Enter the dragon: the ecological disorganisation of Chinese capital in Africa

This article draws on the theory and recent research on ‘ecological disorganization’- defined as ‘the ways in which human preferences for organizing economic production consistent with the objectives of capitalism are an inherent contradiction with the health of the ecological system’- to explore the ‘corporate violence’ apropos of Chinese investment in Africa. In line with other ecological disorganization theorists, we show how the deployment of Chinese capital in Africa structures and reproduces subjectivation, but also how, ultimately, this subjectivation is implicated in Africa’s ecological disorganization.     

From Dialectic of Nature to the Asian Mode: A Pre-history of North Korean Environmental Approach

North Korea is not a nation or field that attracts a great deal of critically minded analysis which would address the processes and moments of its ideological history. This is especially true when it comes to matters of North Korea’s relationship with nature and the environment, and the ideologies which underpin developmental and productive strategies within that nation. The routes which Marxist analysis in general took to connect to the Korean Peninsula are themselves fairly obscure and rarely considered. This paper therefore seeks an examination of the generation of Marxist analysis of nature and of those modes of production which encounter, transform and interact with natural and environmental forms. It considers the work of both Engels and Marx on the subject before tracing the journey those theorisations took into the practices and articulations of later Marxists, communists and socialists tasked with applying Marxist principles more widely in the processes of nation building and governance. In particular, it analyses notions of an Asian Mode of Production and the debate in Marxist circles as to that mode’s veracity and utility. It also encounters briefly the work of Karl Wittfogel, a counter-Marxist theoretician, and his notion of Hydraulic Economy. Finally, the paper traces the journey made by these theoretical structures into the intellectual world of the Korean Peninsula, navigating the debates it generated among early Korean Marxist intellectuals and their embedding or otherwise within the ideological structures and processes of North Korea.     

Knowing about crisis

With this brief piece, we raise some questions and suggest some alternative directions for knowing about crisis. In particular, we point to the role of core beliefs in shaping society, including the way in which those held by academics shape research and how knowledge about crisis is produced, as well as the influence core beliefs have on the everyday lives of the people with whom we work. We draw on the work of Miki Kashtan (2014), who identifies three core beliefs that have become persistent themes in our work with communities: separateness, scarcity, and powerlessness. We offer some examples of and reflections on work we have done in the Govan neighborhood of Glasgow, Scotland by way of gesturing toward how we understand core beliefs to work and how they might be engaged with. Our intention is not to denigrate the value of beliefs, but rather to point out the value in recognizing the beliefs that inform our ways of knowing and actions.     

建立符合科学发展观要求的收入分配制度

建立符合科学发展观要求的收入分配制度，必须坚持和完善按劳分配为主体、多种分配方式并存的分配制度，健全劳动、资本、技术、管理等生产要素按贡献参与分配的制度，初次分配和再分配都要处理好效率和公平的关系，再分配更加注重公平。     

列斐伏尔对空间的政治学反思

列斐伏尔认为空间不是简单意味着的几何学与传统地理学,而是一个社会关系的重组与社会秩序的建构过程.列斐伏尔的空间生产理论与马克思提出的生产、消费、阶级等核心概念具有直接的对应关系,这种对应构成了列斐伏尔构建空间生产理论的基石.列斐伏尔的空间生产理论丰富和发展了传统马克思主义政治学的研究视域.     

Creative appropriation: academic knowledge and interventions against sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

ABSTRACT

Recent academic research has questioned assumptions about sexual violence in (post-) conflict contexts. Gender norms rather than military decision-making have been found to constitute a major underlying reason for wartime sexual violence. In this contribution, we investigate whether international organisations seeking to prevent sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo have accordingly changed their analytical perspectives and modified policies and programming. We find that many, but not all, such organisations creatively appropriate new academic work in their policy and project documents. However, incentives for continuity in the humanitarian field have slackened the pace of any substantive practical changes.     

促进我国知识生产的途径简析

在知识经济时代，知识成为第一生产要素。知识在拥有、使用等阶段的特点决定了其生产的特殊性。目前，促进我国知识生产的主要途径包括：政府的直接投资；教育规模的扩大；对技术产品的公共采购政策；风险投资等。     

产业结构变动规律研究中的逻辑问题

本运用系统论基本原理分析了现行产业结构变动规律研究中的隐含逻辑，指出了其中的错误，并提出了一个分析的逻辑框架。     

论国家安全生产的外部性

国家安全生产存在外部性，一是由于政府的强制征税能够克服“不付费乘客”问题，由于政府免费供应解决安全保卫产品这一公共商品的边际成本为零问题，具有外部经济性；二是由于国家安全生产目标模糊性而导致的其激励、约束、信息传递等机制扭曲，由于其运营垄断性而导致的价格和产出的损失、寻租行为和Ｘ无效率，由于其运作机制行政性而导致一般不必考虑破产和竞争的约束和激励，而通常表现为“规避错误”机制上，由于其产权的“公地悲剧”性而导致具有“双重人格”的国防人员对国家安全生产这一公共商品的“寻租”，由此必然使国家安全生产存在着外部不经济     

论我国安全生产中主体的角色定位

通过分析不同主体在安全生产中所扮演的角色,指出各管理主体应通过良好的合作和有效的分工共同进行安全生产管理,旨在有效遏止生产事故发生,实现安全生产的长治久安和社会稳定发展。