从中西建筑风格看中西文化之异同

德国学者恩斯特·卡西尔在他的《人论》中说:"人类文化分为各种不同的活动,它们沿着不同的路线进展,追求着不同的目的."中西文化在形成渊源与缘由、发展逻辑和空间、构建理念与目的等方面的差异,必然会融入、体现在建筑文化或建筑风格上.     

论滨海新区的战略环评

1我国的战略环境评价 战略环境评价，是环境影响评价在政策、计划、规划层面的应用。开展战略环境评价，是确保环境因素在决策过程中得到充分考虑的重要手段，是在规划政策宏观层面协调发展与环境问题的有效机制，也是可持续发展战略从概念落实到实践的重要桥梁。     

论《罗马民法大全》对妇女权益的维护

《罗马民法大全》不仅是西方民法的母法,而且就其维护罗马妇女的权益而言也作出了积极而有益的贡献。其对妇女权益的维护主要体现在人身权、财产权及婚姻权等方面。透过《罗马民法大全》对妇女权益维护的法律规定,可以看到,它彰显了古代人文主义,并为后世妇女人权的发展和进步奠定了基础。     

论对当代中国马克思主义的信仰问题

坚定信仰当代中国马克思主义,就要关注世界发展大势,把握时代脉搏、顺应世界发展潮流;就要运用科学理论分析和解决重大现实问题,增强贯彻落实科学发展观的本领;就要加强党性锻炼,自学转化为忠于党、忠于国家、忠于人民的实际行动。     

生态文明视域下的桂林低碳城市建设

低碳城市建设对于推进桂林生态文明,打造国际旅游胜地具有重要意义。桂林需探索一条以低碳产业为主导的经济发展模式、市民崇尚低碳化生活方式、政府以建设低碳社会为目标、具有自身特色的低碳城市建设道路,推动经济、社会、文化、生态的可持续发展,从而实现桂林建设"全国生态文明建设示范区"的目标。     

儒、道传统文化对生态正义的推助

中国儒、道传统文化中的朴素自然观照应了现代生态正义的应有之义,也就是现代社会所倡导的生态文明观的基本意旨。只有在优秀的生态文化背景之下,中国才能够找到反思生态问题的契机,并在实践中提出加强生态文明建设的倡导。中国儒、道传统文化中的生态思想潜移默化,预示着当代社会文明的新的正义归属。在生态危机与现代文明的冲突中,中国传统文化在孕育着解决这一矛盾冲突的文化力量之时,仍然扮演着作为思想自觉、精神教化的重要角色。     

推进桂林文化和旅游产业融合发展

桂林围绕"文化立市"、"旅游兴市"战略,大力发展文化旅游产业,文化旅游产业对经济社会发展的拉动作用越来越明显。但文化旅游产业发展过程中还存在一些矛盾和问题,必须充分发挥得天独厚的文化与旅游资源优势,从深度和广度上促进二者的融合,形成两大产业互动发展、互融共赢的新模式。     

Analysing multimodality in an interactive digital environment: software as a meta-semiotic tool

The present paper discusses issues arising from the use of an interactive digital software tool to analyse multimodal communication. The focus is on the ways in which such technical resources and associated techniques enable the analyst of social semiosis to apply different types of analysis, and provide the site for critical reflection upon the results of such analyses. The aim is to present an argument for the use of an interactive digital software application as a meta-semiotic tool. Three major challenges for scholars engaged in multimodal social semiotics are addressed in pursuing this aim, specifically with reference to the development of digital interactive analytical resources. Firstly, scholars are faced with the task of not only accounting for an increasing range of semiotic resources, but also for the way different semiotic phenomena interact to produce meaning. Secondly, the multimodal semiotician has a broad range of analytical approaches potentially relevant to any task to draw upon. Thirdly, the nature of contemporary media forms offer challenges themselves in terms of access, analysis and presentation of analysis.     

Singapore's National Day Rally speech: A site of ideological negotiation

This article analyses the inaugural National Day Rally speeches of three Singapore prime ministers. It locates these speeches in the continuous ideological work that the People's Action Party (PAP) government has to do in order to maintain consensus and forge new alliances among classes and social forces that are being transformed by globalisation. Increasingly, these speeches have had to deal with the contradictions between nation-building and the tensions between the liberal and reactionary tendencies of the global city. It is argued that such a situation has made it futile for the government to attempt a straightforward ideological mobilisation of the people into a relatively homogeneous national community. The PAP government's ideological struggle to forge consensus has been balanced by a strategy of divide-and-rule. Ironically, the rally speeches have been as much about dividing as they have been about uniting.     

Providers Not Protectors: Institutionalizing Responsible Sovereignty in Southeast Asia

Abstract

Despite their declaratory support for the United Nations' adoption of the “responsibility to protect” (R2P) principle, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) governments nonetheless reject the UN proposition that military intervention can and should be employed for implementing the R2P. However, this reluctance has not precluded the development of an ethic of responsible sovereignty in Southeast Asia. But rather than responsibility as protection as assumed by the R2P, ASEAN countries arguably define responsibility in terms of provision for the well-being of their populaces. The development of such an ethic in Southeast Asia has been uneven as evidenced by the Myanmar government's initial reluctance to receive foreign humanitarian assistance following Cyclone Nargis in 2008. That said, as the contemporary policy debate and regional institutional developments in Southeast Asia together attest, an ethic of responsible provision is emerging among ASEAN states.