Delinking rhetorics of neoliberalism: An analysis of South American leftist presidents’ speeches

We analyze the so-called Socialism of the twenty-first century in which nine South American governments turned to the left over the last 15 years. This South American socialist turn is seen as a delinking from the logics of dependency and pure neoliberalism. To explore the rhetorics that underlie this delinking process, we conducted both a macroanalysis and an intradiscursive rhetorical analysis of the inauguration and most significant speeches of all of the leftist South American presidents elected after 1999. We claim that a common critique of neoliberalism underlies the South American presidents’ speeches, which manifests through specific rhetorics concerning participatory democracy, social inclusion, and environmental protection. When they became transnational, these delinking rhetorics crafted a decolonial critique that calls for more indigenous models of development.     

A Hole in One: Sport and Environment

Abstract

Sport history is a subfield well positioned to involve and benefit from an interdisciplinary approach to historical actors and spaces. Through the use of personal research and teaching experiences that focuses on the intersection between environmental history and those of sport, this piece explores the value in such an interdisciplinary structure through the examples of researching golf courses as transnational sporting landscapes and of teaching sport and leisure cultures to a diverse student body with high levels of engagement.     

关于体育高职院校开展校企合作的思考

"产、学、研"结合是高等职业教育发展的必由之路,而校企合作是实现"产、学、研"结合的重要途径。阐述了体育职业院校的办学特征和校企合作的类型,分析了当前体育职业院校校企合作中存在的若干问题,并提出体育职业院校加强和开展校企合作的对策与建议。     

构建一体化实践教学模式培养创新型人才——校企合作培养农科职教师资的理论与实践

构建“学科-专业-基地-公司-农户”一体化实践教学模式,是培养创新型农科职教师资的重要途径。河南科技学院对校企合作方式进行了长期探索,针对不同专业特点,创立了参与型校企合作、服务型校企合作、项目合作型校企合作、委托型校企合作等四种合作模式,并通过加强管理制度建设,取得了良好的实施效果。     

Constructing a theory of individual space: understanding transnational migration through the experience of return Chinese immigrants from Canada in Beijing

Drawing on life history research, this study critically examines the transnational experiences of return Chinese immigrants from Canada in Beijing. Through the accounts of their experiences, it explores different integration and reintegration strategies, including self-adjustment, lifelong learning and flexible citizenship. A native concept of ‘space’ is examined and a theory of individual space (IS) is constructed. The study demonstrates that immigrants' integration is a process of constant construction and reconstruction of their expected IS in various societies. This space defines the self and its relationship to others and the outside world. By spatial transformation, migrants break spatial limitations to seek a better future. The tension between IS and the society the migrant enters determines the ongoing characteristics of contemporary transnational migration.     

Analysing Creative Design Process: A Set of Tools to Understand Activity in its Socio-cultural and Historic Context

Previous theoretical frameworks used to research and explain creative design processes tend to privilege individual expression and not address the context in which the process occurs. This is problematic due to the ways in which creative activities are embedded in and shaped by socio-cultural and historic contexts. In this article we focus on the ways in which cultural historic activity theory (CHAT) and its analytical activity systems can be used to reveal creative processes in context. We draw on the tools and concepts of CHAT and data from a study of visual communication design (VCD) students and lecturers situated within a transnational higher education (TNHE) context at a university in China. An analytical framework was constructed to research practices used in creative design process learning. The dynamic nature of CHAT offers design process research methods a set of analytical tools to capture the powerful parts played by artifacts and interactions within specific sociocultural and historic learning contexts.     

跨国技术并购中吸收能力与技术绩效关系研究——基于演化博弈论

中国企业的跨国技术并购能否提升技术绩效尚无定论,文章旨在提出并验证并购后企业技术绩效提升的关键在于吸收能力。首先建立了国内并购企业和国外目标企业隐性知识共享的演化博弈模型,其动态进化稳定策略是"贡献-贡献"和"不贡献-不贡献"。知识流动动力机制分析表明,吸收能力对该演化博弈的均衡有关键影响,基于此提出如下假说:企业吸收能力是知识整合、技术提升的关键,企业吸收能力越强,并购后的技术绩效越好。然后以2004-2009年国内A股上市公司跨国技术并购的事件为样本建立了泊松回归模型,实证结果证实了如上假说。这一结果刻画了并购后的知识共享机制,证明了吸收能力是中国企业通过跨国技术并购提升技术绩效的关键。     

运动员跨国流动的国家边界问题：在荣誉外包与民族情绪之间

以欧洲足球五大联赛外籍球员的全球招募为标志的人力资源外包服务,不仅推动了当地体育赛事经济的发展,同时在人的主体性层面上具有更多的文化表征涵义。运动员跨国流动中荣誉外包行为引发了广泛的社会争议,民族情绪从中扮演了重要的角色。荣誉外包与民族情绪问题的化解取决于国家边界意识能动性所能发挥的作用,或者更具体地说是一个国家、一个民族、一个机构、一个群体、一个人如何理解这样一种全球变革的背景和趋势。     

跨国破产法的统一化趋势研究

在经济全球化的今天，国际贸易和国际投资的迅速发展促进了资金的跨国流动，跨国破产案件随之产生并日益增多。在这种背景之下，严格的破产地域主义正逐渐失去其存在的环境，跨国破产领域内的统一化趋势日渐明显，且已在一些国际组织和国家的法律文件中得以体现。我国破产法长期以来忽视了跨国破产问题，在新的形势下，应当深入研究当前跨国破产的统一化趋势，并在此基础上结合我国的实际情况进一步促进我国跨国破产法律的完善与改进。     

On Media Concentration and the Diversity Question

Corporate mergers and the consolidation of ownership in the American communications arena have long been sources of concern. U.S. regulatory and antitrust policy traditionally attempted to secure a “diversity of voices” structurally, largely through rules regarding ownership. Although the meaning of diversity was always problematic and undertheorized, the Federal Communications Commission long set ceilings on the numbers of broadcast outlets any single person or corporation could own and enacted cross-ownership rules such as a prohibition against a corporation owning a newspaper and broadcast outlets in the same market. These rules, and the FCC's authority to make them, were upheld, occasionally even compelled, by the federal appellate courts. In the last 20 years, however, legal trends, in conjunction with political developments, have undermined the diversity rationales behind ownership rules and associated structural regulations of mass media. Paradoxically, even as media corporations are becoming larger and presumably more powerful, ownership regulations are being rescinded or struck down. This article explains this history. It concludes with a suggestion that the First Amendment metaphor of a marketplace of ideas is misplaced, and of how our thinking about media ownership and diversity might be better served by the metaphor of a mixed media system.