THE SEXUAL SUBALTERN IN CONVERSATIONS “SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN”: LAW AND THE OLD POLITICS OF COLONIALISM

Ratna Kapur’s recent book entitled Erotic Justice proposes a new politics of postcolonialism whereby the sexual subaltern disrupts the normative principles of the universal, liberal, legal domain. Kapur traces legal strategies regarding censorship, sex-work, homosexuality, sexual harassment, trafficking and migration which travel a treacherous path, countering allegations of ‘unIndian’ and Western practice with cultural histories of ‘authentic’ sexual legitimacies, towards a new politics of desire. Kapur frames her analysis through postcolonial feminist theory as providing a tool for feminist struggle, yet distinct from and disruptive of a liberal project of global sisterhood. This review deeply values the role of the sexual subaltern which disrupts the tenets of a linear, progressive liberalism. Drawing upon Indian feminist and Western feminist perspectives, the review considers how the distinct position of the postcolonial sexual subaltern subject informs the generic role of law as a tool constructing relations of domination regarding gender, sexuality, caste, property and religion. Kapur observes that both the West and the Hindu Right have engaged with liberal legal principles. This engagement, I argue, exposes and informs law as a historical and contemporary tool of gendered legal colonialism, for sisters to disrupt across the Western and Eastern terrains.Review of Ratna Kapur’s Erotic Justice, Law and the New Politics of Postcolonialism, London: Glasshouse Press, 2005, 219 pp., ￡26, ISBN 1-90438-524-9     

Before Identity, Gender and Human Rights

This is the beginning of an exploration of before as the thesis ‘before’ (temporally) and ‘be-fore’ (spatially) difference. Before denotes the origin and the desired destination. Before (in the double sense of ‘before’ and ‚be-in-the-fore’) opens up a space of pre-difference, of origin and of forgotten memory, as well as a space of desire, objective, illusion of teleology, unity, completion. Applied to the two domains of Human Rights and Sex/Gender, the space of ‘before’ yields two slightly different vistas: in human rights, a premodern, functionally undifferentiated society which had to invent human rights as its safeguards of functional differentiation. In Sex/Gender, ‘before’ brings a self-referential construction: that of ipseity, as the form of identity beyond comparison that does not play with id but with ipsum. Ipseity is inoperable but not useless. It is inoperable because it cannot be observed from anywhere without suffering rupture. It is not useless because it offers a ground for the reconceptualisation of difference, both through awe and desire.     

犯罪心理学研究中运用量化方法引起的理论思考

量化与统计分析是一项重要的研究方法,在犯罪心理学研究中得到了广泛运用,同时也存在着使用的局限性。犯罪人有很强的心理掩饰性,对包括犯罪人在内的人的心理的测量实际上是一种间接测量,测得的数据是心理学家标定的数据,兼有客观性与主观性。量化研究如果不与科学思维相结合,有可能得出浅薄平庸甚至错误的结论。心理学研究应当以“人性”为基点,多种方法综合运用,实现量化方法与非量化方法的有机结合。     

禁止酷刑的人权司法保护——论适用“非法证据排除规则“和“不得强迫自证其罪原则“

要从根本上清除刑讯逼供的行为,必须进一步加大司法改革的力度,确保严格执法、公正司法,全面遵守刑事诉讼过程的人权保护,依据禁止酷刑和其他残忍、不人道的或侮辱性的待遇或刑罚的国际标准,适用“非法证据排除规则”和“不得强迫自证其罪原则”,将我国刑事司法与诉讼程序步入国际人权司法保障体系的轨道。     

社区矫正：行刑社会化的必然趋势

社区矫正是一种与传统监狱服刑方式不同的、特殊的服刑方式,它让罪犯在社区中执行刑罚。它的产生有其深厚的理论基础。社区矫正符合当今世界行刑制度的发展潮流,体现了以人为本的思想,有利于犯罪人回归社会,也有利于行刑经济。我国的社区矫正试点工作取得了一定的成绩,但还存在法律依据不足,社会认同程度不高等问题。社区矫正的执行主体由司法行政机关担任比较合适。社区矫正的适用对象应做进一步的合理调整。     

志愿服务与青年人力资源的开发——以大学生志愿服务西部计划为例

大学生志愿服务西部计划的实施,促进了社会资源的合理配置,改善了当前我国人才结构的不合理布局,缓解了大学生就业矛盾,为西部大开发注入了大量的新鲜血液,有效服务了社会主义和谐社会的建设.     

康德的人权思想探析

作为哲学家,康德对人权做了深刻的思考,他的人权思想在人权史上占有极其重要的地位,是人权史上的一次革命。康德认为在实践理性中,人是自由的,人是作为目的而不是工具存在的。自由是人唯一的天赋权利,它也是人类道德的根据,从而确立了人的主体性地位,强调了人的尊严和价值。     

重组人力资源管理功能构筑21世纪企业竞争优势

21世纪企业发展将主要依靠知识和人才 ,企业要获取整体竞争能力就必须构筑其人力资源的竞争优势 ,而重组人力资源管理功能是构筑人力资源竞争优势的关键     

加入WTO与党的人才战略

加入WTO,我国人才队伍建设面临着严峻的挑战。传统产业人才过剩,现代化建设所急需的高、精、尖、复合型人才短缺;现行人才管理制度尚不完善,人力资源开发利用的体制和文化环境存在缺陷;人才流失有目共睹。如何把我国丰富的人力资源优势转变为现实发展的优势,为改革开放和现代化建设提供有效的智力保障,是当前和今后很长一段时期我们必须解决的重大战略问题。     

近代西方的民主政治论析

自由、民土、人权 ,这三个概念是历史的和具体的。其中 ,自由主要是作为哲学范畴出现的 ,民主和人权主要是作为政治范畴出现的。政权在民、民主共和与契约思想 ,是西方古代的民主思想 ;在近代西方反对封建专制主义的斗争中 ,资产阶级高举自由旗帜 ,宣扬天赋人权 ,提出了资产阶级的民主和人权思想 ,并最终建立了资本主义的民主制度 ,总的倾向是阶级调和、福利主义和参与主义 ,不对政治现象作阶级的或社会的分析 ,抹杀资本主义民主、人权与社会主义的民主、人权的本质区别。