Development Mobilities: Identity and Authority in an Angolan Development Programme

This ethnographic essay considers how international non-governmental organisations are able to make claims to authoritative knowledge about development work by offering the transnational mobilities of their staff members as evidence. I examine how one professional's biography—his trajectory from Angola to Britain and back again—was differentially presented to external donors and internal staff members as befitting the institutional needs of an international good governance intervention in Angola. These presentations reflect a commoditisation of the cosmopolitanism of professionals' histories in the service of development as a regime of mobility. I argue that, in this development regime, a global hierarchy prevents some individual professionals, particularly those from developing nations, from realising the same benefits of their cosmopolitan mobility as professionals from industrialised nations. While one of mobility studies' many strengths is that it highlights global interconnectedness, social scientists should not read equality in these interconnections but examine how patterns of transnational mobility may produce and reproduce global structures of inequality.     

“The Consummate Material Girl?”

This paper examines one facet of the media persona of high profile South African liberation struggle figure, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: how English-language media represented her conspicuous consumption during a monumental decade in the country's history, the 1990s. In the framework of theories of post-coloniality and intersectionality, the paper analyses the discourses in a corpus of thematically coherent media texts featuring Winnie's lifestyle and consumption practices. Media narratives of Winnie's taste for “diamonds,” “champagne,” “mansions,” and “expensive clothes” are deconstructed as ideologically loaded and influenced by racialized and gendered power struggles. The extent to which Winnie is presented as having “sold out” on the liberation struggle and having “bought in” to neoliberal values is theorized in the context of the politics of wealth and poverty in a newly liberated society.     

西南联大的校园氛围与闻一多精神之养成

闻一多精神的最后养成与西南联大留学生们营造的校园氛围密切相关：大后方的腐败现实与教授们在极端贫困状况下抗战救国的牺牲精神,形成了强烈的反差,促使闻一多勇敢地直面现实,猛烈地抨击腐败;在大学独立原则的影响下,西南联大成为民主堡垒,教授们的主体意识受干扰较少,闻一多在心理上有一个比较安全可靠的后方,从而无所顾忌地参加民主活动;在西南联大精神理念影响下,教授们个性张扬的传统使闻一多民主意识二发而不可收喷发,壮怀激烈,视死如归。     

西南丝绸之路与中印文化交流

古代中国的一切对外交通线,都被誉为“丝绸之路”。中国西北部沙漠中的丝绸之路早已闻名遐迩,而中国西南部的一条隐藏在崇山峻岭和原始森林中的丝绸之路,长久以来却鲜为人知。作者对西南丝绸之路的形成及其在中印文化乃至东南亚文化的交流进行了论述。认为,西南丝绸之路的形成早于西北丝绸之路,且西南丝绸之路实际上成为了东西方文化及南北文化交流的中间区域,起到了历史文化的地理枢纽作用。     

西南联大与云南现代高等教育

西南联大在昆明驻足8年,对云南现代高等教育的贡献是巨大的。不仅对处于艰难时势中的云南大学提供了巨大的支持,而且还促使云南师范大学的诞生;同时,西南联大学者开启的学术研究路径,为云南乃至中国的学者开辟了广阔的天地。     

在变革与"革命"之间--上海市民社会的历史选择

近现代的上海市民社会,其对于社会体制的变革有着热切的期盼,然而与此同时,它又是社会稳定和制衡的重要力量.市民社会具有革命性,而暴力革命却又并非是它的选择.因为在它看来,暴力革命在摧毁专制的同时,将孕育新的专制."广场民主"和"直接民主"也不是市民社会的理性选择.正是在相对缺乏民主基础和法治精神的国度,民变易生.然正是如此,激进的民变容易造成社会的失序和失范.市民社会追求的是演变,是在旧体制中进行变革的诉求和实践,从而在循序渐进中改造旧体制.戊戌变法曾经是一次重大的演变实践.但是由于方法上的激进,中国历史上的一次重要机遇以及某种价值理念就此丧失.     

Remittances,financial development and poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for post-COVID-19 macroeconomic policies

To design and implement effective post-COVID-19 macroeconomics policies to tackle poverty in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), policymakers need to understand the factors shaping poverty in the region. This paper investigates the effect of international remittances and financial development on poverty alleviation in 44 sub-Saharan African SSA countries from 2010 to 2019. The instrumental variable generalised method of moment technique results indicated that while remittances increase poverty, financial development contributes significantly to poverty reduction. The results consistently revealed that remittances increase both male and female poverty rates, while financial development significantly reduces male and female poverty rates. Other factors such as economic growth, foreign direct investment, and trade openness contributed significantly to reducing poverty. In contrast, government expenditure and foreign aid were found to increase poverty rate in SSA. These results are robust to the Lewbel two-stage least squares estimator. The practical implications of these findings for post-COVID-19 macroeconomic policies in SSA are discussed.     

西南地区少数民族大学生民族认同内隐维度的调查

民族认同指在多民族国家中,各民族个体对自己既作为单一民族成员身份同时也作为国家民族成员身份双重承认的和谐统一.用一份半开放式问卷对221名西南地区的少数民族大学生进行了调查,结果如下:(1)西南地区少数民族大学生的民族认同大多处于积极状态;(2)影响西南地区少数民族大学生对中华民族认同的内隐维度主要有归属感、客观身份、自豪感、政治与政策、历史和地域等;(3)影响西南地区少数民族大学生对本民族认同的内隐维度主要有客观身份、自豪感、地域、习俗、文化、历史和归属感等;(4)西南地区少数民族大学生对双重身份的认同在某些维度上符合线性两极模型,而在其他维度上则更符合二维模型的理论假设.     

新时期以来彝族长篇小说民族志书写研究——以冯良《西南边》为例

新时期以来彝族作家创作的长篇小说呈现出民族志书写的趋势,冯良《西南边》是较为典型的一部。彝族作家冯良有与生俱来的民族志书写优势,其作品形成了具有田野调查基础的民族志书写的范式,长篇小说《西南边》作为其民族志书写的集中体现,描述了彝地独特的自然地理风貌和丰富多彩的历史文化,有较高的文学审美性。对文化的阐释是作家探索民族发展和心理历程的重要渠道,在《西南边》中,作者通过对奴隶制、“毕摩”文化和民俗的阐释表达和探索了从民族改革到改革开放时期彝族的发展史及彝族人们的心路历程,同时,作者也通过对典型人物的塑造展现了彝族的民族精神与品格。