Elite mobilities: the semiotic landscapes of luxury and privilege

Tourism is immensely powerful in (re)organising large-scale inequalities and privileges. In the rapid expansion of ‘luxury tourism’ we find a wing of this truly global culture industry openly committed to the symbolic production of elite status, distinction and privilege. Our visual essay here offers a series of multimodal, multi-voiced statements arising from a research project that explores and critiques the lavish semiotic economies and strict interactional orders of these ‘new’ elite mobilities. Mimicking the fleeting encounters of super-elite travellers themselves, we undertook a series of ethnographically grounded but patently frugal sorties into five different spaces (or modes) of luxury travel. Drawing on our own fieldwork material and quoting the visual rhetoric of advertisers, we trace the normative production of an ostensibly enclavic landscape that imagines (or re-imagines) limitless aspirations and unbounded pleasures for all consumer-citizens regardless of their power or wealth.     

论"三个代表"重要思想与"三个有利于"标准的一脉相承性

"三个代表"重要思想和"三个有利于"标准具有一脉相承性.它们都是建立在马克思主义的基本原理和当代中国共产党所领导的社会主义建设实践的基础之上,其根本内容都是围绕"生产力"、"社会全面进步和全面发展"、"人民利益"展开的,都是对马克思主义的丰富和发展,并着眼于用发展着的马克思主义指导新的实践.     

对现行《刑法》中受贿罪的法律思考

我国《刑法》对受贿罪的规定过于简略。通过对利用职务上的便利、受贿行为、贿赂范围、为他人谋取利益、犯罪主体、回扣和手续费的分析 ,建议通过立法 :1.将索贿罪与受贿罪分离 ,规定不同的量刑幅度 ;2 .将索贿罪改为国家工作人员利用职务之便 ,收受他人给予的财物或物质性利益 ,为他人谋取利益的行为 ;3.将斡旋受贿罪独立 ;4 .另设职前受贿罪与职后受贿罪。     

关于强制戒毒所归口管理问题的思考

强制戒毒所一直以来由当地政府设立 ,由公安机关禁毒部门进行管理。随着我国毒品问题的发展 ,某些省份根据自己的具体情况对强制戒毒所的归口管理进行了调整 ,改为由监管部门进行管理。强制戒毒所归口管理的问题关系到我国禁毒工作的整体部署 ,必须引起足够的重视。文章经过比较分析 ,得出了结论 :将强制戒毒所归于禁毒部门管理或者监管部门管理各有利弊 ,禁毒部门负责强制戒毒所的管理有利于禁毒部门对整个禁毒工作进行统抓统管 ,有利于最大限度地发挥有限的禁毒资源的作用 ,禁毒部门管理强制戒毒所是禁毒工作的基本要求。强制戒毒所归口到禁毒部门管理优于监管部门管理     

论中国文化产业发展的"走出去"战略

中国的文化产业要"走出去",必须在全球化的背景下重新考虑中国文化产业的发展道路和发展模式,重建我国文化外贸的政策系统和法律系统,改革我国的文化贸易体制。丰富的民族文化遗产和传统文化资源,是我国文化产业的比较优势所在。战略意义上的文化赶超,离开了这一比较优势绝不可能实现。     

"赔命价"考析

"赔命价"是中国一种古老而又影响至今的以"杀人赔钱赔物"为主要内容的少数民族刑事习惯法.这种千百年流传下来的习惯法,为什么仍然有着如此顽强的生命力?其理由是什么?它的现实存在又有何利弊?本文拟就此类问题试作考析.     

Race,Interracial Families,and Political Advertising in the Obama Era: Experimental Evidence

Across two studies of race and interracial families in political advertising, this article finds that significant benefits accrue to Black candidates who present themselves as part of interracial families. These findings suggest Black candidates are more likely to succeed when they engage in displays of “racial novelty,” or counter-stereotypical behavior, provided that behavior signals closer affinity to White voters. For Study 1, we tested four original advertisements for a fictitious political candidate, in which we varied only the candidate’s race and the race of his son. The Black candidate with the White son prevailed over all other combinations, with respondents finding him the most trustworthy, most qualified for office, most likely to share their values, and most likely to care about people like them. For Study 2, we tested four new original advertisements for a fictitious Black candidate, varying only the candidate’s profession and the race of his son. We find, again, that Black candidates who display non-Black children do significantly better than Black candidates who display racially homogeneous families. However, we observe much more modest benefits for a Black candidate who practices a racially novel profession. We view these results as demonstrating that Black candidates are more likely to reap the rewards of racial novelty only when they are willing to provide a personal, rather than professional, signal of their affinity for Whites. As Study 2 shows, White voters in particular are responsive to personal (rather than professional) demonstrations of racial novelty. This affirms the logic of “New Racism,” whereby Blacks are looked favorably upon if they exhibit behavior associated with Whites, but penalized otherwise.     

优势视角下汶川地震灾区青少年的社会工作介入

汶川大地震以后,地震灾区青少年处于特殊的心理状态。青少年社会工作者可以根据地震灾区青少年所具有的优势、兴趣、能力、知识与技能,运用优势视角社会工作介入理论、理念和技巧服务地震灾区青少年,为灾区青少年探求生存和发展的资源,提高灾区青少年面对灾难、抵御灾难、不怕困难的能力,逐渐使灾区青少年恢复到正常的生活秩序。     

Identities, Interests, and Imports

There is increasing attention to the mass public in the politics of trade debate, yet we still know little about how Americans formulate opinion on trade. Scholars are puzzled by the ineffectiveness of traditional dispositional beliefs to account for trade policy judgment, while an emerging economic self-interest perspective contends that opinion on trade is based on material concerns. This article demonstrates how symbolic predispositions provide critical information shortcuts for Americans on trade in which the relationship between trade policy and economic self-interest may be unclear. Symbolic politics theory explains how citizens can rely on accessible symbolic predispositions, including conceptions of national identity, in an unfamiliar and evolving trade policy environment often subject to multiple and conflicting cues, limited political information, and changing economic circumstances.     

浅析恢复性司法理念在未成年人刑事诉讼中的中国化

恢复性司法是近年来我国刑事法研究的一个热点问题,源自北美作为刑事司法程序替代程序的恢复性司法,与中国的传统法治观念存在着暗合和分野,在未成年人刑事诉讼中构建刑事损害赔偿调解制度对借鉴恢复性司法的核心理念具有现实意义。