Surveillance of the poor in a socio-financial enclosure: a critical analysis of Zidisha.org

This article provides a critical analysis in examining narratives on Zidisha.org, a microlending site that facilitates loans to the poor, building on media scholar Mark Andrejevic's conception of the digital enclosure and the critical anthropology of development scholar Anke Schwittay's theorisation of financial inclusion. Online microlending sites like Zidisha have wide-reaching implications for policy and development initiatives. The study's findings suggest that perceptible signs of the contemporary neo-liberal effort to assemble ordinary people through Web 2.0 communication technologies to participate in the socio-financial enclosure are riddled with issues of control and surveillance, coupled with a paradoxical meaning of the financial inclusion concept.     

赋予公民公益诉讼原告资格的必要性——以法经济学的视角分析

在我国,公民提起民事公益诉讼存在很多障碍,从而导致社会公共利益不能得到很好的维护。2012年修订的《民事诉讼法》明确引入了民事公益诉讼制度,但是仍未明确赋予公民个人提起民事公益诉讼的原告资格。从法经济学视角,运用供求理论、公共福利等经济学分析方法,以个案研究为进路,就"公民提起民事公益诉讼是否合理"进行分析,可以论证民事公益诉讼原告资格应该多元化,法律应该赋予公民提起民事公益诉讼的资格。