七万美元当国王

豪华游艇？度假别墅？总统套房？与七万美元租下一整个国家的诱惑相比,这些似乎都显得太平淡了。这个正在考虑把自己出租的国家,就是欧洲袖珍国度列支敦士登。合约内容看起来相当吸引人,该国的临时“拥有者”将在议会仪式上得到一把象征性的钥匙,然后就可以使用土地,调用当地警察、铸造临时货币等。其他的福利还包括到列支敦土登王子的私人酒窖畅饮红酒、坐着中世纪马车游览首部瓦杜兹、     

Claims to Place: The public art of Sue Jane Taylor

This paper explores the ways through which the public art of Scots artist Sue Jane Taylor and the practices associated with it both unsettle narratives of globalisation and conjure in their stead new narratives of place. With reference to the stories of five works/workings of art—Glencalvie and Borgie in the Highlands, Aberdeen (the onshore site for the North Sea oil industry) and Clydebank, and Lower Pultneytown, Wick—I show how the art, as evidence of a deeply politicised aesthetics, makes visible not only the specificities of historical and contemporary struggle, but is also bound up with creating and imagining new political possibilities. Art and artistic practices are understood not simply in terms of shaping meanings but as constitutive of processes of subject formation and of the ‘becoming’ of place.     

Public and private: national identities in a Scottish Borders community*

Abstract. This paper is an exploration of national identities among sports people in a community in the Scottish Borders. This group experiences a split in their identities. Publicly, they are ascribed an ambiguous national identity by the surrounding national communities. Privately, and among fellow community members, they unambiguously assert national identity. This paper examines the way this split is managed, arguing that the performance of public ambiguity is expected, but is supported by the private performance of nationality. National identity is analysed specifically as a performance, and sport is the context in which this performance takes place.