Pedaling Power: Bicycles,Subjectivities and Landscapes in a Settler Colonial Society

Abstract

Mobilities across contested terrains are key to the formation of settler societies. This paper explores how safety bicycles were drawn into the Australian settler project at the turn of the twentieth century, just as the six independent colonies were federating into the Commonwealth of Australia. As recently imported objects, bicycles afforded settler men unprecedented mobility across remote landscapes that had not been smoothed by the infrastructures of the ‘old world’. In those years of national formation, bicycles were received as objects that could fill ‘empty’ land with people, things, activities and stories, at the same time as they generated masculine, settler subjectivities. A practice approach to settler mobilities helps to tease out the entanglements between bicycle ‘overlanding’ and two fundamental imperatives of settlerism: transforming indigenous places into settler places and creating ‘nativised’ settler subjectivities.     

迷失的文明——析莱辛《野草在唱歌》中殖民权力的分布

莱辛小说《野草在唱歌》为读者提供了殖民时期南部非洲殖民生活的广阔图景。小说运用象征手法,以独特的视角深度剖析各阶层之间等级森严的社会结构,揭示殖民权力与公民权利的冲突。通过分析殖民时期社会经济与法律制度的演变进程,梳理出殖民地时期殖民权力在南部非洲分布的具体状况。欧洲文明迷失在非洲大陆是殖民主义者追逐私利本性驱使下的必然结果,而由此产生的殖民主义与种族制度赋予了殖民者无上的殖民权力的同时,也完全剥夺了非洲殖民地人民的公民权利,使非洲大陆与这块大陆的主人承受了无尽而深重的苦难。     

论郑成功驱荷复台的英雄业绩

郑成功是中华民族一位伟大的民族英雄。他一生的英雄业绩 ,包括抗清与收复台湾两大部分。其收复台湾的英雄业绩 ,一是表现在捍卫了中国的主权和领土完整 ,二是为缩小台湾与大陆的差距奠定了基础 ,三是鼓舞和支持了亚洲人民反对殖民主义的斗争。     

中世纪拓殖运动与近代殖民扩张关系初探

中世纪的拓殖运动是指发生于 11-13世纪的大规模移民、拓边行为。它不仅是存在于欧洲的一种社会活动,而且是当时生产发展的一种表现形式。反过来它又极大地推动了社会生产力的发展,并伴以生产关系的逐渐调整。生产力的提高和地域分工的优化,大宗贸易与商业资本主义随之产生。资本增殖的内在需求推动欧洲人走出欧洲去寻求原料产地和商品市场,中世纪的拓边也由此突破边界而扩展成为近代的海外殖民。     

Canada’s forced birth travel: towards feminist indigenous reproductive mobilities

ABSTRACT

The mandatory travel for birth experienced by Indigenous women living in rural and remote areas of Canada is examined using an emergent lens of Indigenous reproductive mobilities. Current evacuation practices are contextualized within the historic and ongoing systems of oppression experienced by Indigenous people in Canada. Indigenous feminist and decolonial theoretical approaches are used to outline one way in which Indigenous women counter settler colonialism to assert sovereignty over their birth experiences – through the resurgence of culturally-based doulas or birth workers. A further contribution of these analyses is the inclusion and centering of the voices and experiences of those previously neglected within this particular body of scholarship, shifting the power relations underpinning reproductive mobilities.     

《简爱》中的法国形象及民族主义话语

如果结合历史对《简.爱》进行解读,我们就会发现其中使用了一些惊人而谨慎的策略,表达了关于本土民族道德价值的肯定性,同时还伴随着对其他世界价值的贬低。它的叙事经常暗中指导着我们对文化、历史、民族的评价,让我们毫无警惕地走入文明优劣论的盲区。这是作品民族主义话语的表现,也是其潜在的历史性所在。     

奈保尔与后殖民文学

V.S.奈保尔是当代后殖民文学的重要作家。他复杂的身份背景、寻找文化归属和精神家园方面的难题,都反映在其作品中。其作品《米格尔大街》展示了后殖民地人真实的生活状况;《比斯瓦斯先生的房子》反映了后殖民地人对个人独立与身份的追求。在多部作品中,奈保尔以犀利的笔锋描述了殖民地制度带来的恶果。     

Conservative twist and challenges for Peru and Latin America: civilizing crossroads in a context of epochal change (reflections in process)

ABSTRACT

The paper takes stock of the WSF experience and the running out of steam of the pink wave in Latin America. It is written from the perspective of radical feminism in the region to interrogate the interrelations between the multiple systems of power formed by patriarchy, capitalism and colonialism and their impact on people’s lives, arguing that feminist struggles for sexual and reproductive rights, for the right to decide, for a secular state that breaks the religious tutelage over women’s bodies, along with many kinds of other struggles, demand not only recognition but also the defence of diverse ways of life and visions of the world. In these struggles, the paper claims, it is fundamental to expand the epistemological and social space and to recover other cultural matrices and frameworks of meaning.