Disciplinary Regulation Research Articles

Extreme wellness at work: Whose body counts in the rise of exceptionalist organisational fitness cultures

Management has long concerned itself with controlling workers’ bodies, with organisational wellness discourses being its latest fixation. This article’s purpose is to introduce and understand ‘whose body counts’ – a discourse of bodily exceptionalism in performative organisational cultures. Using ethnographic methods, this article presents an analysis of a CrossFit workplace health promotion at an underperforming US corporation, to identify a complex process of empowerment, self-exploitation and disciplinary regulation to produce performative outcomes. This research illustrates how the workplace health promotion generates a pervasive discourse of exceptionalism underpinned by workers’ reflexive exploitation, overarched by peer-surveillance and reflexively embraced through extreme individualised performativities. Critically, it is revealed how individuals competitively engage in communicative labour to demonstrate devotion to self-care that is translated into organisational commitment. Specifically, unquestioned discursive ambiguities are shown to cunningly empower limitlessness meritocratic striving that pits workers against each other, creating constant negotiation of ‘whose body counts’ by subjugating others.

Impact of work-related disciplinary regulation on university staff performance

Impact of work-related disciplinary regulation on university staff performance

Cheating in chess: a call for an integrated disciplinary regulation

This article examines recent regulation in the sport of chess with a focus on cheating. On the one hand, disciplinary law in chess could be considered relatively underdeveloped compared with other sports. On the other hand, however, this kind of ‘underdevelopment’ might be appropriate since chess governing bodies have not yet introduced interventionist rules. These two interacting perspectives shape the aim and the objectives of legal research designed to protect the chess community from cheating by suggesting adequate disciplinary measures. The analysis focuses mainly on two forms of cheating: computer-assisted cheating and match-fixing. The broad concept of cheating and relatively young legal regulation in an under-researched sport call for interdisciplinary analysis, therefore, knowledge of sports law, human rights as well as criminology is applied.

THE NORWEGIAN MILITARY JUDICIAL SYSTEM

In Norwegian Military Judicial System, the Judge Advocate General's corps belongs to the Prosecution Authority and is under the Ministry of Justice in peace, while in wartime administratively integrated into the armed forces. In peacetime its status is civilian, changing to military in wartime. The Norwegian military system of summary punishments is laid down in the Military Disciplinary Act of 20 May 1988, supplemented by disciplinary regulation by Royal Decree of 16 December 1988. Military commanders can impose summary punishments to officers and servicemen under their command

A nagyszebeni jogakadémia hallgatóinak kérelme az oktatás megreformálása tárgyában 1848 májusából

The Request for Educational Reform of the Students of the School of Law in Nagyszeben of May 1848. In spring 1848 amidst the zeal of the revolution started in almost all of the higher educational institutions in Hungary and Transylvania student movements to reform education in the institutions. In May 1848 the students of the Law School of the Saxons in Transylvania at Nagyszeben also submitted an application through the institution’s Senate to the sustaining Lutheran Church including – among others – the following issues: guaranteeing the freedom to education and teaching, reforming the study and exam system, significantly developing the substance of the library, getting the right to meet and vote for the students’ representatives during procedures against students; reviewing the academy’s disciplinary regulation. The following source-presentation – besides the Hungarian translation of the request – explains the circumstances of origin and the afterlife of the application.

Constitutional Law and Teleology: Subject Matter and Method of Meta-Discipline, Scope of Constitutionalization and Interdisciplinary Harmonization

This paper discusses the problems of identifying constitutional law as a meta-discipline, the scope of the subject and method in intersiciplinary harmonization. The relationship between constitutional law and teleology as a science exploring the purpose and expediency is revealed. The author formulates theoretical foundations of constitutional teleology that forms a request for hierarchy and coordination of constitutional and other legal disciplinary values and interests. Taking into account the existing positions in science, the complex nature of the subject of constitutional law, the expansion of the subject of constitutional and legal regulation under the influence of integration processes and the constitutionalization of the rule of law and branches of Russian law are substantiated. In methodological terms, doctrinal legal constructivism is used to build up the subject of constitutional law. The paper considers scientific approaches to the dialectics of the development of the subject of constitutional law and the reflection of the principles of constitutional universalism and constitutional identity in it. The author proposes to identify traditional and universal, innovative and original social relations in the framework of the subject of constitutional law. Special attention is given to constitutional identity as a necessary element of the meta-discipline, the development of the substantive sphere of constitutional law due to the effect of constitutionalization of the rule of law and branches of Russian law. Traditionalism and narrow approach to the scope of the subject of constitutional law are critically evaluated, new vectors in the development of constitutional law are noted, as well as the most important areas of constitutionalization as new subject areas of constitutional and disciplinary regulation. Within the discussion on the universality of the constitution and constitutional law, the existence of implicit or explicit constitutional issue in every branch of Russian law is stated. These issues are: 1) Classification of the subject matter of the branch as a specific type of subject matter (which can either be directly enshrined in the text of the Constitution of the Russian Federation or derived from the interpretation of its norms). 2) The constitutional powers of public authorities in the field of industry lawmaking, law enforcement and interpretation of industry norms.

‘The Mighty Macaulay’: The Analysis of a Therapeutic Taskscape, Disciplinary Regulation and Care at a Camp for Underprivileged Youth

Ethnographic research and interviews at a summer camp for underprivileged youth in Westchester County, New York state suggests that therapeutic landscapes can be effectively theorised as “taskscapes” (Ingold, 1993: 153). Whilst recent scholarship has provided a hedonistic perspective of therapeutic landscapes, this research analyses the mode of regulation within these milieux by extending upon concepts from neoliberal critique literature. This project critically examines the production of staff and camper behaviours within this space and suggests that certain components of this taskscape fail. This research proposes that close attention should be paid to the mechanisms through which certain comportments are produced within this space.

‘The Mighty Macaulay’: The Analysis of a Therapeutic Taskscape, Disciplinary Regulation and Care at a Camp for Underprivileged Youth

Ethnographic research and interviews at a summer camp for underprivileged youth in Westchester County, New York state suggests that therapeutic landscapes can be effectively theorised as “taskscapes” (Ingold, 1993: 153). Whilst recent scholarship has provided a hedonistic perspective of therapeutic landscapes, this research analyses the mode of regulation within these milieux by extending upon concepts from neoliberal critique literature. This project critically examines the production of staff and camper behaviours within this space and suggests that certain components of this taskscape fail. This research proposes that close attention should be paid to the mechanisms through which certain comportments are produced within this space.

Trust, Transparency, and Replication in Political Science

ABSTRACT Striving better to uncover causal effects, political science is amid a revolution in micro-empirical research designs and experimental methods. This methodological development—although quite promising in delivering new findings and discovering the mechanisms that underlie previously known associations—raises new and unnerving ethical issues that have yet to be confronted by our profession. We believe that addressing these issues proactively by generating strong, internal norms of disciplinary regulation is preferable to reactive measures, which often come in the wake of public exposés and can lead to externally imposed regulations or centrally imposed internal policing.

Legal Violence Against Syrian Female Refugees in Turkey

Turkey hosts the world’s largest community of Syrians displaced by the ongoing armed conflict. The object of this article is to explore the damaging effects of a hostile legal context on female Syrian refugees in Turkey. I base my analysis on scholarship that theorises immigration legislation as a system of legal violence and I argue that the Temporary Protection Regulation and the Law on Foreigners and International Protection that govern the legal status of refugees in Turkey inflict legal violence on Syrian female refugees. This legislation keeps them in the regime of temporary protection and prevents their access to international protection. The temporary protection regime serves furthermore as the main determinant for other forms of legal violence inflicted by various actors. I explore the effects of the Turkish government’s inaction in terms of preventing and sanctioning the abuse of Syrian female refugees as unpaid sex and household workers. I show that the extended legal limbo on the conditions of employment of Syrian refugees secures female Syrians as the most precarious workforce for Turkey’s various sectors. Finally I claim that the forced confinement of Syrian beggars in refugee camps is instrumentalised for their disciplinary regulation.

Corruption, Anticorruption, and the Transformation of Political Culture in Contemporary China

Since its inception three years ago, Xi Jinping's anticorruption campaign has targeted some of China's biggest political and military figures and implicated tens of thousands of cadres. This article argues that the current campaign can be distinguished from the many others over the past thirty years not on account of its extensiveness, but rather in its systematic coupling with two other key moves: administrative reform and disciplinary regulation. Together, these three initiatives aim not only to clean up the malfeasance, graft, and bribery pervasive in Chinese political life today, but also to change the political culture. We demonstrate that the current leadership is forcing a shift in political norms and behaviors, and changing the shared assumptions and practices that inform the political dealings of the society, from the approval of permits to the promotion of judges.

Op. Cit. Las funciones retóricas de la citación filosófica

Se suele reconocer cierto dialogismo en los momentos fundacionales de la filosofía occidental, y es posible vislumbrar variadas formas de intertextualidad en nuestra tradición filosófica. Pese a ciertas tentaciones monológicas, la filosofía no constituye un sistema auto-demostrativo; ha tejido sus textos mediante la citación de otras voces discursivas y a través de la invocación de palabras prestadas. Este artículo pretende realizar una panorámica discontinua de las funciones retóricas de la citación en diversos momentos de la filosofía occidental. La cita filosófica ha contribuido a la autorización de la palabra o a la constitución de repertorios discursivos compartidos y, también, a la invocación intertextual de otras voces discursivas o a la integración de los textos ajenos en el metadiscurso del filósofo. Actualmente, la regulación disciplinar de las prácticas de citación y la economía bibliométrica de los índices de impacto pone en riesgo todo ese legado dialógico e intertextual.

Other-regulation in collaborative groups: implications for regulation quality

The current study examines variation in other-regulation, conceptualized as efforts by one student to regulate their group’s work. This study extends research which has conceptualized other-regulation as temporarily guiding others’ conceptual understanding and skill development by broadening the spectrum of other-regulation to include directive forms and considering their differential impact on regulation quality. Qualitative analyses were conducted based on videotaped observations of three groups of 7th graders working on three collaborative activities during an inquiry-based science unit. Findings suggest that directive other-regulation related to employed moderate-low and low quality regulation within the group. Facilitative forms yielded higher quality regulation given co-equal regulation and task contributions, the focus of the other-regulator on integrating ideas using behavioral and group process regulation, as well as sustaining a shared focus on developing the task product through the use of high-quality content and disciplinary regulation. In contrast, directive other-regulation related to an imbalance in participation and regulatory contributions, as well as the other-regulators’ focus on controlling the task and ensuring their own contribution remained central to the task product. When group members do not have opportunities to make regulatory contributions, regulation and task quality suffer since the group cannot benefit from the full potential of their shared activity, with implications for learning.

Match-fixing: the shifting interplay between tactics, disciplinary offence and crime

Match-fixing is an interdisciplinary issue covering international, criminal and disciplinary law and even lawfulness (tactical elements of sports). One of the key difficulties is the broadness of the concept of match-fixing. The wide definition actually fits all branches of the aforesaid laws. Therefore, one must draw some guiding (yet, simplified and relative) criteria according to which the separation, as well as the interaction of legal systems could be possible. One of the criteria is dangerousness (seriousness) of the offence. Other criteria come from ECHR case-law and from the disciplinary regulation: the nature of offence, the degree of fault of the offender and the nature of sanctions entrenched in a certain legal system. Considering such criteria, the standards of proving can be distinguished and it can be decided under what conditions certain legal system(s) should be applied to tackle match-fixing.

Hidden in plain sight: defying juridical racialization in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander

This article examines the intersectionality of law and race to argue that law, in its broadest understanding, has played a pivotal role in the performative constitution of racial subjects. This disciplinary regulation, which has operated to “fix” an individual within a racial status under law, has augmented the production of the individual as a raced subject. An analysis of Rhinelander v. Rhinelander, however, illuminates that a defiance of racial performative dictates can render “race” hidden in plain sight. This rendering represents an escape from the regulatory mechanisms of law, posing a counter‐power that threatens to disturb hegemonic whiteness.

Action and Noise Over a Hundred Years: The Making of a Nature Region

This article explores the cultures of nature and the body in the Norfolk Broads region of eastern England, where relations of body and nature are central to culture and economy. Themes of moral geography and history are shown to run through the production of Broadland as a nature region over the past 100 years. The article discusses the contrasting presentation of the region as a space of improving and non-improving pleasure, the assertion of the former entailing a rejection of the latter as something going against the cultural grain of a nature region. Both are considered in terms of the particular modes of corporeality promoted, and the balance of mind and body held to be cultivated or disturbed. The possibilities of bringing displaced popular pasts back into the regional story are explored. The article concludes by reflecting on how the balance between freedom and regulation in moral geographies of conduct has been tipped over by those demanding either disciplinary regulation or bodily freedom.

Service or Benefice? Officeholders in Poland and Sweden of the seventeenth century

Abstract Exploring the differential structures of social and political power in early modern Europe, this paper examines the contrasting experiences of Poland and Sweden by focusing on the growth of civil office in each country. Central to the study is an understanding of the books of disciplinary regulation imposed on office holders, and how and why these measures were enforced. As the author illustrates, the two case studies give very different conclusions. In Sweden, as exemplified in the trial of leading members of the Swedish Council in 1680, the holder of civic office was constrained by a ‘corset of bureaucratic routine’. Strict, and widely enforced, rules governed activities such as office hours, dress and rates of remuneration. In contrast, Polish office holders pursued appointments not in the name of civic efficiency but to grasp social and political privilege. At the end of the article Kopczynski discusses some of the factors involved in these differences, laying emphasis on the structures of po...

Social Life in a Provincial University

E-T>HE PECULIAR PROBLEMS of life in a provincial uni| versity have been the theme of a number of publications and 1 discussions for a generation. The first group of provincial universities was founded in the nineteenth century in the big centres of population in the north of England. They were conceived of by their founders consciously and deliberately as institutions quite different from Oxford and Cambridge. Their students were to live at home and so save the expense of residence; they were to receive instruction in the form of lectures and to have good libraries provided, but they were not to be given the individual supervision that we now associate with the tutorial system in Oxford and Cambridge; nor was there to be any disciplinary regulation of their conduct when they were not at work in the uriiversity buildings. By the time of the 'second wave' of university foundations, beginning, at the turn of the century, with Reading, followed by Nottingham,l Hull and Leicester, misgivings about the pattern of the northern universities were already being felt, and these later new universities have from the beginning striven to provide residence for a large proportion of their students, while the older ones have built, and are still building, halls of residence. In these older provincial universities, like Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds or King's College, Newcastle, however, the majority of the students still live at home or in lodgings; and whereas the advantages of residential life are almost regarded as axiomatic, little is really known about the life these Chome' or 'lodgings' students lead. This attitude appears to have had two practical results: first that insuicient thought has been given to the merits of different patterns of residence, or to the question whether changed social conditions do not indicate types of residence not exactly modelled on Oxford and Cambridge; and second, a tendency to inhibit creative thinking about the best form that university education can take, when at least half its students live at home and a very large number in lodgings. A number of assumptions about the way of life in a provincial