在吊诡中澄明地活——生存论视域下的陈昌平小说解读

陈昌平的小说在一种吊诡叙事中对生存的境况进行耐人寻味的发掘,宏大叙事与生活叙事的吊诡带出生命个体与历史语境的矛盾关系;崇高的消解与找寻崇高的吊诡让我们在反思与坚守中感受生活的无奈与坚守;承认荒谬却不认同荒谬的吊诡敞开了更多本真生存可能。     

人文精神在法学教学中的构建

法律乃善良公正之术。人文精神在法律人才的培养中有着特殊意义。以《经济法》教学为例,可从以下四个途径着手:展现教师人格魅力,增强学生人文意识;挖掘法学学科内涵,召唤学生人文精神;革新教学评价机制,激发学生人文精神;开展法学社会实践,塑造学生人文精神。     

文艺传播亟须强化人文理性精神

目前我国的文艺传播 ,亟须在强化法律建设和法治精神的前提下 ,强化人文理性精神 ,以期在新的传播环境中 ,尽快克服靠集中整治解决问题的“路径依赖” ,摆脱文艺传媒发生重要异变 ,而新的约束机制却匮乏和乏力带来的监管困境。同时 ,整合壮大正派的文艺批评阵营 ,倡导理性务实的文艺批评 ,以削弱进而消除各种“炒作”加剧的浮躁、混乱现象 ,促进经济社会和人的全面发展。     

Troubling stories of the end of occupy: Feminist narratives of betrayal at occupy Glasgow

This article offers a feminist take on the question of why Occupy camps closed down, in the form of a narrative analysis of interviews from participants in Occupy Glasgow. In response to the emergence of an activist discourse emphasising the role of external forces in camp closure and the existence of a longer-term legacy in terms of individual and community politicisation, I build here on feminist interventions that point instead to serious internal problems within the camps and thus to a more limited legacy. Interrogating the plotting, characterisation and denouement of interviewee narratives, I show that feminist participants in Occupy Glasgow characterise the trajectory of the camp as a tragedy, attribute responsibility for the camp’s demise to co-campers and sometimes to themselves, and present the outcome of Occupy Glasgow as limited, and in some cases even traumatic. This raises serious questions about the culmination and outcomes of Occupy in Glasgow and more generally, and indicates the extent of the hard work remaining if future mobilisation against neoliberal austerity is to be more inclusive and sustainable. The article closes by considering the theoretical implications for the wider question of why movements come to an end.     

Beyond black and white: the role of media in portraying and policing migration and asylum in Italy

This paper investigates the media’s role in shaping perceptions and policies concerning the so-called migrant crisis as well as how this affects solidarity with newcomers, specifically focusing on Italy. The first part of the paper examines the coexistence of the humanitarian narratives of saving lives and the spectacle of militarised borders. It unveils how the daily transmission of sensationalist and stereotyped images of migrants contributes to their transforming into subjects and objects of fear, both experiencing the fear of being rejected and eliminated and inspiring fear in the resident populations. The second part addresses the need for innovative approaches in the construction of a positive public image of migrants and refugees. Through an analysis of several communication campaigns, realised by state and non-state actors for the promotion of social coexistence between citizens and newcomers, this paper calls for a fundamental shift in the way we communicate about migration. A concluding reflection on the challenges and opportunities posed by the arrival of migrants and asylum seekers in our societies, proposes that they should not only be perceived as objects of policies, but should be considered active partners of their own inclusion in the receiving societies.     

Can we empathize with the narrative of our enemy? A personal odyssey in studying peace education

The reader is taken on a journey spanning some 30 years devoted to the author’s involvement in practicing, teaching and studying peace education. The core concept in this journey is active bystandership, which implies the capacity to disengage from our ethnocentric narratives and perceptions and to face the emotional challenges of acknowledging narratives that contradict our collective assumptions about the conflict and accept the moral obligation to address our contribution to violence. The author describes her non-professional as well as her professional activity in academia of participating, initiating, teaching and facilitating peace education projects. She describes inter and intra-group encounters and attempts to identify the limitations and opportunities of each type. Finally, some research methods and results of recent studies in peace education, especially regarding perceptions of collective narratives, are presented and discussed.     

Progress,democracy, efficiency: normative narratives in political science EU studies

ABSTRACT

This article identifies influential political narratives in the 73 currently most highly cited political science articles on the EU. It is based on systematic analysis of expressions of normativity, which signal that European integration, or its institutions or policies, are bad, good, flourishing or declining. A normative narrative of continuous progress in integration, connected with a 1990s grand theoretical debate in EU studies, accounts for much of the positive tone of EU studies until about 1998. Narratives about the EU's democratic deficit and its impact beyond its borders help explain the subsequent negative turn in EU studies normativity.     

20世纪80年代以来国内藏族神话研究述评

藏族神话研究主要分为“类型、母题与特征研究”、“创世神话研究”、“原始宗教神话研究”以及“英雄神话研究”等,现已初步形成了藏族神话研究的多种视角,其中藏族创世神话研究最为丰富。80年代以来,国内藏族神话研究持续不断,并取得了重大成绩,为今后藏族神话的学科体系建设奠定了基础,尽管如此,随着世界不断发展与交流,西方神话学界的一些新观点和新理论随之传入,这就要求我们要运用更多元的理论手段对藏族神话进行深入的解读和研究。     

One narrative or several? Politics,cultural elites,and citizens in constructing a ‘New Narrative for Europe’

ABSTRACT

European Union (EU) institutions have cultivated narratives of European integration for a long time. For its 2013–2014 ‘A New Narrative for Europe’ project, however, the European Commission for the first time explicitly used the ‘narrative’ label. Drawing on non-participant observation, semi-structured interviews and qualitative discourse analysis, this article contrasts the drafting process and the resulting declaration’s narrative structure and content with its discussion by citizens in a web-based consultation. The analysis shows that participating citizens forcefully demanded a bottom-up debate and advocated pluralistic perspectives. In these circumstances, elite-driven attempts at strengthening European identity and EU legitimacy are likely to be ineffective.     

Value-based issues and policy change: Medical assistance in dying in four narratives

In 2014, Québec became the first province in Canada to allow medical assistance in dying (MAID) by adopting the Act Respecting End-of-Life Care. This was, and still is, an important policy change. It involves a singular and highly moral issue that generated debates spanning over a longer period than that specific to the law's development and adoption. Using French and English newspapers' renderings of these debates in Québec between 2005 and 2015, this study deconstructs MAID's journey in the province into four periods, each characterized by a specific narrative: flexible precaution, legal hypocrisy, accountability imperative, and ineluctable adaptation. These four narratives allow us to better understand MAID's framing process as they reveal the underlying rationales of three overarching frames covering the 2005–2015 period: the legal frame, the social progress frame, and the service provision frame.