Alpine Masculinity: A Gendered Figuration of Capital in the Patagonian Andes

This article investigates the Patagonian ecotourism industry and the spatial production of gender privilege. The analysis attends to how the spatial practices of park rangers, tourism guides and climbers create a gendered space of capital accumulation that devalues and marginalises othered subjects – such as women and non-alpine men – within specific domains of nature. Developing the concept of a figuration of capital, this article argues that the ecotourism industry has facilitated the rise of an alpine masculine subject based upon key bodily values: robust physicality, a conservationist ethic and heroic narration about engaging wilderness.     

对马克思主义“两个必然”的再认识

社会主义必然代替资本主义,这是人类社会发展的必然规律。国际社会主义运动出现的曲折,是社会主义螺旋式前进的一个插曲;资本主义世界出现的新变化,无非是把＂两个必然＂实现的进程推进了一步。中国特色社会主义的胜利实践,充分证明了马克思社会主义必然胜利的论断是科学的真理。     

20世纪的资本主义与社会主义

20世纪初列宁做出的关于帝国主义的论断被两次世界大战和社会主义国家的兴起所证实。20世纪是资本主义和社会主义并存的世纪。二者之间不仅有对抗和战争,而且有学习和借鉴。资本主义后来发生的变化是列宁未能预见到的。20世纪末苏东剧变的原因之一是斯大林模式的僵化。这种僵化固然与斯大林本人形而上学的思维方式有关,但其后继者未能改变这种状况,反而造成悲剧性结局。回顾20世纪的历史可以得到以下认识:社会主义的理论所以成为科学是因为立足于资本主义的现实;社会主义的现实不同于社会主义的科学理论;社会主义建设必须从现实出发,而不是从理论出发;社会主义的发展离不开改革开放。     

苏东剧变以来德国马克思主义研究现状

苏东解体东西德合并后,德国的马克思主义研究呈现出新的特点。研究者围绕着社会主义、资本主义和马克思主义展开了广泛的研究和讨论,召开了一系列的会议,出版了一系列文集。     

Queering the World or Worlding the Queer? New Readings of Anna Kavan’s Who Are You?

Abstract

This essay explores world-literary and queer approaches to Anna Kavan’s little discussed 1963 novel Who Are You?. It argues that world-literary scholarship demonstrates the centrality of white colonial masculinity to capitalist modernity, while a queer reading highlights the anxious performativity at the heart of such power. The most distinctive feature of Kavan’s text is its unusual format, whereby the story is told once, in detail, before immediately being retold, in more concise fashion and with some adjustments. What both fields add to the analysis of this formal deviation is a shared concern with the failings of normative order—whether that be the bourgeois, heteropatriarchal family or the capitalist system itself—and, in turn, the relationship of such failure to narrative disjuncture.     

Technology and Global Capitalism in Don DeLillo's Fictions

In Underworld and Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo has depicted the interaction between technology and global capitalism. It is through technology that global capitalism abuses its power. The hegemony of global capitalism is criticized due to its instrumental ethics of technology in DeLillo's fictions. On the other hand, DeLillo has constructed a counter-narrative to the hegemony of global capitalism by developing a sense of justice for technological ethics with a promotion of an aesthetic and moral dimension for technology.     

Asia’s Conservative Moment: Understanding the Rise of the Right

ABSTRACT

Recent scholarship has identified a new era of post-democracy or democratic crisis in the West, characterised by the increasing resort to authoritarian measures and the erosion of mechanisms such as representative parties and unions that link citizens and social forces with the political process. Conservative political movements, right-wing governments and populism have also emerged in the democratic states of the Asia-Pacific. The existing literature, with its focus on the crisis of social democratic institutions and forms of representative politics, provides inadequate frameworks for explaining these trends in the region. This article suggests that a better way of understanding the emergence of these new forms of political regime in Asia is to locate the origins of democratic crises in processes of global capitalist transformation and political incorporation and disincorporation. The articles in this special issue show that previously dominant modes of incorporation are fracturing under the conditions of neo-liberal capitalist transformation. In the wake of this fracturing, political elites have struggled to created new forms of political incorporation. This has inadvertently resulted in the sharpening of the conditions that give rise to political crisis. The political responses to crises have predominantly been conservative and have led to attempts to restructure the state to limit dissent and electoral competition.     

资本主义、社会主义与经济社会发展模式

资本主义和社会主义是当前影响最大的两种经济社会发展模式。两种发展模式经历了不同的发展演变过程 ,由于社会制度的不同 ,两种发展模式在其内容和结果上有着根本的区别。在当前两种发展模式竞争共处的形势下 ,从历史、现实、理论、实践等方面科学分析和认识两种不同的经济社会发展模式 ,对于中国特色社会主义现代化建设有重大的理论意义和现实意义。     

从国别范围到走向全球--对资本主义基本矛盾新变化的几点认识

在全球化日益深入发展的条件下,资本主义社会个别企业的有组织性和整个社会生产无政府状态的矛盾在一国范围内有所缓和,但在世界范围内有所加剧.过去主要存在于民族国家内部的矛盾现在扩大到全球范围,资本主义的基本矛盾具有了全球性.当代资本主义生产方式的全球扩张成为产生全球性危机的总根源.     

The Global Capitalism School Tested in Asia: Transnational Capitalist Class vs Taking the State Seriously

Globalisation continues to stir debate. One burgeoning theoretical perspective is the “global capitalism school” (GCS), anchored around the writings of William Robinson. The GCS argues that globalisation marks a new epoch as nationally-based elites are no longer the central locus of power in world order with the rise of a “transnational capitalist class” (TCC). Jeb Sprague’s edited volume, Globalization and Transnational Capitalism in Asia and Oceania, is the first book-length study testing key tenets of the GCS in the Asia-Pacific, and therefore fills a crucial gap. In this review article, it is argued that this book does not overcome what I believe are some key theoretical and empirical problems in the GCS, from not taking the state seriously to a dearth of corporate ownership data to demonstrate the existence of a TCC. To argue this, the article draws upon chapters in the book itself that are critical of the GCS, as well as from empirical research on corporate ownership and nationality. Nevertheless, it is concluded that this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the GCS, as well as the broader theoretical implications and empirical impacts of globalisation in the Asia-Pacific region.