Clothing and social movements: Tibet and the politics of dress

The ‘cultural turn’ in social movement studies has brought a renewed outlook on new social movements and lifestyle movements. In this development on the symbolic challenge of contemporary movements, research has expanded to both music and art. However, little is known about the role of clothing in movements and how activists use it for social change. In making the case for a greater consideration of clothing’s tactical use in identity work, this paper explores the case of the Tibetan Lhakar movement. I argue that for Lhakar activists, clothing is the materialization of the political consciousness of the movement and symbolically acts as a mechanism of communication in shaping its political goals. By using social media to observe individualized collective actions of wearing Tibetan clothing, the paper demonstrates how activists frame and create new political opportunity structures for civic participation in a one party state that controls all speech and movement.     

广州：中国革命统一战线的发源地——纪念中共三大召开90周年

广州是中国革命的策源地,为革命统一战线的建立奠定了良好的基础;广州是中共第三次全国代表大会召开地,革命统一战线由此发轫;广州是中国国民党改组地,第一次国共合作的大本营;广州是黄埔军校的创建地,国共两党军事合作由此发端;作为革命统一战线的发祥地,广州成为大革命的中心。广州以其独特的地位为中国革命做出了杰出的贡献。     

论鲁迅小说中拉丁字母人名和地名的构成

为了加强作品的讽刺力量,鲁迅小说中采用了一些拉丁字母的人名和地名。从形式上看,有纯用字母的,也有汉字加字母混合构成的;其中拉丁字母人名多半来自英语,拉丁字母地名常用威妥玛式或邮政式拼音。     

重构时间:《新女性》与20世纪30年代上海殖民现代性的电影表现

现代性神话与“新”的观念密不可分。“新”的实质在于对时间的重构。而作为视觉媒介的电影将作为抽象的时间概念的“新”物质化和视觉化了。电影《新女性》是体现30年代上海现代性的典型的视觉文本,重新审读影片对相互冲突的时间的融会、规范和安排,可能得到对30年代上海殖民现代性最好的阐释。     

关于农民市场风险的一种表述 ———市场“规则”与“场所”的关系逻辑

在社会学视野里,市场风险是在市场作为一种社会制度的现代变迁中被问题化的。这个变迁过程是市场的两个基本含义“规则”与“场所”从统一到分离的过程,市场“规则”与“场所”的分离使得市场风险成为现代市场制度的内在因素。中国农民所处市场的“规则”与“场所”的分离是在始于20世纪70年代末的农村改革中逐渐实现的;从那时起,中国农民开始承受现代市场带来的市场风险。     

Upper Middle Class NIMBY in Phoenix: The Community Dynamics of the Development Process in the Arcadia Neighborhood

This article highlights the role that neighborhood activism plays in the development process. The article particularly highlights the Arcadia Camelback Neighborhood Association's (ACMNA) fight against, and collaboration with, developers at the intersection of 44th Street and Camelback Road in Phoenix, AZ, where issues of place, community empowerment, and attitudes of not-in-my-back- yard (NIMBYism) played out. The role of neighborhood activism is evaluated using interview, survey, and archival data, including news media reports and meeting minutes, with regards to the ACMNA and struggles to stave off development. The results of the research point out that the community is essential in shaping the development process and that without community support including collaboration between communities and developers, major development projects face a difficult road to completion, this is particularly evident when wealthy neighborhood NIMBY campaigns are at the forefront of the debate over development.     

Cape York Peninsula,Australia: A frontier region undergoing a multifunctional transition with indigenous engagement

Within Australia’s tropical savanna zone, the northernmost frontier regions have experienced the swiftest transition towards multifunctional occupance, as a formerly flimsy productivist mode is readily displaced by more complex modes, with greater prominence given to consumption, protection and Indigenous values. Of these frontier regions, Cape York Peninsula has become the focus for increasingly entrenched, complex contests about regional futures, with the transition towards complex multifunctionality demonstrated in the 1970, 1990 and 2010 tenure maps. Transition dynamics are explored in tables summarising functional trajectories at these benchmark years, also with an examination of non-Indigenous and Indigenous driving forces, actors, agendas, power relations and decision processes. In this increasingly contested arena, currently the pivotal divide is between traditionalist/localist against modernist/reformist/regionalist visions of Indigenous futures, with this divide influencing the agendas and strategies of other major participants, notably conservationists and state and federal governments. The most probable functional trajectory towards 2030 can be identified, based on the partial resolution of the current flux in land tenures, property rights, power relations and economic prospects. The peninsula yields further evidence on the links between multifunctional dynamics, contestability and shifting place identities.     

Clean diesel and dirty scandal: The echo of Volkswagen’s dieselgate in an intra-industry setting

In 2015 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency revealed that German car manufacturer Volkswagen had illegally installed software to produce fake NOx-emissions results. This study aims to analyze how the German news media framed VW’s role. Furthermore, since the scandal shifted from a single company to an industry-wide crisis, this contribution also aims to establish whether the German news media reframed the crisis as an industry-wide phenomenon in 2018. The results show that the Dieselgate was reframed in 2018 as an industry-wide scandal where the conflict, morality, and attribution of responsibility frame were most dominant. We argue that the first wrongdoer in an industry creates a crisis history, which potentially becomes an intensifying factor for competitors who are confronted with similar crises in a later stage. Findings extend the theoretical premise of an organizational reputation as postulated in SCCT, as the organizational reputation is most likely influenced by changing industry-wide perceptions as well.     

Effect of framing on cognitive processing in public relations

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of message framing on cognitive processing by employees of an internal organizational message. A between-subject factorial experimental design with random assignment was used to test the moderating role of message frames on cognitive processing. Subjects in the study produced a significantly different number of thoughts in response to messages with different frames. The different frames presented also resulted in generation of different topics of thought for participants. This difference in cognitive response to a message may point to a difference in the salience of the message for the audience. The results of this study underscore the need for public relations practitioners to understand the needs and motivations of internal audiences and to contextualize internal messages for increased effectiveness in persuasion.