We all dreamed it: the politics of knowing and un-knowing the “war on terror”

This article begins via an exploration of Jean Baudrillard's provocative claim that we dreamed of the ‘events of 9/11’ prior to their occurrence. Baudrillard's particular quote is introduced to raise questions about the politics of knowing and un-knowing in International Relations, with specific reference to risk and the “war on terror”. Building on postcolonial scholarship, this article points to the limits of contemporary approaches to risk and offers an alternative methodological approach – one it argues better identifies the power relations that structure the daily forms of knowing and un-knowing that give meaning to and invigorate articulations of risk.     

Lobbying the state or the market? A framework to study civil society organizations’ strategic behavior

This article lays out a framework for the conditions under which a civil society organization lobbies the state and when it turns to the market. This strategic choice cannot be understood solely from within current frameworks of lobbying strategies; insights from interest group studies must be complemented with the social movement literature's understanding of market‐based strategies. We build an overarching framework by extending the inside and outside lobbying dichotomy to include strategies that target the market. We also argue that it is crucial to understand the relations between both lobbying venues, as their relative power affects the choice not only between inside or outside lobbying, but also between the state or the market. The result is a richer framework more suited to capture the breadth of contemporary civil society organization lobbying behavior and, more importantly, to facilitate the comparative assessment of different strategic choices in future empirical research.     

界分审判权与团体自治权的理论模式——以日本的部分社会论为中心

部分社会论是日本的法官们为界定审判权的范围,通过判例发展出来的一种新的理论工具,其理论基础是"有社会,就有法"的法社会学观点."部分社会"内部发生的纷争,与国家法律没有直接关系,应依据团体内部的自治性规则解决,审判权不宜介入.但实际上,日本各级法院面对有关部分社会的纠纷时,并非简单地固守部分社会论,有时从实体和程序两个方面对团体自律权进行司法审查.在思维方式上,部分社会论首先认定不属于审判权对象的事项,从而间接地确定审判权的对象.部分社会论给予我们的启示是:从宪政的高度,明确"案件"、"审判权"的含义;根据审判权属性,选择理想的受案范围立法模式;以强化说理为着眼点,提高审判水平;以审判为中心,推动法学理论创新.     

后乡土社会视角下农民集中居住区秩序重建及反思--基于苏北的实证调查北大核心SSCI

随着乡村振兴战略全面实施及新农村建设深入推进,人口、产业、生态等资源要素在城乡互惠流动的同时,传统乡土性逐渐消解式微,如何重塑后乡土社会地域认同及整合机制是农民集中居住区重建的关键。基于后乡土社会理论视角,从地域空间、组织体系及社会结构维度考察苏北农民集中居住区秩序重建的实践过程发现,完成物理空间整合的农民集中居住区依然不同程度延续着传统乡土社会整合机制,使得现代普遍主义价值取向的地域关联及社会认同机制难以有效建立,后乡土社会样态的农民集中居住区公共性重建缺乏必要的社会基础。因此,如何突破制度红利型动力机制及行政主导实践逻辑重塑后乡土社会整合机制,就成为农民集中居住区重建地域公共性并顺利过渡到社会生活共同体的关键。     

论活力社会建设

改革开放在一定意义上是中国社会转向活力社会的一个重要标志。所谓活力社会就是充满生机活力的社会,每个社会细胞都健康活跃,这样的活力社会必然是开放、自由、包容和创新的社会。使社会始终充满生机活力,是我国国家制度和国家治理体系的一个显著优势,今后不但要继续发挥好这个显著优势,而且要将大力建设活力社会纳入国家发展战略,转化成为一项自觉的社会行动。当前,我国已全面建成小康社会,正在开启全面建设社会主义现代化国家新征程。在这一新时代背景下,明确提出、提倡并大力建设活力社会尤其具有重大的现实意义和深远的时代意义。     

The effects of four different solvent vapours on the restoration of obliterated stamp markings from five different wooden surfaces

The stamp markings on wooden surfaces, which are placed on trees and products including antiques, indicate the status of trees and involve identifying data regarding the products. Such markings are obliterated either to facilitate illegal logging or to conceal product information. Despite the wide literature on the restoration of obliterated characters on metal and polymer surfaces, the recovery of defaced characters on wooden surfaces appears to be understudied. Several reference texts in the forensic marks’ examination literature suggest that water, water vapor, and alkaline solutions are useful in restoring the abraded markings on the wood. Since there does not seem to be any experimental study proving such success, this study aimed to fill this gap. This study conducted experimental research by using water, ethanol, ammonia, and chloroform to recover the scraped characters on samples obtained from walnut, beech, spruce, oak, and cedar trees. The cold-stamped characters, which were defaced at varying depths, were restored using vapor and liquid phases of four solvents. While the vapor phases of water, ethanol, and ammonia yielded good outcomes on all types of wooden surfaces, the liquid phases did not seem to be useful in the revisualization process. The response of the vapors, which varied between 62 and 220 s, depended on the type of wood. The restoration technique developed in this research offers the possibility of on-site usage, easy application, utilization of low-cost solvents, rapid recovery, and effectiveness on various wooden surfaces. Overall, the restoration methodology used in this research appears to be fruitful in retrieving identifying information on wooden samples.