A critical approach to wage devaluation: The case of Spanish economic recovery

In line with the orientation of EU economic policy, the Spanish government has favoured a strategy of internal devaluation as a way of adjusting price levels within the currency union. The results of empirical studies indicate that the internal devaluation applied in Spain does not seem to have attained the desired goals in terms of reducing the relative prices of exports and consolidating a model of growth based on external demand. Indeed, the estimates drawn up show that tailwinds – the depreciation of the euro and the fall in risk premium as results of the measures taken by the ECB, greater economic activity by trading partners and the fall in the price of oil – exercised a decisive influence in the trends followed by the prices of exports and the balance of trade during the period of crisis management in Spain.     

Pussy grabs back: bestialized sexual politics and intersectional failure in protest posters for the 2017 women’s march

The women’s march on Washington on January 21 2017 and its more than 600 sister marches across the world was characterized by its distinctly feline theme. Most notable were the pink pussy hats and a multitude of signs that played on the historical association between women and cats to resist the crude remarks made by US presidential nominee Donald Trump who bragged of grabbing women “by the pussy.” This article explores this feline counterframing from a vegan feminist perspective. A content analysis was performed on photographs that were published in Why I March (2017) and uploaded to the Women’s March on Washington Archives Project, the Georgia State University Women’s Marches 2017 Collection, and Instagram in Spring 2017. Results illustrate the persistent role that animality plays in feminist politics, but they also point to a critical intersectional failure exhibited by an ultimately anthropocentric collective.     

A CANONICAL ANALYSIS OF MANAGERIAL-ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS: IMPLICATIONS FOR METHODOLOGY AND POLICY*

The present study uses canonical analysis to examine the contingency model of organizations in the nursing home field. Data on environmental pressures and managerial practices relevant to the decision-making process are analyzed. Results support the theory that managerial practices are contingent on environmental pressures. The implications of these results for health-care decision makers and for future assessments of managerial-environmental relationships are discussed.     

西方女性主义翻译理论述评

西方女性主义与翻译研究的结合在上世纪 70年代开始便给传统翻译理论和实践观念带来了强烈的冲击 ,产生了丰硕的理论成果。然而与国内文艺理论界对女性主义理论的广泛介绍和深入研究相比 ,女性主义翻译理论的介绍明显滞后 ,与当前国内深入讨论的后殖民翻译研究的情形也无法相提并论 ,实质性的深入研究更是罕见。尝试对西方女性主义翻译研究进行全面地介绍 ,以便能引起国内译学界的重视 ,促进这一方面的深入研究     

远去与归来——一种跨越乡土社会的田野民族志方法论

远去与归来构成了一种方法论,这种方法论超越了乡土社会研究的村落传统.村落从来不是局限在村落的范围内的,通过行者的远去,村落的边界得到了跨越.同时考虑到归来取向的村落研究与远去取向的跨村落研究,一种田野民族志的方法论才堪称完整.     

地方知识的本质与构造——基于乡村社区民族志研究的阐释

地方知识是阐释人类学的标志性概念.在民族志研究的基础上,作者指出,地方知识的本质是一种文化信念,在乡村社区里,地方知识由类官方知识、大众知识和传统知识三部分组成.     

从十七大报告谈我国民族研究的思路——兼驳民族研究的边缘化问题

中国共产党第十七次代表大会报告时于当前中国的社会形势进行了客观的评估,确定了今后的主要任务和目标,对我国各项事业的发展指出了方向.本文通过分析十一届三中全会以来中国的社会发展和历届党的全国代表大会的报告,尤其是十七大报告,结合我国民族问题的现实和研究情况进行思考.文章强调指出:在社会主义初级阶段,无论是执政纲领还是民族研究,都必须结合国情,服务于社会主义建设主流,针对民族研究中"边缘化"的趋势提出了一些看法.     

"文化研究"的兴盛与意识形态的"退却"

"文化研究"日益成为一门"显学",而备受青睐的"意识形态"研究好像退出了文学研究的历史舞台。本文试图在阐明"文化研究"、"意识形态"概念内涵,辨析二者差异、互补关系的基础上揭橥"意识形态"在现时语境下的"改头换面"。     

描述译学的语言学模式

始于20世纪70年代的描述翻译学,因其具有理论和应用双重属性,有助于翻译理论研究和实践研究之间的沟通.而系统功能语言学,作为一种基于人类学、社会学、符号学的现代语言学理论,与描述翻译学具有相通的语言观、系统观和功能观.由此,系统功能语言学的系统理论、功能理论、语境理论,能够为描述翻译学提供一种更为细致、有效的研究途径.     

A framework to study strategizing activities at the field level: The example of CSR rating agencies

This paper responds to recent calls to bridge strategy and organization research by combining Strategy-as-Practice and Neo-Institutional Theory through re-theorizing the notion of strategic actor. We problematize the notion of strategic actor at the field level, and rely on insights from management and organization studies and sociology to advance a theoretical framework that conceptualizes organizations as social actors at the field level. We demonstrate our theoretical framework by drawing on corporate social responsibility rating agencies. We see corporate social responsibility rating agencies as supra-individual, social actors that are predisposed to assume an active role in defining and revisiting structural parameters within the society through their purposeful, meaningful actions and interactions. Our main contribution is to the development of the Strategy-as-Practice literature, achieved by re-theorizing the notion of strategic actor at the field level. This contribution responds to the micro-isolationism critique, and proposes a new focus for Strategy-as Practice research.