On resistance in the post-political city: conduct and counter-conduct in Vancouver

The paper contributes to understandings of contestation and resistance in urban politics, using a land use struggle against a “big-box” development in Vancouver, Canada as an example. It surveys Foucault's work on “governmentality,” highlighting the centrality of the notion of resistance in this work before focusing in particular on Foucault's yet underexplored conceptions of “conduct” and “counter-conduct”. These concepts offer an analysis of urban politics beyond the binary of successful implementation of city policies or their failure, and of cooption or revolt; therefore, proving especially useful in the analysis of urban governance which is increasingly characterised as “post-political”.     

Comfortably inhabiting reality: justifying and denouncing arguments in a development dispute in the post-industrial gentrified inner-city

This article seeks to understand the ‘critical capacities’ of actors involved in public disputes by focussing on one such case in Melbourne, Australia. The dispute centred on a non-government school's proposal to develop classrooms in a heritage listed building on public land sublet from a charitable foundation. Following local council's rejection of the original proposal, the school successfully appealed to the Victorian Planning Minister. After introducing a critical pragmatic analytic framework, five accounts of the dispute given by key actors are examined, uncovering similarities in the arguments used by each. Then, in the same accounts, analysis identifies differences in how the pro- and anti-development groups justified their own and denounced their opponents' positions. Both groups recognised formal rules as the best means for preserving equal citizens' access to public space, yet the pro-development group justified their argument by reference to local community benefit, in contrast with the anti-development group, who adopted an abstract argument concerning the privatisation of public space. Understood as mobilising different ‘models of justice’, the groups are regarded as appealing to a ‘real’ order, an implicit politicised hierarchy that situates winners in relation to losers. In effect, the pro-development group justified its position by representing it as congruent with, rather than disrupting, the real order encompassing the situation. In conclusion, the paper discusses the usefulness of the critical pragmatic analytic framework for understanding governmental power relations and assemblages, as actors demonstrate their critical capacities in contexts where erstwhile formal equality obscures the presence of hierarchical order.     

论城市民族关系的特点、结构与功能

目前城市民族关系的研究大多还处在定性研究阶段 ,逻辑化的、定量化的研究尚不多见 ,本文试图对城市民族关系的特点、结构和功能进行逻辑化的剖析和研究 ,以期为进一步的量化研究打下前期基础。     

党性修养是加强组织纪律性的内在保障

当前,党员的组织纪律性亟待进一步加强。强化组织纪律不仅需要严格管理,更需要增强党员的党性修养。加强党性修养是增强组织纪律性的基础工程,既能有力提升组织纪律性的层次,又能促使党员创造性地执行党的组织纪律。随着形势和任务的变化,为确保党员的组织纪律性不断提升,加强党性修养必须坚持与时俱进,方法途径需要传承创新,通过阅读与比较,提升理论修养水平;通过善行与反思,提升道德修养水平;通过鉴戒与"涅磐",提升纪律修养水平;通过学习与实践,提升能力修养水平,从而合力形成增强组织纪律性的内在保障。     

着力构建城乡统筹的基层党建新格局

构建城乡统筹的基层党建新格局,是党的十七届四中全会提出的重大任务。构建城乡统筹基层党建新格局,要结合新形势、新任务的发展需要,紧扣统筹城乡经济社会发展要求,进一步打破城乡区域界限,使城乡党建由条块分割转向区域联合,着力在城乡党建观念、资源和组织统筹上下功夫,从组织设置、活动方式、人才选拔、党员教育管理等方面进行创新,积极构建以城带乡、资源共享、优势互补、协调发展的城乡统筹基层党建新格局。     

关于创建劳模创新工作室的认识

劳模创新工作室是近年来工会劳模工作中涌现的一个新生事物,是弘扬新时期劳模精神的重要载体,是提升职工队伍素质的有效举措,是推动企事业创新发展的迫切需要,更是履行工会服务大局职能的必然要求。劳模创新工作室的创建要注意做到"八个必有",坚持"六个结合",把握好"三个环节",并着力做好协调促进工作。     

红色文化视域下加强党员理想信念的研究——以桂林为例

党员干部的共产主义理想和中国特色社会主义信念是否坚定,对中国特色社会主义事业的兴衰成败有极大的影响。桂林红色文化是构筑桂林精神家园的重要载体,是引导党员坚定理想信念的宝贵资源。挖掘桂林独特的红色文化资源对加强党员干部的理想信念教育、引导党员牢固树立正确的理想信念有重要意义。     

真理标准问题讨论的历史作用新思考

在改革开放历程之中．真理标准问题大讨论从“实、真、人”的三个层面冲破了“两个凡是”的禁锢，摆脱了长期以来“左”倾错误思想的束缚。它促进了实践理性的回归、实现了科学精神的重塑、加速了“斗争哲学”的终结、彰显弘扬了人本主义。它是思想解放的先声．在社会主义现代化建设进程中发挥出独特和巨大的历史作用。