Motherhood,Myth and Gendered Agency in Political Violence

By building on theoretical insights from poststructuralist feminism and Roland Barthes' mythology framework, this article is offering a nuanced understanding of female agency in political violence by engaging with the visual and the cultural, by using a broader definition of agency in political violence and by analysing what gendered representations of war mean at the domestic level. In the first part of the article, the Myth of Motherhood is conceptualized as a meta-discourse disciplining representations of female agency in political violence. The article then focuses on two specific discourses within the meta-discourse, the Vacant Womb and the Deviant Womb, that inform understandings of gender, agency and political violence in one particular cultural artefact: the British television drama, Britz. The main argument is that motherhood is ‘everywhere’ in representations of female agency in political violence and that it is useful to think about motherhood as a myth. Only this way can we confront underlying norms, values and ideas believed to be common sense and think differently about gender, agency and political violence.     

新民主主义时期农地制度变革论

新民主主义时期"没收地主土地归农民私有"的土地改革,彻底铲除了阻碍农村生产力发展的基本障碍,史无前例地解决了发展农村生产力的动力问题,因而是解放农村生产力的伟大革命.     

“去魅”：幼儿园教研认识的误区及其澄清

幼儿园教研是课程实施与改革的前提,是促进幼儿教师专业发展的重要抓手。当前,幼儿园教师对教研工作存在三个误区：重形式、轻内容;重结果、轻过程;重理论、轻实践。其根源在于幼儿园教师对于“教研”概念的误解,把“研究”二字披上了神秘化的外衣。我们应该及时“去魅”,理性地认识到“教研”与“科研”在研究起点、研究目标与意义、研究思路与方法、研究成果等方面的不同,使教育理论研究者与幼儿园教师认识到幼儿园教研的“中层理论”属性,从而积极开展合作,共同推进学前教育事业发展。     

高考背后现有权力监督体制的有效性分析——由“冒名上大学”一案权力集体沦陷而引发的思考

近期被媒体曝光的"王佳俊冒名顶替上大学"一案受到社会各界人士的关注.深藏"冒名"背后的权力腐败现象亦成为众矢之的.然而,王佳俊的冒名顶替事件只不过是近几年频发的教育系统权力腐败案件的凤毛麟角,真正值得思考的是作为制约权力腐败的法律监督制度为何被一再虚置化?难道在"权"与"钱"的面前,所有的制度设计都将不堪一击还是另有隐情?我国高考背后法律监督制度的缺陷何在?其一再被虚置化的原因究竟为何?以往的"以权力制约权力"的思路是否还具有反思的余地?是否还存在一个更为有效的权力制约机制?     

Effect of Sexual Arousal on Cortical Coupling During Performance of the Tower of Hanoi Task in Young Men

Sexual arousal affects cognitive processing, which depends on the coordinated functioning among cortical areas. The aim of this research was to determine whether previous observation of videos with sexual content affects the degree of cortical electroencephalographic (EEG) coupling during performance of an executive task. Cortical EEG correlations were calculated in three groups of heterosexual men under three conditions: at rest; during observation of a video with neutral, aggressive, or erotic content; and while performing the Tower of Hanoi task (TOH). Based on self-reports, it was shown that the erotic video induced general and sexual arousal, while the aggressive video affected valence and general arousal. Task performance was similar in all three groups. During performance of TOH, only the erotic group showed a decreased correlation between prefrontal areas with an increased correlation between parietal and prefrontotemporal areas, specifically in the slow bands. It is likely that these changes in the degree of cortical coupling could be associated with the cognitive strategies or functional adaptations that participants require to adequately solve the task during a state of sexual arousal. These data could contribute to improving our understanding of the central nervous mechanisms that underlie the effect of sexual arousal on the cognitive processes involved in tasks like TOH.     

Caring or Vulnerable Children? Sibling Relationships When Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence

Drawing on qualitative interviews with the children about how they and their siblings have responded to intimate partner violence, this paper explores processes of victim positioning. In their narratives, some children positioned themselves in line with notions of vulnerable victims, while others positioned themselves as caregivers or changed their positions vis‐à‐vis their siblings. In their stories, they assigned and assumed positions in interaction with their siblings. Receiving sibling support and care was in the narratives related to the quality of the sibling relationship, the shared experiences of violence and the age order.     

Organizing local social service measures to counteract long-term social assistance receipt. What works? Experiences from Sweden

Active labour market policies and programs (ALMPs) have over the last decades been established as main instruments to promote the transition from welfare to work. In this article we study strategies employed by Swedish municipalities to help recipients ending spells of social assistance take-up. By using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data we try to identify which approaches stand out as more successful than others with respect to social assistance duration. We have formed pairs of municipalities similar in important respects, but with different social assistance exit rates as predicted by a statistical model. Then we conducted case studies in the selected municipalities’ social assistance units, gathering information on how work is carried out and organized. Information was collected by semi-structured interviews with department managers and front-line social workers. In the interviews we identified various elements of practice that emerged as relevant, suggesting that shorter spells follow from activation with a focus on human resource development, programmes targeted at young adults, well-functioning collaboration, and use of sanctions or an overall approach characterized by systemized efforts.     

Remittances and inequality in Cape Verde: the impact of changing family organization

There is a risk that remittances exacerbate socio‐economic inequality among the recipients. In this case study of a Cape Verdean community I explore how variations in family organization interact with the distribution of remittances and their effects on local social stratification. Formerly, the typical migrant was male and directed the main part of his remittances to a nuclear household he had left behind. Households that included a male migrant were able to raise their standard of living over that of households without a migrant member. Today, relationships between women and men have become increasingly unstable and long‐lasting transnational family ties are now rarely based on a conjugal relationship. Both women and men migrate and they often start up a new family abroad. Consequently, when migrants send remittances to Cape Verde they do not invest in their own future lives as they did in the past. Instead, they try to support ageing parents and young children left behind. This means that migrants often have economic obligations to several households and that they are therefore only able to send limited amounts of money to each. This implies, first, that many households are recipients of remittances and, second, that they normally only receive small sums. In conclusion, it may be said that these changes in family organization have reduced the risk that remittances will exacerbate inequality.     

社会体育的发展和高校体育教学的改革

社会体育的兴起 ,促使高校体育的教学目的与任务有了新的改变和发展 ,高校体育教学 ,要改革 ,要适应社会需要 ,要使体育教学成为学生健身的动力 ,这也是提高全民族身体素质的需要