This in turn served to place South Africa at the cutting edge of experience in state-initiated gender policies and 'national machineries' for women. Nevertheless, South Africa's National Machinery for Advancing Gender Equality merits critical scrutiny, both in terms of its intrinsic aims and objectives and in relation to its potential for making an impact, given the development policy context of contemporary South Africa. Drawing on research conducted in South Africa over a number of years--during the 1980s (Beall et al. 1987) and, more recently, since 1997 (Beall 1997, 1998), it is possible to consider what lessons are to be learned from the institutionalization of gender-sensitive policy and practice in a complex institutional environment.     

From a Feminist Perspective: Plotinus on Teaching and Learning Philosophy

Vassilopoulou discusses Plotinus' educational practice as it may be reconstructed from his biography and texts. She concentrates on Plotinus' views on the role of women manifested in his revision of traditional metaphors that accentuate women's dependent status, the overall significance of the employment of metaphors within a philosophical context, and the ensuing conception of dialectic and rationality. Her analysis indicates that Plotinus' practice of teaching and learning philosophy reflects contemporary feminist values. Her claim is that a reading of Plotinus from a feminist perspective has much to contribute to contemporary debates raised in the context of feminist pedagogy and theory.     

Double Melancholy: The (Class) Politics of Loss in Jeanette Winterson’s Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

In his essay ‘The “Uncanny”’, Sigmund Freud claims that ‘the double was originally an insurance against the extinction of the self’. The author suggests that literary writing, particularly memoir, can perform a kind of doubling, enacting this ‘self-preservation’ through ‘self-observation’. In her memoir Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?, Jeannette Winterson seeks to convey a ‘doubleness at the heart of things’. The author argues that this ‘doubleness’ functions on two levels, both of narrative and of politics—Winterson’s preoccupation with her subjectivity is informed by politics and her politics are structured around her subjectivity. In order to think through the text’s focus on what the author deems maternal melancholy and ambivalence, the author considers how political melancholy works through and against Winterson’s desires for self-creation. Attending to the themes of writing, loss, adoption and depression throughout, the author sustains a class analysis that is motivated by a queer feminist approach. The author argues that the text works to recall the poor/working-class body into the narrative of the bourgeois subject in order to legitimate the present self—the double—both as exceptional and as different from the other.     

Re-spacing African drylands: territorialization,sedentarization and indigenous commodification in the Ethiopian pastoral frontier

This paper traces the re-spacing of pastoral drylands in Africa. We argue that rendering pastoral resources legible and profitable occurs both within and beyond the state. Through a multi-sited case study from Ethiopia's Somali region, we excavate different mechanisms of sedentarization, whereby processes of state territorialization and indigenous commodification become mutually entangled. Sedentarization is not imposed by the state or corporate capital, but by indigenous merchants who capture the frontier's potential resource dividend. Land appropriation in the drylands is co-produced by political claims to territory, capital investment and new technopolitics through which indigenous (pastoral, Somali) merchants and politicians become complicit with the state's project of territorialization and sedentarization in a self-governing fashion. The irony of this situation is that the (Ethiopian) state has failed to consolidate sedentarization through planned interventions. Instead, capital investment by local and transnational Somali merchants has opened up a neoliberal frontier that re-spaces drylands towards increasing sedentarization.     

‘Lovers of liberty’?Prostitution and the Politics of Choice in Emma Donoghue’s Slammerkin

This article explores the way in which Emma Donoghue’s novel Slammerkin (2000) reflects long-standing feminist debates surrounding prostitution. We argue that not only does Donoghue’s portrayal of prostitution resist the pro versus anti dichotomy in which feminist perspectives on sex work are so often narrowly situated, but Slammerkin also foregrounds the complexity with which the politics of choice intersects with women’s decision to sell their bodies.     

Close Encounters: Solidarity,Servitude and Postcolonial Feminist Affects and Affiliations

Abstract

This essay offers close readings of three texts that in different ways foreground the problems, possibilities and struggle involved in forging affective connections across difference between women: Kate Clanchy, What is She Doing Here? 2008, Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy, 1991a and Marlene Van Niekerk, ‘Labour’, 2004. The author argues that the incomplete and partial nature of affective moments represented in these texts signals possibilities for a cautiously redefined idea of affective feminist solidarity as it is mobilized in the intimacy of domestic spaces.