Facebook: An Emerging Arena for Politics of Self-Determination in northern Cyprus?

ABSTRACT

The present article aims to expand scholarship on the political role of social media by focusing on the case of Facebook and the self-determination claims of Turkish Cypriots vis-à-vis Turkey. Drawing upon a virtual ethnography of relevant Facebook sites and groups, this article scrutinises whether social media offer an innovative public platform for the politics of self-determination or on-line claims are in reality formed and negotiated in the same manner as the offline ones. The article concludes that Turkish Cypriots’ Facebook activism may very well be for strengthening their community, shielding their distinct characteristics from mainland Turkey and raising their self-esteem, rather than indicating demands for complete autonomy in the traditional political sense of the word and/or statehood.     

Islam and economics in the political sphere: a critical evaluation of the AKP era in Turkey

ABSTRACT

Since Weber’s articulate conceptualisation of the nexus between religion and economics, these phenomena have been examined through various academic viewpoints. While some take religion as a determining factor of economic performance, others argue that it is the economy that influences religiosity. This paper focuses on the manifestation of religion and economics in the political sphere regarding the case of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP). After discussing the literature on the relations between religion and economics, it scrutinises the AKP period, considering three specific pillars: (a) the early years of the AKP in which Western economic policies were implemented as a continuation of the Kemal Dervi? period; (b) between 2008 and 2015, when the idea ‘we can do as well’ maintained the centre stage; and (c) 2015 and onwards, when the Islamist influence on economic policy became highly apparent, particularly regarding interest rates. This study argues that the AKP changed politically in terms of Islamic influence upon the economic sphere, however this remains at the discursive level for the time being.     

Over the centuries: a history of Wollstonecraft reception

ABSTRACT

Both Wollstonecraft’s fame and infamy are attributable to her lived experience as the woman author of the only radical republican feminist text published in the pamphlet war of the 1790s. Yet, her radical republican politics were divorced from her gender politics in the early reception. This paper argues that this separation was subsequently sustained in part by interpretive practices that rest on the suppression of the original split. It shows that over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, both outside and within academia, the dominant interpretive tendency of neglecting Wollstonecraft’s radical republican politics has deradicalized both her historical political thought and her iconic image. This conventional reception has both enabled and limited the resources made available through Wollstonecraft to feminists throughout history.     

江泽民政治哲学思想初探

中国在十三届四中全会以来之所以能够取得举世瞩目的伟大成就,这是与江泽民的政治哲学分不开的。江泽民的政治哲学的基本内涵包括政治本质论、政治价值论、政治艺术论、政治本体论、政治目标论和政治民主论。江泽民政治哲学的特点包括人民性、辩证性、民族性、系统性、方向性和实践性。江泽民的政治哲学具有重大的理论意义与现实意义。     

旗帜鲜明地坚持马克思主义在思想理论领域的指导地位

学习贯彻“三个代表”重要思想是宣传思想工作的重中之重,也是宣传思想战线的首要政治任务。学 习贯彻十六大精神,弘扬主旋律,最重要的是加强对“三个代表”重要思想的学习、宣传和贯彻,使各级领导 干部成为践行“三个代表”重要思想的表率。     

当代青年的接受特点与邓小平理论教育方式的选择

社会主义现代化建设的新阶段实践呼唤青年政治理论教育方式的创新。改革开放的新环境塑造了当代青年的富有时代气息的接受特点。实践经验表明,只有根据当代青年的接受特点,在邓小平理论、"三个代表"重要思想的教育方式上不断创新,才能取得应有的成效。     

探索“两课”教学与学管工作一体化的新模式

加强学生思想政治教育势在必行。我校思想政治教育存在"两课"教学与学生思想实际脱节,学管工作方法滞后,与学生沟通少等问题。构建思想政治教育模式的具体做法包括:实行思想政治教育辅导员制,采取观察法、调查法、反馈法、实践法等。     

从"四个文明"建设入手促进人的全面发展

按照江泽民关于实现人的全面发展的基本思路,就是要贯彻"三个代表"的要求,努力建设社会主义物质文明、政治文明、精神文明,还有生态文明,促进人的全面发展.     

党的十六大报告的理论创新

论文在全面研究党的十五大以来中央有关文献,尤其是“三个代表”重要思想形成、发展和党的十六大文件的基础上,全面概括和提出了十六大政治报告中的系列新思想、新提法、新观点。透过这些新思想、新提法、新观点,使我们更好地学习和研究蕴涵在十六大中的科学社会主义和中国特色社会主义理论,更清晰地看到“三个代表”重要思想,与马克思主义、毛泽东思想和邓小平理论之间一脉相承的关系,更自觉地贯彻落实十六大精神。     

从社会主义历史实践看“三个代表“重要思想

"三个代表"是科学社会主义理论创新的必然结果,来自全球社会主义历史实践的正反经验,是中国共产党在世界经济全球化和中国社会主义现代性经济社会结构转型背景下,向全体人民作出的领导建设中国特色社会主义伟大事业的执政承诺.中国共产党兑现这一执政承诺的主要途径是在意识形态意义上引导全体人民建立一种对小康社会目标的合理社会预期,同时把先进生产力、先进文化和人民根本利益以党的路线、方针、政策和制度形式展现在中国特色社会主义的经济、文化和政治文明建设实践之中.