Economic Survival Strategies and Food Insecurity

Abstract

This article reports on a study of 67 Hurricane Katrina survivors who were evacuated to one Texas community. The authors examine the economic survival strategies employed by Katrina evacuees to feed their families during the approximately one week time frame beginning the day before the storm and ending when they were ultimately evacuated from New Orleans. An analysis of their strategies and actions provides insight both into the nature of households and sharing networks under the pressure of this disaster and the shortages that ensue when federal and state systems cannot meet basic needs beyond the resources of the local community.     

萨特人权思想研究

萨特通过其＂人＂的存在主义哲学思想,展示了其人权理论。通过探讨了萨特人权思想产生的理论与实践基础,从四个方面,即＂世界统一于人＂、＂人的自由＂、＂人的道德与责任＂与＂人的解放＂阐述了萨特人权思想的主要内容,从正反两个方面评价了萨特的人权思想,最终探寻了其对发展马克思主义人权思想和建构中国特色社会主义人权理论的积极作用。     

广东与20世纪前期中国美术

20世纪前期中国美术史的前半叶中国美术有3个集中地：北京、上海和广州。3个地域的美术发展状态各有不同,北京注重传统文化的整合与建构,出现了一大批传统派的领军美术家;上海注重艺术实践和艺术市场的结合,倾心于在美术理论与美术出版方向;广东地域的美术家更注重对现代美术的探索和实践,展现了强烈的现代性姿态。但是,由于素来对广东文化的偏见,广东美术对20中国美术史的贡献一直没有得到很好的梳理和普遍认同,这与时代的文化观念、研究意识、成果媒介皆有关系。笔者系展示广东美术的轮廓,谈其中所潜藏的美术研究话语权问题。     

论《故事新编》空间视阈下的个体境遇与人物性格

《故事新编》是鲁迅晚年贡献给中国乃至世界的又一伟大文学作品。《故事新编》所营造的极度错裂与充满冲突的空间形态,是作为启蒙者的鲁迅对其个体生命在社会存在状况体认的结果。这种强烈的主体意识使得《故事新编》在审美精神上具有荒诞与冷硬、沉郁的特点,而它的人物塑造也显示与一般历史小说完全不同的独特性。     

A model with long-term survivors for the analysis of current-status nuptiality data

The model proposed in this paper combines a logistic regression model and a Weibull regression model for the analysis of current-status data. This joint model allows a simultaneous estimation of two sets of effects on the covariates: one on the probability that the event occurs (also known as quantum) and the other on the timing of the event. Thus, the model can be seen either as an extension of a survival-analysis model for use with current-status data where a survival fraction is added in order explicitly to take into account the possibility that the event may never occur, or as an extension of survival analysis with long-term survivors to the analysis of current-status data. As an illustrative application we apply our model to a study of nuptiality in seventeenth-century Italy.     

Effects of Age Shift on the Tempo and Quantum of Non-Repeatable Events

Effects of age shift on the tempo and quantum of non-repeatable demographic events are examined. The purpose is to develop a period index theory based on the survival model and to provide a mathematically consistent interpretation of Bongaarts and Feeney's tempo adjustment arguments. The survival model for non-repeatable events is introduced. In the time-inhomogeneous case, three types of period survival models are considered. McKendrick equation is used to formulate the risk population dynamics. The tempo and quantum indices for three period survival models are computed when the period age shift occurs for the hazard, the incidence, and the survival rates. Bongaarts and Feeney's tempo adjustment arguments are consistently based on the scenario of the period age shift on the survival rate, and they give translation formulae between period indices without referring to cohort. Traditional demographic translation formulae between cohort and period indices are reviewed to clarify differences between cohort- and period-oriented translation procedures.     

精神福利的文化伦理实践逻辑——马克思哲学思想之“生存安全性”的视野

精神福利是文化自信与文化发展的内在秩序,精神福利的文化价值逻辑及公共性追求就是实现人之根本性的精神生命活力的源泉。在进一步澄明人的生存安全性之公共性本质的基础上,对精神福利的内在认知结构和文化价值的追寻就成为精神文明建设的核心维度。当代中国社会日益呈现出精神生活困顿、心灵迷失与意识形态交叠共融等情形,以精神福利的文化伦理为公共性追求的社会实践,必能造就一个精神福利共享和文化价值共生的美好社会。     

从索尔·贝娄作品看其伦理观

贝娄作品的伦理观有如下特点:他对伦理的认识是内在与超越的合一。一方面具体化为内在矛盾的不断展开过程。推动其伦理观不断变化的动力是犹太人在"异域"文化中所遭遇的"生存实践"困境,即同化和反同化的问题。另一方面,他的视野没有局限于犹太人及他们在美国社会中的问题。他在思考该问题时立足"个体-集团-类存在"这一大视野,提出了化解人类矛盾的途径:消弭隔阂、增加信任,进而建立兄弟情谊。为此,他的作品才具有世界性影响。     

生存困境缠绕与荒诞虚无上升——穆时英都市小说的现代性表现

穆时英是20世纪30年代新感觉派的代表作家。其都市小说通过对都市生活的描绘,展现了大都市的喧嚣、繁华与奢靡,揭示出都市人存在的荒诞与孤独虚无、情绪的悲观失落与茫然无措。同时,他的作品也反映了繁华都市中人们价值尽失的堕落,以及情与欲分离的哀婉。这无不体现出穆时英颓废的美学现代性。     

《红楼梦》丫鬟生存状态剖析

《红楼梦》中的、丫鬟群体生活在等级森严的封建大家族的最底层,毫无人身自由和人格尊严.封建统治者在封建宗法制的保护和纵容下,任意践踏她们的身体和灵魂、随意安排她们的婚姻和未来,并利用月钱、赏钱等经济手段实现掌控其人生的目的.主子间的尔虞我诈、仆妇们的妒忌猜疑,这些复杂的人际关系又随时威胁着丫鬟们的生存安全.