构建社会主义和谐社会任重道远

中国正处于经济社会的转型期,生态环境资源与经济社会快速发展的矛盾越来越凸显,经济发展不平衡带来的社会矛盾愈来愈复杂,这严重影响和制约了社会主义和谐社会的构建。如何建设21世纪中国和谐社会,提高经济社会的满意度,提升人们的生存质量是一个重大战略任务。     

构建社会主义和谐社会中的民族团结进步问题

民族团结进步是多民族国家社会政治问题的焦点、热点和敏感点。构建社会主义和谐社会,必然要研究和关注我国各民族的团结进步问题,特别是要研究和关注那些社会经济、文化教育发展还相对滞后的民族的发展进步问题。这既是构建和谐社会的客观要求,也是构建和谐社会的重要保障。     

关于构建和谐社会问题的学习与思考

构建社会主义和谐社会,把提高构建社会主义和谐社会的能力作为加强党的执政能力建设的重要内容,是党的十六大和十六届三中、四中全会提出的重大任务。各级干部尤其是领导干部都要加强对构建社会主义和谐社会理论的学习和研究,深刻认识构建和谐社会的重大意义,准确把握构建社会主义和谐社会的基本特征、重要原则和主要工作,切实加强和改善党对构建社会主义和谐社会各项工作的领导,在推进社会主义物质明、政治明、精神明发展的历史进程中,扎扎实实地做好构建社会主义和谐社会的各项工作。作把对于和谐社会问题的所学所思所想所得整理出来,发表于此,冀能起到抛砖引玉之效。     

‘Buy and promote the national cause’: consumption,class formation and nationalism in Mandate Palestinian society1

ABSTRACT. This article deals with patterns of consumption and of advertisement, as a field for the analysis of two major processes in the Palestinian society of Mandate Palestine: the growth of an urban middle class and the consolidation of the Palestinian national movement. The advertisements, sampled from the popular daily paper Filastin, analysed in the context of political and economic events, highlight the complex interplay between nationalism and class formation, and the contradictory tensions between the two processes. A smaller sampling in al‐Difa' points to similar, though not identical, trends. This analysis also highlights new dimensions of the Jewish–Arab conflict by drawing attention to the semi‐private sphere of consumption which appears to have been less segregated than the more often studied political and economic spheres.     

The UNESCO Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions as a coordination framework to promote regulatory coherence in the creative economy

The present article aims to inquire about business convergence in creative industries from the perspective of cultural diversity. It is based on the premise that the recognition of the creative and innovative component of the so-called ‘creative industries’ or the ‘creative economy’ confirms the need for non-economic factors and particularly cultural concerns to be taken into account in regulatory efforts addressing those industries. It examines the way new technologies and business convergence may affect the ‘trade and culture debate’ vis-à-vis the World Trade Organization (WTO), and how the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (CDCE) may respond in a relevant manner to challenges brought therefrom. Despite its weakly binding language, the CDCE contains principles, objectives and rules that set a comprehensive framework for policy ‘related to the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions’ at the national, regional and international levels. A fundamental piece in such an approach is the explicit integration of cultural concerns into the concept of sustainable development. This article argues that the material and economic perspective adopted in the CDCE, based on the production and consumption of cultural goods and services, remains relevant and pertinent in the creative economy, despite business convergence. By prioritizing policy and regulatory coordination, it maintains that the main elements enshrined in the CDCE should be employed to contribute to greater coherence in view of the objective of promoting cultural diversity, including vis-à-vis the WTO and other international organizations, and puts forward potential paths for such coordination.     

构建社会主义和谐社会面临的民生问题:马克思恩格斯有关思想的启示

马克思恩格斯从历史观的高度,科学说明了经济社会发展中带有规律性和方向性的问题,为我们认识和解决社会主义的民生问题,提供了思想原则的指导。这就是:构建社会主义和谐社会必须坚持人的发展与经济发展相一致;坚持市场经济二重性的辩证法;坚持社会整体发展与个人发展相协调;坚持生产力发展与生产关系完善相统一,不断推进民生的改善。     

Diminishing borders and conflating spaces: a storyline to promote soft planning scales

At the latest since the argumentative turn, the crucial importance of language, narratives and discourses in the field of planning and policy-making is widely acknowledged. This can be particularly important for European spatial planning, for which the European Union (EU) does not have any formal competence. Thus, instead of enacting directives or regulations, the EU and its member states release legally non-binding documents, which contain ideas and objectives relevant to planning. In these documents, certain storylines can be identified, for example, regarding sustainability, balanced development and competitiveness. This article argues that there is another storyline, advocating the reduction of borders and the creation of new, soft spaces across Europe, such as city regions, cross-border regions or macro-regions. If picked up by national or sub-national actors, this storyline can play a crucial role in contributing to establish the legitimacy that soft spaces often lack. Based on empirical findings from the city region of Graz in Austria, the article aims to identify the elements of a discourse coalition, i.e. what the EU does to support soft spaces, who the actors reproducing the storyline are and how the storyline supports soft planning in practice.     

构建社会主义和谐社会必须解决弱势群体问题

构建社会主义和谐社会必须解决弱势群体问题,这是巩固中国共产党执政地位的需要,是社会主义题中应有之义,是使整个社会充满刨造活力的需要,也是维护社会稳定有序的需要。在构建社会主义和谐社会的进程中,解决弱势群体的途径一是要建立和完善与我国经济社会发展水平相适应的社会保障制度,二是要发挥国家政策导向的作用,建立健全扩大就业再就业的政府主导机制。     

An archive to build a future: The recovery and rediscovery of the history of socialist associations in contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina

ABSTRACT

This paper chronicles the ongoing efforts of several groups of Bosnian activists, artists and academics, to create archives of the often forgotten, and nowadays variously threatened, heritage of political and social life during Yugoslav socialism. Postsocialist archives in other parts of Eastern Europe have typically been motivated by the need to ‘settle accounts’ with communism, understood in this context to be a totalitarian project. By contrast, these ongoing archiving efforts in the postwar and postsocialist Bosnia-Herzegovina, are created in order to recuperate and repurpose the unrealized potentials of Yugoslav socialism, and to use this history to reseed contemporary political imaginaries. I show how these post-Yugoslav activist-archives are working to recover a form of transformational historical subjectivity which seems profoundly necessary in the current political moment, marked by political disenchantment and the devastating effects of the postsocialist transition.