On artistic and cultural generations in Northeastern Tibet

Beginning in the 1980s, and continuing for over three decades since, a particular generation of Tibetans from the Northeastern Tibetan region known as Amdo, and particularly from the northern parts of China’s Qinghai province, has proven extremely productive. Why has this generation, born primarily between 1959 and 1967, been so incredibly successful? This article examines the contextual factors that may have contributed to the incredible success of this generation. This ranges from the policies and circumstances that affected their births, and the state of the cultural field at the time they reached adulthood. Personal experience narratives, autobiographies, and scholarly studies then reveal how this generation was able to access the intellectual field. Finally, I briefly discuss how the Amdo Tibetan intellectual field compares with other Tibetan and ethnic experiences in the People’s Republic of China.     

Reading Polanyi in Erbil: understanding socio-political factors in the development of Iraqi Kurdistan

ABSTRACT

The Kurdistan Regional Government emerges out of the chaos of post-Saddam Iraq as a rare positive, providing both political stability and economic growth. However, the outward display masks a more complex domestic settlement where the trappings of the free market coexist with political parties who are significant economic actors. How can this model of development in Iraqi Kurdistan be explained? Turning to the writings of political economist Karl Polanyi, does his thinking on relations between society and economy offer a way to unpack the development? And what does this analysis tell us of prospects for Iraqi Kurdistan?     

The sexual in Chinese sociology: homosexuality studies in contemporary China

Through a meta‐literature review, this paper examines the changing contours of Chinese sociology of homosexuality in contemporary China. It unfolds the different theoretical orientations and methodologies that construct the modern male homosexual subject under major socio‐economic and political changes. Chinese sociology of homosexuality started in the reform era and has been dominated by Western knowledge production and the political ideology of the communist party‐state. Fused with the bio‐medical model and the state's modernization project in the 1980s–1990s, the sociological study adopted a functionalist and positivistic approach with survey‐based methodology in the main which focused on the etiology of homosexuality. A new transnational knowledge production of sociology of homosexuality has formed since the 2000s which has shifted towards a constructivist/ post‐structuralist approach and reflexive qualitative methodology. The new sociological study examines the rise of male (as well as female) homosexual identity in China, questions the hetero/homosexual binary and discusses how an individual makes sense of homosexual identity to form same‐sex intimate relationships. By tracing the epistemology of homosexuality in contemporary China, this paper rethinks the dominance of the Western construction and the role of the state in shaping the knowledge of homosexuality and proposes alternative spaces for theorizing Chinese sexual identities, desires and practices.     

100 key research questions for the post‐2015 development agenda

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) herald a new phase for international development. This article presents the results of a consultative exercise to collaboratively identify 100 research questions of critical importance for the post‐2015 international development agenda. The final shortlist is grouped into nine thematic areas and was selected by 21 representatives of international and non‐governmental organisations and consultancies, and 14 academics with diverse disciplinary expertise from an initial pool of 704 questions submitted by 110 organisations based in 34 countries. The shortlist includes questions addressing long‐standing problems, new challenges and broader issues related to development policies, practices and institutions. Collectively, these questions are relevant for future development‐related research priorities of governmental and non‐governmental organisations worldwide and could act as focal points for transdisciplinary research collaborations.     

荷兰集成农业对我国现代农业发展的启示

我国在发展现代农业、推进社会主义新农村建设的过程中,将会长期受到现代农业生产技术特别是有机农业生产技术推行成本高、风险大的制约.荷兰通过把复杂的现代农业生产管理技术集成到农业装备中,然后把集成技术装备植入现代农业生产的各环节,很好地解决了先进农业技术推行成本高、风险大的问题.长期以来,荷兰用这种集成技术装备的办法发展园艺业、奶牛业等复杂农业,取得了世界农业强国的地位,这是很值得我国发展现代农业借鉴的.     

分权与旅游治理:基于欠发达地区的实证分析

许多发展中国家实行高度的中央集权,学界对国家政治体制的集权化及其作用已经进行许多有益的探讨,但是对分权的利弊及存在问题却没有深入涉及。本文首先回顾区域治理中的分权理论,提出了一个权力配置、分权控制及其政治规范性的区域治理分析框架,用于描述国家权力在旅游治理中的运行机制,以北部湾旅游发展的实践为例,通过考察中央政府和地方政府、地方企业以及非政府组织在权力治理网络中成长态势,评估广西地方政府在区域旅游治理中的效力,研究发现地方政府在参与决策制定方面仍面临种种困难。     

人力资本投资与地区经济协调发展

人力资本投资在地区经济协调发展中的作用在于:影响经济增长速度,进而影响地区差距;影响地区竞争优势,进而影响地区分工格局;影响落后地区贫困人口的脱贫及经济增长方式,从而影响社会的稳定和谐和可持续发展的实现。从人力资本投入总量及条件等方面看,东中西部人力资本投资情况存在较大差异,它影响了地区经济的协调发展。必须注重全局,制订人力资本投资规划;在强化区域投资中向人力资本投资倾斜;整合落后地区教育资源,加大中西部地区基础教育的投入,开放教育市场,引进外部资金,增强中西部地区人力资本积累能力;增加农村公共卫生特别是中西部农村的公共卫生投入,全面提升落后地区人力资本质量,促进地区经济协调发展。     

英语写作策略分类探讨

英语写作策略分类研究是一个基础研究课题,对英语写作研究及写作教学实践具有实际价值和现实意义。本文分析了目前研究中的英语写作策略分类存在的问题,并回顾了英语写作及策略的相关理论,提出了英语写作及写作策略的学习和产出性质,最后文章提出了一个便于取舍同时也便于实证研究展开与操作的英语写作策略分类框架。     

大数据驱动下的影视文本创作 和生产模式变革

大数据正以其对规律和趋势的分析预测功能,对人们生活和影视内容生产产生日益深刻的影响。数据化思维是贯穿当下影视生产创作的重要思维形态,延承的正是传统数据化思维的基本认知过程。大数据驱动下的互动参与生产模式主要体现在,借助于受众行为数据分析,可以对导演、故事、表演、影像、剪辑和声音等影视元素进行选择,并在此基础上进行生产或再生产。这些将推动影视内容生产在技术和观念上不断变革。     

网络空间的重组与分化：以微信朋友圈为例

在网络化时代引发的诸多变迁中,社会空间的生产变革具有独特的意义。区别于工业社会的社会空间,网络空间呈现出独有的空间特征：缺场空间的“脱域”特质,蕴含网络权力逻辑的流动性,兼为民主政治领域和私人交往领域的赛博空间。微信朋友圈从空间的视角维系和重塑了网络社会的社会关系,并在其发展中不断生产着社会性的空间,塑造了个体化趋势和圈子文化并存、公共空间和私人空间属性兼备、虚拟空间和现实空间融合与再生产的社会空间。微信朋友圈以中国化的方式生产出本土性的互联网公共空间,彰显了网民的能动性,创造了别样的空间生产逻辑和公共价值。