The aesthetics of “everyday” violence: narratives of violence and Hindu right-wing women

“Right-wing” movements see significant participation by women who espouse their exclusionary and violent politics while at the same time often contest their patriarchal spaces. Women also serve as discursive and symbolic markers that regularly form the basis of the rhetoric, ideology, actions and policies of the right-wing. However, even as women’s roles and politics within the right-wing remain diverse and important, dominant feminist scholarship has had uneasy encounters with right-wing women, labelling them as monolithic pawns/victims/subjects of patriarchy with limited or no agency. This article aims to question this notion by examining the aesthetics and visual and oral imagery appropriated, (re)constructed, transformed and mediated by right-wing women. Based on ethnographic and visual research conducted in 2013–2014 with women in the cultural nationalist Hindu right-wing project in India, I argue that right-wing women use a variety of visual and oral narratives (from images to storytelling) to negotiate with spatialities and carve out independent “feminine” discourses within the larger language of the right-wing. I also argue that these narratives are “ritualised” and performed in various spaces and styles and remain crucial to the “everyday” politics and violence of right-wing women. The “everyday” politics of right-wing women often contest, subvert and bargain with the patriarchal goals of the larger projects, rendering narratives as sites of examining agency. Using specific examples of visual and oral narratives from the aforementioned movement, this article articulates how everyday violence is shaped by the aesthetics of the nation and the body, and how these aesthetics shape everyday violence.     

高校思想政治理论课教学方法改革初探

十八大报告指出：＂全面实施素质教育,深化教育领域综合改革,着力提高教育质量,培养学生社会责任感、创新精神、实践能力。＂这是对我国教育部门提出的新要求。理论与实践表明,在教学活动中,教学方式方法是影响人才培养质量和创新人才培养至关重要的因素之一。因此,结合我国高校思想政治理论课教学方法改革的历史实践,对我国思想政治理论课教学方法改革的趋势进行探讨,这在十八大大力倡导培养学生＂创新精神＂的大背景下显得十分必要。     

The Contingent Public Value of ‘Good Design’: Regulating the Aesthetics of the Australian Urban Built Environment

The proposition that the urban built environment can, and indeed should, be made more visually attractive is a long‐standing feature of the governance of Australian cities. In this vein, this paper examines how ‘good design’ in terms of visual aesthetics is currently pursued including through the development assessment process and the work of government architects. The paper begins by tracing the background of contemporary regulatory practice from long‐standing ideas around beauty and its value through to the urban design movement of today. Next, it considers in more detail various rationales for aesthetic governance and what might be better forms of regulatory practice. In short, it will be argued that while there can be scope for regulation to deliver superior outcomes, this practice must be sensitive to a high degree of contingency in what the public values and that deliberate empirical inquiry into the latter is desirable.     

春秋决狱———从实践出发的审判思路

先秦时代所形成的《春秋》等经典实是先秦时代人们长期实践经验的写照,而《春秋》决狱正是通过对以往人们实践经验的再阐释来平息争端、解决纠纷,达致各方利益平衡的.从尚存的春秋决狱的六个案例中可看出,从实践出发,针对具体案件,解决纠纷才是审判的实质所在.     

关于美学教学与实践方式的若干思考

美学课的教学过程,应注重充分调动学生作为审美主体参与各种审美活动的主动性,系统引导学生获得丰富的美感体验。通过探索多种有效的教学与实践方式,来改变传统美学教学的刻板抽象模式,使学生在尽情享受审美愉悦之同时,能获得比抽象说教更深刻的感悟,从而在潜移默化中不断提升审视美的境界。     

钱学森的中国梦

作为中国航天事业奠基人和人民科学家,钱学森毕生追逐科学报国梦想,"竭尽努力建设自己的国家",为我国科技振兴、国防现代化建设和社会主义事业作出了杰出贡献,堪称广大科技工作者群体中践行中国梦的典型代表。通过对钱学森手稿与文献进行整理与研究发现,钱学森的中国梦,是爱国情怀、奉献精神、求真意识、创新勇气的集成,是立梦、追梦、圆梦、续梦的结合,是爱国之心、报国之情、效国之能、强国之行的统一。从以钱学森为代表的老一辈科学家身上,可以汲取民族复兴的精神力量,为实现中国梦提供精神激励。     

重读上海都市“新感觉”：从技术地理学到技术感性学的视角

技术的更迭不断地改造着人类社会的空间形态,也重构着在空间中生存之人的生命体验和审美感知。现代都市作为技术性空间,构成了上海新感觉派的感知环境,也是其重要的表征对象。上海都市现代性首先表现为一种传播和移植的“技术现代性”,是西方现代军事、运输和通信等技术的直接地理后果;而其在地生产,包括了都市空间的营造和城/乡空间关系的重构。新感觉派作家对现代技术事物的感觉之“新”,是在作为技术性空间的都市中,与“技术”效应之间产生的剧烈感应与共鸣。新感觉派技法的电影化,则是一种感性表征的现代技术媒介机制。从“技术地理学”到“技术感性学”的交汇视域来重读新感觉派,彰显了现代都市中“人/技术/空间”的辩证关系,在当代语境中具有普遍的参照意义。     

意识美学与身体美学的对立之消解

早期现代美学是"意识美学",它高扬精神性,排除了身体性,从而为精英文化和高雅艺术的独尊地位提供了论证。后期现代美学在后现代主义背景下转向"身体美学",它肯定意识与身体的同一,同时也偏重于身体性,从而为大众文化和通俗艺术跃居主流提供了理论依据。意识美学与身体美学各有其合理性和局限性。应该超越意识美学与身体美学的对立,既承认审美的精神主导性,也承认审美的身体性,从而成为身心一体的现代美学。     

公安高校的人文精神建设

针对当前警察队伍人文素质的状况,本文从警察大学生的人文素质教育入手,对加强公安高校人文素质教育建设提出了几点建议并具体阐释了其理论根据和重要作用:一、要真正重视人文基础课教学;二、专业课教师也应注意阐释教学内容中蕴涵的人文精神,在教学中渗透人文素质教育;三、构建良好的师生关系;四、优化校园环境。     

中华传统道德精神与素质教育

弘扬中华传统道德精神是以德治国,大力推进社会主义精神文明建设的必然要求,对于加强素质教育具有重要的现实意义.在推进素质教育过程中,学校应改进方式方法,从教学活动、校园文化建设、师资队伍等方面,坚持弘扬中华传统道德精神,着力创设中国式的德育环境;同时反对两种错误倾向,努力实现从传统道德教育向现代化道德教育的转化.