Constructing terrorists: propaganda about animal rights

Confusion and misrepresentation plague discourse on ‘terrorism’. The term is misapplied to actions far removed from violent mass-casualty attacks or peacetime equivalents of war crimes. This article examines how the term is misapplied to non-violent actions of animal rights groups to undermine opposition to animal exploitation industries.     

Green grabs and biochar: Revaluing African soils and farming in the new carbon economy

Biochar currently attracts technological and market optimism, promising multiple wins – for climate change, food security, bioenergy and health – not least for African farmers. This paper examines the political-economic and discursive processes constructing biochar as a novel green commodity, creating new alliances amongst scientists, businesses, venture capital firms and non-governmental organisations. Carbon market logics are not only threatening large-scale land grabs for biochar feedstocks but also other forms of resource, labour and ecological appropriation through driving research and development and shaping small-scale pilot projects. In these, soil carbon is ‘chopped out’ of its ecosystem and social contexts and revalued as exchangeable pieces of carbon nature. Farmers are hailed as green actors and market winners, provided they discipline their practices according to these new technical and market logics. These discourses contrast strongly with the farmers' existing conceptual and practical repertoires; a case study from Liberia illustrates how farmers already manipulate soil carbon in creating locally valued anthropogenic dark earths, but within diverse farming repertoires, ontologies of human–nature interrelationship and historical and political ecologies.     

弘扬“六盘山精神”，打造绿色固原

“六盘山精神”是“长征精神”的重要组成部分，是固原市全面建设小康社会的强大动力。弘扬“六盘山精神”，全面认识固原市的优势和不利因素，引入国家绿色食品标准和制度，打造绿色固原，是实现固原人民脱贫致富、增产增收目标的必由之路。     

以权利看待农民—我为什么关注农民公民权

农民问题一直是中国的根本问题，农民问题的核心是公民权利问题。以权利看待农民将从根本上有助国家对农民问题有解决。对农民公民权的关切和研究，缘起于长期以来的历史沉思、现实困惑、未来幢憬、理论追寻以及对农民和国家命运的深情关怀。     

The Gender Ethics and Politics of Affection: The ‘Feminine’Melodramatic Mode in Walter Salles' Central do Brasil (1998)

This article reads Walter Salles's Central do Brasil (1998) through a reappraisal of the film's relationship to melodrama in order to emphasise the significance of the association of affect with ethical judgment in thinking about the complex and contradictory gender politics of the film, thereby challenging the conventional tension between pathos and logos. Using a number of filmic and psychoanalytic theories, this article argues that Central do Brasil's melodramatic search for a ‘space of innocence’ in the Sertão could offer less a nostalgic return to anachronistic forms of living than a survival strategy for living in late modernity. Finally, this article argues that Central do Brasil, while lamenting the state's withdrawal from the public sphere, calls for an ethical imperative that is associated with a ‘feminine’ responsible and generous capacity to embrace the other as a necessary form of social and political action for the redefining of citizenship in Brazilian neoliberal society.     

道家生态伦理视域下的城市低碳经济建设探析

道家的生态伦理思想幽深博大,最能体现其基本精神的莫过于"物我为一"的整体观念、"知止知足"的开发原则、热爱自然的伦理情趣等,它们集中地显现出道家生态伦理所特有的东方神韵。道使生态系统趋向平衡,生态系统遵循道所固有的规律运动,循环往复,周而复始。以道家生态伦理指导城市低碳经济建设,有助于我们掌握低碳经济建设的原则,把握低碳经济建设契机,推动其发展。     

我国绿色贸易壁垒的制度缺失及法律对策

目前，我国绿色贸易壁垒的制度缺位或尚不健全主要表现在绿色技术标准、绿色补贴、绿色环境标志、绿色认证、绿色卫生检疫等方面。要充分利用绿色贸易壁垒这把双刃剑，按照法律对策逐步建立和完善我国自己的绿色壁垒制度。     

论中国能源法的生态化

能源法是我国近年来发展最为迅速的立法领域之一。在生态文明观的指导下，不断涌现的能源法呈现出生态化的特征。我国能源法的生态化主要表现为新指导思想的出现、立法结构的生态化、能源法律制度的进步等。     

Sex and the genuine marriage: consummation and conjugality in Canadian citizenship

The idea of consummation as definitive of a marriage seems antiquated today. Yet, consummation operates as a central criterion in determinations of a ‘genuine marriage’ in Canadian immigration law. Drawing on the marriage and migration literature, theorizations of sexual citizenship, and critical multiculturalism, we explore recent judicial considerations of consummation in Canadian family sponsorship adjudications. We searched the CanLII database (a Canadian database of legislation and judicial records) for the keywords ‘non-consummation’ and ‘genuine marriage’ and identified 68 cases. Of these cases, three primary themes emerged: the use of consummation as a ‘technology of love’ – a requirement for assessing the authenticity of the spousal relationship and hence the worthiness of sponsorship; the discursive construction of sexual and gendered norms in expectations around marital intimacy, and the articulation of liberal tolerance and the cultural other in the assessments of genuine marriages among primarily racialized Canadians or permanent residents and their foreign spouses. We challenge these discursive narratives and conclude by arguing that instead of consummation as the basis for genuine marriage, the Law Commission of Canada’s ‘close personal relationship’ model is a better way to assess the ‘genuineness’ of relationships for determining Canadian citizenship.     

From British subjects to Australian values: a citizenship-building approach to Australia–Asia relations

Australia–Asia relations are inextricably bound up with the development of notions of statehood and citizenship. The argument advanced here is that the way a state acts within the international community markedly determines how it relates to its own citizens. Here we suggest that the continuing and politically resonant idea of Australia as a ‘middle power’ is a crucial thread that links the international and national dimensions of citizenship building. From the very beginning of Federation, the contingent sovereignty of the new Australian Commonwealth in the imperial order became necessarily entangled with debate over national political institutions and citizenship building. Long after the end of the British Empire, the notion of middle power politics has determined the nature and shape of citizenship building. These statecraft projects of ‘citizenship building’ are profoundly shaped, determined and reinforced by the institutions and policies of regional engagement. We explore this framework through three critical junctures of domestic and external policy: 1. the emergence of dominion status on the basis of a common racial and cultural identity within the empire in the first half of the century;

2. the developing notion of a good international citizen during the Hawke and Keating period;

3. the invocation of Australian values by John Howard.