多元文化主义对族裔少数群体权利的理论建构

多元文化主义关注的核心焦点是族裔文化多样性和族裔少数群体权利保护的问题,它的发展过程就是对族裔少数群体权利保护的建构过程。贯穿多元文化主义建构族裔少数群体权利的逻辑始末的线索就是族裔少数群体的三重身份问题:差异公民身份是多元文化主义建构族裔少数群体权利的事实基础,公共公民身份是建构族裔少数群体权利的政治逻辑,而文化成员身份则是建构族裔少数群体权利的道德空间。族裔少数群体权利不仅保护了群体内的个人自由,而且还可以促进群体间的平等关系,它是对公民权利的有效补充。多元文化主义建构族裔少数群体权利具有突破性的积极价值,同时也存在潜在的结构性危险,它的发展需要进一步明确方向。     

民族区域自治制度的比较研究

文章对我国的民族区域自治制度与前苏联、东欧等社会主义国家的联邦制进行了比较研究,认为前苏联等社会主义国家之所以选择联邦制,其重要原因之一是上述国家各民族之间存在巨大差异,不具备建立单一制国家的条件;民族共和国联邦制作为缓和民族矛盾的产物,本身存在制度缺陷,因而在一定条件下又直接促成了上述国家的解体。我国自古以来就是一个统一的多民族国家,民族区域自治制度具有历史和现实的科学依据,是符合我国国情和各民族根本利益的政治制度,这是我们的政治优势,必须坚持,不能动摇。     

村治模式转型：由封闭性自治到开放性自治的演进

村民自治模式具有封闭性自治的特点。在现代化进程的强烈冲击下,农村社会已经发生历史性变迁,农村社会逐步走向开放性与异质性,村民自治赖以存在的经济与社会基础逐步瓦解。农村经济与社会变迁的既有现实决定了必须建立适应当前农村社会开放性、流动性社会要求的新型自治实践模式。由“开放性自治”到“封闭性自治”的转型是农村基层民主发展的演进逻辑。     

关于村民自治的调查研究

村民自治是实现农村管理民主的重要途径,是建设社会主义新农村的重要内容。在当前村民自治的实际运作中,存在“民主管理、民主决策、民主监督”与“民主选举”失衡、村“两委”关系不协调、干部群众思想认识和政治素质有待提高等突出问题,需要科学设计制度,合理配置村民自治权利;加强宣传教育,提高农村干部群众素质;理顺“两委”关系,促进村民自治顺利进行;健全监督制约机制,确保村民自治的实效。     

村民自治与农村政治发展

建立健全村民自治组织,推动农村政治发展,是中国政治发展的关键之一。政治民主、政治参与、政治秩序等作为农村政治发展的内容,是村民自治的内在价值追求。作为非国家形态的民主,村民自治的建立是社会主义政治文明的象征和标志,是社会主义民主政治的生长点。它标志着政治现代化的一种政治参与,旨在维护农村的社会秩序进而维护中国政治秩序的良性发展。     

从现代国家与社会关系看村民自治的未来走向

从国家与社会关系的角度来审视村民自治,村民自治是平衡农村社会与国家关系的有效形式;要实现国家与农村社会的良性互动,就要完善现有的乡政村治格局并使之日趋合理：扩大乡镇民主,软化乡镇权力;完善民主自治机制,提高村民自治能力;培育和发展乡村民间组织,提高农民组织化程度。     

Negotiated identities: Male migration and left-behind wives in India

This paper examines the impact of husbands’ migration on the lives of women left behind. Using data from the India Human Development Survey 2005, we focus on two dimensions of women’s lives: women’s autonomy and control over their lives; and women’s labour force participation. Results suggest that household structure forms the key mediating factor through which husbands’ absence affects women. Women not residing in extended families are faced with both higher levels of responsibilities and greater autonomy, while women who live in extended households do not experience these demands or benefits.     

A play for rurality – Modernization versus local autonomy

It is common to understand the governing of rural space as the outcome of a conflict between some romantic protectors of a lost past on the one hand, and the people who worry about creating economic values on the other. However, the power to shape the rural should not only be searched for in the open struggle between protectors and developers, but also should be analysed at the level of discourse, in the play between discourses about how to deal with the rural. In this paper I therefore present a modernist discourse and demonstrate how taken-for-granted truths about the rural – its history, its present and its future – are made possible by this discourse. Secondly, I will reveal how rurality takes on a different meaning in an alternative to the modernist discourse, emphasizing local and regional autonomy. In demonstrating that rurality is contingent upon a play between these two discourses, I want to provide some new insights into an important force behind the persistence of ideas about rurality in Norway.     

自由与责任:论教师教学自主

教师教学自主是教师在课堂教学活动中的自主。它包括两部分:自由与责任。其中,自由是指教师作为教学主体理应拥有教学自主权,是外在的自主,它要求教师应享有教学自由、不受外力干涉;责任则表现为教师教学的自主性,是内在的自主,它要求教师应具有自主教学的能动性与主动性。本文结合当前教师专业发展与课堂教学现状,对教师教学自主的内涵、影响因素以及实现路径进行了探讨。     

The dynamics of citizen sociolinguistics

The objective of this paper is to explore the dynamics of citizen science (CS) in sociolinguistics or citizen sociolinguistics, i.e. the engagement of non‐professionals in doing sociolinguistic research. Based on a CS‐study undertaken in Norway where we engaged young people as citizen scientists to explore linguistic diversity, this paper aims to clarify the definition of citizen sociolinguistics; it seeks to advance the discussion of the advantages of CS and of how CS can contribute to sociolinguistics; it also addresses the opposite: how sociolinguistics can contribute to the general field of citizen science; and it discusses the challenges of a CS‐methodology for sociolinguistic research, epistemologically and ethically, as well as in terms of recruitment, quality control and possible types of sociolinguistic tasks and topics. To meet the needs of society and societal challenges of today there is a need to develop methods and establish scientific acceptance for the relevance of public engagement in research. This paper argues that citizen sociolinguistics has the potential to advance the societal impact of sociolinguistics by constructing a dialogue between ‘the academy’ and ‘the citizens’; citizen sociolinguistics relies on and encourages participatory citizen agency, provides research experience, stimulates curiosity, further research, public understanding of science and (socio)linguistic awareness, and encourages linguistic stewardship.