Nation-Building Narratives in Viet Nam: A Memoir on B-52s and Their Aftermath

In late 1972 (December 18-30), the Christmas Bombing of Hanoi in the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam by the U.S. Air Force took place. Three weeks later, the American author arrived and witnessed the destruction and how the Vietnamese had already fitted this 'Battle of the B-52s' into their centuries old narrative of resistance to foreign invasion. This article recounts the people and situations that he met on this visit and the ways Vietnamese of all kinds viewed the battle as a great victory for their land, one reinforcing their sense of past, present, and future.     

列车提速后铁路伤亡事故的特点及鉴别

本文对列车提速后铁路伤亡事故出现的新情况进行了探讨,并与提速前有关资料进行了比较研究,总结出一些新的特点,提出了检验鉴别方法.     

农民非制度政治参与的原因分析及治理路径

当前中国农村社会转型过程中最突出的政治现象是农民的非制度政治参与,其中在社会利益分化的情况下,农民自身正当利益受到损害;农民经济基础的薄弱;农民制度内参与的渠道缺失;农民综合素质较低,是引发农民非制度化政治参与的重要原因.在新农村建设过程中,需在大力发展农村经济的基础上,完善农民政治参与机制,提高农民综合素质,培育新型农民,健全农民利益补偿机制,以使农民政治参与走上制度化道路.     

交通协管员问题及其制度分析

作为公安机关治理道路交通问题的一种制度性尝试,交通协管员的产生有其特殊的社会背景,具有一定的客观必然性.从新公共行政理论及现代警务改革理论的视角分析,交通协管员的存在具有理论上的正当性.面对交通协管员队伍存在的许多问题与不足,政府应通过制定<交通协管员管理条例>等一系列行政法规、规章对其进行必要的法律规制.     

Plasticity and Post-Colonial Recognition: ‘Owning,Knowing and Being’*

In this article the author traces the limits of the philosophy and politics of recognition as manifest in colonial settler contexts. Forms of property ownership and ways of being, sutured by the racial body, are contained by a restricted economy of owning, knowing and being. Bringing the concept of plasticity to bear on the relationship between the body, property and the colonial, the author illuminates the ways in which practices of ownership that exceed the restricted economy of recognition exhibit a temporal and spatial plasticity in the context of the Palestinian struggles over land in the West Bank.     

关于维护社会稳定的思考

构成稳定的两个基本要素是秩序和持续.不同阶层反映出不同的利益要求是正常的.言路必须畅通,秩序必须保障,利益必须平衡.把公众利益需求的满足程度作为考察社会稳定的指标更具有客观性、动态性和可比性.对执政党而言,保障不同群体的合法利益是依法办事,制止危害公共利益或者他人合法利益的行为也是依法办事.改革和完善党的领导方式和执政方式,对推进社会主义民主政治建设具有根本性、全局性的作用,对维护社会稳定也具有前提性、决定性的作用.维护社会稳定,政府必须不与民争利,自身处于"无利益"状态,可以"花钱买太平"但绝不能"暗箱操作",应当允许群众情绪的无害化宣泄.站在巩固党的执政基础、提高执政能力的政治高度考察,依法办事才是维护社会稳定的唯一正确选择.     

论和谐社会背景下的物权私力救济

和谐社会建设已经成为我国社会发展的时代主题,和谐社会的构建离不开物权保护中的私力救济。在宪政和法治原则的关照下,在物权公力救济占主导地位的情形下,对物权私力救济的内在底蕴、外在表征、成立要件和存在限度及其与和谐社会架构之间的内在关联进行追问和反思,必将有利于促进人与物的和谐,实现人与人的和谐,进而在一定程度上推动我国和谐社会建设的顺利进行。     

“We really don’t want to move,but...”: identity and strategy in the internationalisation of industrial R&;D

In Norway, as in many other high-cost OECD countries in a geographical and cultural periphery, policy-makers seem to have given up attempts at attracting large numbers of foreign R&D investments. Instead, a major focus of innovation policies is to help companies internationalise yet with an aim to maintain or even increase their level of R&D and other innovation activities nationally. Based on case studies of eight Norwegian companies and their motives for and experiences with internationalisation of R&D, this article questions this policy. From the perspective of the companies, many factors explain how, why and where they carry out their R&D activities.      

Putting Gender into the Definition of Rape or Taking it Out?

The main issue in the Masiya judgment was whether the current South African definition of rape—namely non-consensual penetration of a vagina by a penis—should be extended to include anal penetration of both female and male victims. The majority of the Constitutional Court held that anal penetration of female victims should constitute rape, but declined to offer similar protection to male victims. This note argues that this judgment reverts to and reinforces patriarchal stereotypes and dichotomies and that it misunderstands, in a profound way, central concepts such as sex and gender and the gendered nature of rape. It further suggests that, instead of being an aberration, the judgment actually fits into a pattern of conservative judgments about gender and sexuality by the South African Constitutional Court.