祭祀对世界“中间状”的物化

Deriving from a quote in MarcellMauss ＇ essay on techniques of the Body , as well as based on the exploration of cases from ancient Mesopotamia , the eastern Mediterranean , and Africa .The author voices his concerns on the relationship between sacrifice and ＂materiali-zing＂.He states that sacrifice can animate , i.e.give life to sacrificial objects and by doing so turn them into subjects or agents who are dependent on the sacrificial process for their flourish-ing.Sacrifice as a life giving act creates a person through eating and feeding the recognition by the subject of its dependence on the source of that creativity .This can be the basis for contrasting it to funerary rites where it is death and the corpse that is envisaged as the sacrifice which is offered in some form as ＂feeding＂ the Gods.     

新奥尔良后卡特里娜飓风时期市政当局对社区与居民的种族化与罪犯化监控手段

本文分析了在卡特里娜飓风前后的时期中,执法机构、市政府官员以及高档居民选区在针对新奥尔良非裔美国工人阶级的性格形成仪式和日常社会实践时,试图对之进行罪犯化和监控的变化方式。这里的仪式和实践包括被称为“第二线”和“超级星期天”的游行活动。本文指出对这些实践的罪犯化和监视行为,只有置于新奥尔良种族化的阶级差异生产中,并将这个生产过程置于社会建构的空间中,才能被理解。在卡特里娜飓风过后的背景下,城市的强制疏散让高档居民选区和专业城市规划者得以将城市重建想象成一个可以通过建筑关系的创造达到的目标,而这种建筑关系可以成为数轮资本投资的载体。这种城市修复的愿景,忽视了一个重要元素,即相关社区的居民非常重视对前卡特里娜飓风时期居民的回归和安置问题,这些前飓风时期的居民正是“第二线”和“超级星期天”的主导者。本文探讨了对“第二线”和“超级星期天”的监管、监督和罪犯化如何长久以来在美国被作为维护霸权秩序的机制,也分析了规划、种族和社区高档化改造之间的亲密联系。