Wilderness state of mind: Expanding authenticity

This paper challenges the overuse of existential authenticity as a categorical umbrella encapsulating touristic experience and contributes new insights to the way postmodern authenticity is defined in tourism research. To date, studies associated with postmodern authenticity have focused on the inauthentic and themed, with scholars contending that it speaks more to the consumptive, the superficial, and the trivial than to the substantive and meaningful. By working through a case study focused on nature tourists in pursuit of authentic wilderness experiences, this paper illustrates the ways postmodern authenticity encompasses much more than cynical authenticity, for while the American wilderness may be a hyperreal, and even hypernatural, simulacrum, nature tourists nevertheless report deep, meaningful, and “authentic” engagements with wilderness.     

城市故事论--一种后现代城市设计的建构性思维

以城市故事的概念来建立一种后现代城市设计的建构性思维,分析城市意义要素类型和营构特性,追求城市的整体生态价值以及环境的公正价值观.研究城市故事空间的的系统性、多元性、深层性和差异性,强调对自然生态系统、人类历史文化以及市民空间行为的重视.     

新生代员工工作价值观：后现代主义的视角

近年来,新生代群体开始步入工作场所,并将逐渐成为社会的主流。与此同时,代际问题日益凸显,成为各研究领域的热点话题。价值观是行为的内在驱动,对员工的工作态度及行为有着显著影响,因而关系到团队与组织的绩效。研究发现,相对于前几代员工,出生于1980年后的新生代员工成长于更为安定的社会经济环境中,更易形成“后现代主义价值观”（Postmodernist value）。本文以后现代主义价值观的基本特征为基础,回顾了价值观、工作价值观与代际问题的理论基础及研究方法,结合我国特有的历史文化背景,对新生代员工的工作价值观进行探讨,并对今后的代际管理研究及如何进行更有效的实践管理提出建议。     

Representing markets: The shaping of fashion trends by French and Italian fabric companies

In this paper, we use ethnographic methods to describe the market making activities of Première Vision, Paris, the leading trade fair in the clothing fabric industry. Through collective action and powerful representational practices, Première Vision's exhibitors affirm their style innovation and position themselves as trend setters. Our study extends the emerging literature on market forms and marketing practices by (i) introducing a different lens, based on the ideas of postmodern theorists, through which the nature of representation in industrial markets may be viewed and (ii) addressing the role of self-interested theorists, i.e. marketers who theorize about the market and its functioning in ways that are self-beneficial. Our paper also has implications for trade fair literature, which is mostly concerned with individual exhibitors' value appropriation strategies. The case of Première Vision shows that trade fairs may be considered as collective marketing instruments, thus highlighting the importance of organizers' value creation strategies.     

Aesthetic Products and Aesthetic Consumption: A Review

This article presents a review of recent thinking about consumers’ aesthetic experiences. These experiences are examined within the context of philosophical, psychological, and social science perspectives on aesthetics. A distinction is made between aesthetic products and aesthetic consumption, and these two concepts are discussed in terms of marketing views of their core elements. The review also reflects on the impact of “postmodernism” on aesthetics within marketing. Consideration is given to four philosophical conundrums relating to the aesthetic experience which are relevant to marketing theory: disinterested attention; objective and subjective taste; the nature of the aesthetic encounter; and the relationship of evaluation to preference.     

后现代主义与国际关系理论

文艺复兴后,后现代主义哲学兴起并不断地渗入到文学、绘画、建筑、社会学、历史学等人文科学领域。国际关系理论作为人文学科的一个分支,同样受到了后现代哲学的冲击。它不断冲击国示关系理论的认识论和本体论领域,使国际关系理论出现一批新流派如女性主义、建构主义、后现代主义、批判理论等等。本论文首先阐述后现代主义哲学的一些基本观点,然后从认识论、本体论层次讨论后现代主义对国际关系的影响,最后对影响进行评价。     

Working Weeks,Rave Weekends: Identity Fragmentation and the Emergence of New Communities

Popular music is one of the most ubiquitous forms of contemporary culture. This paper looks at the phenomenon known as rave or dance culture in Britain. It examines the nature of the consumer experience at a dance club through the use of a two stage methodology. Based on observations and the collection of phenomenological data, the findings suggest that the experience is linked to a series of behaviours, which are related to fragmentation and identity. These include narcissistic identity, the emergence of new communities, the need for escape, engagement and prolonged hedonism. The paper examines these concepts in relation to postmodern consumption. In particular, an evaluation of postmodern theory and its focus on fragmentation and the project of the self is offered, by arguing for a return to "community".     

《"百事"一代》——维克多·佩列文的可乐时代

维克多·佩列文是20世纪90年代初俄罗斯文坛中一位很具代表性的后现代主义作家。他在俄罗斯后现代主义文学中取得了卓越的成就。他的后现代主义作品数量丰富,创作风格新颖而独特。对《“百事”一代》的创作主题和创作形式进行分析,可以进一步了解这部后现代主义作品中突出的异化主题和语言文字游戏形式。     

A Critical Theory and Postmodernist approach to the teaching of accounting theory

This paper outlines my teaching philosophy for the Accounting Theory subject. A Critical Theory and Postmodernist approach is recommended, which makes full use of non-accounting “tangential” material [Boyce G. Critical accounting education: teaching and learning outside the circle. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 2004;15(4/5):565–86] and material from popular culture [Kell P. A teacher's tool kit: an introduction to social theory. In: Allen J, editor. Sociology of education: possibilities and practices. 3rd ed. Southbank, Melbourne: Social Science Press; 2004. p. 29–51 [chapter 2]; Nilan P. ‘Reality TV’? School students and popular culture. In: Allen J, editor. Sociology of education: possibilities and practices. 3rd ed. Southbank, Melbourne: Social Science Press; 2004. p. 306–21 [chapter 14]]. The paper discusses some classroom interactive activities, as well as interview results from interviews conducted with 11 international students and one Australian student at Charles Sturt University. The teaching approach proposed in this paper is to conduct classroom interactive activities which study theories and research results from a range of disciplines in order to illustrate key points that apply equally as much to accounting theories and the accounting research process, e.g. the Positive/Normative dichotomy. Classroom interactive activities are discussed in class using the “dialogical approach” to education recommended by Freire [Freire P. Pedagogy of the oppressed. London: Pelican; 1996], Kaidonis [Kaidonis MA. Teaching and learning critical accounting using media texts as reflexive devices: conditions for transformative action or reinforcing the status quo? Critical Perspectives on Accounting 2004;15(4/5):667–73], Boyce [Boyce G. Critical accounting education: teaching and learning outside the circle. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 2004;15(4/5):565–86], and Thomson [Thomson I, Bebbington J. It doesn’t matter what you teach? Critical Perspectives on Accounting 2004;15(4/5):609–28]. Once students gain experience in studying material from outside accounting, the interview results suggest that they are then better motivated [Wynder M. Creative management accountants: short case studies to promote creativity in the classroom. In: Paper presented at the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand annual conference; 2006] and better equipped to study and evaluate accounting theories.     

谈后现代主义时装中的“颠覆美学”

后现代主义作为设计观念,是指在反现代主义的过程中形成于20世纪60年代,发展于70年代,成熟于80年代的一股设计思潮。在后现代主义设计理念的影响下,时装设计从形象、材料、色彩、风格等方面都完全打破了传统的美学标准,形成了一种全新的"颠覆美学"。