Reviews

In recent years, urban community studies in China have been taking a closer look at neighbourhood space. Many researchers have examined neighbourhood using a state-society approach. This article argues that the fragmented state structure and the diversified society have led to calls for a different view of state and society. Based on the empirical studies in Shanghai, this article attempts to uncover the limitations of the state-society paradigm in exploring the transformation of urban grassroots, and suggests understanding the increasingly fragmented grassroots from examining different actors who are embedded in a specific neighbourhood space and vary in their interests and goals.     

当代中国改革对人学理论的丰富和发展

中国改革的启动、推进与深化的过程就是中国人学的萌发、生长、长果的过程 ,二者有内在的逻辑一致性。 2 0多年的改革在人的本质、人性、人的需要与利益、人的个性等方面促进了人学的发展。加入世贸组织对改革有新的要求 ,必将要求人学的研究在诸如研究方法、研究内容、研究范式等方面有新的突破。     

Unstable Antistatism: The Left, the Right, and The Outlaw Josey Wales

This essay is an examination of the diverse origins of modern conservative antistatism in the United States through an analysis of the 1976 film The Outlaw Josey Wales, and the book on which it was based. The consolidation of a conservative politics in the 1970s was achieved in part by the Right's appropriation of New Left antistatism via older forms of racial discourse. This emphasis on New Left influence helps explain the rise of the New Right in a way that is missed in conventional accounts, while demonstrating more generally that political discourse is always contingent and unstable, and open to unintended articulations.     

An Exploration into Law and Narratives: The Case of Intellectual Property Law of Biotechnology

This essay explores the possibility of applying narrative analysis as a tool for the socio-cultural study of law. Narrative is understood to be both a form of representation of reality, as well as a starting point into the enquiry about the nature of reality itself. Consequently, an analysis of legal narratives could help to assess law’s impact on our understanding of social reality and of ourselves. The narrative context, which is examined for its plot and metaphors, is the intellectual property law of human biotechnology. The legal representation of techno-scientific knowledge in intellectual property law is contrasted against other conceptions of science, especially with the ones that are put forward by scholars in science and technology studies and anthropology. It is argued that the present legal narrative of human biotechnology and intellectual property not only lacks sufficient understanding of the scientific knowledge-making process but also, importantly, that it is in need of a self-reflexive understanding of its own practice. At the end, the possibility of changing the present legal narrative will be probed with the help of different narrative theories of the self and of representation, which have been advanced by White, Taylor and MacIntyre.     

新加坡和中国关于东南亚研究的两种不同观点

新加坡和中国从各自不同的观点来对东南亚进行研究,已经成为一个事实。对两种观点加以比较,将是一项有意义的对比研究,这不仅是因为两个国家的幅员差别悬殊,还因为它们一个是在该地区之内,另一个则在地区之外,从而导致它们过去几个世纪的经历大相径庭。新加坡的人文科学状况是否有点像一个六神无主优柔寡断的受英国教育者,一旦新加坡不再成为英国殖民地就茫然不知所措?而中国的观点是否有点像一只蜷伏在地注视着学飞小麻雀的猫?     

俄罗斯区划研究

早在沙俄时期,沙皇政府就对全国进行行政区划,以便于统治。十月革命后,苏联政府废除了沙俄时期的行政区划,建立了三级行政单位,并建立了经济区,对各地区进行劳动力合理配置和专业化分工。然而俄罗斯向市场经济转轨之后,苏联时期的行政区和经济区都与市场经济发生矛盾,迫使俄联邦政府对行政区和经济区进行改革,建立了民族区域与行政区域共存的联邦制以及能够协调中央与地方关系的联邦区。     

发掘科学文化的实践价值 创新和繁荣先进文化

科学作为一种特殊的文化 ,它是整个人类文化系统的重要组成部分 ,科学与文化之间呈现出一种互动的生长态势。当前要进行文化创新 ,繁荣先进文化 ,必须大力倡导科学文化和发掘科学文化的实践价值 ,深刻认识并正确把握科学文化与先进文化之间的关系 ,加强以科学精神、科学思维、科学宽容为内容的科学文化研究。     

The Development of Youth Violence: An Old Story with New Data

Youth violence is a major public concern in all modern societies. To prevent this violence, we need to understand how innocent young children grow into violent adolescents. Longitudinal studies of large samples of children from infancy to adulthood indicate that the peak age for physical aggression is between the end of the second and the end of the fourth year after birth. Fortunately, because of their size, physical aggression from two-year-olds does not constitute a major threat to the public in general. It is also providential that most children learn to control these physically dangerous and socially disruptive behaviours before they reach their maximum size. This natural course of development suggests that the preschool years are the best window of opportunity to prevent the development of cases of chronic physical aggression. Safe streets probably start with quality early education. This article is an updated version of an article originally published in the Canadian Journal of Policy Research (ISUMA) (2000), vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 19–24.     

Ethics and Foreign Policy: Structured Debates for the International Studies Classroom

Debates about humanitarian intervention, foreign and defense policy priorities, and the ethics of the use of force have become highly politicized in the post-Cold War era. This article explores the value of structured classroom debates on ethical dimensions of international relations as active teaching and learning tools for introductory and advanced international studies courses. Specifically, this article presents design information for structured debates on the ethics of the use of military force, humanitarian interventions, and U.S. foreign policy toward international institutions such as the International Criminal Court (ICC). Building on the literature on active teaching and learning, the article describes the development of these exercises and assesses their effectiveness through ten years of classroom application.     

Lessons of the Northern War on African corruption*

ABSTRACT

In the 1990s states, international non-governmental organisations, and capitalist enterprises launched a novel campaign against transnational corruption. This essay addresses how and when this campaign emerged, how corruption was framed as a product of African state failure and patrimonialism, and how radical changes in the global political economy, most notably East-South relationships, undermine our understanding of the actors and paths of transnational corruption.