Islam and resistance: Hamas,ideology and Islamic values in Palestine

This article investigates the historical evolution, values and Islamic reference points of Hamas. A product of fieldwork in the Middle East in 2009–2010, it allows Palestinian Islamists and their supporters to explain their views on Islam, whilst analysing the implications of these in regards to Hamas’ wider programme of resistance. Interviews and surveys, as well as Hamas’ ongoing use of Islamic terminology and the Islamisation of the Gaza Strip, reveal that religion remains intertwined with the movement’s political and social activities. Secular analyses clearly demarcating political and religious spheres in such cases are inadequate. The interpretation of Islamic values is not immutable, however, but rather part of a dynamic process subject to evolution and change.     

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This paper analyzes practices of counter-surveillance—particularly against closed-circuit television systems in urban areas—and theorizes their political implications. Counter-surveillance is defined as intentional, tactical uses, or disruptions of surveillance technologies to challenge institutional power asymmetries. Such activities can include disabling or destroying surveillance cameras, mapping paths of least surveillance and disseminating that information over the Internet, employing video cameras to monitor sanctioned surveillance systems and their personnel, or staging public plays to draw attention to the prevalence of surveillance in society. The main argument is that current modes of activism tend to individualize surveillance problems and methods of resistance, leaving the institutions, policies, and cultural assumptions that support public surveillance relatively insulated from attack.     

Disconnection and resistance: anti-terrorism and citizenship in the UK

The corroding impacts of anti-terrorism measures on citizenship have been much discussed in recent years. Drawing on qualitative research from the UK, this article argues that citizens do indeed frequently feel that aspects of citizenship – such as rights, duties, identity claims and the ability to participate in the public sphere – have been significantly dampened by developments in this policy area. At the same time, however, participants in our research also articulated a number of strategies through which they or others have sought to resist the logics, exercise and impacts of anti-terrorism powers. These included voicing explicit opposition to particular measures, resisting ‘outsider’ or ‘victim’ subject positions, and a refusal to withdraw from established forms of political engagement. Whilst such resistance should not be overstated, we argue that these strategies emphasise the co-constitutive rather than linear relationship between public policy and citizenship. Anti-terrorism powers do indeed impact upon citizenship claims, for instance in the curtailment of formal rights. Equally, the everyday, lived, experiences and practices of citizenship contribute to, and help shape, the perceptions and understandings of anti-terrorism policy from within the citizenry     

“A Bureaucratic Trap:” Free,Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) and Wind Energy Development in Juchitán,Mexico

ABSTRACT

On November 2014, the first Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) consultation was called for the Eólica del Sur wind project in Juchitán de Zaragoza, Mexico. Lasting eight months, the consultation was responding not only to the UN International Labor Organization’s (ILO) convention 169 that Mexico signed in 1990 but also to widespread uprisings against wind energy projects in the region. This article begins with an FPIC literature review, followed by sections examining the consultation in Juchitán, its spatial layout, the actors involved and its repressive atmosphere. The subsequent section analyzes the discursive techniques deployed by the FPIC technical committee (TC) which—despite unanswered questions and popular opposition to the wind energy project—granted project approval on 30 June 2015. The final section concludes that the FPIC consultation undermines Indigenous autonomy and serves as a counter-insurrectionary device, reinforcing a context of substantial political and economic asymmetry between state, corporate and elite interest and Indigenous fishermen and farmers. The FPIC consultation in Juchitán reinforced state power and simultaneously serves as a marketing platform for development projects, thereby creating an illusion of real dialogue, negotiation and, by extension, democratic decision making. Despite efforts to have the wind project approved, resistance groups’ temporarily halted construction.     

柔嫩艾美球虫抗药株第二代裂殖子的双向电泳图谱比较

对实验室诱导的柔嫩艾美球虫马杜拉霉素、地克珠利抗药株及其同母源敏感株第二代裂殖子的蛋白质进行双向电泳 ,构建了稳定的双向电泳图谱。经Imagemaster 2DElite软件分析 ,敏感株和抗药株平均可分离 90 0个点 ;以敏感株平均胶作为参考胶 ,抗药株平均胶与之比较 ,得到差异蛋白质斑点 ,其中地克珠利抗药株和马杜拉霉素抗药株各有 4个表达差异点。这些差异表达的蛋白质可能参与了球虫抗药性产生的过程。     

抗战后期中共开明士绅工作的弱化及其原因简析--以华北抗日根据地为例

开明士绅(绅士)这一历史群体,在抗日战争时期,是中共领导的各抗日根据地"三三制"民主政权中属于中间势力的一部分.在抗战初期及中期,中共为团结开明士绅共同抗日,做了大量的卓有成效的工作.但在抗战后期,中共的开明士绅工作出现了较明显的弱化倾向.本文以中共华北抗日根据地的开明士绅工作为例,分析了这一弱化倾向的表现及其原因.     

论抗日战争时期毛泽东民主思想的理论特点

抗日战争时期毛泽东的民主思想,相对于毛泽东一生的各个时期而言,具有高度重视民主制度与文化的双重建设;高度重视民主进程与民主理想的相互规定和实现;具有高度的现代意识等理论特点,其思想的深邃和宽广,为我们今天的社会主义民主政治建设提供了有益的借鉴。     

以色列边境防暴警察(四)——以色列的恐怖主义与反恐怖策略

恐怖主义活动称得上是当今世界最严重的社会问题之一.综观以色列的历史,它自称是恐怖主义的受害者,实际上它也是一个恐怖主义的大国.但与其他的恐怖主义不同,它更多的是国家军事战略基础之上的"恐怖主义".以色列边防卫队就是在这样的战略方针下执行边境防暴平乱任务的,其危险性之大也就可想而知.     

Sites of repression and resistance: political space in refugee camps in Thailand

Refugee camps are frequently perceived as spaces of emergency and exception. However, they are also spaces where millions of people live their everyday lives, sometimes for extended periods of time. As such, refugee camps are political spaces where struggles over the right to influence life in the camps and shape how they are governed are continuously ongoing. In this context, what are the opportunities for political participation for refugees living in camps? How and to what extent are refugees able to carve out political space where they can engage with and affect their lives and their situations? This paper addresses these questions through an analysis of refugee camps in Thailand. Drawing on Foucauldian analytics, the analysis demonstrates how key strategies employed to govern refugees, namely spatial confinement and development interventions are also creatively subverted by refugees and appropriated as bases for resistance and political mobilization. The article provides new insights into the relationship between power and resistance, demonstrating how specific technologies of governance create opportunities for subversion, reinterpretation, and appropriation.     

台湾人民反抗日本殖民者的斗争

1895年,清政府与日本国政府签订《马关条约》,台湾从此沦为日本殖民地长达50年之久。对日本殖民者的残酷统治压迫,台湾人民进行了长期英勇的斗争,给日本殖民者以沉重打击。台湾人民反抗日本殖民者的斗争,是中华民族抵抗日本帝国主义侵略的重要组成部分,是中国近代史上波澜壮阔的群众爱国救亡运动的光辉篇章。