The rhetorical force of “global archival memory”: (Re)Situating archives along the global memoryscape

ABSTRACT

This essay engages the possibilities and pitfalls of UNESCO’s Memory of the World program for fostering “global archival memory.” Archives function as rhetorical weapons for both political control and social justice within national and regional contexts. The constitution of global archival memory shifts archives’ borders beyond nation-bound contexts, creating space for contention, deliberation, and debate within a presentist transnational arena. Approaching archives as symbols capable of marshaling cross-cultural identifications furthers memory scholars’ conceptions of transnational memories and communities. It responds to rhetorical scholars’ calls to further engage archives, while drawing on archival studies, memory studies, and rhetorical theories of memory.     

When postcolonial studies meets media studies

This essay addresses (1) how postcolonial studies might inform and enrich media studies, especially as the latter is situated in the Communication discipline, and (2) how media studies may productively expand the terrain postcolonial studies, that thus far has been dominated by the fields of Literature and Comparative Literature. Focusing on, and challenging, issues such as the North Atlantic temporal logics that inform the received history of media studies, as well as contesting the narrow boundaries of literary studies for engaging in contemporary postcolonial media/ted cultures, this essay attempts to argue for the importance of postcolonial media studies.     

South African contributions to LGBTI education issues

ABSTRACT

South Africa stands out in the African region for its protection of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights. This article examines South Africa’s contributions to local policy for LGBTIs and to work on LGBTI issues in education policy and education rights progress internationally. It also considers broader South African contributions to the theorisation of gender and sexuality. Data derive from an analysis of 102 interviews with key informants participating in high-level global networking for LGBTI students’ rights, and documentary analysis showing how stakeholders characterise South African contributions to transnational LGBTI education work. Informants identified how such contributions have a strong human rights emphasis, furthering post-colonial resistance to simplistic gender and sexuality classification schema imposed via imperial colonising dynamics. While South African work in this area has also promoted and facilitated research, it has at times been limited by ambivalence from its leadership. The nation’s early adoption of constitutional rights, relationship rights and educational equity provisions as acts of decolonisation contribute valuable African LGBTI work examples to the region. Their success encourages further funding for South-South transnational LGBTI education work.     

跨国公司全球技术利用竞争力绩效测评指标研究

在科技全球化的背景下,跨国公司是全球技术竞争的主角与驱动力量,其全球技术开发竞争是为了形成全球技术垄断,跨国公司全球技术垄断性利用是为了获得实现长期的控制市场从而达到技术垄断利润的最大化。本文主要从9个方面研究了跨国公司全球技术利用竞争力绩效评价指标,认为中国企业应该在"引进来"与"走出去"战略指导下,积极运用全球技术利用竞争战略,通过"干中学"提高中国企业全球技术利用竞争力。     

技术创新对跨国公司经营活动的影响

全球经济一体化的迅速发展,技术创新能力的不断提高,使各跨国公司技术战略和经营活动亦随之调整.可以说,技术创新正在影响一个跨国企业的经营理念,并在经营活动中成为一种新的策略.     

数学公开课的误区

新课程改革正在如火如荼的进行,在教学实践中我们看到了许多可喜的变化,各地纷纷以公开课的形式汇报、交流自己的成果.但不难发现,不少公开课在教学设计、实施过程中常常进入目标定位空洞;情境引入华而不实;一味迁就学生;合作交流,过度注重形式;与多媒体整合,舍本逐末等误区.这些误区应引起我们教育工作者的高度重视.     

中国零售业跨国经营战略探析

WTO过渡期后，中国零售市场全面开放，外资进入速度加快，给本土零售企业带来了前所未有的压力，跨国经营对中国零售业就显得非常必要；从所有权优势、区位优势和内部化优势分析，中国零售业已具备从事跨国经营的条件；中国零售企业要取得跨国经营的成功，需要借鉴国外成功经验，结合本国实际，制定并选择有利的经营战略．     

基于多主体仿真的跨国公司内部网络知识转移影响因素研究

跨国公司内部知识转移对于其提升国际竞争优势具有十分重要的意义。从跨国公司内部网络结构和网络节点特性2个角度入手,分析跨国公司内部网络规模、网络密度、网络节点的转移动机和吸收能力这4个因素对知识转移的影响,构建跨国公司内部网络知识转移影响因素理论模型和基于多主体的仿真模型;借助Net Logo平台进行仿真实验,并用多元方差分析方法分析仿真实验结果,验证上述4个因素对跨国公司内部网络知识转移影响的主效应和交互效应,得出结论并提针对正在实施对外直接投资和跨国经营的中国跨国公司提出一些建议。     

跨国公司内部网络结点之间知识转移的影响因素分析——一个概念模型

根据企业的知识基础理论和网络组织理论,跨国公司可以被看作在全球范围内积累和运营知识的内外部网络的统一体。有效地在跨国公司内部网络结点之间进行知识的共享和转移,是跨国公司在更大范围内扩展其竞争优势的必要前提之一。跨国公司各内部网络结点所积累的国别性专有知识产生于其所在国特定的社会政治、经济和文化背景之下,因此,跨边界知识转移的有效性必然受到一系列与此相关因素的影响,本文分析了这些因素的影响,并给出一个概念模型。     

东道国政府对跨国公司垂直约束行为的政策选择

跨国公司垂直约束是指跨国公司在安排垂直生产和分销链条时,与不同国家处于生产或分销链条不同层次的独立经营公司达成的协议或协商好的惯例,协议的目的在于安排交易方购买、出售或转售特定商品或劳务所遵循的相关条件.目前,对跨国公司垂直约束行为的讨论主要有3种观点,即无效率论、管制论、垂直一体化优先论.这3种观点要么是错误的,要么是片面的.从跨国公司垂直约束行为对东道国效率方面的影响来看,东道国政府对此应当采取相对中立的态度.