Animals,Governance and Ecology: Managing the Menace of Venomous Snakes in Colonial India

During the nineteenth century, the British Raj launched a campaign to reduce the number of people killed annually by venomous snakes on the Indian subcontinent. Unlike its successful effort to cull large mammals, the colonial government was forced to abolish its bounty scheme in 1890 and instead seek to use sanitation to reduce interactions between humans and snakes. This article will assess this transition in policy as a means to understand how attitudes towards the governance of animals were shaped by cultural and ecological factors. It will be shown that during its inception, discourses of scientific governance statistically augmented perceptions of the threat posed by snakes, presenting them as a direct yet manageable danger within an anthropocentric cultural model. However, financial and practical limitations forced the government to recognise that the behaviour, seasonal patterns and territorial movements of snakes influenced the rate of mortality, and thus adjust its policy to acknowledge the experience of cohabitation in India’s diverse ecological contexts.     

试论我国同居登记制度的构建

随着非婚同居人群数量与日俱增,由同居产生的各种纠纷也随之增加,但在我国至今没有可适用的法律供其解决问题。同居人群在社会中包含异性同居、同性同居、已婚者变性后与继续原配偶同居等情况。本文建议,构建与婚姻制度互补的同居登记制度来规范同居人群,既为异性同居中的弱者提供法律保障,又为变性人和同性恋者这些特殊人群提供宽容平等的社会环境。     

从家族档案探析浦江郑氏“孝义同居”的原因

浦江郑氏能够"孝义同居"达三百三十余年,除了其中的血缘因素,更多地是依靠严密的家族管理制度和与时俱进的孝义含义。正是依靠文件性的家族族规与适应朝代演进的孝义原则,浦江郑氏才能长久地和睦相处,并成为封建王朝扶植的典型。     

嬗变的婚恋观与新闻传媒报道

近年来中国出现了离婚率上升及未婚同居增多的现象,显示出我国社会的婚恋价值观发生了变化,正在从传统的保守向现代的自由演变。新闻传播客观反映社会的变动,必然要面对我国的婚恋价值观的嬗变问题。富有社会责任感的新闻传媒,理应思考如何使这方面的报道既符合新闻传播的规律,又产生积极的效应,引导公众健全婚恋价值系统。     

两个时代的"同居生活"——借《伤逝》反观《生活边缘》

毕飞宇的《生活边缘》是反映当代年轻人同居生活的一部比较优秀的小说,鲁迅先生的《伤逝》则是这类小说中最杰出的精品,本文尝试比较这两篇小说,揭示两个时代同居生活结局基本相似的原因,进而分析两篇小说在写作技法上的异同。     

Sliding Versus Deciding: A Theme Analysis of Deciding Conversations of Non-Engaged Cohabiting Couples

The goal of the study was to examine conversations about living together between cohabiting partners. Survey responses of 103 non-engaged cohabiting couples (206 individuals) were assessed using theme analysis procedures. Results show that 84% of the sample did have a conversation about the transition prior to moving in together. The conversations ranged from relational and logistical issues to justifications for why cohabitation was the right choice. The theme analysis also revealed that for some couples, the decision to cohabit was dependent on having a conversation, while for others the conversation seemed to occur after the decision had been made.