Beyond Materialism: A Coevolutionary Reinterpretation of the Environmental Crisis

Materialism, both as a vision of the good life and as a cosmological basis underlying epistemology and modern science, drives humanity's environmental crisis. The dominant thrust of the environmental movement has been simply to shift to a longer slower materialism. Understanding how materialism creates our environmental problems and limits our vision of the good life is a necessary step toward creating a different future. Understanding development as a process of coevolution between knowledge, technology, social organization, values, and nature provides an alternative cosmological and epistemological framing which both gives us perspective on materialism and suggests an alternative vision for the future.     

The Paradox of Competition in the World of Volatility

Abstract

This paper analyses the mechanism in which fashion is produced, marketed, and consumed from the viewpoints of the consumption and supply-side, in the midst of an increasingly complex meaning of fashion and dress in modernity. The focus of the study is a theoretical account of the paradoxical consequences of market orientation and supply chain management in the middle market of international fashion retailing in the light of the idiosyncrasy of the restraints that are innately embedded in the fashion industry. The result gleaned from this study has an implication for an alternative approach of market orientation in international fashion retailing especially in the industrial economies.     

现代化进程中价值理性反思的问题意识与原因探析

从价值理性概念的全面界定出发,评析当下世界现代化进程中现代性理念的发展史,可以看出,现代性的历史展开过程是一个工具理性不断膨胀、价值理性不断失落的过程。放眼世界,立足于中国,从理论和实践两个方面全面分析价值理性失落的原因,为重建价值理性奠定理论前提。     

现代性与俄罗斯的“反乌托邦”文学——以扎米亚京的《我们》为中心

20世纪初,在俄罗斯兴起的＂反乌托邦＂文学,是对人类延续了千年之久的＂乌托邦＂梦想的解构与颠覆。它的出现,既是＂现代化＂发展的结果,又是对＂现代化＂的反思,在批判＂现代化＂危害的同时,更有对＂现代化＂特征的复归,这一点,在＂反乌托邦＂文学著作《我们》中体现的尤为明显。     

Work-to-family enrichment and voice behavior in China: The role of modernity

There is a lack of knowledge in the literature regarding the effects of the work-family interface on employees’ behaviors while taking into consideration of cultural values in developing countries. This study investigates the impact of work-to-family enrichment on employees’ voice behavior by focusing on the moderating role of modernity in a Chinese setting. Results from a survey of 230 Chinese married managers indicate that work-to-family enrichment positively influences voice behavior. In addition, the enrichment-voice relationship is weaker when modernity is high rather than low. The findings are discussed in terms of their theoretical and practical implications for human resource management.     

资本与现代性——马克思的回答

现代性问题是当代学界的核心话题,有两种基本的理论:一种是理性现代性理论,以黑格尔近代理性主义为代表,另一种是资本现代性理论,以马克思为代表。西方现代有良知的学者批判现代社会,但是却把根源归于科学技术、归于理性形而上学、归于本质研究和宏大叙事,由于没有触及资本的本质,因而他们的现代性理论不如马克思深刻。本文通过对马克思现代性理论的系统分析,结合当代现实,比较了两种现代性理论,并在此基础上提出了中国社会对待资本的基本原则:承认资本、发展资本、限制资本(霸权)、驾驭资本,使资本更好地为人类的进步服务。     

现代性拓殖与地方响应:少数民族盐业旅游社区的发展实践

全球化背景下,现代性以不可阻挡之势向边缘民族地区拓殖的同时,地方也不断作出响应,二者的互动塑造和影响着地方社会的深刻变迁。文章以西藏芒康县盐井地区为案例,运用深度访谈、观察等方法收集资料,分析现代性向边缘民族地区拓殖的路径、地方响应及其对地方社会的影响。研究发现:①现代性通过以机械化生产技术为代表的"硬现代性"和以旅游发展为代表的"软现代性"两条路径向边缘少数民族社区拓殖。②民族社区在这一过程中并非只是被动卷入,而是根据其现实需求、价值观念及地方知识的内在合理性等采取接受、调适、创造与抵制等多种应对策略。③现代性与地方的多元互动引发了传统与现代的边界重塑,地方社会中人地关系的疏离、回归与转变,以及社会关系与交往逻辑的打破与重构。文章关注现代性对少数民族旅游社区发展实践的具体影响,是对现代性理论的综合性微观实证探索,有助于加深对现代性与地方的互动关系以及旅游社会影响的再认识。     

Representing pace in tourism mobilities: staycations,Slow Travel and The Amazing Race

This article examines the way popular representations of tourism make sense of pace within the context of Western modernity and asks how certain ethical and ideological values come to be associated with speed, slowness or stillness. In the typical story of modernity, speed is commonly associated with positive values such as ‘freedom’ and ‘progress’, while slowness and stillness are often seen as marginal or undesirable modes of mobility. The analysis presented suggests that paying attention to pace and the way pace is socially encoded in media contexts reveals a more complicated narrative of mobility and modernity. The article draws on an analysis of media representations of three popular modes of tourism – the ‘staycation’, a neologism invented to describe vacationing at home; Slow Travel; an emerging social movement that advocates travelling slowly and locally; and the television programme The Amazing Race – to argue that the way pace is socially encoded in these representations is central not only to a more nuanced story of modernity, but also to a ‘politics of mobility’.     

磨镜与断袖——海派小说中的同性恋现象

海派小说中并没有真正意义上的同性恋文学,只是表现了一些同性恋现象.虽然书写女同性恋行为本身具有现代性色彩,但是海派小说中的女同性恋的描写与同时期的丁玲等的创作相比,其现代性的程度逊色很多.海派小说的男同性恋描写基本上延续了传统男同性恋中的狎邪风气,不属于性伦理方面的现代性表达.     

双重视域下的现代性历史演义——对《走西口》的叙事学解读

电视剧《走西口》是双重视域下对历史的现代性建构。人民伦理的“大叙事”和自由伦理的“小叙事”穿插进行，多方位展现了走西口的历史意义与文化价值。该剧对“仁、义、礼、智、信”进行了重新阐释、发展，形成现代核心价值观念；对儿女情的叙述颠覆了传统婚恋观，试图建构具有革命意义的现代性男女关系；对小人物的阐释更加理性，认为其不仅创造了英雄，而且创造了历史。《走西口》在传奇中塑造英雄形象，在儿女情长中叙述历史，在小人物的生存中体验命运，在走贾行商中讲述革命，提供了多角度、多元化的现代性解读文本，具有重大历史和现实意义。