Structural violence and politics

Abstract

In Red Tape, I do not use the term “arbitrary” in opposition to “systematic”, as is alleged by Harriss and Jeffrey. Arbitrariness accompanies systematic forms of discrimination, and is the result of both, the indifference to outcomes and to the chaotic style of functioning of Indian bureaucracies. Interpreting structural violence, or explaining injustice, requires understanding what the state means to different people. The chief argument that poverty is a form of violence, and represents the killing of the poor, underlines the injustice that results from treating poverty as a biopolitical fact. I employ a notion of politics that is not restricted to parties and mobilization, but which saturates all relations of inequality. Despite voicing dissatisfaction with the analysis presented in Red Tape, Harriss and Jeffrey fail to forward an adequate and coherent alternative.     

Structural Equation Modeling of School Violence Data

SUMMARY

Methodological challenges associated with structural equation modeling (SEM) and structured means modeling (SMM) in research on school violence and related topics in the social and behavioral sciences are examined. Problems associated with multiyear implementations of large-scale surveys are discussed. Complex sample designs, part of any large-scale survey, introduce multiple methodological challenges into SEM analysis. Problems with missing data and data imputation procedures are explored, along with commonly occurring departures from normality. Hypothesis testing of models and associated fit indices are explicated. Issues surrounding the use of Lagrange Multiplier tests of constraint validity in SMM are examined. Finally, basic problems associated with developing viable models of complex social phenomena with SEM are considered.     

The contribution of Archie Mafeje to the debate on land reform in Africa

ABSTRACT

This article situates the election of Barack Hussein Obama as President of the United States of America within the current global political economy. It examines the major tenets of neo-liberalism, the founding ideology of this economy, and the policies by which neo-liberal ideology targeted and achieved a diminution of global state authority concomitant with a rise of market sovereignty. The consequences have been disastrous for the evolution of constitutional democracy and are at the root of the current economic crisis. As a critical factor that propelled Barack Obama's election, this article argues that Obama's presidency may offer a turning point away from a neo-liberal ideology and towards a strengthened commitment to constitutional democracy.     

Spousal visa law and structural violence: fear,anxiety and terror of the everyday

Attending to mundane bureaucratic politics can highlight forms of everyday structural violence. This article draws attention to the spousal visa law in the UK. On the surface, this law does violence to family life, forcing indefinite separation. However, this law is also symbolic of some of the main structural violence in society that cross-cut gender, race, ethnicity, socio-economic class, age, education level and profession, thus making tangible some of the intangible borders in society. Through the vehicle of this law we will consider how structural violence can operate as an everyday terror, disrupting the boundaries of public and private life.     

结果加重犯的构造模式探微

从内部来看,结果加重犯的基本构造模式在主观层面属于平行性罪过,即其中犯罪故意指向基本犯,犯罪过失指向加重犯,两种罪过相对独立。其客观层面又呈现出梯度质变关系,即在逻辑上看,基本犯所侵害的法益和加重犯所侵害的法益之间具有包容性的关系;从外部来看,结果加重犯的构造则凸显想象竞合关系,即基本犯和加重犯在外观上属于想象竞合犯的范畴。     

海滨大戟化学成分研究

目的 研究海滨大戟Euphorbia atoto Forst.地上部分的化学成分组成.方法 采用硅胶柱色谱、Rp-18反相柱色谱、Sephadex LH-20凝胶柱色谱以及重结晶方法进行分离纯化,并根据理化性质及核磁共振波谱和质谱数据鉴定化合物结构.结果 从海滨大戟地上部分95％乙醇提取物中分离得到14个化合物,分别鉴定为mayolene-16(1)、(+)-(R)-脱-O-甲基拉西奥地丁(2)、熊果烷(3)、α-香树脂醇(4)、伪蒲公英甾醇(5)、(3β,24R)-大戟烷-7,25-二烯-3,24-二醇(6)、29-nor-21-α-H-hopane-3,22-dione(7)、Hollongdione(8)、5α-豆甾醇-3,6-二酮(9)、22E,24R-麦角甾烷-7,22-二烯-3β,5α,6β-三醇(10)、菜油甾醇(11)、豆甾醇(12)、β-谷甾醇(13)、芹菜素(14).结论 首次从海滨大戟中分离得到14个单体化合物,其中化合物mayolene-16(1)为新的天然产物.     

围绕勾画结构框架 扎实推进新经济组织党建

构筑新经济组织党建的结构框架体系,必须关注新经济组织党建的价值意义、困境问题和路径设计等基础性问题.开展新经济组织党建有利于引导和促进非公有制经济健康发展、壮大党的力量和影响力、激发人力资源优势、营造和谐发展环境.但新经济组织党建并不尽完美,还面临着一系列的困境问题.我们必须从分析解决这些困境问题入手,科学设计和选择新经济组织党建的发展路径.     

Afterschool Youth Program Design and Structural Quality: Implications for Quality Improvement

This study examined quality and afterschool program designs with a focus on conditions of persistent low quality. Using an action science case study method, data from a quality-improvement project were examined to explore circumstances and reasons for low quality. Four identified program designs varied by emphasis on academics, school alignment, physical space, resources, and grouping strategies, as well as by the operationalization of youth choice. These program design features were found to be dynamically interrelated and key elements of structural quality yet were not found to be targets of state, funder, or agency quality improvement interventions guided by the current broad theory of change for quality initiatives. Structural quality, conceptualized as dynamic and interdependent, may be a prerequisite condition for self-directed quality improvement or a focus of targeted quality interventions.     

Female Officers and Community Policing: Examining the Connection between Gender Diversity and Organizational Change

This study aimed to evaluate the temporal relationship between gender diversity and the adoption of community policing. The results from three separate structural equation models suggest that gender diversity is the stronger temporal predictor. The findings highlight the potential importance of gender diversity in organizational change. In theory, increasing the number of female officers may increase organizational agility through the creation of an alternative cultural ethos. More research is needed to understand how gender diversity affects police agencies, as well as how calls to reform the institution of policing affect women in law enforcement.     

用系统论思想指导成人高校管理体制改革

成人高校的内部管理体制改革应以系统论的思想为指导 ,按照系统的整体性、结构性、层次性、开放性的要求设计改革方案和实施改革