警察体育与警务技能辨析

警察体育是一种健全警察身体的基础教育活动,是发展警察体能、增进其身心健康、提高其工作效率和生活质量的体育训练活动,具有体育科学和体育教育的属性。警务技能是一种增强警察职业技术的能力的应用教育活动,是警察掌握职业技术,增强实战技能,提高战术意识,满足警务活动需求的技能训练活动,具有应用学科和应用教育的属性。前者是以身体教育为目标的基础教育,后者是以职业教育为目标的应用教育。两者既有鲜明的共性,又有各自的特征。     

心理测试技术与测谎

心理测试测试技木是一项新兴的刑事检验技术,而“测谎”则更多地出现在媒体上,为大众所广泛接受。“测谎”理论无法解释被测者在沉默状态下产生的情绪反应,而且容易引起被测者的反感,而心理测试技术理论,含盖了心理学中多方面的研究成果,已经从对谎言本身的探查中解脱出来。     

试论道教文化对科学技术的影响与启示

道教文化在中国传统文化中占有重要地位,是中国传统文化的主流之一,具有丰富的内容。它不仅对古代科技发展有多重影响和作用,而且对现代科技创新也有重大启示和作用。     

论当前媒体对案件侦查的娱乐性传播

案件侦查传播经历了神秘、权威的古代传统思维到重视事实、证据的现代理念转型。与前两者均不同的是,当前媒体呈现出一个新的特征：热衷传播案件侦查消息,张扬弱势话语权利,迎合民众放松自我寻求休闲娱乐的心理,改变了案件侦查报道的严肃庄重风格,对案件侦查传播出现了娱乐化倾向。     

批判性研究:行政学领域亟待拓展的研究路径

自20世纪80年代我国行政学研究得到恢复以来,我国行政学学科取得了长足的发展,但在研究范式上存在一定的局限:社会学科学中诠释性研究和批判性研究受到广大行政学研究者的忽视,研究者的批判精神乃至批判意识普遍缺失.针对这种现象,本文借鉴西方批判理论的合理成分,主张行政学研究要通过合理的批判介质,建立自我反省关系;在开展实证研究的同时应当注重价值问题的探讨,实现工具理性与价值理性的有机统一;运用"总体性"的方法,展开对行政学理论与行政实践的总体性批判.这有助于我们形成并拓展批判性研究的思路.     

Linguistic and visual strategies for portraying immigrants as people deprived of human rights†

The majority of news items on sub-Saharan immigrants in the Spanish press refer to their arrival by jumping the fences of Ceuta or Melilla or landing in small boats at the Spanish coast. The data in this article consist of all the news items published on the arrival of sub-Saharan immigrants in Spain by jumping the fences of Ceuta and Melilla, items that appeared in the digital editions of the two most popular Spanish newspapers, El País and ABC, from 1 January 2012 to 1 January 2015. The principles of critical discourse analysis and visual grammar are used to deconstruct the linguistic and visual portrayal of sub-Saharan immigrants when they try to enter Spain by jumping the fence. This research reveals that the immigrants jumping the fence at Melilla are represented as wild and dangerous. There is no reference to their human rights. The study thus aims to provide a visual analysis of the way in which the arrival of these immigrants is represented visually in two serious newspapers. In this way, the study aims to unveil visual ways of negative representation of immigrants, who are portrayed as dangerous invaders.     

Modern post-colonial approaches to citizenship: Kwame Nkrumah’s political thought on Pan-Africanism

This project of critical citizenship studies and comparative political theory utilizes a framework of multiple modernities in order to deeply explore the ontological foundations and complexities of a non-Western conception of citizenship and nationhood: political pan-Africanism. It does so through a study of the political thought of Kwame Nkrumah, a deeply influential political theorist and actor, in the context of the Gold Coast’s struggle for independence and in the initial years of Ghanaian post-colonialism. How did Nkrumah conceive of Pan-Africanist citizenship and nationhood in political and ontological terms? How does this relate to both modern conceptions of citizenship as tied to the nation-state and traditional Ghanaian conceptions of citizenship and belonging? After considering these questions, this paper explores how Nkrumah’s vision of Pan-Africanism was influenced by, yet contradicted central tenets of, Western political thought and modernity. It explores the theoretical and practical tensions inherent between this non-Western conception of the nation and the dominance of aspects of ‘Western’ modernity. Exploring these questions through the lens of Nkrumah’s political thought offers an Afrocentric study in an effort to strengthen African historical agency and to deparochialize citizenship studies and political theory.     

On Humanitarian Refugee Biometrics and New Forms of Intervention

This article traces the development from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) initially using biometrics in a few pilot projects (in the early-to-mid-2000s) to the emergence of a policy in which biometric registration is considered a ‘strategic decision’. It then engages key insights from current debates about ‘materiality’ and agentic capacity in combination with current debates about new forms of intervention. Finally, these insights are combined into a framework through which the article engages critically with this development of humanitarian refugee biometrics by posing the following question: how does an approach to technology that takes seriously the idea of matter as capable of agentic capacity enhance an appreciation of the ways in which these humanitarian technologies may contribute to the emergence of new forms of intervention? Through an analysis of how the emergence of digitalized biometric refugee data has affected the relationship between the UNHCR, donor states, host states and refugees, the article shows how the UNHCR’s trialling of new biometric technologies – combined with actual and potential data-sharing practices – has advanced the technology’s performance and acceptability whilst at the same time also rendering new dimensions of refugee life intervenable, not only to humanitarian actors.     

The Dynamics of the Demobilization of the Protest Campaign in Assam

This study highlights the role that critical events play in the demobilization of protest campaigns. Social movement scholars suggest that protest campaigns demobilize as a consequence of polarization within the campaign or the cooptation of the campaign leaders. I offer critical events as an alternative causal mechanism and argue that protest campaigns in ethnically divided societies are particularly combustible, as they have the potential to trigger unintended or unorchestrated communal violence. When such violence occurs, elite strategies change, mass support declines, and the campaign demobilizes. An empirical investigation of the dynamics of the demobilization phase of the anti-foreigner protest campaign in Assam, India, between 1979 and 1985 confirms this argument. A single group analysis is conducted to compare the dynamics of the campaign before and after the communal violence by using time series event data collected from The Indian Express, a national newspaper. The study has wider implications for the literature on collective action, as it illuminates the dynamic and complex nature of protest campaigns.     

The transatlantic dialogue on Iran: the European subaltern and hegemonic constraints in the implementation of the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran

This article analyses the US–EU transatlantic dialogue on the Iranian nuclear dossier with a particular view to the implications for EU foreign policy on Iran. Doing so, it uses neo-Gramscian scholarship to put the EU’s “over-compliance” with Iran sanctions into perspective. Constrained by the imperatives of hegemonic coercion in the form of US financial Iran sanctions against third country entities and with the hegemonic consent of a Western US-led “historic bloc”, Europe was relegated to a subaltern below its mediatory potential. It will be shown how this finding complicates the EU’s ambition to renew relations with Iran. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with experts and delegation members from the P5+1, this article thus analyses “the normative element” in the transatlantic security dialogue on Iran at a time where the latter is undergoing a sea change in the wake of the implementation of the “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” of July 2015.