Monstrosities and moral publics

Interdisciplinary scholarship on neoliberal urban governmentality has been attentive to the knowledges and techniques of government currently emerging at the interface of local state politics and invested claims of voluntary private actors such as corporate partners and philanthropic agencies. This article draws attention to the workings of the aesthetic as an epistemological grounding for the rationalization of urban rule. Specifically, I explore a Toronto, Canada-based philanthropic agency’s reliance on a mise-en-scene of urban terror to animate its own self-validated knowledges about targeted inner-suburban subjects and spaces. In their circulation and demand for public address, the agency’s graphic public service announcements, launched in 2007, herald what I argue is a moralized set of knowledges about municipal renewal that has its own normative orientations grounded in a neoliberal political rationality, and tangentially, in racialized security imperatives. I detail various dimensions of the social life of a video associated with this public service campaign targeting ‘youth at risk’, considering the ethical, political and economic valences it was expected to convey; its semiotic exchange with other images and representations of disenfranchised spaces, subjects and communities; and the publics it attempted to interpellate. Importantly, given the agency’s current standing as a prominent player in Canadian urban policy arenas, I pay analytical attention to the visual campaign as a site for the production of knowledges about proper urban citizenship and social governance, and as such, a strategic-orienting device for urban policy interventions and directives.     

Social Skills in Children Adopted From Socially-Emotionally Depriving Institutions

This study assessed social skills in post-institutionalized (PI) children with respect to age at adoption, age at assessment, and gender. Parent ratings of social skills (Social Skills Rating System) and behavior problems (Child Behavior Checklist) were obtained for 214 children and 127 adolescents who were adopted from socially-emotionally depriving Russian institutions. Results showed that children adopted before 18 months of age have better social skills than those adopted after this age; those assessed in childhood demonstrate better social skills than those assessed in adolescence. PI females, especially later-adopted adolescents, have particularly poor social skills. Children with poor social skills tend to have higher rates of behavior problems.     

Becoming the mother of a child with disabilities: a systematic literature review

The transition to motherhood starts early in pregnancy and is completed when the mother feels competent in caring for the infant. Becoming the mother of a child with disabilities is demanding as their needs are complex. The aim of the review was to appraise completed qualitative and quantitative reports on the challenges of mothers of children with disabilities regarding their own transition to motherhood. A review of the literature was carried out through, first, a computerized search strategy to identify relevant studies from selected databases and, second, quality appraisal and thematic analysis of selected studies. The transition to motherhood of children with disabilities takes place in the inside world at home, the outside world external to home and the ‘going-between’ world of travelling between the two worlds. The mothers are challenged at home to integrate basic infant care with technical care of their children. In the outside world they often struggled to ensure that their children got the necessary professional care. Travelling between their homes and healthcare services posed many problems.     

列宁对马克思东方社会理论的继承和发展

列宁在领导俄国人民进行社会主义革命和建设,指导东方民族民主革命的过程中,从多个侧面和不同的角度继承与发展了马克思的东方社会理论。这种继承和发展集中体现在列宁关于“非资本主义发展”、“一国首先胜利”、“未来社会发展阶段”以及新经济政策的思想理论中。     

后危机时代长三角外贸发展面临的壁垒及其应对研究

后危机时代国际经济环境的新变化将会对我国的贸易发展产生多方面的影响。长三角作为我国经济外向度比较高的地区,其对外贸易在后危机时代将会出现快速发展,同时也将面临大量的贸易壁垒,并且呈现数量性壁垒首当其冲、复合性壁垒越来越多、技术性壁垒趋向严密、传统性壁垒小幅增加的基本态势。长三角两省一市需要予以高度重视,并采取切实有效的措施进行应对,才能保障和促进后危机时代的长三角对外贸易实现又好又快的发展。     

清季首任专差驻意大利公使许珏评介

近代意大利的国情与中国有不少相似之处.作为首任驻意大利公使,许珏表现出了"向西方寻找真理"的态度,他主持翻译了大量有关意大利资本主义社会经济发展状况的资料,不但为清政府的经济改革提供了借鉴,而且为意大利文化在中国的传播发挥了积极的作用.由于受其出使经历的影响,许珏保守的思想开始发生了某些变化,这种变化也反映了中国传统知识分子对外部世界认识的发展过程.     

立法的人性化趋向分析

在人权保护的时代背景下,立法的出发点是最大程度上保护人的权利,人权保护下的立法理性也处于调整中,立法者基于理性制定的法律规范应愈来愈被不断调整以接近人性,实现人的全面发展。理性越被道德渗透,人性越贴近社会和自然,立法则是创造合乎人性的法律环境的有效渠道。     

提高女性退休年龄对其养老金的影响研究

提高女性退休年龄,实行男女同龄退休,不仅仅是基于性别平等,保障女性权益,更重要地是提高女性退休后的生活质量和水平。文章用数学方法测算出提高女性退休年龄后,对女性退休后的养老金产生的实际影响。     

于京君的室内乐配器《图画展览会》之"漫步"分析

2002年6月26日,澳籍华人于京军所改编的室内乐《图画展览会》由澳大利亚室内乐团在悉尼歌剧院首演,获得成功。本文对其中的“漫步”主题配器进行分析。于京军先生的“漫步”主题用中提琴抒发个人感受,应用“音色旋律”的方法,制造“踏板”效果,采用拼贴手段细致地、准确地表现一个中国人对“漫步”主题音乐内容的理解,使人产生耳目一新的感觉。分析于京君在第一次出现的“漫步主题”中的室内乐配器,能使我们得到有益启示。     

价值澄清理论对高校德育改革的警示

价值澄清理论所倡导的相对主义道德教育,给美国社会带来很大危害。这对新时期多元化背景下的高校德育改革有三点警示:首先,防止无导向德育,在尊重学生主体性的基础上注重价值引导;其次,切忌“教师中立”,充分发挥教师的主导作用;再次,切忌片面性,正确处理一元化和多元化的关系,让一元化居于主导地位,同时要正确处理灌输和自主选择的关系。