People's security: Okinawa's anti-bases movement

Abstract

The evolution of moral panics is dependent on the particular social context and the ability of certain issues to trigger concern within society. In this paper, the authors have employed a cross‐comparative study of the heavy metal music subcultures in Singapore and Malaysia to understand the differences in the issues that generate such panics based on the socio‐political context of each country and its current concerns. Although the youth involved in both cases are marginalised male Malays, the framing of their alleged deviance and criminality permits, in the case of Singapore, only a limited possibility for moral panic creation given the conservative socio‐political governance that limits allegations such as ‘Satanism’. In the case of Malaysia, where a ‘large‐scale’ moral panic involving black metal emerged in 2001, the recent trend towards Islamisation gave fodder for the condemnation of black metal based on the allegations of the anti‐Islamic behaviour of Muslim youth involved in the black metal scene. In both cases, such groups were exploited by parties claiming to defend the social fabric of the moral majority, but in the latter case it took on grave implications due to the extent of the state and public response. This paper thus argues that the framing of these moral panics is an important component determining the relative ‘success’ of the panic or its ability to capture public and state imaginings.     

Racial moral panic and African youth in Australia

Since the mid-1980s, Australia has resettled thousands of African refugees. This paper focuses on the racialization of youth violence and the damage it sustains on refugee-background young Africans. The discussion proceeds in two interrelated stages. In the first stage, to understand the representation of African youth in the public sphere, the paper reviews the relevant literature, media headlines, and political commentaries. In so doing, it establishes that the continual framing of African youth as dangerous and violence-prone by conservative politicians and media outlets amounts to racial moral panic. In the second stage, guided by narrative research methodology, a small group of young Africans were invited to reflect on their everyday life under racialized frames. Accounts of the youth are presented under four themes: the presumption of guilt, emotional ill-being, opportunity hoarding, and the permanence of otherness. It is argued that, if left unaddressed, the racialization of youth violence can diminish the integration outcomes of African youth.     

Handling pressures: analysing touch in American films about youth sport

This paper examines how films produced in the USA in the past 10 years and featuring the coaching of youth sport, represent the issue of touch during instruction and training. Touch in such films is figured in diverse ways ranging from pats of reassurance and hugs of congratulation to cuffs of disapprobation. Touch is also occasionally depicted differently, dependent upon the ethnicity and gender of the central characters in specific films. These distinctions are evaluated for what they reveal about the nuances of understandings of touch in film portrayals of sport education in American high schools. The difficulty of interpreting physical contact between coaches and athletes in these films, and what this reveals about the problem of policing touch in general in educational settings, is explored. Finally, the paper examines how the films expose the intricacy of tactile encounters in ways that challenge the judiciousness of risk-averse ‘no-touch’ policies and practices in sports coaching.     

Pink herring & the fourth persona: J. Edgar Hoover's sex crime panic

During the 1930s, sexuality significantly shaped J. Edgar Hoover's public discourse. In response to a homosexual panic that plagued the nation's men and endangered his public persona, Hoover engaged in a passing performance. His masking rhetoric employed the pink herring, a tactic that manipulated a moral panic about sex crime to stabilize gender and sexual norms, divert attention from his private life, and silence an invisible audience that I term the fourth persona.     

浅析我国社会的能力恐慌与能力建设

改革开放以来,随着中国现代化进程的逐步推进,中国社会图景发生了深刻的变革.中国传统政治、经济和文化中的消极因素导致了当今中国的能力缺失,能力恐慌已成为我国当前社会发展中的突出问题,能力建设问题日益成为一个重要的现实问题.因此,必须对能力建设理论进行更深入和全面的研究,确立以能力为本位的核心价值观,构建能力社会,培养能力人,促进我国经济社会发展和人的全面发展的协调一致.     

网络谣言与恐慌情绪并行传播相互影响研究

[目的/意义]谣言诱发公众恐慌情绪,恐慌情绪极易导致过激行为,过激行为又易演变成为突发事件。这一系列连锁反应对社会安定造成严重威胁、对公众带来巨大损失。[方法/过程]相对于传播时间来说,谣言对恐慌情绪的诱发具有即时性,因此,该文建立了谣言和恐慌情绪并行传播的双传播模型,给出了平均场方程。通过数学方法和仿真模拟,研究了双传播模型中谣言和恐慌情绪各自的传播阈值及它们的传播规律。[结果/结论]研究结果表明谣言和恐慌情绪的传播阈值均存在。推导出谣言及恐慌情绪独立系统中谣言和恐慌情绪的传播阈值,分析出谣言及恐慌情绪关联系统中传播阈值的变化特征。研究还发现谣言和恐慌情绪的并行传播对彼此产生相互促进的作用。     

告别自治:合规时代的美国大学治理

传统上,受学术自由、大学自治以及联邦主义的影响,美国联邦政府较少干预高等教育事务。20世纪后半叶,在学术界和法律界之间关系发生革命性转变的背景下,基于开支权、税收权、贸易权以及公民权利执行权四种与教育相关的明示或默示的联邦宪法权力形态,联邦政府开始积极介入大学治理。至此,美国大学治理进入合规时代。联邦高等教育规制的强化在促进师生权利保障、增进公共利益的同时,也不可避免地滋生了“合规恐慌”与教师权利危机。近年来,在“螺旋式”合规文化的影响下,美国大学合规的压力来源持续增多。作为受规制最为广泛的机构类型之一,大学经常被拉入不同的、有时相互冲突的、有时不可调和的方向之中。当前,通过联邦高等教育规制的革新、大学合规职能的拓展以及大学法律顾问角色的重新定义等举措重塑联邦政府与大学之间的关系,构成了合规时代美国大学治理变革的最新动向。     

惊恐障碍50例临床观察

目的:探讨惊恐障碍的发病相关因素,临床特点及治疗.方法:对50例惊恐障碍病人使用汉密尔顿抑郁自评量表及自制调查问卷,对病人起病因素、临床特点及治疗情况进行分析.结果:惊恐障碍病人多初诊于心内科,症状表现以心血管、呼吸系统症状多见,经心理治疗及抗抑郁剂合并抗焦虑剂治疗,症状迅速缓解.结论:了解这些情况有利于惊恐障碍临床诊断和治疗     

技术控制语境下的道德恐慌策略分析

西方国家以技术理性为核心的社会控制方案在风险社会中受到挑战与冲击。作为化解风险危机措施之一的道德恐慌策略频频被派上用场。这种策略以社会冲突论为其立论前提,以道德相对主义、社会标签理论、实用主义为其理论基础,在现实运用过程中又存在着悖论。在深受全球化影响并致力创建和谐社会的当今中国,我们需要借鉴与批判西方发达国家的道德恐慌策略,需要强化风险议题的主导权与审查权、话语权与解释权,建构道德信念与正义安全的支撑体系以防范道德恐慌现象的无序蔓延。     

Morbid mentality of Hepzibah in The House of the Seven Gables

Loneliness is one of the central themes in the works of Nathanial Hawthorne, which, to some extent, is a reflection of Hawthorn’s keen sensitiveness to the existential anxiety of man in his times. Th...