Must the show go on? The case for Theatre For Development

This article discusses the reasons for use and nonuse of folk theater for communicating development messages. Theater for Development (TFD) is a tool used by development agencies for improving the quality of life among vulnerable populations. TFD uses fiction and the "safe space" of performance to comment on reality and offer alternatives. The medium offers the opportunity to explore roles that would normally be denied in real life and to explore a community's developmental aspirations. Most TFD draws on talent from the dramatic arts that is unfamiliar with development perspectives. TFD is finally being recognized as important for cultural expression suitable for self-development. Communication is the single most important aspect in the process of development. The constraints to TFD are lack of inclusion within development policy, the lack of development artists, and most importantly, time. Groups with a history of silence, oppression, and marginalization need facilitators. The Freirean model is a consciousness raising one. Participatory theater is centuries old. The most vigorous, sustained TFD theaters are in places with deprivation, poverty, disease, and hunger. These situations are well suited to TFD as a critical intervention for change. An example from the Nigerian Popular Theater Alliance is used to illustrate consciousness raising about government provision of services. TFD allows communities to draw agendas of their own. India has a substantial tradition of Social Action Groups and street theater. TFD can reverse power relations, is not dependent on literacy, and offers an entertaining way of spreading information.     

The ordinary and the extraordinary in institutional litigation

Institutional litigation, in which courts are requested to oversee the operation of large public institutions, has been frequently attacked as a departure from the traditional model of litigation. In this Article, Professors Eisenberg and Yeazell argue that the procedures and remedies employed in institutional litigation are not unprecedented but have analogues in older judicial traditions. Nor, they assert, do the doctrines of separation of powers and federalism present any obstacles to institutional litigation. They conclude that the novelty lies in the newly created substantive rights which courts are asked to enforce.     

发明获得法律保护的条件

<正> (一)能够取得专利的发明概念发明是专利法的客体。"发明"(Invention,Erfindung)概念的定义对任何一个法律体系来说都具有重要的实践意义,因为专利法效力的范围是由这个定义的内容决定的。同时,发明的定义引起颇大的复杂性,因为它表现了智力活动的一个侧面。由于这些原因,发明的概念曾是法律著作中反复探讨的对象。И.Я.赫伊费茨给发明下的定义是:技术课题的创造性解决方案。许多其他苏联作者也持这个观点。外国作者在给发     

刑法和环境保护

<正> 最近几年,人们对利用刑法保护环境问题的兴趣大大增强。包括苏联在内的许多国家,对这个问题都通过了新的刑法。"刑法和环境保护"的问题,列入了1979年9月在汉堡召开的国际刑法协会第十二次会议的议事日程。不久前,在波兰对这个问题还进行了预备性的口试。刑法在保护环境中的作用。苏联宪法第十八条所规定的环境,是指经常影响人们、同时     

再论完善经济立法

<正> 经济立法以及它和其他法律部门的区别。在1936年的苏联宪法里溲有经济法的术语。由此或许可以得出结论说,苏联溲有经济法,而只有民法、劳动法、土地法,家庭法等等。但是根据党和政府的决议,经济立法是存在的,而且在发展着,它非常复杂,非常广泛,并且应当完善。我们认为,在实践中广泛使用的"经济的"这一概念是十分确定的。在党和国家最重要的文件里,谈及社会主义经济中各经济组织、企业之间发生的合同和争议时就是说的经济立法、经济关系、经济合同和经济争议。     

日本的有组织犯罪

<正> 有组织犯罪是资本主义国家犯罪现象的特点。日本也不例外。在日本,每年都有上万名与一种"阿飞"暴力组织有关的罪犯被捕。在这方面,1956年是创纪录的一年:共逮捕了82,000名"阿飞"暴力组织成员。根据官方资料,日本共有4,000个"阿飞"暴力组织,人数为92,000人。但是,这些数字尚不能反映出其实情况。     

社会主义财政和财政法

<正> 在社会主义社会,财政和财政法的相互关系和相互作用在本质上具有新的意义。马克思强调指出:"人们按照自己物质生产的发展建立相应的社会关系,正是这些人又按照自己的社会关系创造了相应的原理、观念和范畴"。因此,必须从理论上和方法学上研究财政和财政法对发展生产、生产集约化、提高工作效率和改进工作质量所起作用的复杂过程。在解决这些迫切的任务时,苏维埃社会主义法及其各部门法,其中包括财政法,都起着     

加强劳动纪律的法律手段

<正> 在生产中加强劳动纪律和稳定干部的问题,始终是共产党和苏联政府一贯注意的中心。列宁在1918年写道:"必须把我们已经夺得的东西,把我们颁布过的法令,确定了的法规,讨论过的问题,拟订了的计划草案固定下来——必须把这些东西固定为不可动摇的日常劳动纪律。这是一个最困难而又最容易收效的任务,因为只有解决这个任务,我们才能树立起社会主义的秩序"。在加强自觉的劳动纪律中,劳动法令起了很大的作用。它巩固了人们对于遵守劳动纪律