Governing the Commercial Streets of the City: New Terrains of Disinvestment and Gentrification in Toronto's Inner Suburbs

This paper explores the commercial shopping street as a site of racialized class struggle. The argument builds around the study of a disinvested inner‐suburban neighbourhood in Toronto, which furnishes an ideal case through which to achieve the paper's objectives of, first, identifying commercial space as an important site of contestation over competing suburban futures; second, delineating how processes of racialization inform the economies of commercial gentrification and urban renewal; and third, highlighting the epistemological and theoretical insights that emerge when research is conducted collaboratively, among academic, community, and activist groupings. The paper argues that such commercial spaces play a key role in making the city accessible to vulnerable and marginalized groups. Two competing planning agendas centred on reordering commercial space, meanwhile, spell the almost‐certain demise of such arrangements: a “real estate” vision featuring new condominium developments, and a new urbanist resistance favouring “green” and “creative” alternatives. Our engagements with precarious, predominantly immigrant‐owned businesses and community‐based researchers reveal the complicity of both modes of development planning with processes of displacement and structural racism. Specifying these dynamics as “racialized class projects” opens up space for intervention and organizing.     

THE 2013 ANTIPODE RGS‐IBG LECTURE New Materialisms and Neoliberal Natures

The rise of non‐deterministic understandings of nature, with their emphasis on intensive difference and non‐linear processes, has occurred in conjunction with the neoliberalization of environmental governance, which at once emphasizes and financializes the inherent productivity of nature. This paper accepts the position that there is a link between the two, but argues that if we are to maintain a crucial ontological distinction between capital and non‐capital, this link must be understood as contingent rather than necessary. Drawing upon Deleuze and Guattari's concept of “universal history”, I argue that the neoliberalization of nature must be understood, in part, as the strategic containment of the critical energies of new materialist thought, and that the role of critical historiography is to recognize within processes of containment the contents and qualities of more radical possibilities. If such critical efforts are to succeed they must continually distinguish between nature's innovative force and the mechanisms that seek to capture this force in the service of capital and state. In turn, if we are to remember the radical potential of these ideas, the neoliberalization of nature must be understood as a response to these critical energies, and not their origin.     

Is nationalism left or right? Critical junctures in Québécois nationalism*

ABSTRACT. Sub‐state nationalist parties of the industrialised West occupy different positions along the left–right political spectrum. Despite the similarities of their political agendas, these parties adopt different ideological identities. This paper seeks to explain the choice of party position and the long‐term consistency of these positions by employing a path‐dependent perspective. The focus is first, on the critical junctures during which such choices are made; and second, on the mechanisms of continuity ensuring the persistence of the left–right identities. The argument is explored within the empirical context of Québécois nationalism.     

朱熹与法家之学

朱熹作为理学集大成者,其思想呈现儒法交融,对法家之学的批判、融合与折衷,使理学法律思想较之于法家更有补治道,成为引导中国封建社会后期几百年政治活动的思想规范.朱熹是真正的儒法思想家.     

中日学术交流与汉语训诂学研究

日本学者在汉语训诂学研究领域取得了许多重要成果,在不少方面甚至超过了中国学者,非常值得我们关注和借鉴。本文结合作者在日本大学中文专业任教三年的体会,从五个方面论述了中日学术交流对汉语训诂学研究的积极作用。     

《华佗传》《曹冲传》疏证--关于陈寅恪运用比较方法的一项检讨

《三国志曹冲华佗传与佛教故事》(1930年),是陈寅恪早年运用比较方法、从事比较之学研究所获得的一项成果,其结论和方法在学界有着广泛的影响。但结合早期传世文献与出土文献考察发现:(1)华之称华佗,乃出于其善治“虫”,而非天竺语“agada”之省译;(2)麻沸散的发明权在中国,中国不但古已有之,而且传承有道;(3)华佗事迹有附益先秦文挚之事者,此乃其原型所在,且早于印度神医耆域故事;(4)曹冲称象之法,中国先秦恐已有成例可寻。在从事比较研究时,中外比较固然重要,古今比较亦不可偏废。     

陈垣基督教信仰考

关于陈垣是否宗教徒,此前学界一直未有定论。从教会档案、民国期刊以及胡适的回忆等各种资料可以佐证,陈垣是北京缸瓦市教会基督教徒。在缸瓦市教会他是一位威望甚高的教友,对教会管理事务有一定参与;在基督教界他对中国基督教教会的改造和本色化均有关注,也有亲身参与,但主要是以授课或者演讲的方式间接参与。从陈垣的散佚文章和著作的部分早期版本,可以看到他对基督教信仰的表达、他的宗教经验及有关于“罪”的信仰告白等,这些也进一步印证了他的基督教信仰。     

Use-wear analysis of an Amudian laminar assemblage from the Acheuleo-Yabrudian of Qesem Cave,Israel

In this paper the results of use-wear analysis of an Amudian lithic assemblage recently discovered at Qesem Cave, Israel, are presented. Although very old, this assemblage maintains well-preserved traces of use that indicate that butchering activities and plants collecting were carried out at the site. Cut marks on faunal remains confirm the observations obtained by use-wear analysis.     

试析20世纪40年代中国马克思主义史学家对史料和历史考证方法的重视

20世纪30年代,经过中国社会史论战而迅速扩大影响的中国马克思主义史学,存在着明显的教条化和公式化、轻视史料与考证的缺失。40年代的中国马克思主义史学家对此进行了积极的反思和纠正,而且还从理论上论述了史料及考证方法在历史研究中的重要性,阐述了理论观点与材料方法间的辩证关系,极大地促进了马克思主义史学的中国化和学术研究的中国化。     

崔述的史考与史识

清代乾嘉时期的史家崔述对先秦历史疑古辨伪,求实考信,不但澄清许多古书记载的谬误和古史传说的疑团,而且表现出深刻的考史理念与考史见识。其“不以传注杂于经,不以诸子百家杂于经传”的考史理念,表现为以经证史则去古未远的考史原则;强调“不应后人所知,乃反详于古人”的考史理念,表现为对古史传说循流溯源祛疑解惑的考史方法;反对“凡说上古者,皆以后世例之”的考史理念,表现为朴素历史主义的考史学风。他的这一系列考史理念和考史见识,对中国古代历史考证学理论与方法论的丰富和发展做出了重大贡献。