the cultural politics of speculation

... After the completion of the minzu identification in 1979, the Zhuang have been recognized officially as the largest of the 55 minority nationalities (shaoshu minzu)3 of the PRC Most of them are ... scripts Most of them still used the scriptures when they performed the rituals, but they were not affected by the policy of Intangible Cultural Heritage In my view, Zhuang villagers share the cultural ... contextualizes the rise of the Zhuang identity, including brief cultural narratives of the Zhuang in Guangxi the southern borderland, the emergence of a modern Chinese nation, the PRC national...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:16

... quality or the safety of the food? • (Similar to above) In general, are people in China concerned about such matters as the nutritional value of the food or the contents of the food they buy (for ... to the food)? FQ (This question might include: the packaging and the origin of the food) • What are the possible results if all (or the majority of) the people were not very concerned about the ... about the contents of the food they eat? （假设的问题） • (Similar to above) What could happen if all (or the majority of) the people were not very concerned about the contents of the food they eat? Food...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2013, 17:20

... and new 23 the new politics of climate change the new politics of climate change the new politics of climate change 24 programmes established to this The Office of the Third Sector, the new Department ... results in their own term of office The result is an abundance of long-term targets, without the policies to deliver them the new politics of climate change why don’t governments deliver? The boundary ... change.”54 17 Other parts of the third sector embrace climate change, not because of the long-term threat, but because of the short-term benefits that it offers them Some will join because they embrace...

Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2014, 12:20

... dominating; the other is chained to a bed "It is evident in this video that she interrogates the cultural construction of gender and representations of identity."Justify My Love" is the same The banned ... construction of gender and representations of identity The video suggests a set of images to the viewer and usually these are a blurring of gender and identity Music videos predicate on the representation ... interrogate the construction of gender and the representation of identity They not seem to cross any boundaries People watch soaps to relax and somehow relate, so if they were to experiment with the theatre...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:53

... back to the 1970s and crisscross the histories of the personal computer and the Internet, the peaks and troughs of the information-technology and software industries, the transformation of intellectual ... knowledge in the era of the Internet This book is about the cultural significance of Free Software, and by cultural I mean much more than the exotic behavioral or sartorial traits of software programmers, ... all of these things; the meaning and significance of the proliferation of digital pornography is a very different concern than that of the fall of the print encyclopedia  introduction and the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:20

... side-effect of stifling serious discussion among geographers about the aesthetic politics of landscape There is no denying the importance of the visual What is more, there is no escaping the inherently ... The question I would like to pose next is: What kind of aesthetic philosophy might best further the cause of an invigorated politics of landscape? Reasserting the importance of landscape aesthetics ... Marx, the application of human labour to nature was a fundamental process in the formation of social relations, which is the essence of the idea of “produced nature” In practice, analysis of the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 16:20

... Again, the missing link is the failure to analyze the application of Marcuse’s European ideas in the American context The failure lies in the silence about the relationship of these ideas to the ... movement at the height of the protest movements of the 1960s, then retreats as revolutionary hopes recede We require, however, an assessment of the transplantability of ideas based on a European cultural ... of the sixties on the basis of the latter’s primitivist, escapist, instinctualist tendencies? Do the two then diverge because the latter was putting into practice what the former could only theorize?...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 16:20

... conflict-between the president and the Right on the one hand, and the Left on the otherdetermined the content of the constitution, which-to a large extentexcluded the views of the Left Yet, the passage of the ... role in the creation and authorisation of the power of the state Although the constitution forms a part of the legal framework of the state, its nature intersects 16 The Moulding of Ukraine politics ... overcomes the limitations of the Weberian definition, but at the same time, purports to capture the essence of the state in defiance of the ‘indefinability thesis’ In !ight of the above proposition, the...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 15:58

... Slocum reads Thelma & Louise’s cultural politics at the beginning of the 1990s against Bonnie and Clyde’s cultural politics at the end of the 1960s, understanding Thelma & Louise as counter to ... availability, the absence of civilization, and so hides the histories of the West in favor of the familiar fantasies of the West as an unoccupied place of self-creation for Anglo tourists (like their ... used as the dominant image in newspaper advertisements for the film The original poster for Thelma & Louise emphasizes female friendship, the possibilities of the open road, and the appeal of the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:58

... understand the politics of cinema In other words, the issue of national cinema is then primarily a question of address, rather than a matter of the filmmaker’s citizenship or even the film’s country of ... focus on the politics of the dominant group (state and its apparatus) or the nature of the existing political regime in the framework of state-civil society relationship but disregarding the other ... and not in the image, it belongs to the realm of ethics and politics (and not simply to that of aesthetics) Giorgio Agamben (2000, p.56) Background of the Study In the early days of Reformasi...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:12

... iss ues in the formation of th e cultu ral id ent it y of the Nan yang or Sout heast Asi an Chines e throu gh anal yzi n g cultural space of and in the Nan yang First of all, t his thesis est ... onl y the cultural el em ents of thems elves and migrants from di fferent p arts of China, but als o the el em ents of modern and traditi o nal, West ern and t he col onial local cultures The ... communit y, thus m ade the process more com plex sin ce the “Sel f” was mi xed with the “Other” in the I dev elopm ent From the mid-1800s to the 1920s, more and more Chines e emi grat ed from China...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:56

... names of the lines of the hand, from E Pater, The Book of Knowledge Shewing the Wisdom of the Achievements of the Ancients (London, 1720) ‘To Give or Receive’, from F Nivelon, The Rudiments of Genteel ... obstructions, and the passions of the mind.102 Around the middle of the century the 96 P Slack, ‘Mirrors of Health and Treasures of Poor Men: The Uses of the Vernacular Medical Literature of Tudor England’ ... image of the corporeal whole, without first assessing the state of the parts.’73 They thus argue that more analysis of the specific parts of the body is essential for understanding how the whole...

Ngày tải lên: 18/11/2015, 09:55

... who makes the sale is not so much the intrinsic superiority of the product but rather the skill of the seller in understanding the dynamics of the trans— action between oneself and the customer ... consequences, is the result of pulling the item from its proper cultural context and viewing it from the perspective of another culture It is also the result of the individual's inability to see the foreign ... and the European Economic Union are two examples of the recent globalization of markets The result of the globalization of markets is that goods and services from all over the world are making their...

Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2016, 17:22

... of a gap between the aims and underlying values of the modern development process and those of the majority of indigenous peoples and communities being ‘‘developed’’ If the values and goals of ... connectedness and interrelatedness of all things and all people For those of us who work in the academy, we may need to go beyond the politics of society into the politics of individual consciousness ... in a particular cultural curriculum and agenda (Vine, 1992) The cultural challenge of sustainability 237 IJSHE 3,3 238 In my island part of the earth and ocean, the globalisation of Western, scientific...

Ngày tải lên: 16/06/2016, 00:42

... black cultural politics. 9 cultural moves: black cultural politics The relationship (or lack of one) between new technologies and the cultural politics of identity animates the final section of Cultural ... of the innate ability of early jazz musicians Because of these writers’ lack of understanding of the mechanics of music, they thought there weren’t any mechanics It is the ‘they all can sing, they ... practices of the street, these culture workers seek to articulate their experience of themselves as racial(ized) subjects of the state In the representation of crime the discursive alliance between the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 00:33

... And for the most part, the initiators of totalitarian rule pursued their aims in the name of some grand moral imperative – the Aryan domination of the sub-human races of the world or the Wnal ... to political agents on the basis of the perceived merits of the values and ends they serve and of their practical Wdelity in pursuing them It is only thus that the breed of ‘‘scurvy politicians’’ ... themselves, at the very least in the eyes of their supporters, as legitimate interests, arguing not just the contingent existence of their desires but the rightness and justness of their claims...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00

... both extremes of the emotional spectrum were shown At the end of the videos, the brachial artery constricted for five minutes and was then released In fourteen of the twenty volunteers the artery ... expression (27) Therefore, the crux of individualism is the ethnic diversity of various individuals It is not the particular view of the individual that makes them an individualist, but it is the differing ... conditions, and then to specify the name of that condition If the participant failed to indicate the name of the condition regardless of a “yes”, the survey was discarded assuming the participant...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:57

... artifacts ), the study is confined to the verbal aspects of the act of giving bad news with the use of politeness and hedging In addition, adjacency pairs are beyond the scope of this paper - The study ... to the perspective of pragmatics though the author realizes that syntactic theory and semantics apparently explain the meaning of the spoken word 3 - The Northern Vietnamese dialect and the ... “hedges” and these hedging devices attenuate or reduce the strength of the utterance or soften/ weaken the effect of the utterance They damp down its force or intensity or directness By giving the notion...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:44

... for the authors aim to get results to design the DCT, also the other part of the survey questionnaire The MCQ consists of 20 suggested topics The informants are asked to put a tick (v) in the ... influence in the communication at the first encounter 25 Situation a To business partner of higher status in the office b To their business partner of equal status in the office C To their business ... on the way the speakers talk and express their ideas They can also have great impact on the choice of topics in communication The second explanation can lie in the way the two cultures view the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:54

... denoting the objects covered by the scope of the notion expressed in the word, and the significative function is the function of expressing the content of the respective notion The function of rendering ... difficult The oldest or the husband of the family sits at the head of the table and others sit in descending order according to age or wherever they like The meal starts when everyone has their own ... teaspoonful for the pot Boiling water is poured into the pot and the tea is left for about five minutes before the host serves the guest Even there are the adages from the side of the Victorian...

Ngày tải lên: 15/04/2013, 15:11