非洲的人口增长与生态环境退化

本文分析了本世纪50年代以来,非洲人口的迅猛增长导致可耕地缩小、人均粮食产量下降、燃料匮乏等经济生活问题,指出目前为克服上述经济生活问题而采取的缩短轮垦周期、扩大种植面积、砍伐森林、牧场牲畜过载等手段引起了生态系统的失衡和退化。非洲的现状提示人类为寻求良好的生活环境,必须很好地保护生态系统,其中控制人口的发展使之与生态系统保持和谐关系是保护生态系统的一个重要方面。     

韩国大学评估认证制的实践及其启示

韩国大学评估认证制的改革在提高高等教育的质量和水平、提升大学的研究能力及水平等方面取得了良好的成效,但在社会认同度低、评估认证组织等方面还存在问题。通过梳理韩国的大学评估论证制的历史沿革、社会历史背景、实施组织及结构、评估认证程序、大学评估认证指标体系可以带来这样一些启示：合理地设定每轮次评估目标;大学评估要以自主评估为主,外部的、强制性评估为辅;坚持定量评价和定性评价有机结合的原则;大学评估指标体系的价值目标要放在发展性上;重视评估委员的多元化;加强评估文化建设。     

李明博时代的韩国与澳大利亚经贸关系

本文从李明博政府外交战略的角度审视韩国与澳大利亚经贸关系,首先分析了国际关系经贸化、世界经济区域化、中国崛起、中美两强竟合与南北国家经济竟合等当前国际关系五大特征及在此背景下韩澳的政经互动,尤其是韩国总统李明博的《新亚洲外交构想》、澳大利亚对李明博政府的意义、澳大利亚在李明博政府外交战略中所扮演的角色与功能,然后是就澳大利亚的响应、韩澳双边自由贸易协议(free trade agreement,简称FTA)谈判现况与未来望作了分析。     

世界文化视野中的楚美术

楚美术是我国上古时期具有南方文化品格的艺术事象。作为上古时期楚人奇异而丰富的美术创造 ,它以其卓尔不群的创造姿态和原始浪漫主义精神开创了世界上古美学的新视界。本文试图将这一重要美术现象放在上古世界文化视野中去观照 ,从本土艺术的南北分流的考察和上古艺术的东西对比研究中 ,发绎其独创一格的创造精神     

论韩国新村运动及其对我国的几点启示

20世纪70年代韩国发起的新村运动成功地解决了农村经济落后、农民生活贫困的问题,实现了城乡协调发展以及农业现代化,为韩国整体经济的发展奠定了有力的基础,创造了“汉江奇迹”.2010年我国提出了把发展现代农业作为转变经济发展方式的重大任务,把建设社会主义新农村和推进城镇化作为保持经济平稳较快发展的持久动力的农业农村工作的总体要求.由于我国现阶段与当时的韩国情况较为接近,中韩两国的经济模式与文化传统相似,韩国新村运动在改善农村基础设施建设、提高村民生活伦理精神、增加村民收入、培训新村领导人方面的经验与教训,都值得我们思考和研究,可以为我国社会主义新农村建设给予颇多启示.     

韩国高等教育的发展历程及特点

本文采用文献法考察了韩国高等教育发展历程,并归纳出韩国高等教育发展的五大特点,即注重教育质量的提高、强调职业技术教育、设立众多私立高校、重视教育经费的投入、注重教育法律法规建设等。     

Finding the niche to reposition leadership in Africa’s developing economies for the global highway: review of literature on leadership development programmes – methods and techniques*

Africa’s developing economies remain in critical need for leadership. This paper asserts that Africa’s new growth opportunities rest with leadership that could champion organizational performance, innovativeness, and good ethics among others. A review of extant literature on leadership development programmes (LDPs) was done to examine possible initiatives that leadership developers can use to influence leadership practices in Africa. This paper proposes that in Africa, LDPs can be used to inculcate authentic leadership practices and enhance networking and acquisition of innovative skills among others. Furthermore, LDPs could target the youth considering them as an investment into tomorrow’s leadership talent pool. The paper suggests that Africa’s niche for the global highway rests in contextualization of LDPs from other regions to Africa’s unique environment.     

Exploring the generation gap in the workplace in South Korea

This study reviewed current literature on generational issues in Korea, specifically in relation to the workplace. Based on the results, this study concluded that distinct generations of workers exist in Korea. While there are similar generational characteristics between Korea and the United States because of the unique societal, historical, and cultural factors in each country, there are noticeable differences such as the existence of Generation 386 in Korea. Due to rapid industrialization and social transformation during the past few decades, Korean society seems to exhibit wider gaps between older and younger generations than the United States. The roles of Generation 386 and Generation Y in organizations should be considered for the future.     

Women's Marriage Behavior Following a Premarital Birth in Sub‐Saharan Africa

This study examines the relationship between premarital childbearing and the timing of women's entry into their first marriage in sub‐Saharan Africa. The study shows that African women who have a premarital birth generally experience later transitions to marriage than do their childless peers. Although the birth of a child precipitates a quicker transition to marriage initially, unmarried mothers, on average, marry at older ages than their childless peers and remain single for between 2 and 14 years. Evidence from a subsample of countries confirms that the time between having a child and first marriage has lengthened slightly in some countries; however, this reflects mainly the overall trend toward later marriage, rather than a further bifurcation of the marital trajectories of mothers versus childless women. The study raises policy concerns about the welfare of Africa's single mothers and their children.     

Surplus,excess, dirt: slavery and the production of disposability in South Africa

ABSTRACT

Centuries before apartheid, South Africa was fundamentally shaped by 176 years of slavery, a period of racialised and gendered brutality that lasted from 1658 to 1834. Enslaved people were brought to the Cape by the Dutch East India Company from African and Asian territories around the Indian Ocean, and eventually came to constitute the majority of the population of the Colony. Françoise Vergès (2005 Vergès, F. 2005. “One World, Many Maps.” Interventions 7 (3): 342–345. doi:10.1080/13698010500268155.[Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]) asserts that slavery in South Africa generated “processes of disposability” that transformed enslaved people and indigenous Africans, the majority of the population, into “surplus” and expendable objects. The scale of this expendability is difficult to discern today because of the invisibility of slavery in conceptions of the country’s history. In this article, I use the lens of “dirt” to render such “processes of disposability” visible. I do so by analysing two texts in which African bodies are portrayed as filthy, menacing and contaminating – the novel Unconfessed and a television advertisement titled “Papa Wag Vir Jou” (“Daddy’s Waiting for You”) – which I situate within a discussion of South Africa’s extraordinarily high rates of incarceration and sexual violence. I point to the seamless continuity in industrial levels of imprisonment employed by the colonial and the modern South African state.