‘A room of one's own’: the meaning of spatial autonomy for unmarried women in neoliberal South Korea

This article explores the experiences of single South Korean women in their late twenties to late thirties in their pursuit of an independent living space. Looking at the struggles of these women to acquire ‘a room of one's own’, I first argue that the process of their spatial independence reveals the problematic inherent in South Korea's heterosexually marriage-centered housing and loan-lending structure. Further, rather than simply portraying these women as victims of the structure, I argue that the dominant interpretation of spatial independence of single women inadvertently buttresses the ideal selfhood of the neoliberal labor market. Applying Foucault's theorization of the technologies of the self that are instrumental to liberal governmentality, and Marxist theories of labor and finance capital in late capitalism, this ethnographic study engages in a broad discussion of changes in subjectivity and structure that take place under conditions of neoliberalism. In contributing to discussions of neoliberalism, I show that a progressive liberal ethos is not innocent of the development of neoliberalism.     

从考古发现看洛阳东周王城的城市布局

东周王城在我国历史及古代都城史上都占有重要的地位。然而由于历史文献的欠缺,对其一直难有较直观的认识。本文将有关记载东周王城的历史文献和建国以来对其所做的科学考古发掘资料进行了梳理,从东周王城在周朝疆域中的布局及王城内部的规划格局两方面,对东周王城的城市布局作了较为全面的探讨。     

对区域社会和谐发展问题的思考

实现区域社会和谐发展是构建社会主义和谐社会的基础。我国地域宽广,不同区域在经济社会发展程度、自然资源、生态环境、历史文化传统及其所面临的问题等方面,都有自身的特点。从民主法治、公平正义、诚信友爱、安定有序、充满活力、人与自然和谐相处等六个方面入手,结合区域自身特点,切实解决区域社会和谐发展中面临的现实问题,不断推进区域社会和谐,进而由每一个区域的社会和谐,走向全社会的和谐,这可能是构建社会主义和谐社会合理的路径选择。     

苗学研究的海外之花——《文化资本:现代苗族的古老文化》述评

美国教育学博士杨家能先生在其博士论文《文化资本:现代苗族的古老文化》中,以世界苗族,特别是中国苗族历史文化为背景,用文本分析、现象学、历史学方法分析了苗族丧葬歌词《引路》的文化内涵,以及其所反映的苗族文化结构、文化环境。对苗族文化的现代化和当代价值,特别是民族教育方法作了探讨。文章不仅为苗族文化研究提供了珍贵的文化史料,也提供了方法论的借鉴。更为重要的是,它深化了我们对民族文化资源向文化资本转化这一当今时代重大课题的新认识、新实践。     

Access to capital markets and the geography of productivity leaders and laggards

This paper examines whether access to the capital market of convertible and nonconvertible bonds affects total factor productivity (TFP) for the population of Italian joint stock manufacturing companies, based in highly segmented local financial markets, between 2007 and 2017. The hypothesis, well grounded in the literature, is that long-term capital favors investment in intangibles and other risky assets necessary for productivity growth. To identify this effect, we exploit the exogenous shock of the Italian banking deregulation of the mid-1990s as an instrument for firm-level access to capital, interacted with distance from logistic networks. These reforms changed the distribution of the type of branches at the local level, increasing the share of joint stock banks, which have high connections to international capital markets. This geographical reallocation of banking activities ultimately affected firms' financial structure, favouring their access to capital, even when based in peripheral financial areas. Firms which issued instruments of market debt achieved higher levels of productivity and a higher probability to reach top percentiles of productivity distribution.     

Greening the Cage: Exploitation and Resistance in the (Un)Sustainable Prison Garden

The current popularity of prison greening coincides with a reformist project in carceral administration centring the “rehabilitation” and “transformation” of incarcerated people, finding a natural home in the prison garden. In contrast to mainstream literatures that celebrate reform and foreground recidivism, I argue that the prison garden is exploited institutionally for the symbolic power of “green” to help resolve a crisis of legitimacy in prisons, and thereby capitalism, depoliticising the violence of incarceration while reproducing the symbolic conditions of racial capitalism through two different socioecological (prison) fixes. This proceeds in strikingly similar ways to urban sustainable development, which regularly depoliticises and extends racial and spatial injustice across the city. Yet, in its tensions and contradictions, the (un)sustainable prison garden remains a space where radical possibilities can emerge through moments of resistance, constituting various tenets of a precarious carceral food justice praxis.     

蛮河流域文物普查资料分析与楚都探索

蛮河流域与楚都探索有密切关系,楚丹阳南漳说和楚郢都宜城说均与蛮河流域有关,但该地区的考古工作极为薄弱。本文试图通过对蛮河流域文物普查资料的整理与分析,为在该地区进行楚文化考古与楚都探索提供一些参考意见。     

殷都安阳兴衰的地理因素探析

殷都安阳的兴起和发展与安阳一带相对优越的自然环境和农业、交通、人口、历史文化基础等地理因素有着较为密切的关系。商晚期以后,安阳的衰落与安阳一带的自然环境趋于恶化,政治中心转移,经济衰退及军事防守方面的缺陷和漕运不便等地理因素有关。     

西部开发的人力资本问题研究

发展理论的演进过程表明,人力资本的不断改善在欠发达地区经济发展中起着关键性作用。因此,在实施西部大开发中应把改善人力资本置于重要的地位予以重视。基于此,本文着重分析了西部地区人力资本面临的主要问题,以及为改善人力资本应采取的主要对策。     

青铜编钟起源的探讨

青铜编钟的起源若不梳理清楚,就难以论述明白青铜编钟的发展脉络。基于现有出土物和献记录,讨论了青铜编钟起源的若干问题,指出：青铜编钟可能滥觞于陶铃,其后陶寺铜铃的出现,为青铜编钟的产生发展奠定了一个重要的基点,而青铜编钟的真正起步是从晚商铜铙开始。对二里头铜铃至晚商铜铙之间存在的缺环,中提出了一种可能性的解释。有人认为南方铙是中原铙南传的结果,本工作则根据中原铙别于南方铙的出土成编等现象,提出了中原铙是借鉴南方铙发展而来的观点。对南方铙和中原铙之间差异、甬钟等的由来、青铜编钟的起源所反映的礼乐意义及其带给今人的启示等问题亦进行了探讨。