Subalterns and the State in the Longue Durée: Notes from “The Rebellious Century” in the Bhil Heartland

Abstract

Focusing on recent debates over the ways in which subaltern groups engage with the state in India, the article proposes that it is imperative to historicise our conceptions of subaltern politics in India. More specifically, the argument is made that it is imperative to recognise that subaltern appropriations of the institutions and discourses of the state have a longer historical lineage than what is often proposed in critical work on popular resistance in rural India. The article presents a detailed analysis of Adivasi rebellions in colonial western India and argues that these took the form of a contentious negotiation of the incorporation of tribal communities into an emergent “colonial state space.” The conclusion presents a sketch of a Gramscian approach to the study of how subaltern politics proceeds in and through determinate state–society relations.     

Modernist art in the service of Nazi culture: Baldur von Schirach and the Junge Kunst im Deutschen Reich exhibition

ABSTRACT

Maertz's essay offers a history of a modernist art exhibition that opened in Vienna's Künstlerhaus under the patronage of Baldur von Schirach, the Führer's personal representative in that city, the second largest in Nazi Germany. The significance of the 1943 Junge Kunst im Deutschen Reich (New Art in the German Reich) exhibition lies in its assertion of a modernist variant of ‘official’ National Socialist art that clashes with the orthodox aesthetic system typically associated with the Third Reich.     

Reading Václav Havel in the Age of Trump

This paper explores the explicit self-deprecation in Vaclav Havel’s writings in order to outline a unique contribution to thinking about resistance contained in Havel’s oeuvre. What Havel offers is a timely critique of messianic political gestures. I will focus on how Havel’s self-deprecation offers a subtle but significant critique of western politics which also contains the kernal of a virtue ethics of sorts, instead of a blueprint for radical action. I will also explain the important and related critique of messianic politics entailed in Havel’s thought and outline the significance of this critique for the current political climate.     

鸡源致病性沙门氏菌新近分离株的耐药性与耐药基因

为了了解河南省鸡源沙门氏菌新近分离株的药物敏感性和耐药基因的存在情况,为进一步研究细菌耐药的分子机制和新型抗菌药物的研制提供资料,利用K-B法检测了98株鸡源沙门氏菌对22种药物的敏感性,采用PCR方法检测了13种常见耐药基因在分离株中的分布情况。结果显示,所有菌株对红霉素、青霉素、阿齐霉素和氨苄西林的耐药率均在60%～100%之间。三重以上耐药的菌株高达96.94%,七重以上耐药的菌株为56.12%,耐药最多的菌株可耐受18种抗生素。从13种常见耐药基因中扩增到3种四环素类、2种氨基糖苷类、2种β-内酰胺类、1种氯霉素类和3种磺胺类耐药基因。研究表明,沙门氏菌极易产生耐药性,耐药基因广泛存在于耐药菌株中,但耐药表型与耐药基因之间无绝对相关性。     

Just war and the Lebanese resistance to Israel

The literature on Lebanese resistance to Israel is overwhelmed with work on Hezbollah, the role of religion, and its connection to Iranian influence. However, few of these studies have looked at the totality of Lebanese resistance, from its secular origins to its Islamic monopoly. Moreover, no work to date has looked at Lebanese resistance through the prism of just war theory. This article aims at addressing this gap by applying the criteria introduced by Childress regarding the justness of war. Moreover, the article examines resistance as a practice of non-state actors and its terrorist label, and at the same time, evaluates Israel’s military response to Lebanese resistance through the prism of state terrorism.     

R2P: “State of Play”

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Is R2P the most effective tool the international community has to prevent genocide, or the newest neo-imperial norm perpetuated by the most powerful states? In a dramatic performance of the key debates within R2P, each of these views is presented before Aristotlean and Tocquevillean insights are drawn upon to find a middle ground rooted in citizen resistance against mass atrocity crimes. R2P can both become a more effective tool of prevention and gain needed political legitimacy by drawing on the rich historical tradition of citizen resistance to empower local actors defying regimes engaged in mass atrocity crimes.     

电针结合饮食和运动疗法治疗胃肠实热型单纯性肥胖症临床研究

目的 观察电针结合饮食和运动疗法对胃肠实热型单纯性肥胖症的临床疗效,并探索其作用机制.方法 采用随机对照的方法,分别设立针灸饮食运动组(治疗组)35例和饮食运动组(对照组)37例.观察两组临床疗效、主要症状疗效,治疗前后观察两组体质量、体质量指数(body mass index,BMI)、腰围的变化,检测治疗组治疗前后及健康对照者的空腹血糖(fasting blood sugar,FBS)、餐后2 h血糖(postprandial two lours plasma glucose,2hPG)、空腹胰岛素(fasting insulin,FINS)和餐后2 h空腹胰岛素(postprandial two bours fasting insulin,2hFlNS)水平.结果 治疗组临床总有效率显著高于对照组(P<0.01),多食易饥、畏热多汗、口千舌燥和大便秘结的总有效率显著高于对照组(P<0.05,或P<0.01);治疗组体质量、BMI及腰围下降值显著高于对照纽(P<0.01);治疗组FINS及2hFINS水平较治疗前显著下降(P<0.01).结论 电针结合饮食运动疗法治疗胃肠实热型单纯性肥胖症疗效显著,并可同时改善其胰岛素抵抗状况.