人文知识中的"消费时代"及其批判

具有特定含义的“日常生活审美化”是人文知识对“消费时代”的一种文化阐释 ,但当前出现在中国社会的消费文化有其特殊性 ,它由“消费时代”尚未全面来临和消费主义已经形成这两个部分构成。对“消费时代”这一议题的抽象化 ,掩盖了社会不同群体的感受差异性 ,因此应当反省知识分子的批判立场和当前学术话语的生产机制 ,以剖析“日常生活审美化”、“消费时代”与当下中国社会究竟具有怎样的关联。     

试探如何在妇女中倡导绿色生活与可持续性消费方式

妇女作为一支重要的环保力量,正日益受到社会的关注.在妇女中倡导绿色生活与可持续性消费方式,建立有利于妇女参与环保的可行性操作机制,应做到以下3点:充分认识妇女参与环保的特殊优势与不可替代的作用;加强环保宣传教育,以激发妇女参与环保的热情;成立妇女参与环境保护的管理体系,为妇女参与环保创造良好的外部条件.     

信息差距:中国现代化进程中的挑战与机遇

迅速发展的科学技术 ,成为创造财富新的重要动力。日益拉大的信息差距表明 ,发达国家与发展中国家在科技水平上存在极大落差 ,这必然致使南北贫富差距进一步拉大。在信息大环境上 ,中国与发达国家的差距还在继续拉大。因此 ,从国家的角度和产业发展的角度看 ,树立危机意识和迎接挑战是最关键的问题     

民工潮与城乡收入差距

农村劳动者到城镇打工,他们将自己获得的收入寄回家乡,提高了当地农村居民的家庭收入,但这并没有缩小城乡收入差距,相反我国城乡收入分配差距呈逐渐拉大之势。这里有复杂的原因。从目前来看,我国农村劳动力流向城镇对缩小城乡收入差距没有多大帮助,要有效缩小我国城乡收入差距还应结合消除不合理的行业进入壁垒,发展农村经济等措施。     

城乡发展差距的人力资本解释

人力资本在城市和农村具有不同的溢出效应,农村人力资本具有强烈的外溢性特征,而城市人力资本则具有强烈的内溢性特征。长期以来,农村人力资本对城市经济发展形成了强有力的支持,而城市人力资本则形不成对农村的支持。建国以来城乡之间在人力资本投入及形成后的人力资本作用的发挥上,都存在着城市对农村的“剥夺”,而且这种剥夺远远超过了人们常常提到的以往和正在进行的对农民利益的三次“剥夺”。我们认为,政府在着手解决农村、农业和农民问题时,应该从根本上即从人力资本投资及完善农村人力资本运行环境上入手,使农村人力资本能够对农村经济发展发挥很好的作用,并在一定程度上吸引城市人力资本,只有这样才能真正缩小城乡收入差距。     

电除尘器节电的探讨

从经典分离粒子所需能量很小的理论分析目前国内外采用的常规电除尘 ,其电场能耗还有 98%以上的潜力可挖。“软稳”电除尘技术节电是很明显的。     

论现代生活方式

改革、环境革命、信息化和知识经济等催生了现代生活方式。现代生活方式具有时代性、创新性,更加追求精神消费、共生性、个体性、多样性等特点。要从营造消费文化、创造丰富的物质财富和优美的生活环境、全面完善生活方式内容等方面创造现代生活方式,与此同时要摒弃不健康的生活方式。     

The gender gap in pro-environmental political participation among older adults

Citizens are increasingly concerned with environmental issues and some of them take contentious political actions or adapt their lifestyles to reduce their environmental footprint. Research finds that there is an eco-gender gap in everyday environmental behaviours, with women more active than men. However, studies of the eco-gender gap have infrequently looked at other forms of pro-environmental political behaviours and focused mostly on young people. We contribute to the literature by examining to what extent older women and men differ in a range of pro-environmental political behaviours, using a unique dataset based on a survey of individuals 64 years and older. We find strong evidence of a gender gap in everyday behaviours and political consumerism, but not in relation to contentious forms of political participation. This gender gap in relation to everyday behaviours and political consumerism diminishes with age.     

Italian Migration Policies in Times of Crisis: The Policy Gap Reconsidered

Abstract

Numerous studies have shown that there is a structural gap between restrictive migration policies and expansive inflows in democratic countries; yet scholars have not sufficiently reflected on how this gap is shaped in times of crisis. Focusing on the case of Italy in the decade between 2007 and 2017, this article assesses the extent to which the different challenges triggered by the economic and humanitarian crises have affected the structural gap, and which actors have mostly contributed to shape it. Our analysis of the Italian case shows how in the decade of the economic crisis the migration policy gap has not been the result of pressure by actors in the economic and liberal norm spheres, but rather reflects conflictual relationships within the political-institutional sphere between Italian governments and EU institutions.     

Translating Policies into Informal Settlements' Critical Services: Reframing,Anchoring and Muddling Through

This paper examines how policies and plans are translated into informal settlements' practice. It builds on literature on policy implementation practice and organization studies, and more particularly, it applies the concepts of reframing, anchoring and muddling through. The paper is informed by the case of Kisumu City in Kenya and its Kisumu Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan and its implementation on Kisumu's informal settlements. The plan was funded by the Swedish International Development Agency through the United Nations Human Settlement Programme and implemented from 2007 to 2009. The study is based on action research carried out by a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary group of researchers, through focus groups, participatory workshops, collaborative action, in‐depth interviews, document analysis and observations. The paper examines what original aspects of Kisumu Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan were translated, that is, which ones faded out and which ones became stabilized into and travel as ‘best practices’ to other locations. The paper shows how the generation of ‘best practices’ can be loosely coupled with the practices that policy seeks to change. It concludes, in line with previous research in the field, how successful policy implementation is based on cultural and political interpretations rather on evidence of improved practices. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.