He Named Me Malala: connecting the historical,the local,and the global

My essay highlights how this (otherwise excellent) documentary film He Named Me Malala suffers from a historical amnesia in failing to connect the historical, local, and global/Western factors that have set the political-social context within which occurred the Malala incident in 2012. This is because the documentary – exposing the voice of a Pakistani female activist as a postcolonial/global agent – does not look into the historical-colonial, Cold War, or the post-Cold War dynamics that have set the ‘context’ within which the theme of the documentary unfolded. My essay addresses these issues of historical amnesia, arguing that to better comprehend the Malala incident (and broadly the issue of gender violence in Pakistan’s socio-cultural context) it remains imperative to connect how factors of power, politics, and vested interests have intersected at historical, local, and global levels to explain the 2012 Malala incident.     

White settler death drives: settler statecraft,white possession,and multiple colonialisms under Treaty 6

ABSTRACT

This article analyzes histories of white settler colonial violence in Treaty 6 territory by arguing that the 1870 Hudson’s Bay Company charter and transfer of Rupert’s Land and the North-Western Territory to the Dominion of Canada helped to make past imperial violence an ongoing settler colonial terror structure into the present. It argues that this transition from imperial to settler colonial control of territory is best understood by using a multiple colonialisms framework, to examine the ways in which heteropatriarchal family structures transitioned from Indigenous-European to white settler kin networks that crystallized whiteness as a racialized means to control land as private property. Following Kanien’kehá:ka feminist scholar Audra Simpson’s work, I suggest that this territory’s multiple and overlapping colonial histories (French, English/British, and Canadian) are a crucial lens through which to understand the historical and ongoing formation of Canada as a white settler state, and that these histories still relationally drive anti-Indigenous violence and the settler killing of Indigenous peoples today. The essay concludes by arguing that the seeming daily placidity of white settler violence against Plains Indigenous peoples under Treaty 6 ultimately supports a relational violence that supports a killing state and its armed citizens in the name of protecting private property for white settlers.     

From colonization to Zaitokukai: the legacy of racial oppression in the lives of Koreans in Japan

ABSTRACT

Some scholars have argued that anti-Korean oppression is disappearing from Japanese society, and that race is irrelevant to the current condition of Zainichi Koreans, Japan’s disenfranchised postcolonial minority. In contrast to these views, this article builds on racial formation theory to retrace the historical development of racism in Japan, and to reveal its continuing impact on the lives of Zainichi Koreans. It remarks that Zainichi Koreans have reacted to oppression in various ways, forging new identities and resisting using the means available to them. But it also contends that the persistence of discriminations and inequalities, as well as the recent rise of ultranationalist groups like Zaitokukai, are proofs of the ongoing marginalization and persecution of Koreans in Japan.     

《蝴蝶君》的话语权之争

黄哲伦的《蝴蝶君》以人物聚散的离奇情节与细腻的心理刻画有力地颠覆了东方对西方依存关系的虚假命题。作者在其作品中试图解构东方主义、反击文化殖民并颠覆西方殖民话语权。由于作者的文化身份、成长经历以及他身处的社会历史环境的局限性,作品对东方主义的解构是有限的,特别是剧中人宋利伶的角色本身就是一个矛盾体：一方面他被看作是颠覆殖民话语的一次努力尝试,另一方面角色本身却强化了西方对东方的固有成见。     

高校思想政治工作网络化

思想政治工作是高校德育工作的重要组成部分 ,其成效如何将直接关系到人才培养的质量 ,关系到学校的发展。但是 ,随着时代的发展 ,高等教育改革的不断深化 ,特别是网络的普及 ,使传统的学生思想政治教育模式已难以适应形势发展的需要。要做好学生思想政治教育工作 ,就必须转变传统教育模式 ,探索新方法 ,寻找新途径 ,将思想政治工作与网络有机结合     

日常生活中殖民主义与民族主义的冲突--以中国近代公园为中心的考察

公园是由近代西方殖民势力引入中国的,作为人们日常生活中的休闲娱乐空间,伴随着殖民主义的渗透而成为政治空间。在初期因禁止华人入园而引发公园运动,形成了中国人“华人与狗不得入内”的深刻民族集体记忆,而且公园中的殖民主义纪念建筑进一步刺激着中国人的民族主义情绪。正因为如此,中国人自己在建造公园时更突出民族特色并强调教育功能,从公园名称、空间布局和建筑到公园功能都体现出民族主义精神。公园问题折射出在近代特殊的历史背景下中国现代化过程中中西文化融合、殖民主义与民族主义冲突的发展轨迹。     

全球化视域中的民族精神

全球化是当今世界发展的一个重要特征和趋势。西方发达国家推行文化殖民主义对广大发展中国家的民族精神产生冲击。弘扬和培育民族精神就成为维护现代国家安全的重要要素。只有以伟大的民族精神为支撑,才能在参与全球化的进程中自觉维护国家的独立自主,维护本民族的利益,促进国家和民族的发展。     

Commemorating the colonial Pilbara: beyond memorials into difficult history

The colonial Northwest of Western Australia was a harsh frontier, where demands for Aboriginal land, labour and knowledge led to dispossession, loss of rights, massacre and generations encumbered with the colonial legacy. In the Pilbara, there are some rare attempts to engage with this difficult colonial history, mainly in the form of heritage site interpretation and heritage trails. Overall, the difficult colonial history of the Northwest is poorly represented. Colonialism and its legacy are not effectively commemorated, nor are distinct local cultural and civic attributes highlighted as ‘lessons from the past’. In this paper, we explore the memorialization and commemoration of the Northwest's traumatic colonial history and consider a history of how heritage has been represented across the landscape. We suggest that the affective heritage of the Northwest especially cross-cultural or multi-cultural sites and histories can provide a basis for commemorating difficult colonial history or violent events that are underrepresented in dominant heritage regimes.     

Decolonising Eurocentric disability studies: why colonialism matters in the disability and global South debate

The words ‘colonised’ and ‘colonising’ have recently been adopted in global North fields such as disability studies, highlighting notions of colonised bodies by colonising practices, with the implication that some or other ‘decolonisation’ is required. But these words remain little more than abstract and dehistoricised metaphors in these Eurocentric academic projects. This paper critically maps out some arguments as to why the colonial encounter is not simply a metaphor and cannot be bypassed in any global disability analysis. The paper argues how this historical event transcends the discursive, a violent materiality framing disability as a historical narrative and human condition, while (re)positioning disability as a useful optic through which to examine the dynamics of imperialism. The colonial provides the landscape for understanding contemporary Southern spaces within which disability is constructed and lived – neocolonised spaces hosting what I call neocolonised bodies. The paper concludes that decolonisation, just like colonialism, is not a metaphor. Instead, it is a continuous violent and political process owned by the global South but open to collaboration, drawing on forms of resistance that have long colonial lineages.     

卓越出自艰辛——多重文化制约下的东北文化

东北文化研究经历了从现象到方法到观念的复杂的渐进过程。在现象描述层面取得了不少可喜的成果。从宏观的比较和负面影响等方面的研究看却依旧是差强人意。近代以来东北文化被殖民主义的奴化过程．移民带来的负面影响，祖先认同的缺失，本土文化的驳杂和虚弱以及公有化过程中“大锅饭”观念的深入人心……受这些文化影响的东北人的文化性格中。诸如奴性、惰性、随遇而安和缺乏目的性、持久性等性格特征都成为研究者必须面对的问题．同时也是祷要细致梳理和深入考察的当务之急的课题。