Women's entrepreneurship,neoliberalism and economic justice in the postfeminist era: A discourse analysis of policy change in Sweden

Since the early 1990s, there has been investment in women's entrepreneurship policy (WEP) in Sweden, which continued until 2015. During the same period, Sweden assumed neoliberal policies that profoundly changed the position of women within the world of work and business. The goals for WEP changed as a result, from entrepreneurship as a way to create a more equal society, to the goal of unleashing women's entrepreneurial potential so they can contribute to economic growth. To better understand this shift we approach WEP as a neoliberal governmentality which offers women ‘entrepreneurial’ or ‘postfeminist’ subject positions. The analysis is inspired by political theorist Nancy Fraser who theorized the change as the displacement of socioeconomic redistribution in favour of cultural recognition, or identity politics. We use Fraser's concepts in a discourse analysis of Swedish WEP over two decades, identifying two distinct discourses and three discursive displacements. Whilst WEP initially gave precedence to a radical feminist discourse that called for women's collective action, this was replaced by a postfeminist neoliberal discourse that encouraged individual women to assume an entrepreneurial persona, start their own business, compete in the marketplace and contribute to economic growth. The result was the continued subordination of women business owners, but it also obscured or rendered structural problems/solutions, and collective feminist action, irrelevant.     

Deaf access to justice in Northern Ireland: rethinking ‘Reasonable Adjustment’ in the Disability Discrimination Act

Abstract

This article provides findings of a qualitative study exploring the interactions of eight Deaf participants and one hearing ally with the justice system in Northern Ireland, where the Disability Discrimination Act requires solicitors to make ‘reasonable adjustments’ in order to provide effective access to Deaf clients. Three thematic categories emerged: (a) barriers to accessing justice, (b) work Deaf people do for access, and (c) the need to educate solicitors about access. A central strain ran through these themes: the idea that ‘reasonable adjustment’ must reflect the value of sign language interpreters in facilitating effective communication access for all the parties.     

‘We are actually,after all,just children’: caring societies and South African infantilisation of adults with intellectual disability

This article comments on infantilisation by attending to South African adult intellectual disability (ID) care through an intersubjective ethics of care lens, and shows how such an ethic can shine light on shifting our responses towards ID. Care performance data were gathered from three sources within two South African specialist ID care sites – from 10 adult residents, 16 nurses as spatiotemporal carers, and three wards as ethnographic sites. Deeply embedded and interwoven throughout various care practices is the disabling of adults with intellectual impairment when literally referred to as ‘children’. These adult-unmaking processes constitute practices that fall short of Tronto and Kittay’s caring societies ethic. Care exchanges generate relational and intersubjective spaces in which people are understood as never meeting full criteria for personhood. Infantilising care dynamics require urgent attention if we wish to change ways in which ID is viewed and responded to in South Africa.     

孙中山的社会福利思想探析

孙中山的社会福利观一方面继承了中国社会福利思想的传统,又受到资产阶级民主革命和西方福利思想的影响,形成他颇具特色的社会福利观,成为其民生主义的重要内容。孙中山关注社会弱势群体,认为为国民提供社会福利是政府的责任,倡导社会福利的制度化和法治化建设。孙中山的社会福利思想对民国的社会福利实践产生了重要影响,在中国社会思想史上占有重要的地位。     

农地经营权流转与宁夏生态移民发展研究

笔者通过对宁夏生态移民迁入地发展滞后的现状分析,发现农地建设与经营成本负担是制约生态移民迁入地发展的主因。根据制度变迁理论,结合十七届三中全会决议,文章探讨了生态移民农地经营权流转制度,提出采取“农地收购”、“招募式移民安置与农地产业化经营模式”是解决当前农地短缺和生态移民发展问题的有效途径。     

对阿拉善左旗牧民城镇化迁移意愿的实证分析

牧民作为牧区城镇化的参与主体,在向牧区城镇以及城镇周边转移的过程中,其迁移意愿将直接影响到牧区城镇化的进度和效果。本文采用LOGIT模型对阿拉善左旗牧民的城镇化意愿进行了实证分析,并结合调研情况对实证结果进行了解释。在研究假设上,对牧户的家庭特征变量、牧民的个体特征变量、所在牧区的特征变量分别进行了假设。实证结果表明,阿拉善左旗牧民迁移意愿的影响因素存在着特殊性。通过实地调研分析,我们认为牧民的迁移意愿是由牧区的特殊区情、个体的成本收益分析以及草地畜牧业的产业特点决定的。     

汉语和汉字的互动与和谐发展

汉语和汉字的关系是一种独特的类型:文字与音节、语素对应,形音义一体,结构立体化。汉字适应并参与了汉语的演变:不断调整字音和字形以适应意义的扩展,形成单音的核心词和开放的多音词的巧妙配合,字义虚化生成语法模式。在汉语发展历史上,汉字为贯通古今南北、保持汉语的统一,传承民族文化做出了重大贡献。汉语和汉字缔造的"单音节""非形态"的特征值得深入地研究。     

马克思主义哲学中国化的生存论阐释

马克思主义哲学中国化,需要从马克思主义哲学在生存论意义上展开的现代哲学人类学以及世界历史时代的新方向上进行理解。在信仰的无神论倾向、经验主义及自然主义的哲学样式、流动性的辩证思维、实践思维方式以及伦理价值观上,马克思主义与中国哲学传统都存在着一定的相通性。马克思主义哲学中国化不仅引导、而且也将融入中国文化传统的当代转化,转化的关键在于马克思主义共生主义信仰的内化,并形成能够积极影响人类的新的生存理念。     

历史地缘政治背景下广西政治中心的选择与分省设想

唐后期,为了控驭广西西南部的非汉民族,在广西境内首次设立高层政区岭南西道,道治位于邕州,但历时短暂。从北宋到明代,在以民族因素为主导的地缘政治背景下,广西的政治中心长期位于桂林。清代中前期,民族因素对广西地缘政治的影响削弱,桂林作为省会只是历史惯性的作用。清后期爆发的边疆危机,成为广西地缘政治变动的新因素,广西省会由桂林迁往南宁成为历史发展的妊然趋势。     

1910年奉天新民府水灾与救济——以《盛京时报》为中心的考察

1910年奉天新民府发生严重水灾,灾民遍地,损失惨重.水灾发生后,官府及社会各界积极开展各种形式的劝募及赈济活动.官方稳妥地进行灾后救济并处理好善后事宜,安靖地方救济工作较为成功.但由于水灾过后未能根治柳河,为以后水患的发生埋下了隐患.