Ephemeral ‘communities’: spatiality and politics in rangeland interventions in Mongolia

In recent years, the number of community-based natural resource management projects for rangeland conservation and development has grown rapidly in Mongolia. Such projects seek to develop social capital through the formation of herder groups and pasture user groups, in order to enable the coordination of complex, collective tasks needed for sustainability. Through analysis of social networks, interviews and ethnographic data from two places where such projects have been implemented, Bayanjargalan, Dundgovi, and Tariat, Arkhangai, the paper demonstrates that the spatiality of pastoral social relations is much more extensive than assumed by these projects. Furthermore, rather than being neutral technical interventions, such projects are embedded in and proliferate politics. They often bolster the informal power of wealthy herders who gain more access to pasture, while at the same time leading to tensions between different levels of government and becoming objects of struggle between Mongolia’s two dominant political parties. For all of these reasons, these efforts have tended not to build trust, and the ‘communities’ they create, in the form of herder groups and pasture user groups, have tended to be ephemeral.     

高校思想政治理论课教师队伍建设研究

高校思想政治理论课教师是培养高素质人才的重要力量。思想政治教育学科设立30年来,国内各地区和各高校围绕思想政治理论课教师队伍的建设,从选聘和充实、培训和提升、考核和保障等方面实施建设举措,开展了大量探索实践。目前,高校思想政治理论课教师队伍建设中还存在配备不足、队伍不稳定,结构不合理、业务能力欠缺,规范缺失、思想认识模糊等问题。在对各地区和各高校开展的建设举措进行归纳梳理的基础上,从理念导向、制度规范、思想引导等方面对进一步加强高校思想政治理论课教师队伍建设提出建议。     

手机应用：提高大学生思想政治教育时效性的新载体

智能手机诞生后,以空前的广度和深度影响着大学生群体,给大学生思想政治教育带来了机遇和挑战.作者认为应该从培养教育队伍,构建教育模式,结合其他教育形式三个层面出发,利用全新校园软件、加强手机外教育引导、家校合作、打造行为教育、新生入学教育、心理健康教育相结合的教育模式等方法,利用手机应用提高大学生思想政治教育时效性.     

思想政治教育人文关怀视野下的“思想谘商”探析

加强思想政治教育人文关怀是思想政治教育学科发展的必然导向,是坚持"以人为本"的重要体现。实现思想政治教育人文关怀的具体路径也是多种多样的,"思想谘商"是以对话为根本路径,以思想问题为对象,以"解惑、去苦"为旨向的一种思想关怀、心灵关怀。思想谘商过程中运用的方法有"FITT"、"PEACE"、"LEARN"等。     

思想政治理论课教材话语体系“接地气”的转换探索

在社会经济形势快速变化、大学生认知接受心理呈现稳定的代际差异等情形之下,需要从四本全国统编教材所涉理论知识的拓展、中央重大会议精神的主动学习、社会经济最新动态信息的及时追踪以及师生良性互动机制的科学构建等途径,探明思想政治理论课教材话语体系转换所接"地气"的真切图景,全面推动话语体系"接地气"转换的创造活动。     

问责国家元首的实证研究——以中外历史上不同的政治生态为平台

人类历史上曾经出现过专制与民主两种不同的政治生态。在专制条件下,作为世袭的君主,其权威至高无上,不容置疑,因问责君主必将有损于其形象而不被允许。在宪政条件下,国家元首是民选的,问责制的出台自然可行,只是这样做的事实依据与法理依据何在,元首能否同一般官员一样由行政法进行问责,在问责的过程中是否应当考虑其他因素的影响,等等,因其属于政治与法律的边缘课题,不仅需要相关理论的支撑,更需要从实证的角度作出有力的佐证。作为由专制向民主的转型的威权政治形态,囿于传统思想及尊君心理的影响,欲要问责于国家元首何其难矣,因此也需要作深刻检讨。     

公安院校思想政治理论课实践教学模式探析

公安院校思想政治理论课教学必须始终坚持理论和实践相结合的原则,应积极引导学生走出课堂,深入社会,努力构建课堂教学与实践教学、课内实践与课外实践相结合的教学模式,才能切实增强教学实效,进而贯彻落实＂政治建警＂方针,为中国特色社会主义事业培养、输送合格的人民警察。     

Chinese Dream,a Dream Inluencing the World

正THE International Dialogue on the Chinese Dream concluded in Shanghai on December8,2013.Attended by nearly 100 experts and scholars from 24 countries,the two-day event enacted international and cross-cultural dialogue on the latest research achievements on the Chinese Dream.     

Other(s) Worlds: Mysticism and Radicalism at the Fin de Siècle

Abstract

Over time our understanding of the ‘political’ has been progressively shaped by the secular rational calculations of modern European political thought. This paper aims to critique these ‘calculations’ with reference to crucial moments of departure and flight within western philosophy itself. It concludes by reclaiming fin de siècle radicalism/philosophy as a forgotten instance of empirical-metaphysical hybridity: a form of politics or ethics capable of housing the imperatives of both desire and prayer.