ABSTRACT Stories often reflect an adult desire to limit child political participation at tension with the hope of their societal liberation. By reading such stories, we can explore the ways in which children are transgressive, and the precise anxieties associated with children as a problematized subject. Using The Girl with All the Gifts, a novel by MR Carey, this article examines the child zombie figure and its associated metaphors of the failed paternalist State, the child as a resource for adult exploitation, and the child as an instigator of radical social change. In doing so, I explore how the monstrous child-zombie may be read through a politicized lens to better recognize our preconceived ideas of children.

ABSTRACT In response to claims for cultural objects taken during the Nazi Era, museums may retain possession of objects, but display texts detailing their troubled histories. These act as markers of justice, indicating that a process of addressing and recognizing the potential injustice involving the object has been undertaken. It is argued that these texts – often taking the form of paratexts – instrumentalise the art, shifting it beyond the aesthetic. Adopting methods from law and literature this article establishes three lenses through which to analyse these texts, specifically: provenance; commemoration; and justification. It is argued that through the use of markers of justice, museums create communities who are seeking to recognize past wrongs and deal with past injustices. Yet, in so doing, the objects change from artworks to symbols of those past tragedies and their accompanying texts provide spaces in which museums can justify their continued possession.

ABSTRACT This article considers the double meaning of ‘spook’ as both ghost and spy. Building on but moving beyond the hauntological or spectral turn in the recent humanities, the article explores this double meaning of ‘spook’ and what it might tell us about security politics. In so doing, the article moves through a diverse range of topics: from Hamlet to Bentham, from undercover cops to the anxieties of security intellectuals, and from moles to the ghostly powers of police, the article lays bare the haunted nature of contemporary security.

ABSTRACT The afterlife of Franz Kafka's writing has proved strikingly visual. For more than a century, artists have returned to Kafka not only to illustrate his work in the conventional sense, but to test how far visual form can approach literature built on delay, opacity and juridical menace. Kafka was famously opposed to illustrations of his work. Nowhere is this clearer than in his correspondence with his publisher over ‘Die Verwandlung' (‘The Metamorphosis', 1915), where he insisted that the transformed Gregor Samsa should not be depicted. Kafka feared that images would arrest the interpretive freedom of his prose, fixing what was meant to remain unstable, suggestive, and inwardly experienced. While Kafka's prose is dense with allegory and symbolic meaning, his characters and settings frequently blurring the line between the real and the surreal, illustrations are concrete. They capture a moment, a shape, a face. For Kafka, this was incompatible with the dreamlike quality of his fiction. Yet the history of Kafka’s reception has unfolded in precisely the opposite direction. Over the century since his death, as this review article discusses, his writing has generated a remarkably rich visual afterlife. The catalogue of the exhibition Illustrationen zu Franz Kafka takes this paradox as its starting point, not in order to resolve it but in order to inhabit it.

With the deep integration of the digital economy, e-commerce has become a core form of social commodity circulation, and electronic contracts, as the legal cornerstone of e-commerce transactions, are crucial to maintaining transaction order. Taking e-commerce platform transactions as the research object, this paper systematically explores the legal basis, practical models, and prominent problems in the formation of electronic contracts. It is found that the current legal predicaments mainly include difficulties in confirming contractual parties, doubts about the authenticity of intent expression, conflicts between standard terms and consumers' rights and interests, insufficient probative value of elec-tronic evidence, and obstacles in the application of law in crossborder transactions. Combined with typical judicial cases, this paper further analyzes the judicial determination rules for related issues and proposes targeted countermeas-ures from four aspects: improving the legislative and regulatory framework, enhancing the standardization of electronic evidence, optimizing the mechanism for users' expression of intent, and strengthening the protection of consumers' rights and interests. The research aims to improve the legal regulation system of electronic contracts, resolve transaction risks, and provide theoretical support and practical reference for the healthy development of the e-commerce industry.

From a legal perspective, analyze the connotation and logical relationship of intellectual property rights in Emei martial arts, point out the Legal dilemma in protecting Emei martial arts intellectual property rights, and then propose solu-tions to the problems. The study believes that the intellectual property rights of Emei martial arts refer to the intellectual property rights based on the intellec-tual achievements and commercial logos of Emei martial arts. The legal dilemma in the protection of intellectual property rights in Emei martial arts mainly manifests as follows: the identity of the rights subject of intellectual property rights in Emei martial arts and the intangible cultural heritage of Emei martial arts is the root cause of the conflict between public and private interests; to some extent, the sports nature of the intellectual property rights of Emei martial arts has influenced the legal recognition of this part of Emei martial arts intel-lectual property rights in the academic community; the inadequacy of the legal system is the fundamental reason why the intellectual property rights of Emei martial arts are difficult to obtain comprehensive protection. Based on this, the study proposes that technological innovation is a logical prerequisite for the protection of intellectual property rights in Emei martial arts. It can be achieved by extracting the classic techniques of Emei martial arts, constructing repre-sentative martial arts routines, and creating Emei martial arts competition pro-jects; The improvement of the legal system is the legal foundation for the pro-tection of intellectual property rights in Emei martial arts. In this process, it is necessary to particularly strengthen the important position and role of the Sports Law in the protection of intellectual property rights in Emei martial arts, and improve the basic position and auxiliary function of relevant intellectual property laws in the protection of intellectual property rights in Emei martial arts; The enrichment of theory is a powerful argument for the protection of in-tellectual property rights in Emei martial arts. Strengthening theory must be combined with the characteristics of sports, in order to build a solid legal foun-dation for the protection of the object of rights. In addition, the protection of intellectual property rights in Emei martial arts should focus on benefits, which requires balancing public and private interests and promoting the realization of public welfare through private rights protection