Imagining mobility: the prospective cognition question in migration research

Most migration research is focused on migrant experiences after mobility and settlement. We argue that empirical researchers would benefit from studying how cognitive migration, the narrative imagining of oneself inhabiting a foreign destination prior to the actual physical move, influences migration behaviour. This article notes a gap in our current understanding of the process by which individuals decide to cross international borders and offers an agenda for remedying this. The interdisciplinarity of migration research has not fully extended to social psychology or cognitive social sciences, where a dynamic research agenda has examined human decision-making processes, including prospection and the connections between culture and cognition. The study of socio-cognitive processes in migration decision-making has been largely overlooked because of the after-the-fact nature of data collection and analysis rather than an aversion to these approaches per se. We highlight a number of strategic findings from this diverse field, provide examples of migration scholarship that has benefited from these insights, and raise questions about the sides of migration process that have received insufficient attention. A more nuanced understanding of prospective thinking—imagining potential futures—can shed light on the classic puzzle of why some people move while others in comparable situations do not.     

W.E.B. Du Bois and Filipino/a American exposure programs to the Philippines: race class analysis in an epoch of ‘global apartheid’

The article highlights the ongoing relevance of W.E.B. Du Bois for the global analysis of race and class. Engaging scholarly debates that have ensued within the educational subfields of critical race theory (CRT) and (revolutionary) critical pedagogy, the article explores how a deeper engagement with Du Bois’s ideas contributes theoretically and methodologically to these two subfields. Of particular focus is Du Bois’s conceptualization of a ‘guiding hundredth,’ which he forwarded as a corrective to his ideas of a ‘talented tenth.’ The article also offers a case study analysis of the film Sounds of a New Hope, which documents a hip hop exposure program to the Philippines. The case study draws upon Du Bois’s ‘guiding hundredth’ for a twenty-first century context as a Filipino American cultural worker utilizes hip hop to articulate, analyze, and alter the lived experiences for Filipino/a Americans in a global diaspora.     

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.     

Monitoring the complexities: Nuclear power and public opinion

Interaction between organizations and stakeholders today takes place on virtual and physical ‘issue arenas’. This study examined opinions on nuclear power and asked who are the players discussing nuclear power in Finland? Through content analysis, surveys and interviews, the study concluded that politicians, power companies and regulators were the ones with voice, as NGOs and citizens were hardly heard. The paper suggests the future role of PR practitioners to be to find the right issue arenas and facilitate corporate voice and reputation on those arenas.     

Evidence-based practice: a critical reflection

This article employs the process of critical reflection to uncover and challenge the hegemonic assumptions of evidence-based practice (EBP). The critical reflection process results in a re-conceptualisation of best practices that, while still honouring empirical research, is less hierarchical and more inclusive of a broad spectrum of interests than traditional EBP. Multidimensional Evidence-Based Practice (MEBP) validates consumer wisdom, professional experience, and qualitative research as equal partners to quantitative research in determining current state-of-the art best practices. Furthermore, MEBP incorporates a value-critical analysis of those best practices that can lead to improvements and innovations, so that ‘best practices’ becomes a dynamic rather than a static construct.     

多元法律文化互动的多元透视

传统的比较法研究仅仅注重对不同法律文化的比较 ,而未能关注不同法律文化的互动问题。在当今世界 ,多元法律文化的互动是一个正在改变世界法律文化格局、影响各国法律发展走向的基本现象。从功能论的角度透视 ,多元法律文化的互动表现为功能上的比较和竞争。互动法则是优胜劣汰 ,即功能好者、强者得势 ,功能差者、弱者淘汰。从解释学的角度透视 ,多元法律文化的互动表现为不同法律文化意义系统的互相解释、互相渗透、互相融合。互动的结果不是一方取代另一方 ,而是双方都被对方所改变 ,渐次达到互相融合。从冲突论的角度透视 ,法律文化的冲突不过是不同社会群体、阶级或阶层之间的社会冲突的一方面。一种法律文化在冲突中处于何种地位 ,取决于法律文化的倡导者在整个社会的冲突中处于何种地位     

维持根斯坦后期哲学思想对当代语言学的影响

维持根斯坦（L．Wittgenstein）始终把语言作为哲学研究的唯一对象,坚持通过语言分析解决哲学问题。他后期的语言观直接导致了日常语言学派的产生。日常语言学派从人们的行为对语言的影响的角度研究语言,把语言看作是人闪的一种言语行为,在言语行为中寻求语言的意义。维氏后期的某些哲学思想成为当代一些新兴语言学派的理论基础。     

论法兰克福学派的大众文化批判理论

真正的艺术作为最精致的文化造物是人的自由自主的本质的最深刻的体现,以及人类社会进化的重要的内在驱动力。但在现代发达工业社会的背景中,艺术也不可避免地走向了异化。这种异化的艺术集中表现为大众文化。法兰克福学派从大众文化的商品化－创造性的丧失、大众文化的齐一化－个性的虚假、大众文化的欺骗性－超越纬度的消解和大众文化的操纵性等方面剖析大众文化对人的存在的负面影响。要扬弃大众文化的异化,必须扬弃人的本质的异化,恢复艺术和审美的个性和创造本质,即恢复人的自由自觉的生存方式。     

论古典诗歌叙述口吻的模糊性

我国古典诗歌的叙述口吻具有模糊性的特征。它所运用的口吻互渗、口吻互叠、口吻的转移与替代等手法使诗歌表述具有不确定性和多向性,这是促成中国诗歌独特美学品格和艺术个性的原因之一。这些艺术手法和审美方式对古典戏曲、音乐等其他艺术形式的影响也是深刻的。     

胡风文艺理论中的黑格尔因素

胡风与黑格尔之间呈现出一种复杂的历史关系。一方面,在文艺领域,胡风确实继承了黑格尔的某些哲学思想,这种继承使胡风的文艺思想在整个左翼文艺阵营中具有另类的风格。这在“事实”与“价值”的分立及其理论文本的“认识的魅力”、“黑格尔式的论证”等方面体现出来。另一方面,在意识深处,胡风对黑格尔式的哲学方式是予以“反抗”的。