基层文化建设浅议

加强基层文化建设,全面提高基层文化水平,是构建社会主义和谐社会的重要内容。当前要充分认识基层文化在构建和谐社会中的重要地位和作用,以科学发展观为指导,按照新时期新阶段对基层文化建设的新要求,采取得力措施,大力加强基层文化建设。     

和谐社区与构建社会主义和谐社会

构建社会主义和谐社会是一项系统工程,而和谐社区在和谐社会建设中发挥着关键作用,只有每一个基层社区是和谐的,整个社会的和谐才能实现。在构建社会主义和谐社会的进程中,应把创建和谐社区作为一个重要的切入点。     

论新形势下如何开展群众文化工作

群众文化是我国社会主义文化的重要组成部分,也是构建社会主义和谐社会的重要举措。做好群众文化工作,开展群众文化活动是作为一名基层文化工作者不可推卸的工作任务和历史使命。本文就在新形势下如何开展群众工作给出了相关论述。     

浅谈“四个尊重”在构建社会主义和谐社会中的重要作用

“四个尊重”是指尊重劳动、尊重知识、尊重人才、尊重创造。尊重劳动是构建社会主义和谐社会的基础,尊重知识是构建社会主义和谐社会的重要奈件,尊重人才是构建社会主义和谐社会的坚强保证,尊重创造是构建社会主义和谐社会的关键性因素。     

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。     

论构建社会主义和谐社会的推动力

社会主义物质文明、政治文明和精神文明不仅是中国特色社会主义的重要特征,而且也是构建社会主义和谐社会的强大推动力。它们从不同的层面为社会主义和谐社会的构建发挥着巨大的作用,从而成为构建社会主义和谐社会的内在基础和动力。     

浅谈创新群众工作对构建社会主义和谐社会的价值作用

群众工作是构建社会主义和谐社会的基础工程,创新党的群众工作,是构建社会主义和谐社会的内在要求。创新群众工作,要实现群众工作的观念创新、制度、机制创新和能力创新。     

构建和谐社会与图书馆使命

本文论述了公共图书馆在构建社会主义和谐社会中的责任和作用,指出公共图书馆在构建社会主义和谐社会中肩负着特殊使命,并提出了创新图书馆工作的新举措。     

试析博物馆在和谐社会发展中的作用

构建和谐文化是构建社会主义和谐社会的重要任务;构建和谐博物馆是致力于和谐社会发展的使命。本文从博物馆与和谐社会建设的关系入手,探讨了博物馆在致力于和谐社会发展中的重要作用。     

浅析党风廉政建设在社会主义和谐社会中的作用

党风廉政建设作为党的建设和政权建设的重要组成部分,在构建社会主义和谐社会中发挥着十分重要的功能作用。作为构建社会主义和谐社会领导者的中国共产党在这个过程中发挥着领导性的作用,加强党风廉政建设能为构建和谐社会起到促进推动作用。本文针对党风廉政建设在社会主义和谐社会中的作用做出了相应的阐述,并对所起到的具体作用进行了分析。     

Telling small stories: spaces of knowledge and the practice of geography

This article examines how the practice of learning geography, and the arenas in which knowledge-making takes place, can be usefully positioned within changing histories of the discipline. It contends that networks of action – understood through the intersection of social sites, subjects and sources – present a conceptual framework and narrative focus for the re-consideration of specific episodes from geography's past. The interventions made here are informed and illustrated by a 'small story' about the doing of geography. Based on different personal accounts, the story revives a series of events, encounters, dialogues and images dating back to the winter of 1951 at Glenmore Lodge, Scotland. This educational institution in the Cairngorm mountains offered children from urban areas the opportunity to learn field studies and the skills of 'outdoor citizenship'. Initially, the focus falls on Margaret Jack, a 14-year-old field-course participant. Her learning experiences are traced through personal letters, a diary and a field journal dating from that time, and her recent recollections of this event. Margaret's account dovetails with the story of her field studies instructor, Robin Murray. Robin's role is traced through his learning experiences as a geography undergraduate at Aberdeen University, and the recent recollections of Catriona Murray, his wife.     

Das Wissen der Schulden. Recht,Kulturtechnik und Alltagserfahrung im liberalen Kapitalismus

The Knowledge of Debt: Law, Media Technique, and Everyday Experience in Liberal Capitalism. Performing an object such as ‘the economy’ hinges on practices of formatting knowledge. The article proposes to look at such instituting moments in connection with social conflicts over the legitimate rules of exchange. This is exemplified by way of recounting the story of the codification of Swiss bankruptcy law in 1889. In order to homogenize the legal procedures of debt collection and bankruptcy, two subject categories were instituted: ‘merchants’ and ‘non-merchants’. These different categories were thought to account for the diverging temporalities and spaces of credit exchange in everyday economic life. The introduction of the commercial register, a media-technical apparatus, enabled a formal distinction between ‘merchants’ and ‘non-merchants’. However, this boundary was contested and proved to be porose.     

Two radiocarbon dates for freshwater shells from hierakonpolis: Archaeological and geological interpretations

Shells of two species of freshwater bivalve (Unio willcocksi Bullen Newton and Etheria elliptica Lamarck) from the predynastic Gerzean (Nagada II) Decorated Tomb at Hierakonpolis, Egypt have given dates of 5000±90 bp for the tomb, and 12,900±120 bp for an episode of Nile terrace accumulation (correlated here with the Sahaba-Darau aggradation event). The archaeological and geological significance of these results is discussed, together with an outline of problems associated with radiocarbon dating of shell. Comparisons are made with the few other radiocarbon dates available for the Predynastic period in Egypt and possible reasons for the presence of shells in the tomb are considered.     

Some chronological implications of a fossil molluscan assemblage from a neolithic site at Brook,Kent, England

The later post-glacial history of a valley in the chalk escarpment near Brook, Kent, is described, based on molluscan stratigraphy, archaeological evidence and radio-carbon dating. Differences in size and colour banding, respectively, of fossil and living representatives of two species of land snails, Pomatias elegans (Müller) and Cepaea nemoralis (L.), are correlated with climatic change during the post-glacial period. The problems of the use of fossil shells of these species as samples for radiocarbon dating are discussed.     

China's Dynamic Industrial Sector: The Internet Industry

A Singapore-based economic geographer explores and analyzes the spatially uneven evolution of the Internet industry in China, arguing that the country's immense regional disparity in the provision of Internet services is best explained by the interplay of place- and path-dependence. The author demonstrates how the highly uneven regional endowments in relevant industrial and entrepreneurial resources have led to the substantial and persistent regional imbalance within China's emerging "new economy." His initial survey of the country's 100 leading Internet content providers (firms), identified from a listing of ca. 11,700 commercial websites, is selectively augmented to reflect an increase of over 70 million Internet users in 2007, reaching a total of 253 million in June 2008, and thus overtaking the United States as the world's largest Internet market. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: L10, L86, O30. 6 figures, 1 table, 53 references.     

The 1911 International Exposition in Rome: architecture, archaeology, and national identity

This paper discusses the 1911 International Exposition in Rome and illustrates how this patriotic celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Italian Sate utilized symbolic landscapes of architecture and archaeology to promote nationalist sentiments of italianità and romanità centered on the young capital of Rome. Through modern art exhibitions at the Valle Giulia, scientific conferences at the Castel Sant’Angelo, archaeological exhibits on the Roman Empire in the Baths of Diocletian, and regional Italian pavilions in the Piazza d’Armi, exposition officials offered a complex representation of Italian national identity that was modern yet ancient, cosmopolitan yet bucolic, European yet regional, and imperial yet developing.     

The Rise and Fall of Alexander the Great – The Need for Medical Analysis: Reply to Commentaries

Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C. from an unknown cause. By elucidating the nature of his death, we can better interpret various aspects of Alexandrian history. Alexander’s death may have ensued from the sequelae of a congenital scoliotic syndrome. It would therefore be of significance to note that one of the greatest leaders in history who conquered much of the then known world may have been suffering from a physical disability.     

Hospital Drama: Visual Theatres of the Medical Rendezvous from Asylum to Hospital with Reference to Specific Works by Anna Furse

Abstract

This paper is informed by Furse’s practice as a theatre maker in two fields of output that are connected by two factors: first, the presence of the woman patient — hysteric/subfertile respectively — within the clinical gaze; second, the significance of the womb to each pathology. In the treatment of each (explored in Furse’s theatre), lens based technologies play their part, whilst the cultural and medical can be seen to have overlapped to produce specific meaning with regard to Her body and its spectacularity. The article presents an overview of some of the key issues in precisely how the woman’s body becomes spectacular within this prosthetic medical gaze and how the medical — and theatrically designed spaces to represent these — become meaningful and potent proxemics that in turn inform medical/ theatrical spectatorship. Overarching nineteenth-century protocols at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris (where Furse’s Augustine (Big Hysteria) is set) to contemporary imaging technologies used in the treatment of subfertility with Assisted Reproduction Technologies (the topic of her Art of A.R.T. projects), it examines the way in which photography develops through cinema to X-Ray, ultrasound and then 3D/4D ultrasound to ‘capture’ the woman’s body in ways by which she becomes muted and exposed. These occular technologies that extend the gaze, first to an exterior subject and then, eventually, traversing the flesh without knife, lend specific performativity to the ‘patient’ women, within the context of hysterias and reproductive impairments respectively. Finally, issues of suspension of disbelief are addressed. The spectator’s faith in the screen-based image of Her spectacular body is interrupted in Furse’s work, which is also keenly interested in the effect of such imagery on the woman’s sense of Self. The historical and cultural leaps in this article argue that there is indeed a trajectory through the history of medical imaging since the first application of photography to anatomy to the more advanced scoping technologies of medical imaging today, and that in each era, the production of these images remain fraught with cultural implications.     

The Death of Alexander the Great – A Spinal Twist of Fate

Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C. from an unknown cause. Physical depictions of this historical figure reveal the likelihood of a cervical scoliotic deformity. This is substantiated with the medical history and is correlated with his untimely death. For the first time, it is concluded that Alexander’s death may have ensued from the sequelae of a congenital scoliotic syndrome.