No exceptions: authoritarian statism. Agamben,Poulantzas and homeland security

This article outlines and compares two different ways of making sense of counterterrorism and the configuration of political power in its context. Against the backdrop of US homeland security, it first outlines Agamben’s thesis on the permanent state of exception. Despite its resonance with key aspects of homeland security, this thesis is found to be analytically limited and theoretically brittle. To overcome its shortcomings and provide a better understanding of contemporary organisation of political power, a strategic-relational approach is suggested, derived from Poulantzas’s state theory.     

Realising the Right to Health for Young People in South Africa—Some Reflections

Abstract

The right to health is enshrined in the South African Constitution as well as a range of international and regional human rights treaties which South Africa accepts. Yet empirical data reveals some of the challenges faced by South African youth—childhood diseases, HIV/AIDS and such like. There are evidently challenges realising the right to health in practice. Nevertheless, South African courts have led the international field in recognising the justiciability of economic and social rights such as the right to health. Having reviewed the applicable laws and jurisprudence, the paper will conclude that a more holistic human rights-based approach offers perhaps the best way forward.     

Changing South Korean Water Policy after Political and Economic Liberalisation

This study explores the way in which South Korean water policy has been dynamically (re-)constructed by continuing political contestations among diverse social forces acting in and through the state in the face of political and economic liberalisation. The path-dependency of the state-driven water resource policy under the former authoritarian regime did not disappear even after the democratisation. It was difficult to transform the old authoritarian and hierarchical water governance to the newly democratic and environmentally friendly one because the Ministry of Construction, as a main actor in driving water policy under the authoritarian regimes, did not give up its interest in a dam-based policy orientation, although it did partially accept institutional tools for democratic policy making, such as public hearings and the participation of civil society in the process of establishing the water policy plan. It also showed democratic and environment-friendly gestures using the rhetoric of environmentalism and localisation. Overall, this article emphasises the importance of the path-dependency of the past authoritarian regimes under democratised society to better understand the current democratic regime’s policy orientation.     

浙江建设“重要窗口”的制度基础

浙江在以往跨越式发展中形成的诸多制度经验,不仅是浙江忠实践行“八八战略”、奋力打造“重要窗口”,争创社会主义现代化先行省的制度基础,而且对于全国乃至形成更具普遍价值的中国方案,推动全球治理,亦有着重要的借鉴意义。它们包括但不限于：率先启动并深化拓展“最多跑一次”改革,形成坚持以人民为中心发展思想的制度体系;鼓励基层有序创新民主治理体制机制,深化“法治浙江”建设,建立完善与浙江高水平发展相适应的法治体系;主动适应现代治理新场景,全面转变治理理念,积极引入数字技术,构建整体智治的现代政府新形态;联动推进行政审批制度改革和要素市场化配置改革,加快构建开放型经济新体制,巩固完善社会主义市场经济体系;完善创新驱动的发展机制,强化经济社会发展引领机制,率先形成绿色、集约的高质量经济发展新体系;高标准建设社会保障和公共服务制度,形成公平有效可持续的民生保障体系;高水平推进“平安浙江”建设,“枫桥经验”推陈出新,“三治融合”全面开展,形成既稳定有序又充满活力的社会治理体系;践行“绿水青山就是金山银山”理念,建设美丽浙江,形成人与自然和谐共生的绿色发展体制机制;探索建立中心城市辐射带动的治理机制,建立完善城乡融合发展的体制机制与政策体系,实施“山海协作”机制,形成城乡、区域协调发展新体系;着力提升文化软实力,推进“文化浙江”建设,形成坚持和完善繁荣发展社会主义先进文化的制度。     

Rethinking Conflict: Perspectives from the Insight Approach

In this article, the authors present the “insight approach” to conflict as an analytical and methodological framework that addresses the dynamic interactions between conflicting parties. According to the insight approach, conflict is relational, dynamic, and adaptive, generated from the responsive interpretive frameworks that parties use to construct meaning. Conflict arises as a result of parties' experience of what insight theorists call “threat‐to‐cares,” which generates defend–attack patterns of interaction between them. The authors suggest that rethinking the nature of conflict so that it is seen as an interaction embedded in meaning making enables conflict interveners to help parties gain insight into, and articulate, the values that are being generated, advanced, threatened, and realigned within the complex interactions that define us as social beings. In doing so, parties develop abilities to generate new patterns and solutions that can limit and even eliminate the experiences of threat that generate conflict between them.     

论船舶碰撞损害赔偿中的责任比例认定

在分析、比较英美法系、大陆法系因果关系理论的基础上,提出在船舶碰撞损害赔偿责任比例认定过程中,可采用＂两分法＂,即首先运用＂相当因果关系理论＂认定事实上的因果关系,即认定船舶从相遇到碰撞发生的整个过程中的过失行为对碰撞事故发生及碰撞损害后果的作用力的大小;然后采用＂直接结果理论＂和＂可预见理论＂认定船舶过失行为与损害后果之间的法律上的因果关系,而法律推定因果关系方法则不应当适用。     

犯罪学问题清单（一）——有关犯罪学批判的思考

对新中国犯罪学研究中存在争议的、理论的和学术的问题做出简要的梳理是十分必要的。这里仅提出”犯罪学的批判性”和”价值涉入”两个问题并加以讨论。前一个问题作为犯罪学的特质也成为”犯罪学批判”专栏的点题之笔。批判性的缺失与否直接关系到犯罪学能否发挥其正常的学术功能。后一个问题也是犯罪学这种涉及社会黑暗面的学科难以回避的一个问题。价值涉入在中国特殊的文化环境中具有特殊的表现形式,值得认真加以辨析。     

Psychological adjustment in a forensic sample: relationship with approach- and avoidance-coping typologies

Most studies that relate coping strategies with psychological symptoms usually consider a single coping dimension. This means that interpretation of the results is unclear and only partially true as subjects activate different types of coping strategies simultaneously when faced with a stressor. The objective of the present study is to analyze the relationships between coping and psychopathology in young inmates, taking into account the number of approach and avoidance answers simultaneously. The results show that the inmates with above-average scores in avoidance coping and below average in those of approach (coping responses inventory--adult form, [CRI-A]) show higher symptomatology (MMPI-2) than the inmates who obtain above-average scores in both avoidance and approach strategies. It can be deduced that it is not the high use of avoidance coping that is related to psychopathology, but rather the combined use of many avoidance strategies and few approach strategies. The convenience of jointly taking into account both types of coping is discussed.     

“蚁族”思想政治教育探析

所谓“蚁族”,是指高校毕业生低收入聚居群体。当前,大学生就业形势日趋严峻,许多大学生宁愿做“蚁族”,在大城市过着艰苦生活也不愿到中西部或回乡就业。由于各种社会原因,“蚁族”的思想政治教育现状不太令人乐观。积极探索“蚁族”思想政治教育的新形势、新内容和新途径,对于“蚁族”的健康成长和社会和谐具有重大的理论指导和现实意义。