The land grab and corporate food regime restructuring

Land grab appears to be a phenomenal expression of deepening contradictions in the corporate food regime. In particular, the end of cheap food (signaled in the 2008 ‘food crisis’) has generated renewed interest in agriculture for development on the part of the development industry, matched by a rising interest in offshore land investments, driven by governments securing food and fuel exports and financiers speculating on commodity futures and land price inflation. This paper interprets these developments as illusory solutions to a fundamental accumulation crisis of the neoliberal project. While this new (and final?) enclosure registers a restructuring of the food regime, as its geopolitical relations and productive content re-centers on Southern land and an emergent bioeconomic imperative, it is likely to only buy time (and space) in the short run for political and economic elites and a global consuming class. In the longer run, the attempt to resolve food regime contradictions by a spatial fix may well be catastrophic.     

东南亚的环境安全

东南亚国家自 6 0年代以来 ,在经济发展方面取得了长足进展 ,但随之而来的是环境污染的加剧、生态环境的恶化 ,如城市化问题、大气污染、水污染、热带雨林减少 ,并且有跨国界污染的趋势。生态环境的恶化对东南亚国家的可持续发展造成了严重威胁 ,环境安全问题日益突出。因此 ,增加环境意识和加强环境保护 ,处理好保护环境与发经济之间的关系 ,加强环境问题的国际合作 ,已成为东南亚国家面临的刻不容缓的大事。     

自然生态艺术审美的生成性特征--以中国美学为例

自然生态艺术审美从生成论的视域中将文艺审美活动视为人的一种自由精神的生命体验形式,它超越人的现实存在,在最有效、最合理的层面上凸显人与自然的生态关联与生命共通感.自然生态艺术审美特征表现为"天地自然"与"人心营构"之"象"的生态生成性;"有我之境"与"无我之境"的"境界"生态本体性;"不著一字"与"浅深聚散"的"无工"生态契合性;"芙蓉出水"与"外枯中膏"的"心意"生态流转性;"观山观水"与"悦心乐知"的"主客"生态互证性.     

简论中国化与和谐社会

和谐社会以承认社会多样性为前提。社会多样性既有基于财产和地位的纵向分层,如阶级、阶层和贫富;也有基于文化认同的横向分类,如民族、宗教和语言。这两类多样性互有交叉但管理目标不同:前者要控制和缩小差别,后者要承认差别并在尊重主体的基础上追求互主性即仁性(inter-subjectivity)。多元民族文化是中国可持续发展和为人类做出更大贡献的凭据。但要把这笔文化资源变成社会资本,中国看待多元民族文化的范式则要从原先的“社会发展史”转换为今后的“文化生态学”。     

人与自然和谐相处的理论与实践探索--以浙江省为例

文章结合浙江省的实际，着重论述人与自然和谐相处是建设“平安浙江”、构建和谐社会的必然要求，认为人与自然相处不和谐是构建社会主义和谐社会的最大障碍。建议进一步提高认识，紧紧依靠科技进步、树立和落实科学的发展观以及加强制度与机制创新，同时宣传、发动广大公众的积极参与，大力加强生态文明建设，深入理解、研究人与自然相互作用的规律，树立人与自然和谐相处的理念，对不和谐的发展坚决说“不”，使全省走上生产发展、生活富裕、生态良好的现代文明之路，实现经济社会发展与环境保护、生态建设的统一。     

循环经济的生态学分析

发展循环经济,建立节约型社会已成为全社会的共识。循环经济是对自然生态规律的充分利用,也是对自然生态中物质和能量流动形式的模拟,其目标是要达到自然资源的可持续利用,减少对环境的污染,以实现人类社会经济的持续发展。发展循环经济可以借鉴生态学中的生态平衡原理、循环再生原理和共生共存原理,使资源和能源利用达到最小化,在生产过程中实现资源的再利用,而在生产的输出端采用资源的再循环原则,实现废弃物向再生产的转化。     

The Capitalocene,Part I: on the nature and origins of our ecological crisis

This essay, in two parts, argues for the centrality of historical thinking in coming to grips with capitalism’s planetary crises of the twenty-first century. Against the Anthropocene’s shallow historicization, I argue for the Capitalocene, understood as a system of power, profit and re/production in the web of life. In Part I, I pursue two arguments. First, I situate the Anthropocene discourse within Green Thought’s uneasy relationship to the Human/Nature binary, and its reluctance to consider human organizations – like capitalism – as part of nature. Next, I highlight the Anthropocene’s dominant periodization, which meets up with a longstanding environmentalist argument about the Industrial Revolution as the origin of ecological crisis. This ignores early capitalism’s environment-making revolution, greater than any watershed since the rise of agriculture and the first cities. While there is no question that environmental change accelerated sharply after 1850, and especially after 1945, it seems equally fruitless to explain these transformations without identifying how they fit into patterns of power, capital and nature established four centuries earlier.     

Performing Counter-Hegemonic Common(s) Senses: Rearticulating Democracy,Community and Forests in Puerto Rico

Political ecologists have developed scathing analyses of capitalism’s tendency for enclosure and dispossession of the commons. In this context commons are analyzed as a force to resist neo-liberalism, a main site of conflict over dispossession, and a source of alternatives to capitalism. In this paper we elaborate a view of the commons as the material and symbolic terrain where performative re-articulation of common(s) senses can potentially enact counter-hegemonic socio-ecological configurations. Expressly drawing on the concepts of hegemony, “common-senses” (inspired by Antonio Gramsci) and “performativity” (developed by Judith Butler), we argue that counter-hegemony is performed through everyday practices that rearticulate existing common senses about commons. Commoning is a set of processes/relations enacted to challenge capitalist hegemony and build more just/sustainable societies insofar as it transforms and rearranges common senses in/through praxis. The paper draws on the experience of an anti-mining movement of Casa Pueblo in Puerto Rico, which for the last 35+ years has been developing a project self-described as autogestion. The discussion pays special attention to Casa Pueblo’s praxis and discourses to investigate how they rearticulate common senses with regard to nature, community and democracy, as well as their implications for counter-hegemonic politics.     

公共政策创新与政策生态

公共政策创新是政府应对信息化、全球化和社会转型而开展的有价值的政府行为,但政策创新的“价值”必须置于政策生态的框架下进行衡量。在政策生态视野下,政策创新研究有变量分析、过程模型、主题分析和限度分析四个角度。本文着重从主题上阐释了公共政策创新包含政策主体、政策内容、政策手段和政策过程创新四个方面,进而分析了在我国当前的政策生态下,公共政策创新应有三个限度:以市场为基础、以法律为准绳和均衡健全的政策体系。     

国会议员与新加坡政治生态——新加坡前国会议员白振华访谈录

本文作者通过邮件和面谈的方式对新加坡知名的政治家、社会活动家和企业家白振华进行了访谈，白振华先生表达了他对新加坡政治生态的观点，为人们了解新加坡政治生态提供了鲜活的第一手资料。