“Who generates this city”? Socialist strategy in contemporary London

This essay, based on a “militant ethnography” of the attempts of the small radical grassroots activist group, Our London (a pseudonym), to mobilize a collective oppositional politics through activities around an election campaign, engages critically with E. Laclau and C. Mouffe's arguments on discourse and collectivity in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (London: Verso, 1985). I argue, on the basis of my findings, that while their model does provide insights that help describe the process of building collectivity from among disparate perspectives and identities, we need to go beyond a focus on discourse alone and consider the ways politics is shaped by material contexts. This is necessary if we are to understand the continued appeal of class politics as well as the difficulties in mobilizing collectivity in highly unequal and fragmented cities. From an activist perspective, the essay also highlights how developing a conception of collective interests and a critique of overarching systems of exploitation can be important in building political unity.     

Linguists and other animals

Book reviewed in this article:
Joan Dunayer, Animal Equality: Language and Liberation     

JOURNAL OF UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2002 Vol.24 No.1～4 Total Contents

在学习英语时,中西文化背景的差异,往往会给我们的阅读带来很大的困难。本文拟从词汇的文化内涵、历史典故和西方现代历史文化等三个方面来论述中西文化差异对篇章阅读的影响。     

倡导和实践为人民服务的思想道德--兼论公民道德建设核心的哲学依据

本文从哲学的角度论述了把为人民服务作为我国公民道德建设核心的四大依据,指出了实践为人民服务的思想道德的方法.     

论非文科专业人文社会科学教学改革的必然趋势

非文科专业人文社会科学教学改革是时代的呼唤和社会可持续发展的现实要求 ,是 2 1世纪高等教育发展的历史趋势 ,是我国社会主义现代化建设事业的客观需要。     

建设有中国特色步行商业街

本文简要分析了西方步行商业街发展历程及我国步行商业街建设中面临的问题 ,提出中国在步行商业街建设中应借鉴西方现代步行商业街的发展经验 ,探索建设有中国特色步行商业街之路     

弘扬自然辩证法传统 建设科学技术学学科群

本文回顾了我国自然辩证法学科和学科群的发展过程,分析了其间的广义理论和狭义理解、分歧和共性,探讨了终将从广义上延拓成科学技术学一级学科,从狭义上形成二级学科群的合理性和现实可能性.基于坚定自然辩证法原理作为科学技术学基础理论及学科建设指南的必然性,建议扩大<自然辩证法研究>副标题的内涵,将目前冗长的副标题改变成简洁的"关于科学技术学的理论性杂志".     

正式英语的语言特征

正式英语是人们在辩论、演讲、写作和各种仪式等正式场合中使用的标准英语。掌握正式英语的语体风格、词汇色彩和语法结构 ,对英语学习者提高语言交际水平 ,增强英语语感大有裨益     

建立师德建设的长效机制

加强师德建设对于学生的成长,对于国家的前途和命运有着重要的影响。文章认为,建立师德建设的长效机制,应该从师德建设的领导机制、培训机制、组织机制、调控机制、评价监督机制入手,这些机制对师德建设工作起着决定性的作用。     

ALL-BIAS DESIGNS FOR POLYNOMIAL SPLINE REGRESSION MODELS

Polynomial spline regression models of low degree have proved useful in modeling responses from designed experiments in science and engineering when simple polynomial models are inadequate. Where there is uncertainty in the number and location of the knots, or breakpoints, of the spline, then designs that minimize the systematic errors resulting from model misspecification may be appropriate. This paper gives a method for constructing such all‐bias designs for a single variable spline when the distinct knots in the assumed and true models come from some specified set. A class of designs is defined in terms of the inter‐knot intervals and sufficient conditions are obtained for a design within this class to be all‐bias under linear, quadratic and cubic spline models. An example of the construction of all‐bias designs is given.