‘Occupied territory is occupied territory’: James Baldwin,Palestine and the possibilities of transnational solidarity

In his 1966 essay ‘A Report from Occupied Territory’, James Baldwin wrote that ‘occupied territory is occupied territory, even though it be found in that New World which the Europeans conquered’. Though written 50 years ago, Baldwin’s observations continue to resonate, indicating historical trends across geographical experiences affected by the legacy of colonialism. A growing theme in development and peace building studies relates to a kind of boundary crossing that sees academics and activists drawing linkages across spatial and temporal divides. The situation in Palestine–Israel has taken an increasingly central role in mobilising transnational solidarities that cross such boundaries. By examining James Baldwin’s analysis of Harlem’s ‘occupation’ – as well as drawing from a range of voices such as Achille Mbembe, Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Toni Morrison and Laleh Khalili – this paper will explore the shared experiences of racism, colonialism, military occupation and dispossession that separate and divide, and the possibilities for transnational solidarities that defy those separations.     

Poets,culture and orature: A reappraisal of the Malawi political public sphere, 1953–2006

Mapanje and Mphande make a persuasive case for the significant role of literature in challenging Dr Banda's one-party hegemony. The contested terrain, as Mphande notes, was orality, the dominant medium in Malawi where literacy levels are low. It has been assumed, though, that orature did little to challenge Banda's hegemony. I argue that far from being silent, the popular musicians and dramatists (as orature) were much braver than the writers. While written poetry and prose was often presented in coded and dense texts, the musicians’ and dramatists lyrics and texts were usually much more explicit. And while writers used folk tales and appropriations from traditional culture as templates to critique Dr Banda's autocratic regime, oral practitioners went further, critiquing Dr Banda's regime using the same templates but also pointing out the socio-economic suffering of the peasantry.

Since 1994, as writers’ critiques have become muted and spasmodic in the ‘multiparty’, musicians have consistently been loud and forceful voices on behalf of the poor. From 1953 to 2006, orature has been a continuous tool of resistance whereas literature has been an intermittent response, often related to patronage, to political and socio-economic events. Further, while literature tends to be concerned predominantly with human rights and democracy issues, orature is concerned with these as well as socio-economic rights; a distinction reflective of class, the rural/urban divide and education in Malawi. The findings are generalisable to other Bantu-language-speaking countries such as Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Mozambique. I posit that assessments of Malawi's current and future socio-economic and political cultures that exclude oral critiques miss significant and critical factors impacting on developmental changes in these spheres.     

多囊卵巢综合征体质指数、性激素及胰岛素抵抗水平与中医证型相关性研究

目的 探讨多囊卵巢综合征（polycystic ovary syndrome,PCOS）患者的体质指数、性激素和胰岛素水平与中医证型的相关性。方法 选择91例PCOS患者（肝经湿热型50例、痰湿阻滞型41例）,观察并比较两种证型患者的人体测量学指标、性激素及空腹血糖(fasting plasma glucose,FPG)、空腹胰岛素(fasting insulin,FINS)、稳态模型胰岛素抵抗指数(homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance,HOMA-IR)水平。结果 痰湿阻滞型患者的体质指数(body mass index,BMI)、腰臀比（waist-to-hip ratio,WHpR）、腰身比（waist-height ratio,WHtR）均明显高于肝经湿热型患者（P<0.05）;痰湿阻滞型患者FPG、FINS、HOMA-IR水平均明显高于肝经湿热型患者（P<0.05）;肝经湿热型患者黄体生成激素(luteinizing hormone,LH)、卵泡刺激素(follicle stimulating hormone,FSH)水平明显高于痰湿阻滞型患者（P<0.05）。结论 PCOS痰湿阻滞型患者BMI、WHpR、WHtP等人体测量学指标和FPG、FINS、HOMA-IR水平明显高于肝经湿热型患者,LH、FSH水平明显低于肝经湿热型患者。     

丹蛭降糖胶囊对2型糖尿病合并肥胖患者胰岛素抵抗及脂毒性改善作用

目的 观察具有益气活血功效中药复方制剂丹蛭降糖胶囊对2型糖尿病(type 2 diabetes mellitus,T2DM)合并肥胖患者胰岛素抵抗、脂毒性相关指标的改善效果.方法 选取T2DM合并肥胖患者80例,随机分为对照组及治疗组各40例,均给予降低血糖、调节血脂的基础治疗,治疗组在常规治疗上加用中药复方制剂丹蛭降...     

“积极同意”的是与非——关于美国性侵认定标准争议的一个综述

积极同意是判断性侵的一个标准,强调沉默和缺乏抵抗不能被视作对性行为的同意,只有口头上或者行为上表达的同意才构成有效的同意,而未经同意的性行为、性接触即构成强奸或者其他性侵犯。这个标准在美国的刑事法领域并没有获得广泛接受,却在教育法领域被大多数大学作为判断性侵的标准。支持者认为这种标准最大限度地维护了女性的性自主权,彻底抛弃了性侵判断标准中的暴力和反抗要件。反对者或者认为"同意"概念本身就是有问题的,或者认为积极同意标准固化了男性担负责任、女性无助被动的刻板印象。不同女权主义流派对积极同意表达了多元丰富的观点,深化了对这一问题的认识。     

To Care and Protect: Care Workers Confronting Sweden Democrats in their Workplace

Austerity policies across European countries have encountered diverse forms of public protest and resistance. In Sweden, we have seen the emergence of a number of networks and organizations which take care workers’ professional identity as their point of departure. These networks and organizations stress the impossibility of being professional care workers in slimmed-down, neoliberal organizations. Parallel to this, and sometimes embedded into one another, female-dominated professions (e.g. social workers, nurses, doctors, and teachers) have been engaged in opposing restrictive refugee policies. This article analyses how care workers in an emergency room in Malmö mobilized against a visit by Jimmie Åkesson, leader of the right-wing, xenophobic Sweden Democrats. The article explores how workers used a gendered discourse of care and professionalism to argue that their actions were consistent with both organizational culture and their professional ethics. The article shows how, by defending their professional role of providing quality care to all in need, workers challenge both austerity and racist policies, which both impose restrictions on who has the right to care. Theoretically, the article explores how the politicization of care creates spaces of resistance, to critique both austerity policies and exclusionary understandings of national belonging. The study stresses the importance of identifying emerging forms of collective resistance among care workers at the intersection of the struggles against austerity and right-wing xenophobic parties.     

Abnormal fears: the queer Arctic in Michelle Paver’s Dark Matter

With focus on queer resistance emanating from place, this article examines Michelle Paver’s 2010 novel Dark Matter: A Ghost Story, set in the 1930s and focused on an all-male expedition to Svalbard. As representatives of the norm, the fictional expedition members attempt to enforce heteronormative models of interpretation characterizing depictions of the Arctic, but several aspects blur the boundaries between previously discreet categories. Starting from Sara Ahmed’s discussions about spatial and existential orientation in Queer Phenomenology (2006), the article maps how the Arctic is imagined and perceived by Jack Miller, the novel’s protagonist. Although hoping that Svalbard will constitute a productive testing ground for a particular kind of inter-war, British masculinity, specificities of place represent a progressively more threatening transgression of what Jack perceives of as normal. The Arctic is thus initially constructed as a stable place; geographical particularities then overturn possibilities for Jack’s orientation, and supernatural occurrences finally violate boundaries between past and present, sane and mad. What Ahmed refers to as ‘queer moments’ that slant that subject’s perception of the world are in the novel produced by the actual as well as the supernatural Arctic: they highlight a continuous, geographically specific resistance to categorization.     

银杏叶提取物对老年糖耐量减退高胰岛素血症及血糖代谢的影响

目的：研究银杏叶提取物对老年糖耐量减退（ＩＧＴ）血中胰岛素及血糖代谢的影响,探讨银可叶提取物对胰岛素抵抗的改善作用及机制。方法：应用银杏叶提取物－－金钠多静脉滴注２８ｄ,每日１次,治疗前后分别检测血胆固醇（ＴＣ）、三酰甘油（ＴＧ）、极低密度脂蛋白（ＶＬＤＬ）及７５ｇ葡萄糖耐量试验（ＯＧＴＴ）各点的血糖及胰岛素水平均明显下降,差异显著（Ｐ〈０．０５）,ＴＧ及ＶＬＤＬ亦明显下降（Ｐ〈０．０５）,多元逐     

Political ontology,constituent power,and representation

In this piece, I discuss some aspects of the tension between democracy and constitutionalism in light of Pettit’s attempt to think popular control of government by way of a mixed constitution and the introduction of an alternative concept of representation.     

Millions of Small Battles: The Peronist Resistance in Argentina

This article studies the working‐class clandestine political organisation known as the Peronist resistance. Created after Argentine President Juan Perón was overthrown in 1955, the resistance movement was much more than a reaction to the limitations imposed on the organisation of unions. It signalled the birth of a new paradigm of political and cultural resistance firmly anchored in the household and the neighbourhood. Looking into the cultural dimensions of violence, the study shows how violence functioned as a creative force, producing transformations in political agency and cultural practices that reached into the Peronist household and shaped mourning rituals and the politics of martyrdom.