Frontier spaces of vulnerability: Regional change,urbanization, drought and fire hazard in Santarém,Pará, Brazil

Fire hazard is a mounting concern in tropical rainforests of the Brazilian Amazon and has raised awareness within the science community of the links between agricultural fire use, drought and accidental fire. As a result, fire is being addressed as a crisis event with mitigation focused on those who light fires, particularly smallholder agriculturalists. Little attention is paid to the historical and ongoing ways in which Amazon landscapes and peoples have been made more susceptible to fire. Frontier regions of the Brazilian Amazon serve a variety of functions within the larger Brazilian society, including as extractive reserves for economic development, as social safety valves to reduce population pressures, and as areas to support urban regional integration. Each of these functions has impacted frontier environments in ways that create more flammable landscapes and/or shape the vulnerability of people to fire hazard. This paper uses a case study inthe Brazilian Lower Amazon to understand how vulnerability to fire hazard develops. It argues that if fire mitigation remains centered on fire as a crisis event, an understanding of what constitutes frontier spaces of vulnerability, both in landscape and in populations, will be limited.     

The University: An Agent of Social Change?

Can universities be agents of progressive social change? How would we know if a university was acting as an agent of social change? Drawing on four case studies, I raise a number of questions to problematize our understanding of the university as an agent of social change. I outline a number of contributing factors that appear to explain successful cases. I conclude by arguing the relevancy of these cases for larger, and more traditional, sociological projects.     

The Existential Side of Kohut's Tragic Man

This article explores the way in which Kohut's concept of Tragic Man functions as a response to criticisms of self psychology as proffering a partial, utopian, strife-denying theory of human development. After citing several representative critiques in this respect, I review the concept of Tragic Man as defined by Kohut, and then seek to deepen the clinical usefulness of this concept through a discussion of affects, empathy, and free association. A clinical vignette concludes the paper, through which some of these ideas find illustration.     

执行新会计准则绿化工程成本控制体系的建立

针对施工企业工程计划、预算部门与财务核算部门工程成本数据的脱节的问题,结合新会计准则,探讨工程与财务部门的结合、科目设置、费用的归集以及电算化核算等问题,以便更好地控制绿化园林施工企业成本。     

福柯的自我建构理论及其教育意义

在当前对福柯理论所进行的探讨中,我们对福柯的诸如权力/知识、话语等理论给予了很多的关注,却很少关注福柯的自我建构理论及其所具有的意义.因此,本文立足于福柯的自我建构理论,通过对自我建构所运用的技术,来指出自我建构理论的实质内涵,以及其深层次下权力/知识、话语的作用,以此来认识自我建构的理论所具有的教育内涵,它对教育所产生的影响,最后对这种理论进行简要的评价.     

江苏省苏北新农村建设着力点探讨

江苏省苏北的新农村建设是一个惠及1 730多万农民的系统工程。建设苏北新农村关键是要把握六个着力点：促进农民增收,不断提高农民的生活水平;加大对苏北的扶贫开发力度,改善基本生产生活条件;加快农村经济结构调整,抓产业化发展,大力发展现代农业;加快苏北农村的基础设施建设;深入实施农村千万劳动力培训工程,用先进文化塑造新型农民,提高农民在新农村建设中的主体性和积极性;重视苏北农村的和谐社会建设。只有这样,才能真正推动苏北新农村建设的步伐,切实把握住确保江苏“两个率先目标”顺利实现的问题关键。     

在中国特色社会主义新起点上推进新的思想解放

解放思想，是党的思想路线的本质要求，是我们应对前进道路上各种新情况新问题、不断开创事业新局面的一大法宝，是中国特色社会主义的思想精髓。要把中国特色社会主义事业不断推向前进，必须在新起点上推进新的思想解放。     

Women's Changing Attitudes Toward Divorce, 1974–2002: Evidence for an Educational Crossover

This article examines trends in divorce attitudes of young adult women in the United States by educational attainment from 1974 to 2002. Women with 4‐year college degrees, who previously had the most permissive attitudes toward divorce, have become more restrictive in their attitudes toward divorce than high school graduates and women with some college education, whereas women with no high school diplomas have increasingly permissive attitudes toward divorce. We examine this educational crossover in divorce attitudes in the context of variables correlated with women's educational attainment, including family attitudes and religion, income and occupational prestige, and family structure. We conclude that the educational crossover in divorce attitudes is associated most strongly with work and family structure variables.     

梁启超为什么能推动近代小说的发展

晚清的小说出现了前所未有的繁荣,这一繁荣与当时的城市发展市民人口的增长并不同步,而是由梁启超发动的小说界革命所推动的。梁启超的努力适应了当时小说家安身立命的需要,他们自觉响应梁启超,政治小说成为当时小说的核心。梁启超的小说观念适应了士大夫文学观念的需要,他们抛弃了鄙视小说的看法,参与到小说的创作和阅读中来,他们对梁启超的认同,大大扩大了小说的市场,帮助小说繁荣。     

How to do or not do things with words: The case of Koreans in Japan

In this article, I explore the ways in which ethnic identity is expressed by following the formulaic socio-linguistic norm, the very method of which defies the authenticity of identity itself, thereby asserting the identity's multi-facetedness as sustained in performative linguistic practice. I look at multi-sited socio-linguistic interactions among Koreans in Japan, who claim their primary identity to be that of North Korea's overseas citizens even though none of them have North Korean passport or nationality. Their identity, in other words, is based on ideological commitment, which is in reality supported by their ongoing linguistic practice. A close look at their socio-linguistic life reveals their ethnicity's dual or multiple ontology, which challenges among other things the currently dominant assertion of Japanese self in the western academic discourse.