大学生参与社区矫正志愿服务的若干实践问题探讨——以广州市荔湾区为例

大学生志愿者是社区矫正志愿服务的重要参与主体,大学生志愿者能否在社区矫正中积极发挥应有的作用直接影响着社区矫正的效果。调查发现,在当前大学生参与社区矫正志愿服务的实践中,存在着矫正志愿服务的系统化、矫正服务队伍的团队矫正、矫正服务小组的驻点矫正、矫正对象的家属参与和志愿者的选拔机制等5个实践问题。因此,需要对上述的实践疑惑加以探讨,以促进社区矫正志愿服务的完善和发展。     

社会政策对志愿服务的支持作用分析——以广州市为例

广州市社会政策对志愿服务的支持作用集中体现在公共服务、公民参与、社会福利、社区发展、环保低碳、国际合作六个方面。公共服务政策为志愿服务的发展让渡了空间,公民参与政策激活了民间活力,社会福利政策丰富了志愿服务形式,社区发展政策提供了社区服务平台,环保低碳政策推动了环保志愿者的兴起,国际合作政策拓宽了志愿交流机制。从政府重视志愿服务事业发展的背景出发,加强社会政策对志愿服务的引导和支持尤为重要。     

大学生志愿者参与志愿服务动机研究

只有全面深入地理解大学生的志愿服务动机,才能在组织志愿服务活动时通过采取适当措施满足志愿者的需求,调动志愿者的积极性,从而使志愿服务达到更好的效果,推进中国志愿服务事业不断发展。因此,要做好志愿服务活动的工作设计,加强对志愿服务的鼓励、扶持和宣传,完善志愿服务激励机制,并扩展志愿服务领域。     

中国志愿行动融入社区建设的困境与对策

伴随社会转型和后单位社会发展，志愿行动在完善社区自治和服务功能上具有重要作用和意义。由于志愿行动融入社区的环境有待优化，志愿者社区服务的主客体界定不清，志愿服务融入社区的服务能力与社区需求脱节，社区志愿行动自主性弱，志愿组织运行机制和制度保障不完善，以及法制建设滞后等因素，志愿行动融入社区建设存在诸多障碍。必须整合志愿...     

青年志愿者行动的逻辑：动机、频率、类型及障碍——基于大学生志愿者赴地震灾区服务的研究

改革开放以来，我国青年志愿服务蓬勃兴起，志愿组织、志愿者不断壮大，志愿精神得到弘扬，在维护社会稳定、提供公共服务等方面发挥了重要作用。自汶川大地震发生以来，几十万志愿者奋战在抗震救灾第一线，志愿者的首次集中“亮相”，在一定程度上说明了公民意识的觉醒，标志了公民社会的肇始。作为一名志愿者，对赴灾区服务的大学生志愿者进行了系列调查，运用参与观察、调查问卷、访谈等科学方法，对志愿者服务的动机、频率、类型等进行了研究，并探究了大学生志愿服务发展的进路。     

略论大学生助老志愿服务路径实现的机制保障

随着人口老龄化的加剧,数量庞大的老年群体的需求越来越多,需要社会参与,全民行动。高校是青年学生参加助老志愿服务活动的主要组织载体,大学生参与助老志愿服务具有极强的现实意义。"十三五"国家老龄事业发展和养老体系建设规划为大学生参与志愿服务指出了实践路径,实现的机制与政策创新要求:5大价值观体系必须构建;政府角色定位必须准确;社会组织必须去行政化;志愿者服务必须落地、做实;志愿者的权益及志愿服务长效机制必须建立。     

脆弱性视角下志愿服务嵌入城市社区危机治理探析

随着工业化和城市化的推进,城市社区逐渐成为各大城市的重要组成部分,在城市的日常治理中占据着极为重要的位置。城市危机必然会影响到城市社区的稳定与和谐。在传统的城市社区危机治理中,政府居于主导地位,但是随着社会的发展,志愿服务深度嵌入社区治理特别是危机治理已经成为一种不可避免的趋势。因此,需要加强志愿服务嵌入城市社区治理的研究,而从脆弱性视角研究相关的危机治理问题恰逢其时。志愿服务嵌入城市社区危机治理面临着风险性、敏感性、抵抗力和恢复力等4个方面的困境。在推进志愿服务参与社区危机治理时,要推进志愿服务制度建设,建立多元化的志愿服务队伍,扶持各种志愿服务组织的健康发展。要大力宣传志愿服务,塑造社区危机治理文化,形成初心一致、互惠共享和自治共创的社区危机治理模式。     

“社工+志愿者”携手合作创“三赢”局面

广东志愿服务20多年来引领全国志愿服务事业创新发展之先河,开创多个全国第一的发展格局。广东志愿服务的组织体系比较完善,志愿服务氛围浓厚,民间参与志愿服务的热情很高,民间志愿者组织近几年的发展也非常迅速,这得益于广东经济社会的改革发展,也与广东省委、省政府近年来加强社会建设、     

广东青年志愿者行动发展报告

文章总结和分析了广东青年志愿者行动的发展历程,概括为率先探索阶段、多样尝试阶段、机制建设阶段、服务拓展阶段、整合提升阶段等。广东青年志愿者行动的领域主要集中在社会公益服务、社区发展服务、弱势群体服务、成长辅导服务、扶贫开发服务、环境保护服务。志愿者的这些服务有助于健全社会保障体系、创造社会经济效益、促进社会结构和谐、提高社会文明水平。广东青年志愿者行动的存在问题有六个"缺乏",即缺乏自主空间、缺乏稳定队伍、缺乏长期项目、缺乏持久资源、缺乏能力建设、缺乏法制环境。针对这种状况,我们提出8条发展对策:1.普及公民志愿精神;2.发展青年志愿社团;3.创新指导管理体制;4.培育志愿服务品牌;5.开拓志愿服务资源;6.维护支援人员权益;7.开展志愿人员培训;8.推进志愿服务研究。     

社区志愿服务与青少年的自我教育

在现代化建设过程中 ,城乡社区发展是值得注意的趋势。青少年志愿者为社区建设和居民生活开展许多服务活动 ,包括环境建设服务、安全保障服务、家居生活服务、成员交往服务、健康文化服务、特殊群体服务等。青少年参与社区志愿服务 ,不仅为社会作出了奉献 ,而且对自我教育、精神完善有积极作用。社区志愿服务有利于培养良好的思想和情感 ,如亲近自然、真诚友善、和睦共处、爱心奉献、助人自助、珍惜生命、维护尊严、激发潜能。     

Feminism, Aestheticism and the Limits of Law

This article seeks to identify and address the normative void that resides at the heart of postmodernist-feminist theory, and to propose a philosophical framework – beyond postmodernism, but incorporating its central insights – for thinking through the normative questions with which feminists are inevitably confronted in their engagements with positive law. Two varieties of postmodernist-feminism are identified and critically analysed: the ‘corporeal feminism’ of Elizabeth Grosz and Judith Butler, which seeks to ground feminist critical practice in the irruptive capacities of the material body considered as an arte fact of social construction; and the deconstructionist feminism of Drucilla Cornell, for whom ‘the feminine’ is an indeterminate but disruptive force beyond its construction in law and in other social sites. The first component of the argument elaborated here is that each of these approaches ultimately reduces to a form of aestheticism which is incapable of generating a worthwhile and workable feminist approach to the restructuring of politics and law. The second component of the argument involves a return to aesthetics, in particular to the philosophical aesthetics of Kant’s Critique of Judgement. Kant’s aesthetic philosophy, it will be suggested, yields a framework of concepts which, duly re-manipulated, could speak to the very concerns that have inspired postmodernist-feminism: how to attend to (bodily) particularity while avoiding the dangers associated with ‘essentialism’; and how to theorise the propensity of the unrepresentable power of the feminine to exceed both embodied human capacities and the confining rein of socially privileged rationalities. Crucially, however it also responds to a set of preoccupations – those of the feminist lawyer – that cannot be accommodated by postmodernism: how to translate embodied experience into (legal) norms; generalise from the particular; seek consensus; and codify an endless potentiality in the form of law. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

The Between

Thinking with this special issue's group of feminist thinkers – some artists and others scholars – this introduction makes a strong case for co-authorship and a more collaborative humanities, while also insisting that the couple form – that stalwart object of queer and feminist theory – is neither a known quantity nor an exhausted entity, but rather, a field ripe for analysis. Situated squarely within performance studies, this introduction pivots away from questions of ontology and toward method and performativity, in order to ask: what modes of intellectual practice, erotic exchange, political work, and aesthetic experimentation happen uniquely within couple forms, in their most capacious and non-self-same iterations? What queer and feminist work can they do? What, in other words, is possible in the infinity, if indeed it is an infinity, between one and two?     

Beyond the scarcity scare: reframing the discourse of hunger with an eco-mind

Solutions to world hunger continue to be impeded by a frame – a set of assumptions – that keeps much of humanity focusing narrowly on quantitative growth. The result is greater food production and greater hunger. Yet, across the world another way of seeing, one grounded in the relational insights of ecology, is transforming food systems in ways that both enhance flora and fauna and strengthen human relationships, enabling farmers to gain a greater voice in food production and fairer access to the food produced.     

Other forms of conviviality: The best and least of which is our daily care and the host of which is our collaborative work

In this collaboratively written essay, artists Park McArthur and Constantina Zavitsanos take a queer materialist feminist approach to the entanglement of dependency and reproductive labor, disability, intimacy, and the impossibility of exchanging incommensurables. The text merges the authors' experiences receiving and providing one another care with their artistic practices, and includes instructive performance scores for past, rather than future, events.     

Close Encounters: Solidarity,Servitude and Postcolonial Feminist Affects and Affiliations

Abstract

This essay offers close readings of three texts that in different ways foreground the problems, possibilities and struggle involved in forging affective connections across difference between women: Kate Clanchy, What is She Doing Here? 2008, Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy, 1991a and Marlene Van Niekerk, ‘Labour’, 2004. The author argues that the incomplete and partial nature of affective moments represented in these texts signals possibilities for a cautiously redefined idea of affective feminist solidarity as it is mobilized in the intimacy of domestic spaces.     

The Impersonal Strategy: Re-visiting Virginia Woolf's Position in The Common Reader Essays

The concept of impersonality as a writer's strategy has been exposed to misinterpretations that either fail to exhaust its full meaning and deposit an unequal amount of attention on all components of the term or, in the worst case, tend to distort its true elements. In relation to Virginia Woolf's criticism, in particular, it is a critical commonplace that the author employed an impersonal position in order not to fully materialise her feminist vision, but to shy away from explicitly expressing her feminist convictions and openly supporting women's rights. Indicative of this is the criticism that suggests disapproval of Woolf's reluctance to side with her own gender and declare the power of female personality.

The aim here is to challenge such critical views, separate the discussion of impersonality from its association with that of androgyny, and re-visit the issue of Woolf's employment of the impersonal strategy. I examine two of Woolf's essays on nineteenth-century women writers included in her first volume of The Common Reader and offer an analysis from both a gender-oriented and a genderless angle. Woolf's strong affinity with female conditions of oppression, her modernist convictions, her need to compromise with the male-dominated context of the time and her concurrent urge to co-operate with the common reader of an unspecified sex for the sake of artistic creation reveal more complex reasons behind her intentions than those examined by critics so far.     

Men in Skirts

There are signs that the wearing of skirts by men appears to be on the increase in the West. Connor's essay provides a series of historical reflections on the signification and cultural phenomenology of male and female apparel. The first appearance of bifurcated dress in the late mediaeval period is considered, along with the struggle between men and women for command of lateral space during the seventeenth century in Europe, as attested to by commentators like John Bulwer and John Evelyn. Explications are offered of the thematics of the fringe and the pocket, as they are dramatized in trousers and skirts, as well as of the logic of lightness and of the pendant. Trousers, Connors concludes, have never lost their fanciful associations with utility, practicality and rationality; they are the signs of occupation, of being taken up in what you do, rather than consumed in what you are. The political victory of the trousered over the untrousered races (Romans, Scots, Indians etc.) is confirmed by its inversion in male masochist fantasies of 'petticoat government', from the late nineteenth century onwards.     

Introduction to queer circuits: Critical performance and digital praxis

This introduction situates the articles making up this special issue within four thematic clouds, positing queer theorization as broadly relevant for critically engaging with computational technologies and culture. These sub-themes offer suggestions for future queer inquiry and praxis and reflect key terms in performance studies and queer theory that have undergone transformation with the ubiquity of digital technology.     

Trauma as Site of Identity: The Case of Jeanette Winterson and Frida Kahlo

B y taking gender seriously, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party in South Africa appeared to reverse the trend set by many liberation movements elsewhere: namely, women being mobilized as agents in struggles around class and race, yet denied the imperative of addressing gender subordination. Shortly after coming to power, the ANC adopted a national strategy for advancing gender equality. By doing so it demonstrated that it could rise above the limitations of its erstwhile 'woman question' position (Beall et al. 1989) and learn from the experience of other countries that had tried to institutionalize gender policies and structures. This in turn served to place South Africa at the cutting edge of experience in state-initiated gender policies and 'national machineries' for women. Nevertheless, South Africa's National Machinery for Advancing Gender Equality merits critical scrutiny, both in terms of its intrinsic aims and objectives and in relation to its potential for making an impact, given the development policy context of contemporary South Africa. Drawing on research conducted in South Africa over a number of years--during the 1980s (Beall et al. 1987) and, more recently, since 1997 (Beall 1997, 1998), it is possible to consider what lessons are to be learned from the institutionalization of gender-sensitive policy and practice in a complex institutional environment.     

From a Feminist Perspective: Plotinus on Teaching and Learning Philosophy

Vassilopoulou discusses Plotinus' educational practice as it may be reconstructed from his biography and texts. She concentrates on Plotinus' views on the role of women manifested in his revision of traditional metaphors that accentuate women's dependent status, the overall significance of the employment of metaphors within a philosophical context, and the ensuing conception of dialectic and rationality. Her analysis indicates that Plotinus' practice of teaching and learning philosophy reflects contemporary feminist values. Her claim is that a reading of Plotinus from a feminist perspective has much to contribute to contemporary debates raised in the context of feminist pedagogy and theory.