Conjuring up the next attack: the future-orientedness of terror and the counterterrorist imagination

Although terrorism is widely understood to be the politically motivated creation of fear by means of violence in a target group, the nature of that fear is seldom explained or even considered. The present article attempts to close that gap by proposing a definition of terror as the apprehension of (more) violence to come. Because every terrorist act is perceived to be part of a potential series, terror is oriented towards the future and involves the imaginary anticipation of prospective events. On the basis of this definition, I will examine the problematical role of counterterrorist discourse. As the statements of public officials and security experts in the run-up to, and during, the “War on Terror” demonstrate, the peculiar dynamic of terror is, seemingly paradoxically, reinforced by counterterrorist rhetoric. With its insistence on the escalatory nature of terrorist violence and its repeated prediction of even worse attacks, counterterrorism contributes to the evocation of terror in the sense proposed here.     

两个父系社会家谱的编撰和利用——历史记忆、族群关系及传统建构的人类学研究

汉族周边社会的特殊性使人类学传统亲族研究的理论视角和方法遭到了挑战,摆脱"历史的真实"和结构功能分析理论模式的桎梏,从研究对象之传统建构话语体系的象征分析中寻找理解其自身问题的路径,是研究方法上一种新的尝试。针对两个不同性质父系社会家谱编撰和利用状况的比较,可以为人类学开展家族及亲族研究提供新的视角。     

理解含义:理论、话语和国际关系

近年来,语言在国际关系中的重要作用逐渐引起人们的兴趣和关注,出现国际关系研究的“语言转向”。这一学术转向的意义在于,它试图探索国际关系中的人和事件如何在语言的作用下被赋予含义,以及这种含义反过来如何影响并建构着国际关系“现实”。符号含义的不固定性、多层性和争议性,不仅挑战了国际关系“知识”中的话语霸权现象,而且提醒人们有必要对国际关系的不同“现实”进行理解,并说明国际政治不仅是竞争物质实力的领域,而且还是争夺话语含义的场所。     

论犯罪心理学的研究对象

研究犯罪心理学的根本目的是为了揭示犯罪原因,进行犯罪预测、预防和控制,其狭义和广义之争并不妨碍这一目的的实现。犯罪心理学的研究对象受学科发展状况、研究目的和学科话语霸权的影响。文章从这三个角度出发,对研究对象的狭义说和广义说进行考证,认为犯罪心理学的研究对象仍应立足于狭义说,并兼顾广义说。     

网络话语权的公共领域特征与话语民主的实现

网络作为公共舆论的重要平台,使得公民的话语权在网络空间得到全新的实现。网络公共领域的话语表达所表现出的匿名性、开放性、互动性等特点,使得网络话语权的行使具有传统媒体无可比拟的优势,成为公民问责和实践话语民主的重要形式。     

网络宣传与意识形态话语权研究

网络宣传工作是巩固和增强意识形态话语权的有效途径和手段,意识形态话语权的强弱是检验网络宣传工作成效高低的重要标准。强有力的网络宣传工作有助于我们占领社会舆论的制高点,有助于我们引领多元化思潮的发展方向,是巩固和增强意识形态话语权的有效途径和手段。     

知识产权国际博弈与中国话语的价值取向

美国在知识产权全球治理中呈现出一味强化权利保护的价值倾向。受其影响,知识产权保护的国际规则呈现不断强化之势。但是,美国在国内法中存在对知识产权强化保护的平衡机制,有别于其对外片面输出强化保护规则。一味强化保护的知识产权制度会走向偏颇。我国在知识产权国际博弈和对话中需要提出自己的话语和话语体系,其前提是明确本国话语的价值取向。相比历史、文化取向而言,话语构造的价值取向路径具有优越性。在国际博弈中,我国宜秉持并提倡知识产权法的二元价值取向。二元价值取向契合知识产权法基本原理,体现了世界共同价值,其核心作用在于纠偏,我国应坚持和发扬这一价值取向。     

Turning Back the Clock? Violence against Women and the Trump Administration

ABSTRACT

The Trump Administration has engaged in a systematic rolling back of protections, regulations, and a host of other social safety net programs for vulnerable people, leaving over half of the population in dismay while others celebrate archaic triumphs. In this context, our focus is limited to the Trump Administration’s efforts—through law and words—to turn back the clock for women. We examine the reinforcement of overt forms of inequality rooted in patriarchy through domestic law as well as Trump’s misogynistic attitude and language toward women. Given that his words hold a greater significance now that he is President of the United States, he has a “gold-plated” pulpit to share and spread his misogynistic hostile rhetoric and propaganda: anti-women objectification, devaluing, and demonization through hegemonic “wordfare” while feeding and fueling sexism across the country. We conclude by suggesting that Trump’s rhetoric and that of other leading political figures are contributing to a darker time for those not in the white elite heteronormative order with short and long term implications and harm. We caution that the current dangers posed by these attacks are entering us into an endemic misogynist normal: retroactively moving the Country back in time at a dangerous speed.     

Irony Practice: Reconstructing Structural Social Work: Enlightenment from Neoclassical Sociology

Structural social work has been expanding its influence while experiencing marginalized crises since 1970s: with the expansion of neo-conservatism, the structural perspective is incompatible with the liberal-based system at the political level. In recent years, the “critical reflection practice” established through the reunification of the socialist tradition of social work has become increasingly prosperous, but it has not been possible to answer the question of legitimacy in its own theory. The purpose of this paper is to reflect the crisis of the traditional sociology by analyzing the crisis of western sociology, and to try to reconstruct the critical social science by talking with Iván Szelényi and others to sort out the concept of “irony” as a methodology and the mission of contemporary intellectuals. Under the inspiration of relevance of classical sociology and social work, this paper provides insights to the reconstruction of social work.     

中国共产党人“五四阐释”的革命话语和建设话语

中国共产党人的“五四阐释”是指中国共产党人自五四运动以来,对五四运动的回忆、评价与反思。在新民主主义革命时期,中国共产党人从革命的领导力量、动力、阶段划分及任务等方面阐释五四运动,建构了“五四阐释”的革命话语;在社会主义建设和改革开放时期,中国共产党人从社会主义建设的伟大奋斗目标、各阶段历史任务及青年的奋斗方向等方面阐释五四运动,建构了“五四阐释”的建设话语。文章回溯了中国共产党人“五四阐释”的建构历程,对深化五四运动的研究,更好地继承和弘扬五四精神具有重要意义。