Agriculture in and beyond the Haitian catastrophe

Although the devastation from Haiti’s 2010 earthquake was concentrated in Port-au-Prince, it had deep agrarian roots. This paper situates Haiti’s urban poverty in the chronic exploitation of the country’s peasant classes as a basis for assessing the competing contemporary visions for agricultural development. We argue that the post-earthquake reconstruction has fortified a neoliberal development that is incompatible with the aspirations of the Haitian peasantry. Given the interrelated power of domestic elites and international donors, and the proliferation of disconnected development projects, we conclude that any prospect for pro-poor development hinges on the growth and collaboration of peasant movements.     

‘Whichever way you turn,there is the face of God’ diaspora,memory, and historiography from the margin in The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami

In The Moor’s Account, Laila Lalami dares to dust off the archive of official history that passed over the testimonies of a Moroccan slave during the Discovery Age. This paper explores the way the slave capitalizes on historiography to reconstruct the Western monolithic history. In so doing, the re-constructor’s memory performs a number of roles. It registers the history of the European conquest of La Florida using micro narrative frameworks that highlight salient differences from the official record. Besides, the diasporic memory that the present novel advocates has the intention to mark a difference of the silenced subjectivity from the supremacist histories through a transnational matching of homeland with diaspora. This transnationalism is coupled with a look forward to circumvent the essentialism implied in the monologic narratives. In shuttling between the past, present, and future, memory espouses cosmopolitanism as an alternative to the fundamentalism which threatens people’s cultural diversity.     

Feminism,nationalism, and labour in post-civil war Northern Province of Sri Lanka

This viewpoint highlights the paradox of low labour force participation and high unemployment among women at a time of growing educational levels of women in the former conflict-affected Northern Province of Sri Lanka. It highlights the rise of ethno-feminism and sub-nationalism that undermine what few opportunities open up for women in terms of employment and livelihood opportunities, thereby weakening the peacebuilding efforts of various stakeholders.     

Uncovering land tenure insecurities: tips for tenure responsive land-use planning in Ethiopia

Land-use planning, although a mechanism for development, can also generate insecurity during its implementation. This article argues that tenure security and land-use planning should not be implemented in isolation from each other. It posits that land-use planning – rather than restricting the security of people's tenure – has the potential to serve as a means of securing tenure. The article explores tenure (in)security elements in land-use planning as a crucial challenge in the urban town of Gelan Sidama Awash, Ethiopia. Using data collected through stakeholders’ interviews, it uncovers their tenure security challenges, and outlines a set of measures for enhancing tenure security through land-use planning.     

‘Flat and fabulous’: women’s breast reconstruction refusals post-mastectomy and the negotiation of normative femininity

The ‘pinkification’ of breast cancer culture in recent years conflates women’s empowerment with the celebration of hyperfemininity. Consistent with this trend, reconstructive surgery post-mastectomy is increasingly normalised: restoring the breasts is to restore ‘lost’ femininity. Contextualised within the pressures of this normalisation, our article explores how women who decide against breast reconstruction negotiate their non-normative ‘flat’ bodies. We examine women’s posts in a breast cancer forum about their refusals of breast reconstruction. Using thematic and feminist post-structuralist analyses, we suggest that although health and body acceptance discourses enable resistance to embodied femininity norms, pressures to conform permeate practices related to appearance. Clothes and prosthetic breasts enabled forum participants to pass as ‘healthy’, ‘whole’, and ‘recovered’. The study’s findings emphasise the limitations to agency and resistance that emanate from the ways constraining gender discourses infiltrate every aspect of a woman’s life. In line with a critical awareness approach to breast cancer education, we discuss the possibilities of resistance afforded by the safe spaces of online communities.     

包容性发展理念下的领导伦理的构建:基于政府发展理念的反思

改革开放以来,以经济建设为中心的发展理念在一些领导干部思想中变成了单一的经济增长的发展理念,发展偏离了"人本"的本质,逐渐演变为排他的发展,冷酷的发展,缺乏伦理的畸形发展。因此,重建领导发展伦理,使发展回归"正统"已迫在眉睫。"包容性发展"理念为领导伦理的重建指明了方向。     

信赖保护原则的法理分析及其制度重构

信赖保护原则是公法上的一项重要原则，该原则对西方国家行政法的发展影响深远。自我国《行政许可法》首次以条文的形式明确信赖保护原则的相关内容以来，该原则在促进我国法治政府建设、保护行政相对人合法权益等方面发挥了重要作用。然而，随着社会的不断发展变化，关于信赖保护规定的一些不足之处也日益显现，因此有必要对该制度进行重构。     

基于正交试验的汽车制动纵滑摩擦系数研究

目的通过进行不同因素条件下的汽车制动纵滑摩擦试验,得到不同因素下的摩擦系数,缩小摩擦系数参考值范围,提高事故再现精度。方法在制动纵滑摩擦试验中引入正交试验方法,通过极差分析确定不同因素对摩擦系数的影响程度,对汽车摩擦系数的选取进行可靠计算。结果提出了摩擦系数修正值的使用方法,有效减小摩擦系数参考值的范围,提高事故再现精度。结论事故再现中,通过试验研究方法,准确地选取汽车制动摩擦系数,有效提高了事故再现的精度。     

我国国家赔偿法归责原则体系之缺陷与重构

国家赔偿归责原则体系主要有过错归责原则、违法归责原则和以过错为主、危险责任为辅归责原则的几种立法例体系.针对我国现行国家赔偿归责原则体系存在的一些缺陷,应以违法归责原则为主,以结果、过错、无过错等归责原则为辅来重构我国的国家赔偿归责原则体系.     

传统考文化在当前和谐家庭建设中的现实意义

中国孝文化历经几千年,具有十分丰富的内涵。然而,孝文化在当今社会却未得到足够的体现和弘扬。于此,文章拟从分析中国孝文化教育在当今社会缺失的现象入手,探讨和分析如何在中国传统孝文化和当代家庭道德建设中寻找一个契合点,希望籍此获得解决当前家庭道德建设问题的良方。