Sowing Seeds of Displacement: Gentrification and Food Justice in Oakland,CA

Green gentrification is the process through which the elimination of hazardous conditions or the development of green spaces is mobilized as a strategy to draw in affluent new residents and capital projects. Based on observations and interviews in Oakland, California, we argue that food justice organizations seeking to promote access to healthy food in low-income communities can unwittingly create spaces that foster this process. Despite a desire to serve long-term residents, activists embody a hip green aesthetic that is palatable to affluent whites and can be appropriated by urban boosters to promote the neighborhood. We use this process as a lens to theorize links between food and green gentrification, highlighting the importance of food to cities’ efforts to brand themselves as ripe for redevelopment, and understand green gentrification as a racialized process tied to cultural foodways. We also attend to the practical stakes for food justice activism, arguing that a clear understanding of green gentrification and food justice activists’ unwitting role in it can help the latter to attempt to mitigate their culpability and seek to develop broad inclusive strategies for locally led development without displacement.     

邓中翰 青年要敢为天下先

从1999年回国算起,今年恰好是中星微集团董事局主席邓中翰回国的第十个年头。在2009年中国工程院新增院士名单中,邓中翰成为新当选的最年轻的中国工程院院士。     

The European Learning Community: Towards A Political Economy of Management Learning

Stephen Fox is a Lecturer and Teaching Director in the Department of Management Learning at the University of Lancaster. He is also the Business Administration subject coordinator for the ERASMUS programme described in the article published here. Writing as an ‘insider’, he uses this particular programme to examine critically the prospects for the emergence of ‘European Management’.     

高校思政课合班上课存在的问题和解决对策

高校思想政治理论课合班上课存在着学生到课率低,内容入脑少,教师教学组织困难,多种教学方法无法开展,教学效果不理想等问题。为此,必须采取必要措施,加强学生管理,提高教师理论水平,加强师生双向交流,同时适当增加实践性教学环节。     

中国城市单位社区治理模式转型路径及其未来趋势——以北京市毛纺南社区为例

随着城市转型深入,中国城市社会治理面临新挑战,作为城市治理起点的社区治理成为研究焦点,不仅需要针对城市化引致的城市人口“增量”建设城市社区,还需要对原有的单位社区“存量”进行转型设计,以推动城市社会的健康发展.然而单位社区治理模式受到单位制残留因素影响而经历了不同的转变路径,遇到了不同的障碍.本文采用质性研究方法,通过对北京毛纺南社区治理模式演变的剖析,展现了单位社区向城市社区转变的过程中治理主体多元化趋势,但社区资源的积累不足导致了单位组织退出曲折化、“治理空缺”出现并伴随社区环境快速恶化等特点.进而提出,在衰退型单位社区转型过程中,外部力量的介入尤为重要,需要通过资源转化、培育社区治理主体,帮助社区实现平稳过渡,构建完善的治理结构.     

Race, Financial Aid Awards and college Attendance

A bstract . The impact of race on college and university admission and award decisions is examined using data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. The effects of race and other factors on the choice of an individual's educational attainment are also studied. Financial aid award equations are estimated. The results indicate that college and university admissions departments have actively worked to encourage the enrollment of African-American students. It appears that the lower average educational attainment of African-Americans is the result of differences in parental income, education , and geographical location.     

Political Bargaining: Bricks, Bluff and Blackmail

The market does not always work well but, argues Rosalind Levačić of the Open University, neither does its alternative – jostling for advantage by interest groups. She draws on a case study to demonstrate that the bluff and blackmail of political bargaining leads to results that should be examined as closely as market failure.     

Argentina: Inflation, Income Distribution and Class Conflict

Mrs Thatcher's slow progress in freeing the economy shows how little she has learned from the failure of attempts abroad. The lesson of Argentina is that she will have to buy support for her policies by creating groups with a direct interest in her success.