The Archive Function

As Joan Wallach Scott warns in The Fantasy of Feminist History, the danger of depositing one's personal papers in an archive is that one's papers then become open to misinterpretation. In this article, Scott's fears are enacted in relation to another feminist theorist's archival collection, that of prominent Canadian scholar Barbara Godard who died before she could complete the process of donating her papers to the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections at York University. Drawing on personal memories and eclectic textual traces, this article attempts to recover Godard's theory of the archive—a theory she never fully articulated in her lifetime, despite dedicating much of her time and energy to collecting and preserving her own words and the words and papers of her students and collaborators.     

Expropriated from the hereafter: The fate of the landless in the Southern Highlands of Madagascar

During the period following the abolition of slavery by the French colonial government in 1896, the Southern Highlands of Madagascar was settled by ex-slaves. These early settlers constructed a foundation myth of themselves as tompon-tany, or ‘masters of the land’, a discourse not only equating land with tombs, kinship and ancestors, but also coupled with a skilful deployment of ‘Malagasy customs’. In order to exclude later migrants who also wanted to settle, the ‘masters of the land’ attempted to establish control over holdings in the area. To this end, and to reinforce their own legitimacy as landholders, the tompon-tany labelled subsequent migrants andevo (‘slave’ or of ‘slave descent’) who – as a tombless people – have no rights to land. Because they have neither tombs nor ancestors, the landless andevo are socially ostracised and economically marginalised. As an ‘impure people’, they are not entitled to a place in the hereafter.     

A Voice for the Injured

This article analyses the nature and effect of the campaign against the Family Court led by social commentator Bettina Arndt from 1995 to 2006, in the context of the men's rights agenda and the politics of anti-feminist backlash. It documents the changes to Australian family law and the workings of the Family Court under the Howard government, as a result of this campaign, in order to understand the politics of backlash in the context of Wendy Brown's States of Injury theory of 1995. In this analysis, the conservative men's rights agenda is understood as a reaction to structural and economic adjustments associated with neoliberal reforms, especially labour market regulation. But this context, of structural adjustment, is distorted in the rhetoric and focus of campaigns characterised by anti-feminist backlash, such as that directed at the Family Court in Australia. The example of Arndt and her championing of men's rights in this arena is presented as a means by which to compare the different experiences and traditions of feminism in Australia and America, and the associated politics of backlash in each nation, all of which have had a profound influence on Arndt's outlook and work.     

我国八城市流动青少年违法犯罪状况调查

最近,中国青少年研究中心“流动青少年权益保护与犯罪预防研究”课题组对北京、上海、广州、南京、杭州、成都、郑州、沈阳8个城市25岁以下流动青少年违法犯罪的情况进行了调查。调查表明,流动青少年违法犯罪与当前我困整个青少年违法犯罪的总体状况基本一致,与本地青少年违法犯罪相比,存在较大差异,流动青少年中侵犯财物类犯罪的比例更高。这与他们的成长环境、生活就业、权益保护及社会支持等方面的状况具有一定的相关性。在流动青少年犯罪预防方面,应在综合治理方针的指导下,加强流动青少年权益保护,改善他们的生存发展环境,增强社会支持。     

关于高校腐败问题及其控制对策思考

面对高校反腐倡廉工作的新形势、新任务,建立健全具有高校特点的惩治和预防腐败的体系,是深入推进反腐倡廉工作的必然要求。高校要以创新的思路,抓好惩防体系建设,深入推进反腐倡廉工作。     

中外警察教育比较研究(上)

公安教育是公安事业可持续发展的基石,高度重视公安教育是当前国际国内形势发展的迫切要求.通过对中外警察教育的训练理念、制度、模式、内容、保障和绩效的比较分析,国外警察教育对我们的启示主要有坚持学历教育与培训教育协调发展的方针;真正把"科教强警"落到实处;注重依法推进正规化建设;大力强化学生(学员)的实战能力培养;牢牢把握警察教育的脉搏;积极推进师资队伍和警察文化建设.     

Oversight and accountability for serious incidents in Canada: Who polices the police?

This study examines the agencies responsible for investigating when a member of the public is seriously injured, is killed or experiences other serious and potentially criminal actions at the hands of police officers in Canada. The article takes a comprehensive approach by examining all police oversight agencies that are responsible for responding to and investigating allegations of police criminality—eight organizations, across nine jurisdictions. The study integrates insights from public administration and police accountability literature and examines the structures and administration of the agencies. The study provides a critical assessment of the state of police oversight for serious incidents in Canada, it identifies agency outputs (including case substantiation), levels of independence, efforts at transparency, and considers the challenges in attempting to hold police accountable in Canada.