Adivasiness as Caste Expression and Land Rights Claim-Making in Central-Eastern India

ABSTRACT

The adivasi population represents a special case in India’s new land wars. Strong individual and community rights to agricultural and forest lands have been enacted for this group based on notions of adivasi identities as primeval, but without linking these to economic and political influence. This article interrogates the adivasi land question seen through a caste lens. It does so via case studies in two states to understand the ways in which adivasi identity can be mobilised for its instrumental value and used to demand land rights. In Andhra Pradesh, the Supreme Court’s Samatha Judgement has prevented virtually all private mining activities. In Jharkhand, however, similar legislation is seen to be trumped by the national Coal Bearing Areas Act, as well as by former and current land acquisition acts that allow industrial land claims to take precedence over identity-based ones. Available evidence indicates the challenges involved in bringing support for land rights that are premised on a supposedly unchanging adivasi identity when these rights go against dominant interests. This circumstance serves to highlight the possibilities present in caste analysis to understand the plight of adivasis, despite their usually distinct treatment in scholarly analyses.     

Facebook: An Emerging Arena for Politics of Self-Determination in northern Cyprus?

ABSTRACT

The present article aims to expand scholarship on the political role of social media by focusing on the case of Facebook and the self-determination claims of Turkish Cypriots vis-à-vis Turkey. Drawing upon a virtual ethnography of relevant Facebook sites and groups, this article scrutinises whether social media offer an innovative public platform for the politics of self-determination or on-line claims are in reality formed and negotiated in the same manner as the offline ones. The article concludes that Turkish Cypriots’ Facebook activism may very well be for strengthening their community, shielding their distinct characteristics from mainland Turkey and raising their self-esteem, rather than indicating demands for complete autonomy in the traditional political sense of the word and/or statehood.     

天人合一思想的当代诠释学意义

近年来 ,许多学者都注意到天人合一这一中国古代哲学思想蕴含着深刻的生态意义 ,但是 ,几乎都将其解释为天人“同”一而不是天人“合”一或天人“和”一。这种差异是巨大的 ,前者所追求的是自然与人的混沌未分 ,而后者则强调自然与人是分离并矛盾的 ,正因为其矛盾而构成了相互不可或缺的差异协同的互补性整体。     

质疑魔术的作品属性

我国法律规定的魔术作品是指魔术的全部动作编排,包括可以被观众感知的部分以及观众无法感知的部分。这两个部分结合在一起,共同组成一个完整的魔术,二者缺一不可。作品受著作权保护的要件之一是可复制性,可复制性要求作品能够被重复再现,从一份复制到多份。秘密性是魔术的生命力所在,这一点决定了魔术无法满足可复制性的要求。因此,魔术不能被纳入作品行列,可以利用商业秘密制度来保护魔术中未公开的动作编排。同时,有必要扩大表演者的范围,将表演者扩至表演非作品但具有公开娱乐性质的活动的人。基于此,可以借助表演者权来保护魔术演员的权利。     

共犯与身份问题初探——兼与日本刑法之比较

日本刑法65条对共犯与身份作了规定,我国刑法总则中没有涉及这个问题。日本刑法65条同时体现了"身份的连带作用"和"身份的个别作用"这一对看似矛盾的概念,而从共同犯罪的本质出发,也没有办法解决。只能从违法身份的连带作用和责任身份的个别作用这个角度,来消除这个矛盾。     

试谈侵犯商业秘密罪的立法完善

本文分析了完善侵犯商业秘密罪立法的根据 ,阐述了应遵循的立法指导思想和原则 ,提出了完善该罪的立法构想     

近亲属请求死亡赔偿的法理基础

死亡抚恤金是国家或有关单位按相关法规规定给予死者近亲属和被扶养人一定金额的慰问金及生活补助费,抚恤金代替不了死亡赔偿。死者已无从取得主张赔偿的权利,但法律不能无视利益受到损害的近亲属。基于身份关系的重要性,从亲属法的角度进行分析,应当以近亲属身份权被侵害作为近亲属索赔的理论依据,近亲属不仅可以向直接致害人提起死亡赔偿,也可以要求学校和政府承担起相应的责任,这样才能使近亲属被侵害的身份利益得到真正的救济。     

论行政信息公开的除外范围──由"郑州首例政府机关涉嫌侵犯公民知情权案"引发的思考

由河南郑州一普通市民因查询政府部门发给"'咪表'公司"的规划许可证及相关材料而遭到拒绝,引发了一场"民告官"的官司,也引起了社会的很大反响,激发了民众对公民"知情权"的各种思考.笔者以该案件为切入点,简单介绍了公民知情权制度,接着进一步讨论了其核心制度──"行政信息公开制度",然后结合本案,重点分析了该制度的范围及除外范围.为了防范行政机关以"国家秘密"为名义而规避公开责任,笔者认为应该从制度上限制行政机关的自由裁量权.     

我国秘密侦查法治化新探

尽管秘密侦查在打击黑社会、毒品等智能化、组织化犯罪方面发挥着重要作用,但是由于具有隐蔽性、易侵权性、当事人救济的困难性等特征,决定了其极易侵犯公民的合法权利。为了使我国的秘密侦查在打击犯罪和保障人权之间保持一种高水准的平衡,就必须实现秘密侦查行为的法治化。因此,我国应在借鉴国外秘密侦查立法和立足本国国情的基础上,通过刑事立法来规范秘密侦查行为,将其早日纳入法治化的轨道。