Performance anxiety: women’s sexed bodies in Pakistan

The nexus of Islam, gender, race and violence has been keenly revisited in some post-9/11 scholarship. The concern over the racialized Muslim male body is justifiable in cases of rendition, torture and the kind of battlefields that mark the War on Terror. However, the sympathetic analysis of the tortured Muslim male body as a permanent and universally vulnerable imaginary has necessarily challenged the framing of sexual politics for Muslim contexts. This bid to shield the vulnerable Muslim male body from Islamophobia and imperialist violence forecloses the notion that Islamist patriarchy and politics can themselves be fundamentally violent in the post-9/11 moment and within the Muslim community. This obscures the range of routine, domestic and normative violent expressions observed by men in Muslim societies. This essay discusses two cases that illustrate the means and methods by which female bodies have been sexed by the narrative of the War on Terror in Pakistan. These cases highlight how the academic efforts that seek to rescue the racialized Muslim male body complicate the struggle of resisting (lay) female bodies.     

Emotions into Disorder: Anxiety Disorders and the Social Meaning of Fear

This article explores what we refer to as norm-stimuli-state discrepancies, which are disparities between people's physical-emotional responses to emotional cues and the normative meanings of those cues. Drawing on forty qualitative interviews and participant observation research at support groups, we show that people with anxiety disorders describe two forms of norm-stimuli-state discrepancies. The first form involves discrepancies of type, in which people label fearful emotional states as deviant for being caused by the “wrong” stimuli. The second involves discrepancies of intensity, in which people label fearful states as deviant for involving feelings or displays of “too much” anxiety in response to an “appropriate” stimuli. The article further addresses the role of stimuli in prompting treatment seeking. Unexpected and intense emotional distress in combination with the falling away of external cues—which we refer to as “stimuli-less fear”—serve as a critical juncture on the path to an anxiety disorder diagnosis.     

Statutory Bodies: How Distinctive and In What Ways?

This article sets the organizational scene for the symposium. It does this by addressing statutory bodies, first in terms of their distinctive statutory foundations, and thereafter with reference to arrangements which they have in common with other types of organizations. Their distinctiveness results from the required legislative action, coupled with forms of political maneuvering and policy analysis. Their other features include their structures, ownership, work, legal power and relationships. Overall, they are legitimate, purposeful and responsible entities with a need to respond to various integration and autonomy arenas in which they are located.     

邓小平精简机构的基本思路

精简机构是一项非常困难的工作,牵涉到方方面面。我国目前机构仍然臃肿、庞大、人浮于事,依然效率低下。我国要认识到精简机构的复杂性、艰巨性、急迫性。各级机构的编制应该从政府的管理中分离出来,使用人员的机构与给予编制的机构应该分离,是今后改革的一个思路。     

简析宪法中的效率原则

宪法中的效率原则包含4个范畴。其中,最大化原则无法被比例原则所涵盖。若不考虑最大化原则,在审查国家财政任务的合宪性时,效率原则可以被视为比例原则的重要组成部分。作为一项宪法原则,效率原则不仅约束行政机关,而且约束立法机关。对于行政机关而言,由审计机关审查其活动是否符合效率原则。而对于代议机关而言,审查其行为是否符合效率原则的任务可以交给违宪审查机关,审计机关在必要时须提供专业咨询和建议。     

中国农民的市场主体权益及其保障

中国农民目前的市场主体地位可用不完全、不平等、受限制和被夸大来概括,这种地位很不利于其权益保障。导致这种状况的原因在于认识存在误区,市场主体错位,相关制度约束,保障成本太高,维权力量缺乏,产业链条太短等。要保障农民的市场主体权益,就需据此采取相应的对策措施。     

特大型工程项目可持续均衡价值指数模型及其算例分析

在分析特大型工程项目多元主体多目标效用函数的基础上,构建特大型工程项目可持续均衡价值指数模型,分别提出经济、社会、环境生态分类价值指数和组合性均衡价值指数的计算原理和方法,并结合“三峡工程”进行了算例分析。研究表明：特大型工程项目可持续均衡价值指数的大小反映了项目内在价值的高低,它随主体信念和时空环境的改变而变化,据此可以判别项目的可行性和优劣性。     

多体交叉存储器等效存储体数的计算

对多体交叉存储器等效存储体数的计算进行了探讨 ,说明了多体交叉存储存在的问题 ,并指出了发展存储体系是非常必要的     

MPA教育主体缺失及对策分析

MPA教育主体缺失是影响MPA教育实效性的主要原因。文章探讨了中国MPA教育主体及其特征 、MPA教育主体缺失的原因及表现,进而提出只有发挥教师价值引导的主体性、尊重MPA学员自主建构的主体性、强化学校环境塑造的主体性和加强政府政策激励的主体性,并使各主体 达到协调统一,才能从根本上解决教师、MPA学员、学校和政府四主体缺失问题。     

多元主体协同参与乡村振兴的路径探索

乡村振兴离不开基层党组织、基层政府、农村居民、社会组织以及市场主体积极参与。但事实上,基层党组织没有能够充分发挥作用,基层政府的角色表现不明显,农民的参与意愿不高,社会组织的参与力度不够,市场主体参与积极性不高。为了充分调动各类主体积极参与并形成合力,必须探索以解决问题为导向,以互联网为依托,以协商为手段,以网络治理为平台的多元主体协同参与新路径。