Chinese,Japanese or ‘Oriental’?: Vietnamese-passing in ‘super-diverse’ London

The young British-born Vietnamese are a relatively invisible group in ‘super-diverse’ London who are often misidentified in their everyday encounters. Eluding more straightforward processes of ethnic or racial assignment, the young Vietnamese ‘pass’ in various different ways as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai or ‘Oriental’. Drawing upon primary interview data and participant observation, this article traces ‘passive’ and ‘deliberate’ forms of passing to highlight how intersecting processes of class, gender and place enable/engender different kinds of passing. It is argued that Vietnamese-passing challenges more ‘celebratory’ readings of (super-) diversity by concealing (and depoliticising) difference and erasing Vietnamese voices rather than allowing for their proliferation. It is suggested that practices of passing may become more common in super-diverse societies, as markers of visible difference become increasingly complex and less determinable, especially among newer, non-colonial migrant groups who are more ambiguously positioned within existing identity regimes.     

Making Bengali Brick Lane: claiming and contesting space in East London

Based on a recent empirical project on 'the Bengal diaspora', the paper explores the construction and contestation of meanings around the iconic East London street, Brick Lane. Taking the 2006 protests around the film Brick Lane as its starting point, the paper draws on original interviews conducted in 2008 with a range of Bengali community representatives, to examine the narratives of space, community and belonging that emerge around the idea of Brick Lane as the 'cultural heartland' of the British Bangladeshi community. By exploring the representation, production and contestation of 'social space' through everyday practices, the paper engages with and contests the representation of minority ethnic 'communities' in the context of contemporary multicultural London and examines the process of 'claiming' and 'making' space in East London. In so doing, the paper contributes to a critical tradition that challenges essentialising and pathologizing accounts of ethnic communities and racialized spaces, or that places them outside of broader social and historical processes - redolent, for example, in contemporary discussions about 'parallel lives' or 'the clash of civilizations'. By contrast, this paper views social space as made through movement and narration, with a particular emphasis on the social agency of local Bengali inhabitants and the multiple meanings that emerge from within this 'imagined community'. However, rather than simply stressing the unfinished and processual nature of spatial meanings, the paper insists on the historical, embodied and affective dimensions of such meaning making, and a reckoning with the broader social and political landscape within which such meanings take shape. The focus on Brick Lane provides an empirically rich, geographically and historically located lens through which to explore the complex role of ethnicity as a marker of social space and of spatial practices of resistance and identity. By exploring Bengali Brick Lane through its narratives of past, present and future, these stories attest to the symbolic and emotional importance of such spaces, and to their complex imaginings.     

中西方“狼文学”中的浪漫主义与自然主义研究

在人类社会的精神和性格日渐颓靡的今天,“狼文学”在当代世界文学的整体格局中,成为了一个灿烂而奇异的存在,因此有必要对“狼文学”的创作方式和精神内涵等各方面进行深入地挖掘、剖析.学者们对“狼文学”投入了极大的研究热情,并做了诸多卓有成效的专题研究.但鲜有人关注“狼文学”中普遍存在的大量的浪漫主义与自然主义元素,而正是这种奇特的创作手法使得“狼小说”既粗犷、剽悍和神秘,又不失温情、细腻与浪漫.     

Genericism and Specialization: The Story since 1970

Using the first three years of the British Journal of SocialWork, 1971–74, as a starting point, this paper tracesthe difficulties which have beset the social work professionin establishing a sound coherent basis both for a generic foundationand for subsequent specializations. It examines the factorswhich have contributed to these difficulties, in education,in practice and in relation to external factors, notably political.It concludes that social work has been blown off course butthat there are hopeful indications of a new impetus to restoreand regenerate the essence of good practice.     

The social class of Catholics in Scotland

The social status of people brought up as Catholics in Scotland, as measured by their occupational class, is analysed by using cross-sectional survey data gathered in 1997. The main finding is that Catholics have probably risen in social status to a greater extent than non-Catholics. The experience of Scottish Catholics seems to be distinctive, because no such patterns are found for England, and indeed in this respect Scottish Catholics more closely resemble members of non-Christian religions in England than they do English Catholics. The most likely explanation is the particular role which state-funded Catholic schools have played in Scotland, especially the system of comprehensive secondary schools that was set up after 1965. However, the analysis is suggestive rather than definitive and needs to be replicated on cohort data with larger sample sizes.     

Affective machines or the inner self? Drawing the boundaries of the female body in the socialist romantic imagination

This article explores two conflicting aesthetics of the female body in post-Stalinist Soviet science fiction. One represented women of the communist future as explorers of the space frontier in assemblages with machines, testing the cultural border between the female and the technological. Another appealed to the mysterious female nature as the Other of human culture, pushing forward the understanding of socialist progress as a masculine project. This article argues that both aesthetics grew within the cultural phenomenon of socialist Romanticism, which emerged in the mid-1950s as a reaction to Stalin-era quasi-Enlightenment rationality and its dominant style of socialist realism.     

从英雄传说到民族史诗——爱沙尼亚《卡列维波埃格》简论

爱沙尼亚是东波罗的海国家,其民族史诗《卡列维波埃格》世界闻名。这是一部诞生于浪漫主义时代,典型的“以传统为导向”的英雄史诗,它由F.R.克列茨瓦尔德根据民俗资料,用古老诗体形式写成。史诗的主人公形象在编写过程中也经历了从森林巨人到文化英雄的转变。本文试图通过对这部史诗的产生时代、搜集整理过程以及文本内容与主题等方面加以概述,来揭示英雄传说史诗化的历程,并讨论史诗对于族群认同的重要意义。     

国家、市场与社会作用之比较研究——以英国社会保障制度为例

英国社会保障制度以国家为主导,社会力量小,市场功能不足,表现出公平有余而效率不足的特征,这些特征主要从英国社会保障发展历史,英国福利观念演变,英国社会保障制度改革,英国社会保险模式,英国社会保障资金来源,英国社会保障经办机制等六个方面得以体现.英国社会保障制度有四点可以借鉴坚持公平优先兼顾效率,突出权利与义务的对等性和加强第三部门作用,实现社会保障资金增值多样化.     

Young Fatherhood and Subsequent Disadvantage in the United Kingdom

Although there has been increasing attention to the importance of fathers and their relationships with their children, few studies have examined young parenthood and its consequences for fathers’ life chances. In recent years, this has begun to change, and research is examining, to a far greater extent, the experiences of young fathers. Using data from a cohort of British men born in 1970, this paper uses a propensity score–matching technique to compare the well‐being of 344 men who reported becoming fathers before the age of 22 with men from similar backgrounds who did not. The findings suggest that selection into young fatherhood is substantial but, for some outcomes, significant differences remain.     

重商主义与英第一帝国经济政策

重商主义是15～17世纪在欧洲产生的一种经济理论。从17世纪开始,英国确立了对外殖民扩张和建立帝国的基本政策和原则,这一政策和原则的指导思想就是重商主义,先前体现为民间性的殖民拓殖逐渐转化为政府的有意识的政策行为,建立商业帝国成为英国国家追求的主要目标,到17世纪后期英国基本上形成了以重商主义为基本特征的殖民体系和殖民制度,形成了第一帝国。第一帝国形成后,在重商主义理论的指导下,英帝国以追求商业利益为目的,进一步加强了对外贸易和帝国扩张。重商主义是英第一帝国的重要国策,是立国之本。