The role of global cities in land grabs

Key trends link a globally connected urban archipelago and its hinterlands, warranting new studies of power in its most contemporary forms. This article locates land power and where that power is exercised – looking at the burgeoning global land rush from the perspective of cities. Urbanisation continues to drive vast political transitions, uprooting longstanding agrarian modes of living while creating myriad inequalities within cities. Are the world’s most powerful agglomerations active agents in this transformation? Answering affirmatively, the article reframes urbanisation as a vast, global geopolitical transfer of power from rural to urban. Leading global cities like New York, London, Hong Kong, Chicago and Singapore are not merely impressive collections of factor endowments. They are also sites of concentrated power with coercive influences beyond municipal boundaries. The article asks how cities project power in the contemporary global system. Juxtaposing data on global connectivity with the location strategies of private firms, we learn that the world’s most successful global cities are also sources of exploitative accumulations of land.     

Rural unions and the struggle for land in Brazil

Studies of Brazil's agricultural labor movement have generally neglected its relationship to the struggle for land, but this is neither fair nor accurate. Analyzing the rural labor movement's historical contributions to the land struggle in Brazil, this contribution has been organized into three main periods, emphasizing social relations, institutional activism and policy changes. It argues that despite the peculiarities of different historical contexts, rural labor consistently provoked protest against policies that privileged large landholders, whose concentration of power over land and labor resources continually worsened Brazil's ranking as one of the most unequal of nations. For more than half a century, the most constant opponent of this situation among the peasantry has been the National Confederation of Workers in Agriculture (CONTAG), a corporatist organization of rural labor unions founded in 1963.     

论高校学报编辑职业道德建设

良好的编辑职业道德是做好学报编辑工作的前提,但是学报编辑职业道德建设受到多种因素的困扰。文章分析了当前学报编辑工作中的道德失范现象及其成因,并提出如何加强学报编辑职业道德建设的意见。     

实施社区和农村警务战略的难点与对策

实施社区和农村警务战略,是公安机关主动适应新形势新任务的要求,立足自身实际,不断增强自身战斗力的重要举措,但是在实践中,存在认识不足、公安决策和公安管理体制滞后、群众参与不够、民警素质有待于进一步提高等诸多问题。对此,应采取建立服务群众的工作机制,改革现行的公安管理体制和公安决策运行机制,加大对民警的培训力度,充分整合社会资源等对策。     

工程建设商业贿赂犯罪案件侦查

近年来,工程建设商业贿赂犯罪案件数量增加,呈上升态势,及时破获此类案件是经侦部门的全新课题。本文分析了工程建设商业贿赂犯罪案件的表现,找出其特点,着重探讨了如何破获此类案件的侦查方法,以求服务于侦查实践。     

论警察公共关系建设策略

在界定警察公共关系科学内涵基础上,分析当前我国警察公共关系的现状和存在的问题,借鉴国外和我国港台地区警察公共关系的实践经验,探寻我国新型警察公共关系建设的策略。     

社区警察人际交往的PAC理论及其训练模式

据警务专家统计分析,一名社区警察在工作中大部分的时间和精力是在同社区公众接触,为公众提供各类服务,而只有较少的时间才是面对真正的犯罪嫌疑人。如果社区警察不注重交往技能和心理调控训练,势必会影响警民关系,给社区警务工作带来不便。PAC理论为我们提供交往技能训练提供了理论依据,可以为我们对警察人际交往训练提供理论指导。     

中国农业立法体系研究——社会主义新农村建设的一种法治视角

我国正在进行社会主义新农村建设,为发展农业经济,需要从农业产业自身的特点出发,依法治农,完善农业立法体系.从农业发展的自身规律出发,概括论述农业立法体系的基本体系,从纵向看中国农业立法分为5个层次,从横向看主要涵盖17个领域.     

由建设社会主义新农村看"农民工"权益保障

党的十六届五中全会提出了建设社会主义新农村的重大历史任务,这不仅是解决"三农"问题的重大战略举措,而且是一项惠及广大农民的民心工程.作为从农民中剥离出来的农民工是城市化发展的必然结果也是建设社会主义新农村的必然要求,然而面对农民工的权利伤害对建设社会主义新农村构成了一个障碍,因此有必要采取相关对策以实现建设社会主义新农村的终极目的.     

论河北文化的现代建构

文化的现代转型是社会现代化的基础,河北文化追求的现代性是体现人与自然和谐、社会公平公正的现代性,文化主体对河北传统文化的自觉认知是文化现代建构的基础,博采众长、开拓创新是行河北文化的现代建构的必要条件。