Toward a genealogy of the liberal government of youth

While discourses that define and demarcate young people such that they become legitimate targets of negative practices of marginalisation and exclusion have not disappeared, these are no longer the dominant discourses and modes of governing youth. Constructions of youth as self-determining subjects and empowerment polices of youth participation increasingly animate contemporary approaches to governing young people throughout the West and beyond. Until recently, the dominant critique of such developments consisted of accusations of failed attempts to realise certain principles in practice or of their ideological functions. There is however an emerging critical youth studies literature that analyses such developments drawing on the work of Beck and Foucault’s notion of ‘governmentality’. In this paper, I argue that while these studies challenge some of the assumptions upon which such developments rest, they are yet to challenge the extent to which these contemporary ways of constructing and governing youth are new. Using Foucault’s genealogical method my research traces an unacknowledged nineteenth century history of these common ways of constituting and governing youth today. To conclude I consider the strategic usefulness and ramifications of these findings for critical youth studies and policies of youth participation.     

何种“道”？谁之“统”？——儒家道统说的建构与变迁

道统，就是按照某种认定的“道”为原则而甄选出一系列具有代表性的历史人物，并依某种顺序编排成一个谱系。道统说并非古已有之，唐宋以后则颇为兴盛。但究竟何为道统之“道”，则各家的界定均有不同，或偏于外在的规则，或偏于内在的本心，或诉诸社会的道德实践，或究心于空灵玄妙的内圣工夫。由此建构起来的“统”，也不尽相同，有此家认定的人物，他家予以否认者，反之亦然。倡导儒家的道统说，有必要辨明所要弘扬者是何种道，所要传承者是谁之统。     

河南《邓州台湾土番垦屯陈氏家乘》考辨

在河南邓州“台湾村”发现的《邓州台湾土番垦屯陈氏家乘》,记载了清初海峡两岸一段鲜为人知的故事。本文通过对该家乘所记史实等内容的考证,证明其并非清同治年间所修,应属现代作品。但是,本文并不否认降清的郑成功所部中有个别祖籍台湾的“土番”兵勇。因此,本文对这一家乘考证的意义不仅在于辨其真伪,而且还在于由此展开了清季海峡两岸人员互动关系的一个新视野。     

在显性与隐性之间的教师知识——论教师的“缄口知识”

波兰尼提出了缄默知识,为人类对知识的认识提供了新的视角,引起了人们的广泛关注和相关的深入研究。本文从谱系学的角度,在这种分类方法的基础上提出"缄口知识",并对教师"缄口知识"与缄默知识、教育潜规则、教育习俗进行比较,从认识论、微观政治学和价值论的视角,分析了教师"缄口知识"存在的合理性,并提出研究教师"缄口知识"有利于认识教师个体知识、解释微观教育现象和推进教育改革发展。     

徽州文书与清水江文书保护模式比较研究

随着清水江文书的收集、整理和出版,越来越多的文书受到各级政府部门、学术界的重视。如何有效保护、高效利用文书成为一大问题。同时,传统的文书征集方法遭遇到了越来越多的困难和问题,因此,探索建立有别于其他文书保护模式的清水江模式具有重要的现实意义。     

Recalling the ‘Islam of the parents’ liberal and secular Muslims redefining the contours of religious authenticity

Scholarship on Islam in Europe has largely invested in examining the generational dynamics in the lived religious experiences of Muslims. Within this perspective, the idea of a generation gap, which revolves around a distinction between ‘tradition’ and ‘religion’, has figured as an important account in assessing some of these religious transformations. Drawing on fieldwork with Belgian Muslims of Moroccan origin, this paper seeks to nuance this perspective by exploring accounts wherein this ‘traditional’ Islam of the parents is actively reclaimed. This was especially the case for respondents who were quite critical of Islamic revivalist trends. In many of these stories, the parents’ Islam was understood as tolerant and open, in a way that was consonant with ‘tradition’. By focusing on these narratives, a first aim of the paper is to understand how genealogy and ancestry figure as distinct criteria in determining the ‘real Islam’. A second aim is to complicate the understanding of the liberal and modern self, and its relationship to the past.     

What does wellbeing do? An approach to defamiliarize keywords in youth studies

Wellbeing has become a keyword in youth and social policy, a construct deployed as a measure of a good life. Often associated with physical and mental health, wellbeing encompasses numerous indicators, from subjective experiences of happiness and satisfaction to markers of economic prosperity and basic human needs of security. This article examines wellbeing as an organizing concept in discourses on young people and argues for defamiliarizing its truth claims and cultural authority by investigating what wellbeing does. We begin by examining the rise of wellbeing, drawing attention to its conceptual muddiness and ambiguity. Framed by the Foucauldian notion of problematization, the analysis proceeds along two routes: first, through an historical consideration of wellbeing as a relational concept with antecedents, focusing on ‘self-esteem’; and second, through a reading of wellbeing in contemporary educational policy. Informed by Somers' historical sociology of concept formation and Bacchi's critical policy analysis, we illuminate the mixed dimensions of wellbeing's reach, placing it within longer traditions of youth studies and psy-knowledges and showing its transformative promise as well as its individualizing effects. In doing so, we elaborate a methodological approach that can be adapted to examine other keywords in youth studies and social policy discourse.     

古民居保护中的资金拓展与民众参与——对徽州古民居“百村千幢"保护工程的反思

生活方式的变迁与城市化的快速发展对古民居构成了巨大的生存压力，如何为后人守住“历史”?如何解决古民居保护中“资金”与“民众参与”问题成为破解“瓶颈”的关键。文章以徽州古民居保护的实施过程为例，通过对保护中存在的问题、居民与古民居保护的互动关系进行分析，认为古民居保护强化制度创新与民众参与，并进行融资渠道的拓展，强调将古民居与其管理者、所有者、参与者纳入共同保护的平台中。探求一些切实可行的方法，积极保护正在消亡的徽州古民居。     

徽州俗字成因探微

徽州俗字来自于徽州古文书,其产生和发展具有复杂的文化因素。对徽州俗字进行研究对徽学、文字学都有重要的意义。徽州俗字的产生,既有一般社会历史因素,也有缘于行业用途等因素而形成的特有的书写变异。     

基于新文化地理学的徽州地域文化经济初步解读

在后现代语境下通过对徽州人地关系解读产生了一种"影视"重构,这便是我们认识徽州文化的第二条途径。基于新文化地理学的徽州地域文化经济初步解读,我们该如何反思徽学研究?伴随着徽州的行政区划变迁,徽商兴起是以独特的徽州自然与人文地理作为基础。徽商生存机制主要表现在:经商是徽人在客观环境中的生存选择;以商养士,以士促商;产生大量的徽商买办与传统士绅;以居家型徽州女子作"牺牲"等。徽商的影视再现是徽州文化的现代重构。对徽学研究进行反思:第一,徽学研究离不开徽州文书的深度搜集和整理;第二,择取重点,以小见大,从整体上把握中国封建社会发展的脉络和规律;第三,提倡多学科性的综合研究。