Terrorist violence and the enrollment of psychology in predicting Muslim extremism: critical terrorism studies meets critical algorithm studies

Discourse on terrorist violence has long facilitated an especially liberal form of securitisation. Originally evoked in reference to anarchists and communists, a rational consideration of terrorist violence, inaugurated by the concept, asks for deferred judgement about the nature of, or reasons behind, violence related to terror on the premise that state and international legal norms governing the legitimate use of violence fail to circumscribe the proper capacities of the state to regulate and explain terrorism. Where sovereign powers along with their military and civilian instruments of coercion are deemed unable to regulate violence effectively, analysts of terrorist violence and their readership are invited to consider and cultivate new sensibilities. Beginning in the 1980s, studies by psychologists found renewed urgency among a growing cadre of interdisciplinary terror experts who found religion, Islam especially, a key variable of analysis. I situate their contributions in a longer history of secular and racialising discourse about terrorist violence. Central to this history are practices of reading, translating, interpreting and archiving texts. Evidence for the argument is based on the analysis of an algorithm that allegedly predicts the likelihood of terrorist strikes by counting words spoken by al-Qa?ida leaders and correlating their frequency with over 30 psychological categories.     

‘Flat and fabulous’: women’s breast reconstruction refusals post-mastectomy and the negotiation of normative femininity

The ‘pinkification’ of breast cancer culture in recent years conflates women’s empowerment with the celebration of hyperfemininity. Consistent with this trend, reconstructive surgery post-mastectomy is increasingly normalised: restoring the breasts is to restore ‘lost’ femininity. Contextualised within the pressures of this normalisation, our article explores how women who decide against breast reconstruction negotiate their non-normative ‘flat’ bodies. We examine women’s posts in a breast cancer forum about their refusals of breast reconstruction. Using thematic and feminist post-structuralist analyses, we suggest that although health and body acceptance discourses enable resistance to embodied femininity norms, pressures to conform permeate practices related to appearance. Clothes and prosthetic breasts enabled forum participants to pass as ‘healthy’, ‘whole’, and ‘recovered’. The study’s findings emphasise the limitations to agency and resistance that emanate from the ways constraining gender discourses infiltrate every aspect of a woman’s life. In line with a critical awareness approach to breast cancer education, we discuss the possibilities of resistance afforded by the safe spaces of online communities.     

Preferred learning style： Gender influence on preferred learning style among business students

Past studies indicate that there was a correlation between gender and students＇ preferred styles of learning. Thus, the purpose of this study is to determine the influence of gender on the learning style preferences of business students based on the VARK （Fleming, 2002b） learning style survey, consisting of the V（isual）, A（ural）, R（ead-Write） and K（inesthefic） learning styles. The sampling design used for this study was non-probability sampling and the sampling technique conducted was convenient sampling on 207 male students and 199 female students from the business school. The study found that gender only influences the V（isual） and A（ural） learning styles of business students. In addition to that, even though both male and female students exhibited a similar response towards both these learning styles, female students were found to demonstrate slightly higher preference for the V（isual） and A（ural） learning styles as compared to the male students. The findings draw attention to facets of learning that may exist in pre-university and tertiary classrooms with a combination of female and male students, which could have an impact on teaching and managing these students.     

我国家族企业内部纠纷的起因与规范——以家族企业内部的产权关系为视角

随着家族企业对社会经济发展作用的日益增强,我国家族企业内部纠纷已经不再是婚姻、家庭内部的事情,它关涉企业的发展与壮大甚至存活.本文认为,家庭财产与企业资产的混同,家庭生活与企业生产的重叠,个人投资与家庭投入的模糊,体力付出与脑力贡献的混淆等是家族企业内部纠纷产生的根源.因此,资产归属的事先明确是避免家族企业内部纠纷的关键.     

商事登记二元化审查标准的困境与出路

我国商事登记的审查标准经历了从实质审查标准到二元化标准的变迁,但是,由于传统注重安全的监管理念、规范内容的缺失以及环境机制的不健全,造成二元化标准在实践中存在适用范围混乱、效率低下等困境。因此,对之完善和建构的出路是,坚持注重效率,兼顾安全的审查理念,明确形式标准和实质标准的适用关系,并对实质审查的适用条件和方法予以规范。     

商业贿赂犯罪态势及其惩防体系构建——以江苏为例

当前,商业贿赂作为具有动态意义的新型经济犯罪活动,其触角逐步伸入社会许多行业和领域,并呈现一系列新的特点和发展趋势。从江苏地区近几年查处的情况来看,此类犯罪案件具有重点领域高发、大案要案增多;犯罪主体多变、作案手法隐秘;群体犯罪加剧、期货性质凸显;职务犯罪突出、窝案串案交织等动态特点。同时表现出发案领域拓展、行业特征明显;组织程度提高、侵害对象模糊;关联犯罪增多、社会危害更烈等发展趋势。根据当前商贿犯罪的动态特点及发展趋势,应建构教育、制度、监督并重的防治商贿犯罪长效机制,从源头上防治商腐现象的滋生蔓延。     

论《反垄断法》对经营者集中豁免之法律规制--以南车、北车合并为例

经营者集中是我国《反垄断法》规制的重要对象。当下，相关反垄断法规对经营者集中豁免的规制也已基本完备，然而，在面对规制“两车”之类的集中上，这些规范依然存有系列不足，需要加以完善。     

商务英语复合型人才的培养模式研究——以理工院校为视域

理工院校商务英语专业在复合型人才的培养条件方面具有自己的优势。理工科院校学科门类齐全,与市场需求密切相关,特别是经济学、金融学、对外贸易等学科有着深厚的教学经验和较好的硬件设施。加之很多英语专业学生在高中阶段即是理科生,具有很好的理工科知识基础。理工院校只有充分利用自身的优势,并根据社会发展不断探索完善,才能培养出更多优秀的商务英语专业复合型人才。     

资本话语与构建社会主义和谐社会——一种社会意识形态层面的论析

本文认为:在当下中国学术界理论界由种种与马克思不同甚至是根本对立的关于“资本”的观点和看法,汇集形成了一种颇具声势的“话语”;这种“资本话语”使得社会主义和谐社会建设的基本认识基础、深层价值纽带和根本指导思想都处于一种“不在状态”,因而不利于社会主义和谐社会建设。