Reworking the metabolic rift: La Vía Campesina,agrarian citizenship,and food sovereignty

Amidst increasing concerns about climate change, food shortages, and widespread environmental degradation, a demand is emerging for ways to resolve longstanding social and ecological contradictions present in contemporary capitalist models of production and social organisation. This paper first discusses how agriculture, as the most intensive historical nexus between society and nature, has played a pivotal role in social and ecological change. I explore how agriculture has been integrally associated with successive metabolic ruptures between society and nature, and then argue that these ruptures have not only led to widespread rural dislocation and environmental degradation, but have also disrupted the practice of agrarian citizenship through a series of interlinked and evolving philosophical, ideological, and material conditions. The first section of the paper thus examines the de-linking of agriculture, citizenship, and nature as a result of ongoing cycles of a metabolic rift, as a ‘crucial law of motion’ and central contradiction of changing socio-ecological relations in the countryside. I then argue that new forms of agrarian resistance, exemplified by the contemporary international peasant movement La Vía Campesina's call for food sovereignty, create a potential to reframe and reconstitute an agrarian citizenship that reworks the metabolic rift between society and nature. A food sovereignty model founded on practices of agrarian citizenship and ecologically sustainable local food production is then analysed for its potential to challenge the dominant model of large-scale, capitalist, and export-based agriculture.     

论警务活动人权保障与人的本性

人的本性给予人权,并在一定的历史条件下居于一定的经济结构和文化发展中。为了自身的自由生存、自由生活、自由发展以能够真正掌握自己的命运,必须具有人权。警务活动的主客体作为世界的主体,都具有人的一般本质属性。警务活动保障人权必须把警务活动的对象当做自然存在物、社会存在物、意识存在物、主体存在物来把握。     

Green citizenship: a review and critique

This paper reviews the literature on green citizenship and argues that the concept of citizenship has done much to advance green theory building internally but that in order to deepen an already substantial area of scholarship, promote a more inclusive and emancipatory environmental politics, and augment their contribution to the larger body of citizenship studies, greens will need to broaden their approach to the concept. This review highlights the tendency within green theorizing to privilege particular conceptions of the natural world and humans' relations to it, and draws attention to the work of those scholars explicitly engaged in incorporating the social construction of nature into their theories of green citizenship. The essay concludes by identifying three particular areas in which green theorizing has contributed to citizenship studies.     

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.     

论侦查权的性质与特征

侦查权在我国被认为是一种司法权,这导致犯罪嫌疑人在认为侦查机关的行为违反法律规定时无权申请法院进行审查,这对于保护被追诉人的权利是极其不利的。从本质上来看,侦查权是一种执行权,这与行政权是一致的,而与司法权有着根本的差异。从基本特征来看,侦查权在价值与功能、体制与人员以及权力运作方面也与司法权有着根本的差异。     

"黑面纱"下的扭曲人性——试析霍桑的《教长的黑面纱》

美国作家霍桑在他的重要短篇小说<教长的黑面纱>中,通过描述胡伯牧师为掩盖其罪恶戴上黑面纱,以及教徒们对黑面纱的种种反应,告诉读者,每个人都有罪恶的念头、犯罪的冲动,都有不为人知的黑暗与秘密,哪怕是"圣洁的牧师",这是人性的阴暗面,是压抑与扭曲的结果.从社会历史背景、象征主义、浪漫主义等方面对该作中人性的扭曲与阴暗的有关...     

试论教唆犯的性质

教唆犯的性质即教唆犯的成立基础和处罚根据,是教唆犯理论研究的基础问题。关于该问题,德、日刑法学界以及我国理论界存在多种学说的争鸣。对教唆犯性质的研究应该站在刑法客观主义立场上,以法益侵害为理论基础,坚持结果无价值论,才能得出正确的结论。基于此,修正的教唆犯从属性应该是教唆犯性质的客观反映,即只有当被教唆人实施了一定的行为对法益造成一定的危险之后,才能对教唆犯予以处罚。     

中国古代廉政文化的哲学基础

中国古代廉政文化作为传统治国之道的重要部分,是当代中国政治文明建设的宝贵思想资源。就其哲学基础而言,民本思想是传统社会政治权力合法性的基础,人性论是传统社会官德修养的理论依据,义利之辨影响着古代官吏的行为模式,天人合一的有机整体论世界观塑造着古代官员的社会责任感。对中国古代廉政文化哲学基础的准确把握有助于我们深入了解传统的治国智慧,汲取历史经验,拓宽理论视野,更好地开展党风廉政建设和反腐败斗争,促使社会变得更加清明和公正。     

论社会主义社会警民关系的本质属性

研究社会主义社会警民关系具有非常重要的理论意义和现实意义。界定警民关系的本质属性是研究警民关系的理论前提。警民和谐是社会主义社会警民关系的本质属性,其矛盾性质是人民内部矛盾;社会主义社会和谐警民关系的本质属性,必然表现为需要关系、服务关系、平等关系、合作关系和友善关系的特征,这五种特征是相互联系、相互作用的有机整体。社会主义社会和谐警民关系是以满足需要、平等互助为基础,以服务、合作为基本内容,以情感友善关系为纽带的新型和谐的社会关系。     

文化新世纪与人类新千年

人类文化的发展,从宏观上看已经历了自然文化和科学文化这两个文化千年.在21世纪的今天,人类极有希望建构以生命为核心的文化新千年,从而实现人类文明的整体性跃迁.