Du vent dans le ciel de plomb ? L’accès des femmes aux professions supérieures, xix-xx siècles

Women with diplomas, authority, power, in the professions, in top jobs… Nowadays, since demands have taken shape around the concepts of “parities” or quotas, the phases in the process whereby women have gained access to top positions in employment risk being overlooked. This process stretches out over a long time, even though Western European countries have passed through successive phases at about the same time. The years 1880, 1920, 1970 and 2000 stand out like landmarks in this conquest starting out from equal access to education and continuing through the slow mixing of the two sexes in various types of jobs, medical, technical, legal, military or political. Till the last decades of the 20th century, feminists (men as well as women) fought for these advances despite the scorn of those men and women who wanted to see women confined to the jobs “fit for them”, in particular in education and care-giving.     

Conflicts in urban fringe in the transformation era: An examination of performance of the metropolitan growth management in Beijing

The performances of urban growth management are often criticized because their original objectives are frequently inconsistent with local development facts. Underlying the many reasons for this are the political and institutional contexts that influence policy-making and development activities. The urban fringe, a zone is managed to against urban sprawl in many countries, represents the conflicts between urban management system and local development resulting from political transformation. This study examines the case of decentralised-concentration strategy, one of the most important metropolitan growth management in Beijing since the 1990s, and sheds some lights on the performance of the growth management in the transformation context. The results suggest that the aims of municipal growth management to concentrate developments in urban fringe have partly been achieved through actual local developments; however, some unexpected and illegal local developments outside the planned areas are counterproductive from the perspective of municipal growth management. The performance of the present growth management is being challenged by new trends towards political decentralisation and locally fiscal responsibilities. In the interest of future policymaking, the dominant central planning system in Beijing should take these decentralisation trends into growth management account, compared with the great progress in decentralisation in economy system. The urban policy needs to shift from the dictatorial manner and put more efforts into creating a harmonious relationship between municipal growth management and actual local demands on development.     

Europe's failed ‘fight’ against irregular migration: ethnographic notes on a counterproductive industry

Despite Europe's mass investments in advanced border controls, people keep arriving along the continent's shores under desperate circumstances. European attempts to ‘secure’ or ‘protect’ the borders have quite clearly failed, as politicians themselves increasingly recognise – yet more of the same response is again rolled out in response to the escalating ‘refugee crisis’. Amid the deadlock, this article argues that we need to grasp the mechanics and logics of the European ‘border security model’ in order to open up for a change of course. Through ethnographic examples from the Spanish-African borders, the article shows how the striving for border security under a prevailing emergency frame has generated absurd incentives, negative path dependencies and devastating consequences. At Europe's frontiers, an industry of border controls has emerged, involving European defence contractors, member state security forces and their African counterparts, as well as a range of non-security actors. Whenever another ‘border crisis’ occurs, this industry grows again, feeding on its own apparent ‘failures’. This vicious cycle may be broken, the article concludes, once policy-makers start curtailing the economies of border security underpinning it – yet the challenges are formidable as the industry retrenches along with the political response to the drama it has itself produced.     

The Tunnel at the End of the Light: the Crisis of Transition in Hungary

The economic, political and social transition processes of the last two decades, far from being in harmony, clearly have a detrimental rather than an enriching influence on each other. These processes will never become harmonised just by themselves in a natural fashion. The worst obstacle of a successful transformation is that the chief actors, such as the government, the market and the representatives of the society. The Prince, the Merchant and the Citizen do not show the necessary commitment, competence and determination to create a new, effective type of partnership. This is a challenge which urgently demands answers on all levels of governance, economic and social life. This must be done in the frames of local communities, and on the regional, the European and the global levels. Nearly twenty years after the political turnabout, Hungary now needs a new social contract and must lay down the ethical, political, institutional and intellectual foundations for its twenty-first century democracy.

五四新文化运动与欧洲文艺复兴运动比较

五四新文化运动与欧洲文艺复兴运动生成于不同时期,植根于不同土壤,二者既有一些共同之处,又有不少差异。对其进行比较,有助于加深我们对两个运动各自特性的认识。其共同点是：（一）对传统的批判与重建;（二）倡导文学革命;（三）抨击封建权威思想;（四）呼唤人性的复苏,倡导个人的解放。其不同点是：（一）背景不同;（二）影响力不同;（三）带来的后果不同。     

新疆与中亚国家加强经济合作的战略思考

新疆利用地缘优势,把“走出去”和“向西开放”紧密结合起来,与中亚国家加强经济合作,是双赢发展的需要。当前,影响双边经济合作的因素主要是中亚国家的社会制度与我国不同、体制性差异大、法制建设滞后、社会不稳定、民族文化心理阻碍、地区安全因素、上海合作组织在经济合作方面还处于初级阶段等。但与中亚国家加强经济合作是维护亚欧地区稳定与发展的共同需要,是新疆实施“向西开放”战略、发展外向型经济的最佳切入点,是走发展新型工业化之路,打造支柱产业的现实需要。中亚国家巨大的资源和消费市场亟待开发,双方拥有共同开发的核心项目,合作前景广阔。新疆应抓住机遇,提高经济发展的国际竞争力,积极与中亚国家加强经济合作。     

中部地区发展循环经济的对策研究

目前,我国中部地区在全国经济发展格局中呈现出发展水平低于东部,发展速度慢于西部的“塌陷”态势。针对这一情况,中央把中部崛起作为一个国家经济发展的重大战略提出来。中部地区要发展必须彻底改变传统经济的发展模式,而采用循环经济发展模式。通过对中部地区的经济社会现状进行分析,指出其发展循环经济的迫切性;得出其发展循环经济的相应对策。     

欧洲银行保险的发展及对中国的借鉴

20世纪80年代以来,全球金融业经历着一系列深刻的变革,银行业、保险业、证券业逐渐融合,而在此过程中银行业与保险业不断融合,形成了所谓的银行保险(Bancassurance)及保险银行(Assurfinance)。Bancassurance这一词汇最早出现于上世纪80年代的法国,并逐渐引起学术界的关注。其狭     

投资与中原经济区发展关系研究——基于1989-2009年河南省的时间序列数据分析

投资是中原经济区建设的重要着力点。以河南为例,利用河南省1989-2009年的时间序列数据,通过ADF单位根检验、Granger因果关系检验等,实证分析了投资与经济发展之间的关系。结果表明：投资增长与经济发展之间存在双向的因果关系。     

走向一种绿色意识形态

与价值观不同，意识形态既是规范性的又是描述性的，或者说，既是价值评估性的也是知识追求性的。事实与价值之间的关系，被传统地以“二分法”的方式加以构建，实际上二者是一种互补关系，但这也并不意味着对矛盾关系的否认。一种建立在摆脱教条主义的唯物主义基础上的绿色理论，更有利于开展一种行之有效的实践，而这或许是绿色运动可以从马克思主义那里继承的最为重要的遗产。如果生态主义要想成为一种有影响的意识形态，就必须发展一种“绿色实践观”，创建“理论-实践”的统一体，并借助包含着价值考量在内的“中介”来跨越二者之间的鸿沟。