全球化时代中国共产党发展政治权威的路径选择

中国共产党的政治权威在全球化时代面临着各方面的挑战:主流意识形态的相对淡化,新兴阶层的出现和利益团体的分化,社会转型期矛盾冲突的加剧,社会发展后人们期望值的提高。为此中国共产党必须在意识形态、政策绩效和体制上进行创新,不断提高和发展自己的政治权威。     

The last north American indian ethnography

Locating the proper relationship between material and cultural aspects of human life has been an enduring, discipline-defining, and divisive problem in anthropology. Recent studies of the local effects of globalization have exacerbated the divide. Although case studies seem to have lost their luster for many anthropologists, the renewed ethnography considered in this review demonstrates that local research can clarify international economic processes. When people choose to make foreign commodities part of their lives, the results are neither inevitable nor predetermined. Local and global, cultural and material, never totally subsume each other.     

Colonialism,corporeality and character: Methodist missions and the refashioning of bodies in the pacific

Today, dramatic improvements in transportation and social communications are forging dense transnational networks. People, cultures and societies that were previously isolated from one another are now coming into regular contact. This abolition of temporal and spatial constraints affects both the social and cultural spheres: globalization provides a common context that attenuates differences among ways of life. After reviewing the major social theories on cultural globalization, this article focuses on religions within cultural globalization and describes the similarities between Islam and other major religious traditions, as they interplay with globalization.     

对全球化环境下我国政治文化建设的若干思考

全球化对我国的政治文化发展既带来了新的机遇,又提出了严峻的挑战。积极参与全球化交流,批判地借鉴西方政治文化,对于加强我国主流政治文化建设,不断提高全民族的文化素质具有极其重要的现实意义。     

全球化时代的文化安全

全球化的发展促进了世界范围内的跨文化交流,同时也为西方文化在世界范围内的传播创造了重要条件,从而严重地影响着我国的文化安全。当今世界,文化竞争已成为综合国力竞争乃至民族生存竞争的重要内容,文化重要性的凸起和文化竞争的空前激烈要求我国必须努力维护民族文化的安全,充分发挥文化强国的作用。     

The Globalization of Labor and the Limits of Sovereignty: Immigration and the Politics of Forgiveness

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the phenomenon of ever-growing global migration of people with a following set of questions: (1) What are the main causes of this global phenomenon?; (2) What are the possible ethical and political issues of the rising global migration of people?; (3) What should be the theological response to these issues, and how should the church engage them? In answering these questions, this paper is specifically focused on the case of undocumented migrants: their social predicament, political impasse, and religious (theological) ethical engagement.     

The End of Queer (as we knew it): Globalization and the making of a gay-friendly South Africa

In J. K. Gibson-Graham's The End of Capitalism (as we knew it), the authors (Julie Graham and Katherine Gibson) provocatively deploy queer theory to further their project of telling non-capitalist stories of globalization. In short, they reject the narrative that globalization is always and only penetrative in the hope that global capital will ‘lose its erection’ and ‘other openings’ in the body of capitalism can be considered. I adopt their strategy of looking at stories of globalization. But, while they are concerned with the homophobia of economic theorizing, I consider the gay-friendly discourse of post-apartheid South Africa. Recent expressions of official tolerance by various nation-states around the globe have been dismissed as the mere appropriation of difference by hegemonic forces. Against such interpretations, I look at the ways in which the inclusion of ‘sexual orientation’ in post-apartheid South Africa's constitutional Equality Clause can instead be read as a queer globalization. Based on this reading, I problematize the presumption that queer globalizations take place beyond the realm of the hegemonic and point to the need for queer theorists to think through the political ramifications of homosexuality's repositioning as saviour rather than scapegoat of certain nation-states.     

Disappearing culture? Globalisation and a Canary Island fishing community

This article looks at a Canary Island fishing community, examining its interactions with global processes that are seen as part of a development stretching back to the first Spanish colonisers. The focus is on recent events including tourism, and the article depicts the fishing culture and analyses whether such a thing can be said to be disappearing. It is argued that the indigenous individuals, foreign settlers and tourists involved are all active agents in the globalisation process. Furthermore, the particular type of tourism has specific influences that are broad and deep and impact on the local economy, gender roles, relationships, and attitudes towards the environment and business strategies. The identity of the village is also examined and found to retain its links with fishing. However, some elements of the local culture are certainly disappearing. Although in contrast, other elements have been strengthened by global processes.     

Editorial

Colleges and universities in the USA and many other countries find themselves in a deepening financial challenge that is significantly influencing operating decisions as well as student access to higher education. These trends are attributed to the weakened finances of governments, competition from non-discretionary public spending, the nature of education as a service industry and the fraying of the social contract between higher education and the public. This paper argues that Geography as a discipline can both survive in and benefit from this changing educational landscape. There are several themes that will strongly influence higher education in the years ahead, including competition, technology, globalization and sustainability. The nature of such forces over space and time continues to be ripe for geographic inquiry, but they will require the field to be more analytical, more connected to other disciplines and more international in its teaching and research.     

全球化背景下的中国新生弱势群体与保护性的社会政策

改革开放所进行的资源重组带来的一个重大变化就是社会分化程度进一步拉大,这一变化在全球化的背景下又得到了进一步的强化和凸现,形成了一个具有相当规模的新生弱势群体。其主要体现在:农民的“弱势”特征在全球化背景下逐步显露出来;城镇新生贫困群体有进一步扩大趋势;处于边缘状态的城市农民工生活状况日益令人担忧。因此对弱势群体而言,在全球化背景下,建立和完善弱势群体的社会支持网络,具有特别的意义。据此,首先要提高认识,采取积极的措施,切实把解决弱势群体的问题当作一件影响国计民生和社会稳定的大事来抓;尽快建立综合性的城市社会救助系统;迅速、全面推进社会保险制度建设;进一步完善社会保障责任共担机制。