Taking in the view from the edge: Issues management recontextualized

This article examines the conflicting imperatives of issues management through a New Zealand case study in which short-term political and economic objectives compete with longer-term ones of sustainability and legitimacy. Issues management becomes double-edged, so that success in achieving one set of objectives may, paradoxically, lead to failure in the other. The article explores this under-researched phenomenon and expands the boundaries of thinking about issues management by recontextualizing it to the marginalized perspective of the planet as a key stakeholder.     

Taking the longer view: Explaining Multicultural London English and Multicultural Paris French

The article explores the perplexing outcomes of comparative research projects in London and Paris on language change in multilingual areas of the cities populated by large numbers of recent immigrants with very diverse language backgrounds. In London, as in many other northern European cities, language contact on such a large scale has resulted in the emergence of a “multiethnolect”: a repertoire of innovative linguistic forms used by young people of all ethnicities, including monolingual non‐immigrant speakers. In Paris, however, there was no such repertoire. I propose four factors that are necessary for a multiethnolect to emerge and that explain why similar processes of population movement, immigration, and globalization have produced such different linguistic outcomes in London and Paris. These factors remind us that language evolution, like language use, is constrained not only by the social characteristics of individuals but also by the socio‐cultural historical contexts in which individuals live.     

产业发展视角下的临港工业区规划——以钦州港工业区为例

港口是陆地经济和海洋经济的交汇点,其区位优势和资源吸引着现代工业不断向临港地区集聚。由于国际分工的纵深发展及世界经济一体化的生产力布局,使得临港地区正逐渐成为国际产业转移的前沿阵地,成为带动各地区经济发展的引擎。在此背景下,临港地区的工业发展成为各地区的发展重点和热点。     

Taking the democratic subject seriously

This article has two objectives. The first is to examine the post‐Marxist concept of the democratic subject, which I argue requires criticism and revision if it is to be coherently integrated into the post‐Marxist theory of democracy itself. The second is to examine the national–democratic project as proposed by the ANC and its allies in terms of this conceptual analysis of the democratic subject. It is argued that a ‘democratic turn’ has occurred in the national democratic project, but that national democratic subjectivity is still caught up in a fantasy of absolute political truth and closure, which interrupts its democratic practice.     

Taking the Tae Kwon Do Gold

LONG dominated by South Korea it hasbeen a Chinese dream to take the TaeKwon Do crown out from under thekimchi-eater's feet. In the build-up to last June'sWorld Championship in Canada the expectationswere running as high as ever and it was withgreat pride that young Wang Shuo becameChina's first World Tae Kwon Do Champion. At 1.8 metres, wiry Wang Shuo towers overher 15-year-old peers, yet still looks effortlesslychildish. It was 1995 when Coach Chen Lirenfirst spotted the gawky eleven year old at theJiaozuo Amateur Sports School of HenanProvince. There to select potential stars, it wasWang Shuo's lightning fast reflexes on the     

The patient's view

Conclusion It is time to draw the threads together. I have been arguing that we should lower the historical gaze onto the sufferers. Banish money, wrote John Keats, - banish sofas - Banish wine - Banish Music - But right Jack Health- Honest Jack Health, true Jack Health - banish Health and banish all the world. Health is the backbone of social history, and affliction the fons et origo of all history of medicine. For whereas one could plausibly argue, a history of crime should start not with the criminals but with law and police-because these define criminality - the sick cannot possibly be regarded as a class apart, conjured up by the faculty. Moreover, it is especially important to get under the skin of the sufferers, because most maladies have not in fact been treated by the profession but by self- or community help, or in the paramedical marketplace where the sufferers' own initiatives, confidence, and pockets are critical. In addition, lay medical power has also been crucial in a sphere I haven't touched upon here, since I have been concentrating on the sufferer as an individual - in other words, lay-instigated social, civic, and institutional strategies for sickness, above all, in earlier times, for coping with epidemic pestilences such as plague. For what emerges, for example, from recent studies of civic health arrangements in the Italian Renaissance is that physicians regularly had to play second fiddle, in the teeth of various lay interests, to city fathers, philanthropic patrons, and, of course, the Church itself. Medicine has never enjoyed full monopoly or police powers, and most healing, like charity, begins at home. The upshot is that doctors traditionally had to remember that he who paid the piper called the tune. George Bernard Shaw was well aware of this:The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them. That is why all the changes come from the laity. I do not intend to conclude by offering a set of theoretical models for understanding sick person-doctor interaction in times past. That would certainly be premature, and probably also counterproductive, by creating the illusion of patterns of typicality and uniformity. But I should like to tabulate certain strategies and broad interpretive guidelines for future investigations.

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Imaginary Vitebsk: the view from the inside

While the term “imagined geography” most often relates to outsiders, views of an unfamiliar environment, also of interest are the views of insiders whose personalities were formed within and by the social space of their original milieu. Sometimes impressions of the latter were written down during the period they discuss and, thus, present an immediacy that appears to be unmediated. When, however, the insider memoirs were written later, the researcher encounters the additional problem of evaluating the work’s authenticity, due to subsequent views of the memoirist which he adopted from his later environment. In regard to places with an ethnically heterogeneous population like Vitebsk, in the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century ideas about social space were often expressed in terms of ethnic symbolism and reflected values about what was considered prestigious in cultural and social terms and also on the basic distinction between “us” and “them.” The major cultural and social transformations of the first half of the twentieth century seriously altered the “imagined geography” that had been formed under the conditions of traditional society. The present article examines changes in ideas about social space via a case study of the Belarusian city of Vitebsk, which for many people has become a symbol of the traditional Jewish world. However, the article indicates that, despite all the changes, on the eve of the Second World War the city’s Jews continued to view their social and ethnic space in a traditional manner.     

Sociology: a view from the diaspora

From the vantage point of criminology, one of sociology's main export subject areas, the present and future of sociology appear a good deal more promising than John Holmwood's essay on the discipline's misfortune would suggest. Sociology remains in high demand by students and faculty hiring remains strong, even in its more critical sub-fields, such as race and ethnicity, sex and gender, and social inequality. Holmwood is correct that sociology is vulnerable to external pressures to demonstrate its relevance to social practice, but those pressures come from left-wing social movements as well as from centres of power. He is also correct that external pressures contribute to internal disagreement, but sociology has been at war with itself since the 1960s, with little evident decline in its academic standing or intellectual vitality. Those of us on the discipline's diaspora, who depend on sociology for both support and light, must remain hopeful about sociology's continued good fortune.     

科学发展观下的城市化进程

一、科学发展观下的城市化进程的含义 科学发展观下的城市化进程,是在城市化的进程中实现以人为本,实现全面、协调、可持续的城市发展.     

继续奋勇前进

正当各条战线捷报频传之时,难忘的2003年倏然离我们而去,迎来了2004年. 过去的一年,我国面临国际形势复杂多变,世界经济复苏缓慢,突如其来非典疫情和多种自然灾害的严重威胁,全党和全国人民在以胡锦涛总书记为首的党中央率领下,高举邓小平理论和"三个代表"重要思想的伟大旗帜,团结一致,众志成城,战胜一切困难,取得了人们预想不到的成绩.     

文化现代化视角中的伊斯兰复兴运动

当前,"现代化"已成为众多发展中国家富国强兵,赶超发达国家的必由之途.文化现代化在整个现代化进程中具有特殊的重要作用.在现代化大潮中,对启蒙主义的高度张扬导致文化保守主义抬头.当代中东地区兴起的蔚为壮观的伊斯兰复兴运动,正是在现代化这一历史大背景下形成的,它实际上是对西方现代文化的反弹和应战.从中东地区的经验看,生活方式越是世界化,越会出现一种保存自己独特文化和语言的愿望,和一种抵制外来影响的情绪.伊斯兰复兴运动的出现,在一定程度上正反映出了一种在现代化大潮冲击下,保存传统文化的强烈愿望.