‘Public toilets for a diverse neighborhood’: Spatial purification practices in community development discourse

This paper explores the dialectic of place and community identity in Mount Pleasant, a multi–ethnic and multi–class U.S. neighborhood where definitions of place are hotly contested among its residents. In a grant proposal for public toilets, Mount Pleasant writers use linguistic strategies such as presupposition, deixis, and contrast, coupled with discursive themes of filth and geography, to construct a core of the Mount Pleasant community. The writers place themselves and people who share their values in that core, and immigrants at the margins. These strategies serve as a discursive type of spatial purification practice (cf. Sibley 1988) through which the grantwriters set up a moral and spatial order where they and other core community members are deemed to use space ‘appropriately’, and thus inhabit positive moral positions, while immigrant community members’ imputed ‘inappropriate’ use of space is used to construct negative moral positions for them.     

维也纳体系与凡尔赛-华盛顿体系衰败原因共性分析

从1648年第一个国际体系——威斯特伐利亚体系的形成到以苏东巨变为标志的冷战结束后的新的国际关系体系的生成,国际社会历经几个大小,形色各异的国际体系,在这些国际体系的交替演变中,本文仅从维也纳体系与凡尔赛-华盛顿体系衰败的原因进行共性分析,总结出科技的发展、不可逆转的社会历史潮流以及体系内的维护机制的约束性的缺失是造成两大体系演变的重要原因。试图为研究如何使现行的国际体系有效运行的学者提供一个分析的视角。     

文体学盛会:热点·视点·观点

通过分析"2010年文体学国际研讨会暨第七届全国文体学研讨会"的会议论文和代表大会发言,梳理了本次学术盛会的独到特点,即热点突出、视点多样、观点鲜明,集中反映了当前国内外文体学的研究现状与发展趋势。     

一个被忽视、被误解的女性——解读《瑞普·凡·温克尔》中温克尔太太的形象

《瑞普·凡·温克尔》（Rip Van Winkle）是美国著名作家华盛顿.欧文的短篇经典之作。自从该篇小说问世以来,人们的主要焦点几乎都集中在男主人公瑞普.凡.温克尔的身上,而对女主人公的探讨大多局限于贬义的层面上,即＂悍妇＂形象。从心理分析女性主义和集体无意识的视觉再次解读温克尔太太的形象,力争还她勤劳、能干、务实、不畏强权、敢于反抗的真实面。     

论新时期中国共产党的基本执政规律--党的十六大报告的理论贡献

党的十六大报告全面贯彻“三个代表”重要思想 ,对我党的思想路线、政治路线和群众路线作出全面发展与创新论述 ,系统揭示了社会主义建设新时期中国共产党的基本执政规律 :解放思想、实事求是、与时俱进 ,不断开拓马克思主义理论新境界 ;以发展为党执政兴国的第一要务 ,体现党的先进性与社会主义优越性 ;紧密依靠最广大人民群众 ,推动中华民族伟大复兴的历史进程     

新时代人民政协协商民主的新发展

中共十八大以来,以习近平同志为核心的党中央带领人民统揽“四个伟大”,统筹推进“五位一体”总体布局,协调推进“四个全面”战略布局,推动党和国家事业取得历史性成就,发生历史性变革,使中国特色社会主义进入新时代。在这一背景下,人民政协协商民主的思想内涵不断深化,职能定位更加精准,议政格局日益完善,对发展中国社会主义协商民主及推动国家治理体系和治理能力现代化具有重要的战略意义。     

巴黎和会日本“种族平等”提案与日裔美国移民问题探析

巴黎和会上,日本代表团提出将＂种族平等＂作为一重要原则写入国联盟约,试图从根本上解决长期悬而未决的日裔移民遭受排斥的问题。该提议由于触及了美国及英联邦国家的利益而被和会否决。＂种族平等＂的提出,主要是由于日方认为移民问题已严重伤害了日本的民族情感,并对其业已取得的大国地位产生了不利的影响。而日本在种族方面的努力,却在客观上加剧了美国社会对日裔群体的排斥,在一定程度上造成了二战期间日裔移民遭受集体监禁的悲剧。     

论长征途中会理会议的历史作用

党中央在会理会议上排除了怀疑中央正确领导、反对机动作战的错误思想的干扰,坚持了遵义会议精神,确定了红军北上建立革命根据地的战略方针,巩固了遵义会议之后确立的毛泽东的领导地位,坚持了党对军队的绝对领导,具有重要的历史意义。会理会议也给张闻天和彭德怀带来一定影响。     

Jewish power and powerlessness: Prague Zionists and the Paris Peace Conference

This article explores how perceptions of Jewish power shaped the negotiations between Czechoslovak leaders and Jewish minority representatives at the time of the Paris Peace Conference. In the aftermath of the First World War, Prague-based Zionists embarked on a mission to convince Czechoslovak elites that attacks on Jews were detrimental to the internal stability of the new state and to Czechoslovak interests abroad. As Edvard Bene?, the head of the Czechoslovak delegation in Paris, worked to cultivate an image of the new state as more “Western” and “civilised” than other successor states – a strategy meant to garner international support for Czechoslovak territorial demands and its projected absorption of large minority populations – Jewish activists encouraged his uncertainty with regard to Jews' influence on Western audiences and statesmen. They did so in order to convince him to accept their demands for special protection clauses for the new country's Jews. The paper thus shows that the unprecedented victimisation of Jews and the upsurge in antisemitism during and after the war coexisted with a new bold and public Jewish activism. Yet, Jewish leaders did not in the end have the ability to convince Bene? and his colleagues to give in to international Jewish demands for special protection. Instead, they sought to cultivate a strategic alliance between the state's Czech elite and the Jewish minority which centred on the claim that Czechoslovakia was a particularly welcoming and tolerant place for Jews, an image that would evolve into a significant component of the myth of Czechoslovakia as an island of democracy in Eastern Europe.