Borders of emptiness: gender,migration and belonging

This article argues that we need to consider the question of ‘who belongs’ in terms of individuals' construction as market actors, workers and migrants as well as citizens. Using Hegel's theory of civil society, and Charles Mills' critique of the social contract, it argues for the significance of the process of self-government and the construction of a ‘hard inside’ for understanding migration and its relationship to embodiment, labour and belonging. This approach can take us beyond the distributional framework of the territorial state, and the assumption of stable membership, to interrogate the boundary-setting aspects of the political and the meanings of interdependence and vulnerability.     

Historicising ‘asylum’ and responsibility

Territorial rule ‘begins’ with an assertion of who deserves protection and who does not. The question of responsibility and its limits is integral to the making and maintenance of a nation state. But a modern refugee rights regime externalises the question of asylum. Asylum claims are made by strangers dealt with by bureaucracies. How has this come to pass? How has responsibility become thought in terms of the territorial state and the society and order it begets? In this article, I try to make the case through a historical example that asylum is not external to the constitution of the nation state, rather territorial rule begins by figuring out who to protect and who not to. At the core of these ideas about protection and responsibility is a notion of political subjectivity, which is graduated, hierarchical and centred on the state. The privileging of an ahistorical idea of how political subjectivity has been so limited has contributed to the externalisation of asylum, where the troubling questions of to whom we are responsible and whom not barely figure because asylum claims become the subject of a technicalised procedure. In this article, I focus on the British colonial authority's encounter with native slaves seeking asylum in Perak.     

A Plea for Prometheus

Abstract

This essay takes issue with Critchley's diagnosis of the motivation crisis at the core of our supposedly nihilist political present, and with its pejorative characterization of a vanguardist or Leninist Left. Against the reliance of Infinitely Demanding on an anarchic metapolitics of responsibility, it proposes that we rethink the concept of solidarity and develop an intra-political ethics of egalitarianism, an ethics of unconditional rather than infinite demands that is happy to embrace the accusation of "Prometheanism".     

论我国检察官法治思维的养成——以起诉书的改革为视角

思维本身具备哲学属性,法治思维有着哲学与法律进一步联结的丰厚意蕴。检察官的伦理是确定的职业伦理,我国刑事起诉书说理性的不足与忽略对检察职业伦理良善目的的实现起着消极的作用。从逻辑到经验、从知}生到理性、从主观到主体、从实体性到生成性这四种哲学思维的方式有助手检察官法治思维的养成。     

思想政治教育主体间性问题研究

在改革开放不断深入的时代背景下,传统思想政治教育主客二分模式的内在缺陷日益彰显,强烈呼唤思想政治教育哲学方法论的创新,主体间性理论的引入,使思想政治教育改革发展步入了一个新境界,必将大力提升其科学性、实效性。     

法治的人本向度——一种知识谱系的考察

法治作为一个复杂的命题,具有多元的发展维度和理论侧重,通过对法治知识谱系的考察,可以发现,主体价值是法治的本体基础,主体行为是法治的事实依据,主体共识是法治的实践旨向,法治未因人本而发端,却以人本为依归,具有深刻的人本向度。     

康德时间观简论

康德将时间界定为感性直观的两种纯形式之一，将之引入认识论，成为其基础。但从康德时间观中又可以开掘出本体论（存在论）的维度，康德进行了尝试，但陷入了困境，却直接启发了后来者。康德的时间观在时间问题的理解上是一个继往开来的关节点，它既梳理了之前的时间观，成为集大成者，其内蕴的新的理解路径又直接影响了马克思、伯格森和海德格尔等大家。     

消费文化语境下的女性主体书写——半夏小说论

半夏是云南当代本土女作家,其小说文本具有"都市""时尚""物恋"等特点,体现出现代女性独立自足的主体意识。这些特点与作家的心理结构相关联,更是1990年代以来我国消费社会文化语境的产物。     

价值、制度、事件:“男女同工同酬”与劳动妇女主体的生成

本文从价值、制度与事件三个角度,考察了"男女同工同酬"在20世纪50年代初期出现的宏观背景。在微观层面,进入申纪兰动员妇女参加劳动与西沟妇女们争取男女工同酬的历史,分析劳动与性别作为新社会的两种组织方式,是如何帮助劳动妇女在劳动过程中生成主体性。从劳动妇女主体的身—心张力的角度分析同工同酬的解放与限制。     

Still sucked into the body image thing: the impact of anti-aging and health discourses on women's gendered identities

Health norms have changed over the past three decades, imposing more responsibility for health onto the individual. There are gendered implications of these changes which, when combined with increasing anti-aging pressures, have the potential to intensify the disciplinary relationship women have with their bodies. This paper, based upon interviews with 14 women, examines the impact of dominant health and anti-aging discourses on women's body practices, including exercise, makeup, clothing and diet, and ongoing construction of gendered subjectivity. Findings suggest that the women in this study are motivated to do particular body practices because of their concern with having a healthy and youthful ‘looking’ body. The women's stories reveal that anti-aging and health discourses function to reinforce normative bodily demands of femininity and consequently to intensify disciplinary control of their bodies. While the pressure to fight the appearance of aging is not new, the increasing association of aging with ill health, even illness, in conjunction with the promotion of health has implications for women's relationship with their bodies and sense of self.