Alienation and anxiety in tourism motivation

Although underexplored in tourism studies, recent work suggests theories of alienation, as the dialectic of authenticity, have much to contribute to our understanding of tourism motivation. This paper uses three major theoretical tropes (Marxism, existentialism, and Lacanian psychoanalysis) to examine the role of alienation in the motivations of hiking and rock climbing tourists. In particular, these tourists describe only temporary and retrospective relief from anxiety, articulating authenticity as an elusive experience that lies at the horizon, in the next adventure, or in the past as a memory. Alienation is an ever-present component of the human condition, and as such, anxiety is omnipresent in our lives, contributing significantly to touristic desires for escape, rejuvenation, and existential experiences.     

《时间机器》中的反技术理性思想

在这部作品中,威尔斯充分发挥了他的想象力,通过怪诞的故事,反映并预见了当代社会的种种危机和异化,特别是资本主义社会中由于科技的发展所带来的种种危机和异化。本文把马尔库塞等西方批判理论家对技术理性进行批判的社会理论用于对这部小说的主题进行分析,从人性的丧失、人类的分裂、身体的衰退、精神的颓废四个方面展示了科学的不当运用,即技术理性给人类造成的负面影响,以此深化我们对这部关于人类文明发展前景的文学作品的前瞻性主题意义的解读。     

从金融产品异化角度解析次贷危机的特征、发展和前景

人们之所以对次贷危机一再判断失误和低估其影响,主要在于采用了传统观念来评估这次前所未有的危机。次贷危机和以往历次金融危机相比最大的特征在于它是首次由产品异化引发的全面金融危机,所以从产品异化角度来审视这次危机,有助于揭示其中许多新的特征和发展脉络。相应地,传统的危机对策难以完全应对这次新型危机,只有同时对业务模式和产品重新调整,才能最终恢复市场信心和信任。在业务模式和产品经过调整的后危机时代,美国金融市场将会进入更加健康持续深化发展的新阶段。     

Not such smart tourism? The concept of e-lienation

The concept of alienation was adapted to tourism by MacCannell who identified it as a key feature of modernity and a strong driver of tourism where tourists seek to reconnect to authentic places and selves. Meanwhile the post-modern world has witnessed a revolution in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) especially in the realm of smart tourism where its advocates talk eagerly of the internet of everything. Such a totalising prospect demands serious review and this article fills a critical gap by conceptualising the idea of e-lienation as a specific form of alienation in ICT-enabled tourism. It combines philosophic questions of meaning, sociological theory and empirical research to demonstrate the meanings of e-lienation, its dimensions, causes, consequences and strategies of resistance.     

从空间角度看《变形记》中人的异化

空间转向是20世纪最重要的理论转向之一。从空间角度切入卡夫卡的《变形记》,揭示了主人公格里高尔从人变虫的经历中所发生的两种异化过程,即在空间中被动承受发生的异化以及人主动影响而发生的异化。通过对这两种异化过程的阐释,来表达空间对于人异化的主动影响以及人的异化对于空间的影响。在对这些空间内容的阐释中,我们可以看到隐含在作家卡夫卡冷峻笔调之下的对于现实空间的关照和对人类生存现状的人性关怀。     

社会技术视野中的技术本质追问

对技术解读上的工具主义方式有着内在的缺陷，背离了马克思对技术本质的完整意义上的理解，缺失了从人与人的关系上、从属人世界的角度来诠释技术这一人类实践活动的形式。将社会技术与自然技术的视角完整统一、将人的尺度与物的尺度有机契合，才有可能真正消除技术异化问题。     

权力结构、强化市场型政府和中国市场化改革的异化

本文提出中国的市场化改革出现了异化,并对其给出了基于权力结构的解释。文章认为,强化市场型政府是一国市场走向健康和规范的源泉,它奠定了市场健康和规范发展的产权（权利）基础、规则型契约基础和公平竞争秩序基础。然而,只有在权力结构均衡时,一国政府才有可能变成强化市场型政府,在权力失衡下,政府更可能变成萃取型政府,以萃取（掠夺）为主要职能,这就回答了奥尔森所未能回答的问题。针对中国权力结构失衡状况,文章分析了为什么中国的市场化改革会因为权力结构失衡和权力嵌入市场而走向异化,并基于中国的现实,总结了中国市场化改革异化的八大表现,给出了基于事实的实证。     

‘Christie Malry's own double entry’, by B.S. Johnson: An interpretation as Foucauldian discourse

B.S. Johnson's controversial novel of 1973, ‘Christie Malry's own double entry’, is studied in detail in the article which follows. The book outlines the frustrations of Christie Malry, a bank clerk and subsequently, accounts clerk, in facing up to the irritations and unfairnesses of everyday life at work and at home, including the organisation of business and political life and personal tragedies such as illness and death. The hero, Malry, uses accounting to help him address the problems.The article places Johnson's darkly humorous and satirical work in the context of the 1960s and 1970s. It also analyses it in terms of Foucauldian discourse, in order to show how effective literary protest was attempted against the tide of accepted knowledges and the system of power-constrained publications and utterances about accounting and business then in circulation.     

城市土地价格异化问题探析

在我国城市土地资产经营过程中,土地市场并非一个完全竞争的市场。土地作为最重要的生产要素其价格往往易受到政府政策选择的干预,土地市场上存在着比较严重的政府官员的寻租行为和开发商相互间的不正当竞争活动。目前关于土地方面的税费体系还存在着诸多的不合理成分以及隐性土地交易的行为还普遍存在,因而土地价格实践中所表现出来的往往也就并非经济学意义上的由供求平衡影响所确定的均衡价格,相反,在某种程度上它更多体现的是对现实中土地价格的歪曲并进而无形中形成了通常所说的土地价格的异化问题。     

The influence of supportive leadership and job characteristics on work alienation: A six-country investigation

This study examines the relationships between supportive leadership and job characteristics and workers’ alienation in Cuba, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Russia, and the United States. One thousand and nine hundred and thirty-three workers and non-managerial personnel participated in the research. Supportive leadership and job characteristics were found to be related to alienation. Evidence is provided along with implications for theory and practice.