试论土家族的祖灵信仰观

不同的民族有不同的宗教信仰，宗教信仰作为一种文化现象左右着一个民族的思想和意识，影响着民族社会的发展。本文以比较典型的土家族村寨的矍氏宗族的祭祖活动为例，对湘西土家族的祖灵信仰进行剖析，从中可以窥视土家族传统文化一斑。     

印度女性社会地位探析

印度政府长期致力于从经济、政治、法律等各方面促进女性发展，从为女性创造一个良好的外部发展环境、帮助女性在经济上获得独立、消除性别歧视等方面入手，使女性参与社会经济活动的人数和经济活动的范围都在不断扩大。尽管如此，印度女性在发展进程中还存在着种种问题和挑战。     

中西方思想政治教育理论基础比较探析

历史文化传统与社会制度的不同,使中西方国家思想政治教育在理论基础上表现出巨大差异。中国古代思想政治教育理论基础根源于中国古代哲人对天命论、人性论和义利观的探究;新中国的思想政治教育理论基础来源于马克思主义理论学说;西方思想政治教育理论,基础内容庞杂,但体系明显,体现在公民观念、共和精神、自由平等思想、神学思想,以及"天赋人权论"和"社会契约论"等学说中。比较与探析中西方思想政治教育理论基础,对明确思想政治教育的培养目标,确定思想政治教育主要内容具有重要指导意义。     

Made in the USA? Immigrants' imported ideology and political engagement

This study explores both the extent to which immigrants' pre-migration ideological predispositions might serve as a heuristic, by which these individuals anchor and adjust their ideological predispositions in the new polity, and the extent to which imported ideology enhances the likelihood of immigrants' political engagement once in their new home. Empirical tests take advantage of two unique survey datasets of Mexican immigrants residing in the United States; one of which incorporates a survey embedded experiment. Results show that immigrants' ideological predispositions in the country of origin do anchor these individuals' ideological predispositions in the new host country in terms of intensity and directionality. Most importantly, imported ideology does heighten the prospects of immigrants' electoral participation in the United States.     

北宋前期招抚吐蕃简论

北宋前期,宋廷对吐蕃的招抚发生于宋、夏、蕃三者错综复杂的争夺形势之中。北宋对吐蕃的招抚具有军事、经济、政治综合经制的鲜明特点,"抚而有之"收到了一定的效果。但是,宋王朝招抚吐蕃所具有的时代与阶级的局限性却规定着宋蕃关系发展的最终走向。     

Institutionalizing precarious migratory status in Canada

This paper analyzes the institutionalized production of precarious migration status in Canada. Building on recent work on the legal production of illegality and non-dichotomous approaches to migratory status, we review Canadian immigration and refugee policy, and analyze pathways to loss of migratory status and the implications of less than full status for access to social services. In Canada, policies provide various avenues of authorized entry, but some entrants lose work and/or residence authorization and end up with variable forms of less-than-full immigration status. We argue that binary conceptions of migration status (legal/illegal) do not reflect this context, and advocate the use of ‘precarious status’ to capture variable forms of irregular status and illegality, including documented illegality. We find that elements of Canadian policy routinely generate pathways to multiple forms of precarious status, which is accompanied by precarious access to public services. Our analysis of the production of precarious status in Canada is consistent with approaches that frame citizenship and illegality as historically produced and changeable. Considering variable pathways to and forms of precarious status supports theorizing citizenship and illegality as having blurred rather than bright boundaries. Identifying differences between Canada and the US challenges binary and tripartite models of illegality, and supports conducting contextually specific and comparative work.     

西部大开发与日本对华投资战略

在西部大开发中,如何借鉴日资在东部沿海地区投资成功的经验,采取适合于西部地区的新的投资战略,不仅对日本企业,而且对西部地区的开发具有重要意义。     

The politics of history in West Papua - Indonesia conflict

This study examines how history is used as a source of legitimacy and a political instrument in the sectarian conflict between the Indonesian government and the West Papua nationalists. This paper explores the debate surrounding two historical aspects relevant to West Papua’s demand for independence: first, West New Guinea’s past as part of the Dutch colony and its relations with Indonesia and second, the 1969 referendum, the so-called Act of Free Choice, to decide West Papua’s fate. The Indonesian democratization in 1998 provided momentum to revise the narration of West Papua’s history. Democracy has empowered the Papuans as the victims of a power struggle to challenge the previous Indonesia’s monolithic narration of history. The Papuans’ alternative narration of history also serves as a medium of liberation from oppression by the Indonesian government. The Papuan story counters the theory that the narration of history is a privilege of the ruler and the winner.     

Exploring the Effective Authority of International Administrations from the League of Nations to the United Nations

This article analyses the concept of international administration by a multilateral organization through the lens of the effective authority of example missions, arguing that the United Nations Interim Administration of Kosovo (UNMIK) and the United Nations Transitional Administration of East Timor (UNTAET) are very specific and distinct attempts at statebuilding. The article’s main argument is that the two most-cited cases in the interwar years – the Saar Territory and the Free City of Danzig, as well as the international administration of West New Guinea by the United Nation (UN) – while presenting interesting parallels with and providing useful insights into the challenges faced by the contemporary international administrations of Kosovo and Timor-Leste, are in fact drastically different endeavours in terms of the effective authority exerted on the ground. The article builds on this special section’s contribution on authority building, analysing the five international administrations through the prism of claimed, recognized, and exercised authority.