Large-scale land deals in Sierra Leone at the intersection of gender and lineage

There is wide engagement with large-scale land deals in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly from the perspectives of development and international political economy. Recently, scholars have increasingly pointed to a gendered lacuna in this literature. Engagement with gender tends to focus on potential differential impacts for men and women, and it also flags the need for more detailed empirical research of specific land deals. This paper draws from ethnographic data collected in Northern Sierra Leone to support the claim that the impacts of land deals are highly gendered, but it also argues that lineage in a land-owning family and patronage intersect with these gendered impacts. This data supports my claim that analysis of land deals should start from an understanding of the context-dependent, complex arrays of power and marginality. Such a starting point allows for a wider and ‘messier’ range of impacts and experiences to emerge.     

多元竞争环境下的马来西亚政治生态

本文旨在分析马来西亚近期政治生态中的若干重要变化,并对竞争环境下马来西亚政治行为体的行为规律进行探讨。本文认为,马来西亚的政治生态正处在从威权政治向多元竞争型政治的快速转变过程中,政治上的生存—发展策略主要是绩效竞争、政治结盟、话语动员。     

Overreaching In Registered Land Law

Beneficial interests under a trust were not intended to be overriding interests under section 70(1)(g) of the Land Registration Act 1925. The position was altered by Williams & Glyn's Bank Ltd v Boland , which determined that an interest under a trust for sale would bind a purchaser if the beneficiary were in actual occupation. The decision raised the question whether such interests could be overreached once the beneficiary was in occupation of the trust property. City of London Building Society v Flegg held that the relevant beneficial interest had been overreached. Both decisions assume that overreaching in registered conveyancing takes effect as it does in unregistered land. Yet there is considerable evidence that the Land Registration Act contains its own overreaching machinery. The House of Lords applied the wrong overreaching provisions in Boland and Flegg and there is no legal basis on which to recognise that trust interests can override a subsequent disposition under section 70(1)(g).     

需要层次理论：增强高校统战工作活力的一种重要方法

如何增强基层统战工作活力是一个热点问题，更是因应新世纪新阶段统战工作局面的现实问题。要增强高校统战工作的活力，必须有自觉的方法论意识。运用需要层次理论，要深入把握其积极意义和不足，注意了解需要、恰当激励、积极引导的综合运用，注意布局的整体性、目标的系统性，避免流于偏失。不能教条化地搬弄套用需要层次理论。而应深入了解每个统战成员的心理需求和人格类型。     

农村经济产业化模式下土地流转法律规制研究

自从实行家庭联产承包责任制以来,农民生产积极性的提高已经极大地促进了农村生产力的发展,农村土地流转成为农村村民间进行交易的一种常态,成为一种经济形式,<农村土地承包法>、<物权法>等法律的实施,为调整农村土地流转关系提供了充分的法律依据.但是随着农民专业合作社的实施和发展,我国农业生产产业化进程的加快,农业市场化、国际...     

从一起案件看新加坡受贿罪的规定与实施及其对我国的启示

新加坡素有“廉政之邦”的美誉,其治理腐败的刑罚不重,但效果很好.新加坡法律对于受贿罪的主体、主观方面、客观行为等从构成条件到认定程序,从调查程序到实体处理,从刑事处罚到行政处分都作了全面、详细的规定.针对我国近年来出现的不同形式的贿赂,可借鉴新加坡关于受贿罪的法律规定与具体实施的经验,完善我国的相关立法规定.     

日本古代小说的佛学烙印与文化成因

日本古代小说大都具有浓郁的佛学色彩,净土、无常、果报是最典型的三个侧面。净土思想是日本佛教的主流且具有明显的现世特征:平安物语的净土信仰成为救赎宫廷贵族脱离苦难的精神支柱;中世战记物语的净土信仰多与死亡紧密相连,成为对战乱中人们渴求来世幸福的终极关怀。无常是日本小说尤其是中世物语中最浓墨重彩的一笔,无常既是对人间永无常住的感性叹息,也是对盛者必衰社会法则的理论解释,更成为武家社会切身感受的"生死观"。因果报应思想贯穿日本小说史的始终,它与宿世、轮回、转生等观念互为表里,成为孕育日本怪异小说流行的土壤之一,并表现出与儒家劝惩观念相结合的世俗化趋势。     

合同诈骗罪“非法占有目的”之结构性认定

从理论及实务经验来看，盗窃、诈骗等侵财类犯罪的“非法占有目的”一般由“排除意思”与“利用意思”两个方面构成。排除意思侧重排除权利人的法益保护，利用意思侧重财物的经济利用。合同诈骗作为诈骗的特殊形态，其非法占有目的也可以从此两结构进行认定。具体来说，从签订合同时、合同履行中判断其是否具有排除意思及利用意思，也可以从合同履行中履行完毕前对通过合同取得财物的利用方式判断其是否具有非法占有目的。     

论雍正年间台湾“番”地开垦政策的变化——以《巡台录》为中心

以往学术界普遍认为清代台湾土地开发完全是依靠民间的力量,政府和官员的态度是消极的,不仅未给予支持协助,反而多方留难限制.然而,这种情形并非自始至终一成不变.从近年来新发掘的分廵台湾道张嗣昌所撰<廵台录>中对大甲西社"番"变事件善后的处理和官方劝垦"番"地的记载,以及减轻台湾田园赋税和开放移民搬眷入台的种种措施,可以看出雍正年间政府对台湾的土地开垦政策有了十分明显的变化.这种变化与雍正皇帝重视农本,奖励垦荒政策有很大关系.     

Gender aspects of inheritance strategies and land transmission in rural Scania,Sweden, 1720–1840

This study deals with gender aspects of land transmissions in pre-industrial Sweden. Although not supported by law, a clear mentality of male primogeniture among peasants existed in the Swedish countryside in the 18th century. In many cases, however, this ideal could never be realized, making the idea of the “family farm,” handed down from father to son for generations, more of a myth than a reality. This study uses postmortem inventories linked to tax registers and family reconstitutions for a sample of parishes in southern Sweden to show that various strategies were chosen when transferring the farm after the death of the husband or wife. Although sons were more likely to take over the farms, daughters (or more correctly sons-in-law) also frequently did so, as did, sometimes, more distant kin and non-kin. Moreover, it was not the case, as has sometimes been maintained, that daughters took over the farm only when no able-bodied sons were available. On the contrary, daughters (sons-in-law) quite frequently took over the farm even when sons were present. The decision on land transmission was part of a more general family strategy concerning reproduction (access to marriage and household formation) as well as old-age security.