Landscapes of impunity and the deaths of Americans LaVena Johnson and Sandra Bland

On July 19th, 2005, American Army Private First Class LaVena Johnson died in Balad, Iraq, just 8?days shy of her 20th birthday. On July 13th, 2015, almost 10?years later, 28-year-old Sandra Bland’s life came to an abrupt end in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas. Both women’s deaths were ruled suicides, and both women’s families and friends reject these judgments. Instead, they insinuate foul play by the state, which directly governed the militarized spaces within which the women both died. At first glance, these women appear to have had very different life trajectories, one a United States soldier and the other a Black Lives Matter activist. However, in both of their cases, the ruling of the suspicious deaths as suicides illustrates the state’s attempt to render their deaths banal, and thereby diminish the state’s own culpability. In understanding the unremitting acts of violence, on women’s bodies, especially women of color, this paper focuses on how a Black feminist praxis extends feminist notions of an ethics of care.     

走出认识误区搞好新农村建设

目前,在推进社会主义新农村建设中,一些人产生了某些错误认识,如“新农村建设是老话重提”、“新农村建设是政府之事”等。必须对这些观点进行分析,阐明其错误之处,走出认识上的误区,进而在思想上真正明确社会主义新农村建设的创新性、主体性、长期性和全面性,明确新农村建设与城镇建设的同步性,从而促进社会主义新农村建设的健康快速发展。     

民国时期西北地区交通建设与分布

民国时期是西北地区交通近代化的重要阶段,对于西北地区经济发展和社会变迁起到非常重要的作用。本文依据相关文献资料,在已有研究成果的基础上,从历史地理学的角度论述了民国时期西北交通事业发展的历程及其空间分布规律与特点。     

Interpreting Gender Mainstreaming by NGOs in India: A comparative ethnographic approach

This article examines the way gender mainstreaming is interpreted by specific non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in India whose development initiatives draw upon particular ideologies of gender equality in their attempts to apply gender analysis. Its purpose is to locate and situate gender mainstreaming in the culturally specific contexts in which it is practiced to capture the complex realities in which gender policies are implemented and women are positioned to effect change. This is an important focus given that gender mainstreaming now pervades transnational governance and yet is informed by feminist analysis. Moreover, NGOs form key sites in which these policies are expected to be implemented. Of the critiques of gender mainstreaming which have emerged in the last 10 years, I examine how potentially conflicting models of gender inequality and equality take local expression and expand on the importance of framing in making gender mainstreaming meaningful by attending to indigenous interpretations of feminism and gender equality. The analysis I offer provides an ethnographic and comparative contribution to an understanding of gender mainstreaming as a contested site whose possibilities and limitations can be revealed by an attention to its feminist origins, namely a focus on context, process and identity formation.     

Challenging Hegemonies through Connecting Places,People and Ideas: Jan Monk's contribution to international gender geography (with particular reference to Spain)

The main goal of the paper is to study Jan Monk's contribution to the development of international gender geography, in particular in Spain. Our aim is also to explain the experiences and numerous connections among places, people and ideas that she has been weaving to foster international scholarship and, in this way, how she has challenged hegemonic approaches in feminist geography. Jan Monk comes originally from the Southern hemisphere and therefore she is well aware of the extent to which ‘Northern’ (or Anglo-American) ways of seeing the world define concepts, theories and ideas in geography (and also in feminist geography). Being an ‘insider’ and an ‘outsider’ as well as her sensibility to the important of place has permeated Jan's contribution to international gender geography.     

和谐社会建设中的文化自觉——"和谐社会与文化建设"研讨会综述

文章围绕"和谐社会与文化建设"这一主题,提出了以下观点:和谐社会建设和和谐文化建设是相辅相成的,没有文化的和谐,就没有社会的和谐;社会主义核心价值体系是和谐文化的根本,和谐文化应该以社会主义核心价值观为其基点;和谐文化建设不是对传统和谐思想的简单重复,应汲取传统文化的精华,借鉴世界优秀文明成果,在处理好文化的冲突与融合关系中构建和谐文化;只有发展好少数民族文化与地域文化,整个社会才有可能和谐;和谐的社区建设是构建和谐社会的基础。     

意识形态建设是构建社会主义和谐社会的重大课题

意识形态建设是构建社会主义和谐社会面临的重大课题。加强和谐社会意识形态建设,必须坚持和发展马克思主义,牢牢把握马克思主义在意识形态领域的一元主导地位;必须充分发挥主流意识形态的整合功能,建立合理的利益整合与矛盾调节机制;必须加强舆论引导和舆论监督,营造有利于社会和谐的舆论环境和社会氛围。     

略论毛泽东处理十大经济关系问题的辩证思维

社会主义建设在中国是一项前无古人的开创性事业,毛泽东在探索符合中国国情的社会主义建设道路的过程中,逐步形成了运用“两点论”和“重点论”相统一的原理处理社会主义经济建设中诸如解放生产力、发展生产力与保护生产力的关系,东部、中部与西部之间的关系,平衡与不平衡的关系,速度与比例的关系,积累与消费的关系,中央和地方两个积极性的关系,消灭资本主义与发展资本主义的关系,国家、集体和个人三者利益之间的关系,必须给人民以看得见的物质福利与思想政治工作的关系,以自力更生为主与学习外国的关系等方面的思想。这些思想中内含的立场、观点和方法至今还具有重要的理论和现实指导意义。     

The South-China-Sea Tradition: the Hybrid Hulls of South-East Asia

The South-China-Sea Tradition is a hybrid vessel-type combining structural features of Chinese and South-East Asian origin. It only occurs from the late-14th to the late-16th centuries and mirrors the production period of Thai export ceramics. This article examines 16 South-China-Sea-Tradition wrecks with a view to determining a well-defined list of characteristics, the origin of those characteristics, and the most likely builders.
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