‘We fight for all living things’: countering misconceptions about the radical animal liberation movement

This qualitative content analysis of online documents compiled from the North American Animal Liberation Front (ALF), Earth Liberation Kollective (ELK) and Grassroots Ontario Animal Liberation (GOAL) network websites and Facebook pages explores how activism within the Radical Animal Liberation Movement (RALM) intersects with other social movements. While most literature to date traces the RALM’s (dis)junctures with other forms of social justice activism through analyses of their broad ideological assumptions, or the views of renowned RALM scholars, this research provides authentic insights into the voices of Canadian, American and Mexican activists as they are represented in documents they author themselves. Like activists in anarchistic, anti-capitalist, immigrant rights, Indigenous, prison abolition, prisoner support and radical feminist movements, those in the RALM critique capitalism, colonialism, hierarchy, racism, sexism, state power and the prison industrial complex. Our research calls into question the existing narratives that depict the RALM as an extremist, single-issue movement oblivious to all other forms of social inequality, injustice, marginalization and oppression. Rather, RALM activists are building alliances with other radical social movements to achieve the common goal of ending both human and animal suffering and exploitation.     

赤峰古代民族考

内蒙古赤峰市是多民族分布地区的典型代表。在不同历史时期,都出现了对当时和后世产生较大影响的民族,如商族、山戎族、东胡族、匈奴族、乌桓族、鲜卑族、契丹族、库莫奚族、霫族、女真族、蒙古族、回族、满族、朝鲜族和汉族等,以上诸族对赤峰地区的文明形成和历史发展做出了重要的贡献。赤峰地区古代民族的发展历史,充分证实了中华民族多元一体的历史发展轨迹。     

民族记忆与文化基因--瑶族民族记忆中“中华民族共同体”文化基因的表征及其价值阐释

民族记忆既是传承民族文化基因的载体,也是彰显民族文化基因的重要文化表征。民族记忆作为延续民族历史和文化基因的内在根基,通过传承民族历史文化、建构民族身份、塑造民族形象等形式传承和彰显民族文化基因的内在特征。以瑶族为代表的少数民族文化基因是中华民族文化基因的重要组成部分,深入挖掘瑶族民族记忆中蕴含的“中华民族共同体”文化基因,并阐释其内在的价值与意义,对培育和铸牢我国各民族的“中华民族共同体”意识有着重要的理论价值与现实意义。     

劳动解放的中国起点:“五四”劳工话语的建构与转换

自从1918年11月16日蔡元培喊出劳工神圣的口号以后,劳工问题逐渐成为五四知识分子关注的核心.而随着五四运动的历史性展开,劳工话语也逐渐从一般性的话语逐渐转换为劳动阶级解放的革命话语.形塑这一话语的因素是多方面的,如时代特征、中国社会现实的矛盾发展等.其中,五四先进知识分子的理智自觉无疑是十分重要的因素.从某种意义上,劳工话语的转换过程也是五四先进知识分子接受和转向马克思主义的过程.历史选择了马克思主义,1921年中国共产党成立,劳动解放中国征程的历史大幕从此拉开.     

Piety over Protest: Cognitive Liberation and Deflected Collective Action in Central India

Cognitive liberation is often treated in the social movements literature as a mediating factor through which political opportunities and mobilizing structures generate protest. This paper unpacks multiple dimensions of cognitive liberation and finds that they may operate in tension with one another. Building on scholarship that focuses on subjective factors in social movements, the paper examines the case of the Korku, an oppressed indigenous community in central India, who choose not to protest despite the presence of several dimensions of cognitive liberation. Rather than engage in collective political action, the Korku’s grievances are deflected toward depoliticized religious goals. The Korku seek communal improvement through Hindu piety in a context of the Hindutva cultural-nationalist ideology, rather than protest against the encroachment of this ideology on their community.     

Community Residents as Lay Health Educators in a Neighborhood Cancer Prevention Program

Abstract

This paper describes a lay health educator model used to provide cancer education in an urban community. Using existing community-university partnerships, the project team identified and trained community residents as health educators. This paper then discusses implications of this model for promoting community-based health prevention and practice.     

Ethnicity versus Ethnic Identity: What Predicts Substance Use Norms and Behaviors?

ABSTRACT

Although researchers often incorporate various measures of ethnicity and ethnic identity (EI) into research about substance use, the relationships among ethnicity, EI, and substance use remain unclear (Marsiglia, Kulis, & Hecht, 2001; Phinney, 1996). This paper explores whether ethnicity and three EI instruments are useful in predicting substance use outcomes among three samples of ethnically diverse middle school youth. Findings include that age, gender, and/or racial or ethnic group membership influenced the strength of EI and that age, sex, and strength of EI influence substance use norms and behaviors. In each case where significant effects were obtained, a stronger sense of EI as measured by two of the instruments predicted more negative attitudes toward, and less use of, alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana. Implications for preventing substance use among middle school youth by building on and strengthening ethnic identity are provided.     

广西汉、壮族大学生文化认同调查研究

在《汉族、藏族和回族大学生族群认同问卷》的基础上参考菲尼的多族群认同问卷,抽取若干项目组成量表,对广西汉、壮族大学生共583人进行了调查。研究发现：壮族大学生相较于汉族对本族群的文化,在认知、情感和行为三个维度趋同更高,即对本民族的文化认同较高;来自山区的大学生相较于来自城市的大学生在认知和行为维度有较高的得分,并达到...     

Behind the ethnic–civic distinction: Public attitudes towards immigrants’ political rights in the Netherlands

Public opinion research has sought to distinguish between ethnic and civic conceptions of citizenship and examined the differential associations of these conceptions with policy preferences in the realm of immigration. What has not been examined empirically is why exactly these conceptions are related to people’s preferences. In two survey studies conducted among national samples of native Dutch we tested the proposition that the endorsement of ethnic citizenship is related to lower acceptance of Muslim immigrant rights (Study 1) and their political participation (Study 2) because of a weaker normative sense of common national belonging and higher adherence to autochthony (primo-occupancy) beliefs. In contrast, the endorsement of civic citizenship was expected to be associated with higher acceptance of Muslim immigrant rights and their political participation because of a stronger sense of common belonging and lower belief in autochthony. The findings of the two studies are similar and in support of these expectations.     

哲学社会科学理论创新与广西民族文化强区的构建——基于人的发展经济学研究的视角

广西建设民族文化强区应以社会主义核心价值体系为核心并着力推进哲学社会科学理论创新。人的发展经济学作为哲学社会科学理论创新的新亮点,在具备组织优势、平台优势、团队优势和政策优势的基础上,广西应把人的发展经济学研究作为抢占哲学社会科学理论创新制高点的重要突破口。通过加强政策支持,深化研究队伍建设、平台建设,提升人的发展经济学研究的有利地位,把人的发展经济学研究与广西社科研究高度融合,促进哲学社会科学理论创新工程立项等措施,扩大广西在全国理论创新的知名度,提升文化软实力。