‘When you have no law you are nothing’: Cane toads,social consequences and management issues

In this article we demonstrate that Yanyuwa people have detailed biological knowledge of their northern Australian environment, which is culturally defined and embedded within their relationships to country, resources and each other. Through a case study of the impact of Bufo marinus (cane toads) on Yanyuwa culture and everyday life, we argue that Aboriginal management strategies and Aboriginal peoples’ intimate knowledge of species and environment need to be understood as both legitimate and fundamental when engaging in management initiatives in Australia. We demonstrate that for Yanyuwa people emotional engagement with their environment is underpinned by a morality of social and environmental relations and that ‘memory’ is pivotal to this engagement. We conclude by briefly delineating how the adoption of a ‘moral ecology’ perspective goes some way to addressing issues pertinent to discursive encounters at cultural management frontiers.     

Towards ‘New Emotional Movements’? A Comparative Exploration into a Specific Movement Type

In this article we broaden the scope of earlier research that established a theoretical specificity for the Belgian ‘White March’ and ‘White Movement’, by comparing them to three similar movements and mobilizations that were also triggered by random violence. The comparisons suggest that we are dealing with a new type of social movement and mobilization, preliminarily referred to as ‘new emotional movements’. The three other cases under study are the ‘Snowdrop Campaign’ in the UK, the ‘Million Mom March’ in the US and the ‘Movement against Senseless Violence’ in the Netherlands. Four important features seem to characterize all cases: the central role of emotions and victimization in the mobilization and development of the movement; broad elite support; organizational weakness; and extensive media support. We distinguish two sub-types of new emotional movements: (1) an instrumental variant with clear-cut aims and demands; and (2) an identity variant with displays of solidarity and compassion as the main constitutive elements. In both cases the initiators lack prior organizational experience and the absence of mobilizing organizations is compensated for by mass media support. In the instrumental sub-type neither the victims nor their relatives take the initiative but lend support and give approval to amateur entrepreneurs. The main mobilizing emotion appears to be fear about the possibility of personal suffering, and this emotion is reflected in the formulation of clear-cut demands for the future prevention of similar events. This instrumentality results in elite support being considerably broad, yet partisan. In contrast, the victims themselves take the initiative in the identity variant, causing the movement to remain more or less without specific demands but ensuring a broad support that is not bounded by party lines.     

The World Social Forum: Another World Might Be Possible

First, I briefly examine the genesis of debate to define the World Social Forum (WSF) as a contributor to the global justice movement (GJM), since its emergence in Brazil in 2001. I then consider Geoffrey Pleyers' argument identifying a central tension within the WSF, and the GJM in general, between actors seeking to achieve non-domination by expressing anti-power subjectivity and those for whom the path to non-domination lay in strategising and designing counter-powers. Describing what transpired at WSF Dakar 2011and debates since, I question Pleyers' classificatory schema as leading to an unhelpful essentialism. That is, identifying a ‘two paths’ ideal-type and setting out to locate it in the world serves to legitimise one ‘tendency’ of progressive social movements. By contrast with Pleyers' evenly balanced approach—treating of each ‘path’ as possessing the same positive and negative qualities, rather than as qualitatively different moments in the practice of opposing domination—I find that what he calls ‘the path of subjectivity’ might rather be understood as the product of a certain lack of appreciation of the nature of the demands that opposing political tyranny places upon particpants in an organisation or movement.     

从异化之思到本真之思——存在之维的缺失与重建

海德格尔认为,被形而上学看作思想之本质的理性实际上是本真的思的异化物,它从表象性思维出发,将一切都作为对象看待,不仅遮蔽了存在本身,也遮蔽了本真的思。在他看来,本真意义上的思是与存在本身的应和,是对人们存在“根基”的沉思,只有返回存在本身,归属于存在本身,思才能显现其本真性。海德格尔的这一思想是对传统理性的反叛,同时也表现出非理性主义的色彩。     

思想政治教育话语体系构建

中国特色话语体系的建构为思想政治教育话语创新提供了新的契机。思想教育工作者需要通过话语体系建构不断增强思想政治教育的现实性与学理性,同时,通过推进思想政治教育话语创新,增强思想政治教育的认同感。     

Visual Expressions of Corporate Superiority: A Review of Jacqueline Hassinck’s Photographic Art Project and Booklet ‘The Table of Power’

Arguing that institutional rationality constitutes a meta‐institution upon which the specific institutions of the capitalist social order depend, this paper explores the possibility that it might be interrogated through the imaginary worlds created by readers in their responses to literary fiction. It does so by constructing a fictive encounter between the response aesthetics of Wolfgang Iser and two novels by Ian McEwan, Saturday and Enduring love, both of which feature institutional rationality as a core element of the ‘reality’ from which they are constructed.

The conclusions are somewhat negative. The problems posed to McEwan’s personifications of institutional rationality, despite the author’s reputation for arbitrary and sometimes macabre plotlines, are nowhere such as to call into question their understandings of the events which befall them. Nor, reading the novels as explorations of that very one‐dimensionality, are readers likely to be induced into a questioning of their own understandings of the world. This is because the novels in question, like most modern literary fiction, have been produced within a tradition which reaches back to the romantic/humanist reaction to institutional rationality, and this makes it possible for readers to distance themselves from characters in which it is exemplified. Far from producing a critical Imaginary, readers who respond in this manner are likely to externalize any interrogations of institutional rationality suggested by its fictional recontextualization and produce, instead, one in which the superiority of their own understandings of the world is confirmed. Whilst this may be opposed to institutional rationality in the routinised sense of an antagonistic accommodation, nothing new is added by the reading of the novels.

Whilst some of the problem may lie in the characterization of the principle protagonists in the selected novels – which is both flat and static – it is suggested that there is also a problem with the initial expectation of a critical imaginary created by Iser’s theory. The fact is that its creation depends on an assumed response on the part of the reader that has no evidential basis. This empirical deficit cannot be made good either by Iser’s earlier construct of an ‘implied reader’, nor by his later posit of self‐aware role‐taking as a fundamental anthropological need. Whilst one cannot rule out the possibility that some readers might respond as Iser supposes – even to the novels discussed in this paper – there is no particular reason to rule it in either.     

英国维多利亚初期中产阶级女性角色再界定——从《北方与南方》谈起

英国维多利亚时代家庭意识形态规定了中产阶级女性对家庭的义务,反对她们参与政治经济领域事务,将其活动领域限制在家庭中。维多利亚时代著名小说家伊丽莎白.盖斯凯尔认同家庭意识形态规定的女性的家庭义务,但又注意到这一意识形态与社会现实之间的矛盾引发了一种趋向,即女性在自身道德感和社会现状二者合力作用下不可避免地偏离其被规定的活动领域。在小说《北方与南方》中,作者以此社会趋向为背景,以家庭意识形态为出发点,再次界定中产阶级女性角色,拓展了维多利亚时代女性的活动领域。     

志愿服务：大学生道德实践载体的创新

志愿服务对大学生道德养成具有提高道德认知水平、丰富道德情感、磨炼道德意志和形成良好道德行为习惯的作用。高校应通过推动大学生志愿服务的普遍化和日常化、引导大学生端正志愿服务参与动机、建立科学合理的考评和激励机制等措施以充分发挥志愿服务的德育功能。     

论医疗改革的伦理本位

从哲学视角反思始于1999年的医疗改革失败的根本原因,探讨医疗改革成功的基础是中国当代哲学需直面的时代课题。研究发现,医疗制度设计过度理性、伦理缺失是导致改革失败的最核心的原因。为此,构建医疗卫生改革的伦理内涵,回归医改的伦理本质是中国医疗改革成功的哲学基础。     

朱熹对命的思考

命是中国思想史上一个重要范畴,朱熹论命有天命、性命之义,由此引出命的两个维度,即从理与气、所禀与所值讨论命,赋予命以丰富的内涵.其中尤其重修德行仁,这是从道德层面谈命.天命在我,强调主体对命的把握,这是以积极的态度对待命.他对命持一种积极向上的态度,表现为提出知命、致命、改命,并在实际生活中践履它.