Translocal family reproduction and agrarian change in China: a new analytical framework

ABSTRACT

This paper advances a new framework for analysing agrarian change in rural China and elsewhere in developing Asia, which centres on translocal family reproduction. The framework highlights the crucial connections between rural families’ translocal strategies for meeting reproductive (especially care) needs, their changing aspirations for reproduction, and other aspects of agrarian change, including de-peasantisation, de-agrarianisation and social differentiation. In developing this framework, the paper refers to a village case study in central China and draws on a critique of the ‘livelihoods perspective’ on agrarian change, approaches focusing on ‘global householding’, and the cultural reproduction of class and gender.     

Why are public offices sold in Kyrgyzstan?

Why are public offices for sale in Kyrgyzstan? To address this question, this article attempts to set out a new logic for understanding the motives, nature, and consequences of corruption in the country. Rather than securing access to a single favor through bribery, officials invest in political and administrative posts in order to obtain access to stream of rents associated with an office. Political and administrative corruption is organically linked in this system, and corruption stems not so much from weak monitoring as from being a franchise-like arrangement, where officials are required to pay continuous “fees” to their bosses. The key is to be the public official influencing the redistribution of rents as well as participating in the informal market where “public” goods are privatized and exchanged for informal payments. Thus, instead of control over the pure economic assets of the state, influence over the state's institutional and organizational framework is the dominant strategy for earning and investing in the country.     

Why Do Social Work Practice Research?

Social work practice research focuses on researching all kinds of social work practice, including social work practice teaching, practitioner self-inquiry, and also social work services. In this article, first the dilemma of social work research in China will be analyzed; then the nature and position of social work research will be clarified; finally the procedure of practice research will be introduced. In short, the author intends to argue that as social work is a practice-oriented discipline, the creation of social work knowledge is for achieving social work professional goal and its research is practical and practice-oriented.     

Sensory speculations:Visual discourse and the vision of visuality

It is now commonplace within the discipline of art history and visual culture to speak to theories of vision and visuality. Recent questions concerning the subject of vision, sexed positionalities and discourses of viewing are indebted to theories of visuality, which now occupy a privileged place within the study of visual culture. Theories of visuality have revealed both the terms of cultural visibilities and significantly the how of what we see. And yet despite this engagement of the opacity and duplicity of the visual, recent work into visuality has been plagued by a re‐occurring myopia regarding the corporeal This oversight within the visibilites of visual discourse is the unchallenged idea of a ‘human vision’ within the social constructivist project. In this article I assess how this universal operates as the matter for theories of visuality and of the ramifications of this for the project of the critique of vision.     

社会计量在小组工作教学中的应用

小组工作教学与传统的教学方式不同。社会计量是检测团体动力的方法,在小组工作教学中有多种运用方式。在小组工作教学中,适当运用社会计量,既能促进班级同学的人际互动,又能让学生在体验中掌握专业方法。     

教育训练视角下民警群众工作能力建设

从党中央到各行业、从公安实战部门到公安教育训练机构,都非常重视公安民警群众工作能力建设,通过对民警群众工作现状进行总结与述评,并对基层调研发现的问题进行了汇总与分析,从教育训练的视角对民警群众工作能力建设提出了若干对策与建议。     

企业知识员工激励机制研究

企业知识员工激励是一个伴随知识经济时代而产生的新课题,对知识型员工进行激励,既要结合知识员工自身的个体特点,也需要综合考虑知识员工群体的总体特点,还要考虑知识员工的工作性质。企业必须构建灵活的福利和薪酬激励体系,满足不同类型知识员工的需求;必须营造宽松的文化氛围,提供知识员工自主的工作环境;必须对知识员工进行系统培训,为知识员工职业生涯提供发展空间。     

工会工作领域“二八”现象值得关注

当今工会工作领域,存在一种＂二八＂现象：省级工会干部培训,竞争型企业的工会干部往往不到两成,八成多都来自机关、事业单位、垄断企业和各级总工会;各项主题活动,似乎也都为＂非典型性工会＂所设计,每年评选表彰,上榜者八成以上为＂非典型性工会＂。这种现象需要引起我们应有的重视,应采取切实有效措施来加以解决。     

试论边远少数民族地区共青团工作实施的主要方向

我国的少数民族主要分布在经济欠发达的地区尤其是边疆地区。少数民族地区的建设和发展,关系到民族团结与边疆稳定。重视并加强边远少数民族地区共青团工作,找准民族地区共青团工作的突破口,大力培养少数民族团干部,对于促进民族团结、传承民族文化、开发民族人才等都具有深刻意义。     

从历史中来,到现实中去：党的群众工作的主要经验

面临新的时代背景,党在历史上做群众工作的经验是不是都过时了？为了回答这个问题,本文分析了群众工作的基本理论并归纳出十条经验。它们是：与最广大人民群众联系并抓住关键性群体;给人民群众看得见的物质福利与荣誉;从思想上教育群众、引领群众;通过各种形式把群众组织起来;在群众中发现并培养＂群众领袖＂;整顿党的基层组织,巩固基层民众对党的信任;反对官僚主义,干部与群众打成一片;建立民主政治,把群众的意见聚合起来;发现并总结群众工作的规律与得失。