Mobilising diasporas for justice. Opportunity structures and the presencing of a violent past

ABSTRACT

This article investigates how the global dominance of the transitional justice (TJ) discourse and practice – and the controversies and conflicts that arise around TJ – have come to make up an important context for diaspora mobilisation. The article looks at the increasingly globalised mechanisms and norms of transitional justice as a set of opportunity structures – political, legal and discursive – which shape diaspora mobilisation. Diaspora engagement in commemoration, truth-seeking and legal justice in relation to atrocities in Rwanda and Sri Lanka is studied. The article shows that in relation to Rwanda, state dominance and divides are largely replicated in the diasporic space, while the Sri Lankan case provides examples of how Tamil diaspora engagement have been able to reverse power dynamics around TJ. Combining opportunity structures with the concept of ‘past presencing’, the article shows how diaspora groups appropriate and strategise in relation to the dominant norms and practices of TJ, and how in doing so the past is performed and experienced in ways which are both personally and politically meaningful.     

Health Risk,Inequality Indexes,and Environmental Justice

Inequality indexes have long been used to analyze distributions of income. Studies have recently begun to use these tools to evaluate the equity of distributions of environmental harm. In response, issues have been raised regarding the appropriateness of using income-based measures in the context of undesirable outcomes. We begin from first principles, identifying a theoretical preference structure under which income-based tools can be appropriate for ranking distributions of “bads.” While some critiques of existing applications are valid, they are not a justification for rejecting the approach altogether. Instead, we show how standard income-based measures can be adjusted to accommodate bad outcomes. Rather than inequality indexes, we argue that equally distributed equivalents (EDEs) are well-suited for this purpose since they account for levels and dispersion of outcome distributions. The Kolm–Pollak EDE is particularly useful, having the advantage of consistently evaluating both bads and their complementary goods (e.g., mortality risk and survival probability). As an illustration, we show how these tools can inform an environmental justice analysis of a proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule addressing indoor air pollution.     

交互认识论：群众路线的新思路

群众路线的认识论是交互认识论,强调了“干-群”双主体之间的对等性、互动性和主体性原则,因而彰显了群众的主体性地位,摒弃了主客体对立的认识论思路,是历史唯物主义在认识论与本体论、辩证法上相一致的表达。通过交互认识,领导与群众形成共同知识与共同信念,在一个不断信息更新、信念修正、信息域和知识域增大的动态过程中,实现领导与群众的利益与责任的一致、手段与目标的一致。     

遗失物招领付费之研究

随着商品经济的发展,人们的道德素养并未上升到“圣人”的高度,拾而不还的行为在现实中逐渐成为一种较为普遍的现象。经中外对比研究,发现给予拾物人报酬请求权是解决该问题的一条有效途径,而“拾金不昧”的道德缺失也为遗失物招领付费制度提供了土壤。遗失物招领付费的做法在法理和实践中均有可行性,但在报酬比例的认定及该权利的排除适用上须谨慎对待。     

扶贫政策的负外部性及其化解

在脱贫攻坚中,对重点贫困地区的精确瞄准与偏向投入,在一定程度上对非贫困县、非贫困村与非贫困户产生了必然的政策负外部性,表现为县域脱贫结构失衡、村庄帮扶悬崖效应与边缘人群争贫风险。究其原由,在公共政策过程中,竞争性的政策汲取、排他性的政策分配与分割性的政策评价是负外部性的三种发生机理。为此需要建立上下融合减贫机制,探索社区主导发展模式,拓展村民赋权参与空间,通过政策纠正、调适以消解和弥补政策负效应,强化政治决策与分配的正义性。     

试析刘安冤案

陈广忠认为,史书所载刘安"谋反"案为冤案,刘安的自杀有其多方面、多层次的原因.     

刑事和解制度研究

我国发达地区法院系统率先试行刑事和解制度,引发了对该制度公平性和合理性的广泛争议。刑事和解是20世纪70年代西方出现的一种刑事思潮,体现了刑事诉讼价值的多元化趋势,并且在很多国家已经成功的制度化,成为刑事诉讼程序外一种重要的纠纷解决机制。结合我国当前司法现状和基本国情,在一些现有的法律制度中融入刑事和解制度基本的"和解"和"恢复正义"的精神,有利于弥补我国刑事法律制度体系的不足,促进司法和谐。     

The Pinochet case: cosmopolitanism and intermestic human rights

This article explores the Pinochet case, widely heralded as a landmark, as a case of 'intermestic' human rights that raises difficult normative and empirical questions concerning cosmopolitan justice. The article is a contribution to the sociology of human rights from the perspective of methodological cosmopolitanism, developing conceptual tools and methods to study how cosmopolitanizing state institutions and cultural norms are inter-related. The argument is made that in order to understand issues of cosmopolitan justice, sociologists must give more consideration to political culture.     

政治正义的哲学传统与马克思的正义观

由苏格拉底开启的古典政治哲学,以探究德性(arete)为主题,思考正义的社会秩序问题,然而,在马基雅维里那里,政治哲学蜕变为政治术,霍布斯更是强化了政治的科学性,置权力于优先地位,把权力作为政治哲学的核心,由此形成了政治哲学的两大传统.这两种政治哲学传统又都是建立在抽象人性论的基础之上的.马克思从人类解放的视角去思考和构建现实的伦理生活,从而实现了对传统政治正义的超越.     

柏拉图正义与智慧视域下的政治与哲学关系

正义与智慧的关系问题是柏拉图政治哲学中一个非常重要的主题。文章试图从正义与智慧的关系这个视角探查柏拉图政治与哲学的张力与和解。主要从三个方面进行论述：政治与哲学张力产生的源由，正义与智慧概念及其复杂关系，以及如何用智慧解决正义问题及其所产生的难题。最后再试图阐明正义与智慧，哲学与政治在柏拉图那里如何达到了和解。