Postcolonial Interventions: Gayatri Spivak,Three Wise Men and the Native Informant

Abstract

This article responds to Terry Eagleton's claim that Spivak's latest book, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason, works against the intent of postcolonial criticism. Reading the work as a search for a just representational strategy, we explore the implications of Spivak's engagement with philosophy - Kant, Hegel, and Marx. As a disciplinary machine, philosophy produces Western subjects who are engendered by simultaneously including and excluding the other. Working through this production of the double location of the ‘other’ we suggest that systematic thought is inhabited by an absence that is present within, a disturbing otherness that ultimately questions authority and stability, and opens up the question of politics and representation. Drawing Spivak into the representational problematic opened up by Lyotard, we suggest that a responsible postcolonial intervention can be performed in the difficult exergue between representability and unrepresentability. In this account, representation is open to invention, to finding new idioms for articulating otherness.     

历史因素对日印关系的现实影响

明治维新以来日本因其奉行的扩张政策给亚洲各国人民带来了深重的灾难,历史问题一直是困扰日本外交的难题。而唯独印日关系因两国特殊的历史渊源而几乎不受历史问题影响,一直平稳发展。尤其近年来两国随着经济的发展都处心积虑想获得与其经济实力相符合的国际地位,共同的目标使得两国迅速接近。从地缘政治的角度看,我们必须对日印两国的历史渊源及其现实影响给予高度的关注。     

发展型联盟与印度持续的经济改革

印度政府自20世纪80年代中后期到90年代初持续的经济改革,是由于支持改革的政治家、官僚机构与智囊团、商业集团之间形成了一种发展型联盟。这一联盟是在民主政治的竞争中形成并发挥作用。印度进行的经济改革经验在很大程度上证明了,民主国家可以在不改变其体制的情况下进行经济变革的可能性,并在一定程度上否定了经济自由化的改革必然需要一个强权政府的观念。     

Regulating online gambling: The Indian perspective

In India, the government has perniciously ignored the issue of internet gambling. Unfortunately, there is no specific legislation in place that addresses internet gambling, nor has there been any consistent policy professed with regard to internet gambling. Thus, online gambling operators, both domestic and offshore, are allowed to operate with impunity in India. Spurred on by factors like inadequate legislation, a lack of enforcement, and an indifferent judiciary, online gambling in India is unregulated, untaxed, and most of all, unclear. This paper posits that there is an urgent need for legislative clarity in India's policy towards internet gambling.     

日印近期强化战略合作的深层背景与影响

近期在中日关系因钓鱼岛争端而趋于紧绷之时,日印战略合作在不断深化"全球战略伙伴关系"基础上再度纵深发展。双方在民用核能、能源安全、经济贸易、战略安全与军事情报、推行价值观外交与构建海洋同盟等领域展开全面合作。日印关系的快速升温并非偶然,而是与亚太地区的权势转移与战略态势的急剧变化密切相关。尽管日印防务合作要达到战略同盟级也还很遥远,日印强化战略合作的具体影响还要更多的通过观察来确定,但日印全球战略伙伴关系持续走向深入,特别是军事合作趋于深化对中国周边安全环境的影响仍不能不令人警惕。     

印度《信息权利法》的实施及其启示

印度政府2005年实施的《信息权利法》是行政改革过程中的一个重要标志,对于提升政府治理水平具有重要作用,但是该法实施过程中还存在没有及时回应公众、缺少责任追究等问题。这些经验教训对于中国各级政府更好地依法行政、严格执行《政府信息公开条例》,深入推进行政体制改革具有一定启示意义。     

Allele frequencies of 20 Y-chromosomal short tandem repeat loci in a tribal population of Deccan Plateau, India

Population: Eighty male individuals from a nomadic tribal population belonging to Dravidian and Indo-Caucasian ethnicities from Deccan Plateau, Andhra Pradesh, India, were analyzed in the present study.     

‘Everybody else just living their lives’: 9/11, race and the new postglobal literature

ABSTRACT

López's essay focuses on three questions or concerns: globalization, its aftermath and how those on the bottom survive it. During globalization's rise through the 1990s even the most virulent critics treated its eventual hegemony over the planet as a fait accompli; the only relevant questions were how it would change us, and whether those changes were desirable. Today the question is how to live now that globalization has failed us. As the aftermath of each of the global cataclysms of the last decade have amply demonstrated, it is the poor, the disenfranchised and marginalized who bear the brunt of the suffering and anxiety set in motion by the economic, political and cultural changes unleashed by globalization at the level of neighbourhoods and communities. What López calls the ‘postglobal’ emerges precisely at those moments when globalization as a hegemonic discourse stumbles, when it experiences a crisis or setback. The first section of his essay consists of a detailed exposition of the term ‘postglobal’ and its efficacy for the study of contemporary literature and culture. The rest focuses on Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane as an exemplar of what he calls the new postglobal literature.     

印度社会保障国际合作的实践及其启示

作为印度大国战略的重要组成部分,社会保障国际合作有助于促进劳动力境外就业的长远发展。从2004年开始成为印度政府全力推动的一项重点外交工作。本文介绍了印度社会保障国际合作方面的经验与成功做法,即通过利用国内的投资合作机会和社会保障法规的调整,印度政府成功地与多个国家签订了社会保障双边合作协议。研究认为,社会保障国际合作不仅能够保障境外就业劳动者的基本权益,而且可以提升印度跨国企业的国际竞争力,进一步拓宽劳动力境外就业的空间,维护好本国的国家利益。印度推进社会保障国际合作的实践经验值得我国去深入研究和借鉴。