Assembling and Spilling‐Over: Towards an ‘Ethnography of Cement' in a Palestinian Refugee Camp

Camps as objects of study are all but moored in the juridico‐political and the ‘structure versus agency' binary. This article attempts to move beyond this paradigmatic frame towards a reading of the camp as a material assemblage that brings subjects and objects, people and things into mutually constitutive relations. In one Palestinian refugee camp it ‘ethnographically' tracks the most mundane, but ubiquitous, element there is: cement. If the Palestinian camp is subject to a foundational—and quintessentially modern—separation between the material and the representational, then cement, as the medium of a certain temporal dynamism in built life, is the point of this separation's excess. Cement, as both aesthetic and thing, mediates camp life in entirely unintended ways, breaching topological boundaries, spilling quotidian life—in all its uncategorized mess—into the political, and generating tension between the temporary and the permanent, return and the built. It is precisely in these tensions that refugee subjectivity takes shape; never simply as the directed actions of sovereign actors, but always as an everyday ‘negotiation' of the in‐between space of the spillover—this cleft between discursive subject positions and the vitality of built life itself. Camp form, here, is not derivative of legal structure, but an ever‐moving relationship between temporality and materiality.     

Mobile Payments,Social Money: Everyday Politics of the Consumer Subject

How should we think about mobile payments systems such as Apple and Android Pay? We argue that mobile payments should be understood in the context of changing consumption practices and the wider problematic of the consumer subject in International Political Economy. One (managerialist) view of these changes suggests that certain ‘immaterial’ values in brands, logos or networks can become an important element in economic growth. Thus, businesses increasingly craft user experiences to realise brand value as the indicator of future consumption, for example, Facebook, Netflix. Against this view, the critical literature has underlined how the customer relationship should be understood as an element in corporate power; enticing consumer subjects to dedicate their social lives to the task of monetisation. Rather than choose between sides of this dichotomy, we suggest it may be more fruitful to reflect upon the unanticipated potentialities of mobile payments. By reflecting on the sociality of money, we move beyond a simple cost-benefit analysis, or a structural determinism, to emphasise the contingency of market subjects, questioning how to think about the relationship between consumer subjects, on the one hand, and and a putatively impersonal (yet palpable) global economy, on the other.     

试论文化视阈下的译者主体性

译者主体性贯穿着翻译活动的整个过程,与文化语境关系密切。但是,译者主体性的发挥要受到翻译发起人的要求、翻译目的、原文文本类型、译文作者要求等因素的制约。     

协调论视域下译者主体性研究

翻译包涵着不同语言、不同文化的对抗、对话与融合。译者应发挥主体性作用,既要传达原文本的文字意义,更应促进不同文化的交流。     

人性化的道德教育合理性探析

人性与道德有着密切的联系。在道德教育过程中,我们应当从人性出发,尊重受教育者的兴趣、需要、自由和创造,实现教育与自我教育的统一,使道德教育能够在人与社会协调发展的前提下,充分释放人的个性,满足道德主体的内在精神需求。     

云南民族传统自然观的特点及成因

云南民族形成人与自然相统一的生态自然观,在自然崇拜的形式下,伸张着人的生存实践诉求,其体现的人与自然关系的观念,深刻蕴涵着人的主体性立场,人与自然平等、合理取舍资源并维护两者平衡的观念,是长期实践中与自然环境互动体验的概括和生存智慧的表达,应当给予历史的、实事求是的分析与评价。     

关联理论与译者主体性

关联翻译理论认为,译者与源语文本作者以及译者与译入语文本读者是双重的明示—推理过程,译者在翻译过程中要充分发挥主体性,以使源语文本作者与译入语文本读者成功实现交际.译者主体性并不等同于译者地位,且译著读者越是感受不到译者的存在,越是说明译者主体性得到很好的发挥.     

人的全面自由发展视域下的企业员工思想政治工作探讨

思想政治工作错位、员工主体性地位缺失和个性化发展受限是当前思想政治工作面临的主要问题。文章认为,企业员工思想政治工作必须立足人的发展需要,既要提升思想政治工作的地位,更要尊重员工的主体性地位和尽量满足员工的个性充分发展需要,实现员工与企业同步发展的互动共赢。     

城市社区政治文化建设与公民主体性缺失

我国的城市社区建设面临着文化滞后的困境,其中政治文化发展水平低下,作为政治文化核心的公民主体性严重缺失。社区公民缺乏主体意识,严重影响了社区的发展。城市社区面临的这一问题与社会资本的缺失或下降有关,集中体现在社区文化层面上的社区社会资本。文章运用社会资本理论,分析了社区政治文化的核心缺失,并从培育和重建社会资本的角度提出了社区政治文化建设的原则。     

Taking the modern for nature: methodological individualism as an interesting mistake

Abstract

Marx claims that what early modern writers took as the isolated individual in nature, was actually the individual in modern civil society. This is a mistake, but an interesting one. The paper traces the idea of the methodological individualist isolated individual in Hobbes, Locke, Bentham, Austrian and neoclassical economics. The idea is untenable because it prevents a distinction between the individual and the economy in which it supposedly pursues its interest. But the mistake pushes beyond itself, pointing to a tenable alternative, plural individuality. The alternative view is thus grounded in its contrary, rather than simply rejecting it.