An assessment of attributing public healthcare infrastructure damage in the Donbas five years after Euromaidan: implications for Ukrainian state legitimacy

ABSTRACT

From the onset of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine in 2014, significant damage has been wrought to the public health infrastructure of the Donbas region. To date however, the full extent of that damage which is substantial, has not been documented: attribution of blame for that damage has not been attempted; and the implications for the region’s residents in terms of access to clinics and hospitals has been difficult to assess. This paper presents a spatial database of damaged facilities and relates that to the fighting to assess whether the damage incurred was collateral or targeted. The concept of state capacity is used to frame a discussion of what the consequences are for those residents remaining and for the challenges this crisis presents to the legitimacy of the Ukrainian government.     

Ripping the Heart out of Ancoats: Collective Action to Defend Infrastructures of Social Reproduction against Gentrification

The article exposes attacks on infrastructures of social reproduction as a prime gentrification strategy, but also as an effective focal point for community resistance. We exemplify this through the conflict over Ancoats Dispensary, a Victorian hospital at the heart of one of the UK's most deprived communities in East Manchester, which faced demolition following the 2000 New Islington Regeneration Plan. Using ethnographic and archival data we show how 200 years of community struggles for healthcare became catalytic for establishing Ancoats’ working class identity and how Ancoats Dispensary became the spatial/material and symbolic infrastructure for community continuity. The building's socially embedded history became key for articulating anti‐gentrification struggles as its planned demolition was seen as a symbolic demolition of the community itself. Local citizens formed the Ancoats Dispensary Trust and utilised tactics from historical struggles and entrepreneurial strategies to envision an alternative future in the defence of social reproduction infrastructures.     

有关"社会主义转型国家"城市社会空间的研究述评

1990年代西方学者对于“社会主义转型国家”城市社会空间进行了大量研究。尽管中东欧社会主义转型国家与中国城市社会空间演进有某些共同点,如郊区化、内城区衰落、居住隔离等,但两者的分异机制迥然不同,前者为“社会主义向资本主义的彻底的急速转型”,后者为“社会主义前提”的渐进转型。这对中国城市社会空间的深入研究具有较大的指导意义。     

A New Application of the Bioarchaeology of Care Approach: A Case Study from the Metal Period,the Philippines

A case of disability in the Metal Period of the Philippines, likely requiring healthcare from others, is presented to explore aspects of group dynamics in this period of antiquity. B243, a middle‐aged man excavated from the Napa site in the central Philippines, suffered severe trauma to the right leg resulting in considerable restrictions to mobility and self‐maintenance of survival‐related behaviours such as food provision and hygiene. It is likely that B243 required assistance from others to survive for some period of time prior to eventual death. The bioarchaeology of care method was applied to assess the types of healthcare that B243 likely required and to consider potential social and biological impacts to both B243 and his community. Provision of healthcare practice in this case suggests that B243's community had access to health‐related resources, knowledge on the treatment of his injuries and underlying values in the group for sustaining human life in the case of injury and disability. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

简论“多快好省”方针

"多快好省"社会主义建设方针是中国共产党在对基本国情正确认识的基础上制订的,是兼具一定必要性与可行性的方针,体现了党对社会主义生产领域速度与效益、数量与质量辩证关系和国民经济按比例协调发展的早期认识。这一方针在"一五"计划实施的过程中发挥了一定的历史作用。     

从“高管层”变动看公私合营企业权力的转移

公私合营是20世纪50年代对资本主义工商业进行社会主义改造的重要途径。上海14家公私合营试点厂的经验表明,通过公私合营企业"高管层"的变动,企业经营管理权力从私方转移到公方,其实质上是企业产权从私有转变为公有,从而实现了企业性质的转变。公私合营后企业中出现了公方、私方和工人三方并存的格局,实行以公方领导为主、公私方合作共事和民主集中制管理。     

近代中国历史发展选择了社会主义道路

中国走上社会主义道路是近代中国历史发展的结果,是历史的选择。近代以来的历史还表明,马克思主义在中国的发展有其必然性,假设中国走资本主义道路结果如何是毫无意义的,而且中国人对大同理想的追求也有助于他们对社会主义的接受;在中国,革命是社会主义和现代化的前提,社会主义与工业化是同时展开的;在当今形势下,"一个中心,两个基本点"依然是我们开展各项事业的基本路线,将中国特色社会主义与民主社会主义相混淆是违背历史事实的。     

Doing Fieldwork in Development Geography: Research Culture and Research Spaces in Vietnam

Rapid socioeconomic and institutional changes in Vietnam since the early 1990s have opened up new geographical spaces for field research. Reflecting on the experiences of three doctoral student researchers engaged in distinct development geography fieldwork projects in Vietnam, this paper profiles some of the conditions and procedures for carrying out fieldwork in order to serve as a basis for comparison of changing ‘fieldwork possibilities’ in Vietnam and other developing and transitional socialist countries.     

起步时的艰难探索

从 1 95 6年社会主义制度建立到 1 978年十一届三中全会召开前的 2 0多年里 ,我们党经历的巨大成功与巨大挫折错综交织的情况 ,正是党的理论与实践正确与失误交替发生的反映 ,也是我们年轻的共和国刚踏上社会主义建设道路时艰难探索的写照。中国共产党第一代领导集体在当时的历史条件下 ,从解决当时的急迫问题入手 ,开始了社会主义建设的最初探索 ,在经济、政治、文化等方面取得了许多积极成果。这期间也发生不少失误 ,有些对社会主义建设事业造成了严重损失。对探索中发生的经验教训及其根源进行分析 ,对于我们今后继续求索的漫长的社会主义建设道路 ,有着重要的借鉴意义     

邓小平:成功领导社会主义模式转型的第一人

前苏联和东欧社会主义各国从上个世纪 5 0年代前期开始的改革 ,基本上都是在原有模式框架内的修补和改良 ,真正对原有社会主义观念提出质疑并成功领导社会主义模式转型的是中国的邓小平 ,第二次世界大战后社会主义的历史由此进入了一个新的发展阶段