Unpacking Pride’s commodification through the encounter

Debates complicating universal constructions of tourist commodification are far from new. Yet, within tourist studies distinctions continue to resurface that reify boundaries positioning processes of commodification as necessarily liberating, victimising or pathologising. Through these boundary making processes there is potential that the meanings, politics and memories of individuals, invested in experiences deemed ‘commodified’, become devalued as tourist scholars praise pre-commodified experience. This paper responds to these tensions through utilising a feminist embodied framework focused on the encounter. The paper troubles innate constructions of commodification, by showing how interpretation of commodification is spatially and socially specific to the moment of encounter. It is thus argued that analysis of the encounter offers a way to negotiate sponsorship requirements during event planning.     

认识自我和发现自我——评简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》

《傲慢与偏见》的艺术成就早已被公认,但人们普遍认为这部作品没有触及人的精神的深层。如果将人物性格的发展作为一个自我认识的过程,特别是对发现自我的动态过程进行分析,会使读者更清晰地认识到奧斯汀对人的精神的剖析是严肃而深刻的。     

The challenge of articulating human rights at an LGBT ‘mega-event’: a personal reflection on Sao Paulo Pride 2017

Abstract

This paper brings together Critical Event Studies (CES) and a reflexive/narrative autoethnographic approach in order to stimulate a debate around the commodification of public space, and the management of mega-events of dissent. This is achieved using the example of the researcher’s participation in the 2017 Sao Paulo Pride. Sao Paulo Pride is one of the largest LGBT demonstrations in the world. However, corporate interests in the event have commodified dissent in order to commercialise ‘otherness’, and the city has absorbed the demonstration into its cultural offer as a global brand. The confluence of these factors produces a pattern of place dressing and erasure that depoliticise the event and undermines its capacity to effectively articulate human rights. Currently Brazil has some of the most liberal LGBT laws of any South American state, yet recently Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT)/Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) human rights have been threatened by a rapid rise in hate crime and the emergence of an evangelical Christian right in state and regional assemblies. Within such a context the need to revive the roots of Pride as an articulation of otherness that demands recognition, and as a robust defence of human rights for the LGBT/SOGI community, is more pressing than ever.     

论主流诗学对翻译的影响

翻译是两种语言文化之间的交流与融合,原著的文学光芒与艺术生命想要在目的语境中得以再现和延续,迻译过程势必受到译入语文化的影响。基于勒菲弗尔操纵论中诗学的相关理论,通过对王科一的《傲慢与偏见》中译本研究,探讨其文本翻译时译入语社会的主流诗学,从诗学的两类表现形式——措辞和句式——两个方面对译本进行分析,证实在一定的社会文化语境中,为保证译介活动顺利进行,译者受主流诗学观的影响,改写操控原文,使译作符合译入语主流诗学的追求和主张。     

How being envied shapes tourists’ relationships with luxury brands: A dual-mediation model

Positive reviews of luxury brands on social media provide tourists with an opportunity for self-presentation. Recent studies have suggested that these reviews can easily trigger envy in receivers, yet few studies have discussed the effect of envy on review writers. This research examined the effects of review writers’ perceptions of being envied on their relationships with the luxury brands they shared on social media. The results of three experiments in vacation scenarios showed that writers were more likely to feel pride (anxiety) when they were benignly (maliciously) envied, eliciting a stronger (weaker) self-brand connection. Moreover, social tie strength played a moderating role. The effect of being envied was stronger when writers and receivers had strong (vs. weak) ties. Our findings provide luxury brand managers with managerial insights into content customization and platform selection in buzz marketing strategies.     

Ethics,welfare, and capital markets

We examine implications of a society's cultural emphasis on moral sentiments. Entrepreneurs and investors interact in a game that entails both adverse selection and moral hazard; entrepreneurs may attempt to breach their contracts and expropriate investors. An agent is born into a particular culture but chooses whether to develop a moral conscience and thereby subject himself to moral sentiments. In equilibrium, societies that place less emphasis on guilt exhibit a lower risk of expropriation in contracts, a greater net price of capital, a larger size of firms, increased capital inflows and greater social welfare. The results of a greater emphasis on pride are in the same direction.     

Understanding local food consumption from an ideological perspective: Locavorism,authenticity, pride,and willingness to visit

Extant research on local food consumption is emerging yet limited. This study aims tofill a void to test locavorism as a second-order construct and its effects on authenticity,pride, and willingness to visit. Further, the boundary condition of the effect oflocavorism is also explored. Results suggest that restaurant managers that endeavorto offer locally-sourced menus need to emphasize the characteristics of locavorism(i.e., lionization, opposition, and communalization) when marketing to locavores as atarget consumer group. This study provides valuable insights into local foodconsumption behavior within the restaurant context by examining the factors andeffects of locavorism.     

顺应理论与文学:对《傲慢与偏见》的顺应性解构

自顺应论于1987年被Verschueren提出以来,国内学者对其进行了详细研究和广泛应用。本文通过顺应理论框架内语境关系顺应、结构客体顺应、动态顺应和顺应过程意识突显四个视角解读简奥斯汀的代表作《傲慢与偏见》,向读者展现作品主题的同时,再次证明了顺应论解释文学作品的可行性与科学性。     

《傲慢与偏见》中的婚姻面面观

18世纪的英国,婚姻所涉入的主要因素之一是资产,这与当时的社会环境息息相关;另一主要因素是地 位,这是由社会传统价值观所决定的。但由《傲慢与偏见》中两对较完美的婚姻来分析,个人价值亦是美满婚姻的促 成因素。     

自豪还是焦虑?感知上级信任的双刃剑效应研究

在组织管理中,上级信任作为组织内部"软控制"的核心要素,能够激发下属积极性并提升绩效。然而,有学者质疑,员工在感知到上级信任之后就一定会快乐吗?为了回应这个问题,本文基于情绪认知评价理论,提出感知上级信任的两个维度存在双刃剑效应:一方面,当员工感知到上级的依赖时,会产生自豪,进而从事更多的主动性行为;另一方面,当员工感知到上级的披露时,会产生焦虑,进而表现出更多的工作退缩行为。通过对各个行业216名在职员工的三阶段配对数据进行回归分析,本文提出的双中介模型获得了数据的支持。本研究的发现有利于从新的研究视角来认识感知上级信任的双刃剑效应,引导管理者合理表达信任,以激发下属主动性行为,规避退缩行为。