(Mobility) Fixing the Taiwanese bicycle industry: the production and economisation of cycling culture in pursuit of accumulation

ABSTRACT

There have been recent calls in mobilities literature for greater engagement with how mobility regimes are shaped and governed at different scales. In relation to cycling-related mobilities scholarship, there are very few accounts situating cycling within broader bio-political and political–economic processes. This paper seeks to address this absence, situating contemporary formations of cycling culture within processes of capital accumulation and economisation. The research is based upon a series of interviews with industry stakeholders, participant observations at cycle events and analysis of policy documents and news media in Taiwan from 2015–2017. We demonstrate that in the last 10–15 years there has been a drive to create cycling subjects in the Taiwanese cycle industry, mass events and through public bike sharing with the loosely strategised goal of projecting an image of a cycling culture that it is hoped will be advantageous to the domestic bicycle industry. We demonstrate how this emergent process of fixing works through economisation of social cycling practices, themselves reliant on processes of division, classification and subjectification. We also show how the cycling subjects and cultures thus formed constitute qualculative framings that facilitate ongoing commercial re-evaluation of Taiwanese Brand manufacturers by other actors within the industry.     

(Un-)becoming Chinese creatives: transnational mobility of creative labour in a ‘global’ Beijing

ABSTRACT

Drawing on qualitative research conducted on transnational creative workers in Beijing, this article shows how the vibrant interaction between global cultural industries and the local Chinese economy propels transnational labour mobility and affects the subjectification of transnational creative workers. Having come to China to enhance their careers, these professionals have been incorporated into the Chinese creative workforce, contributing to the Party State’s aspiration to use creativity as a growth engine for the economy and as a form of soft power. In terms of these workers’ everyday experience, however, China’s aspiration to ‘foreign creativity’ does not necessarily guarantee a privileged life. The State’s restrictions on migration and the insecure working circumstances within the Chinese creative workplace discourage these transnationals from fully integrating in Chinese society and the Chinese labour market. At the same time, this research shows that the precarious lives led by transnational creative workers in Beijing are also productive and generate the conditions for a situated cosmopolitan subjectivity. Such a cosmopolitan subjectivity fosters respect for cultural difference and relations of mutual understanding and care among both international and local subjects.     

Rhythms of urban space: skateboarding the canyons,plains, and asphalt-banked schoolyards of coastal Los Angeles in the 1970s

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the ways in which pioneering skateboarders in Southern California reacted to, and exploited a capital-intensive urban landscape to create a sport that today has tremendous economic, political, and cultural implications. The analysis focuses on archival material drawn from Skateboarder Magazine from 1975 to 1980. Ultimately, the skateboarders and those who documented their emerging sport express deep awareness and understanding of urban space as influenced by topography, urban development and emerging notions of mobility. The asphalt-banked schoolyards of Los Angeles provided an unintended playground for skateboarders and served as a starting point for the modern-era of the sport.     

西部开发中的技术转移与人才流动的对策研究

技术转移是实现地区经济社会跨越式发展的重要途径,西部地区经济社会跨越式发展需要大量的技术转移作为支撑。而人才流动是技术转移的最有效的途径,影响技术转移和人才流动的因素是多重的,这也决定着技术转移和人才流动的模式的多元化,在进行西部环境优化和政策优惠的同时,我们也应当本着发展创新的思路,不拘一格地引进技术和人才。     

明清科举制的社会整合功能:以社会流动为视角

以社会流动为视角，本文首先在既有数据研究的基础上，从传统小群社会2 和庞大的应考群体两个路径入手，检验明清时期中国科举制覆盖实际生活的广度和深度。以此为基础，剖析在具体生活世界中人们对科举制的忠诚、信任、热情以及社会压力的消解，并由此说明传统社会以士为中心、以农工商为外围的结构特征。文章还从两个方面分析社会流动的两个后果：社会结构以士绅为中心、社会价值以功名为中心，这两个中心耦合成传统社会整合的重心。最后本文认为将由国家政治向社会生活领域的视角转换，不仅能深化与完整对科     

Capital mobility among advanced countries

Mobility of capital has been studied by examining savings–investment correlations, real interest rates differentials, covered and uncovered interest parity, and equity home bias. All these examine the capital mobility question indirectly. This paper directly tests the return/total flow specification of the Mundell–Fleming model. It finds that while portfolio equity and debt flows are, direct investment is not; and in every case, the inclusion of direct investment makes the aggregative-capital variable unresponsive to interest rates. Asset-based exchange rate models may benefit by looking at the composition of cross-border assets, countries can have independent monetary policies with full capital mobility, and macroeconomic policy trilemma for open economies disappears.     

教育代际流动：理论、逻辑及实践转向

教育作为促进个人社会经济地位获得和代际流动的重要因素,受到学界广泛关注。功能主义认为教育是提高个人社会经济地位和实现代际阶层流动的重要因素,而冲突主义认为教育是优势阶层社会地位再生产的工具。教育代际流动的内在逻辑表明,先赋性因素、自致性因素和社会性因素不仅为个人代际流动奠定了基础条件,而且为社会的群体流动提供了可能的实现路径。通过发挥教育的育人功能、选拨功能和社会功能,为全体社会成员提供向上流动和实现自身价值的机会,推动形成群体流动的美好社会环境。     

汉语时体的分类和语义解释

英汉语在时体分类和对时间看法上存在的差异,使英汉语时体分类和语义解释难以一一对应,因而对汉语时体进行语义解释不能直接延用英语的语义解释方式,而必须对汉语时体的语义特性进行分析,并在此基础上使用中间语言形式化地描述语义特性,才能有效地解决汉英机器翻译中的时体处理问题.汉语的"了"、"过"、"在"、"着"、"起来"和"下去",在语义上相对应,是常用的典型时体标记,以它们为例进行语义对比分析,以时态逻辑为形式化描述手段,较好地体现了汉语时体之间的语义差异.     

论赋体文学创作手法对元嘉诗歌创作的影响

赋体文学一个鲜明的创作手法就是"前后左右广言之".这种创作手法深刻地影响了元嘉时期的诗歌创作.元嘉诗人借鉴并转化了赋体文学的创作手法,通过方位对句、景致对句、时间对句以及移步换景等艺术形式与技巧,开创了特征鲜明的一代诗风,成就了元嘉诗坛在中国诗歌史上的特殊地位.     

前瞻性情绪及其对购买意向影响的演化过程——基于"双十一"网络大促的多时点调查研究

网络大促诱致的"狂欢"与消费者的前瞻性情绪有着深刻的关联,但目前人们还未完全厘清消费者在大促期间的情绪演化过程.结合时间压力和时间距离理论,采用多时点调查方法,探究了网络大促对消费者前瞻性情绪进而对消费者购买意向的动态影响.研究发现:第一,无论在远离还是临近正式期,预期情绪都会保持较高的强度;但在临近正式期时,预期情绪与预支情绪强度差距显著缩小,时间压力显著调节了时间距离的影响.第二,由造势期到正式期的过程中,希望和焦虑逐渐增强,预期欣喜逐渐减弱,预期后悔无明显变化.第三,无论在造势期还是临近正式期,预期情绪和预支情绪中的正性情绪都强于负性情绪,正性情绪是推动消费者积极参与网络大促的关键因素.第四,在整个大促中,预支情绪对购买意向的影响都比预期情绪大,推动网络大促成为"席勒式狂欢"的核心力量是希望与焦虑等即时情绪.第五,无论在哪一阶段,希望对购买意向的影响都大于焦虑,而只有在造势期时,预期欣喜对购买意向的影响才大于预期后悔.总体来看,适度突出可行性信息刺激预支情绪并关注正性情绪的关键作用,能够有效提升网络大促的效果.