WHAT MAKES THE LOCAL? A BRIEF CONSIDERATION OF THE REJUVENATION OF HONG KONG IDENTITY

This paper ascertains what makes the local and why the local is important, in the context of change in Hong Kong due to the political transition to PRC sovereignty.In doing so, I hope to pose a modest polemical challenge to cultural studies' tendency to overlook seemingly simplistic empirical information. The return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 has led to a contraction of the political sphere, as the convergence of political structures curbed the development of local identities. The label or category ‘Hong Kong people’ was then appropriated with a specific meaning for the local to resist encroachment of the national. It was true that the high intensity of dominant national discourses during the political transition created a favourable atmosphere for re-nationalization. However, as soon as the political transition was over, Hong Kongers re-adhered to their own label in their struggle for cultural autonomy.Their strong cultural affect toward various national icons during the transition quickly diminished. This multiyear discourse study (1996–1998), which utilizes social scientific methods in conjunction with cultural theories, illustrates important political and methodological impulses necessary for the formulation of a socio-political approach to cultural studies within the Hong Kong context.     

迟到的非殖民化与缅甸对英联邦的突破

战后初期,艾德礼政府在缅甸政策上并没有大的创新,仍然沿用了战时内阁的政策。缅甸总督史密斯由于在缅甸推行与昂山敌对的政策使得缅甸的局势恶化。艾德礼政府逐渐改变了缅甸政策并任命兰斯为新的总督。兰斯支持缅甸民族主义者的政治要求。在经过了一番迟疑后,英国政府最终同意了兰斯的建议。但是由于英国政府的迟疑不决,缅甸的局势恶化,缅甸民族主义者与英国的关系也更为疏远。这一政治局势与缅甸在英帝国战略上的次要性使得缅甸最终在英联邦外独立。     

Law,love and being in relation

ABSTRACT

This article takes up Agozino's call for love. Yet this call is not a straightforward one. In response, I press for an appreciation of love which avoids collapsing love into 'protection', engaging instead with the Aboriginal World View described by Kombumerri and Wakka Wakka woman and scholar, Mary Graham, as a form of conduct, reflection and a practice in listening. Through two quite distinct stories offered by young people in their encounters with Australia's criminal justice system, I explore the ethics of listening and respectful relations in social and institutional settings. While the first story reveals the denial of colonial violence accompanying protectionist policies for the ‘care' of Indigenous communities, the second story shows how such patterns of denial underpin western ‘justice' systems, including for settler peoples. Responding to Agozino’s call requires that we examine the ethical act of listening and reflect on the repercussions of the failure to listen.     

Fuck the law: decolonizing nomophilitis with the discourse of love

ABSTRACT

This papyrus questions the assumption that global cultures and especially Indigenous peoples are to be civilized and modernized by being subjected to the rule of European law, Euro Reschtaat, under racist, patriarchal imperialism as a result of centuries of dehumanizing conquest, genocide, slavery, apartheid and colonization. Giannacopoulos raised similar questions about how feasible it is to expect that the love of the law, nomophilia, would be the answer to the institutionalized racism-sexism-classism that Indigenous peoples and poor refugees face under settler colonialism? This papyrus raises the additional question of whether young people around the world are crazy for giving the middle finger salute to the empire of law or whether defiant Hip Hop artists may be expressing understandable decolonization discourse against legal imperialism without criminologists and legal scholars being aware.     

Can property be justified in an entangled world?

ABSTRACT

As a liberal institution, private property is based upon a view of the natural order that prioritizes the individual human being over our social existence and over our nonhuman others. Colonial expansion was enabled in part by the misrecognition and denigration of indigenous land management practices. Forms of property were imposed that were incommensurable with the sustainable relationships formed by original owners with land. Given the ubiquity of the Anglosphere’s degraded and abstract understanding of property, is it possible to imagine the decolonization of property? Can property be rethought to close the divide between person and thing, and to better acknowledge the normative values of mutuality and care between people and place? What resources are there within mainstream property theory that might allow for such a reconstruction of property?     

英帝国非殖民化决策与非洲--战后初期工党政府非殖民化路线的制定

战后英国在放弃还是保存帝国这样的一个两难悖论中挣扎的时候,非洲的价值却因其巨大的资源以及战略优势引起了英国的注意,于是非洲被放入了非殖民化时期帝国语境下进行重新审视.由于对非洲在未来帝国生存模式重组方面可能会发挥的巨大作用,英国开始了以非洲为中心的帝国非殖民化的探索进程,但这同时也将是以非洲为中心重组一个隐性帝国的历程.     

Articulating selfhood through the therapeutic: Teaching for justice and social transformation in contradictory spaces

In this article, we argue that it is in engaging with the particularly socio-politically loaded topics such as racism, gender-based violence, homophobia, and classism, where we urgently need to find new ways of simultaneously opening up, holding, and containing the visceral responses of students in relation to continuously renegotiating boundaries of the learning environment. Specifically, we contend that under the current conditions of calls for decolonization in South African higher education and elsewhere, the university as a whole (its curriculum, the classroom and its dynamics, teaching methodologies, and its governance structures) needs to be questioned and its pedagogical practices in general need to be reviewed. We take as the point our separate, but related experiences of teaching in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. Some of the questions that frame our theoretical and methodological concerns are: How do we actually teach social justice related topics in diverse classrooms; how can we teach within, across, and beyond our own situatedness, especially where privileges and experiences of discrimination intersect and; how does one, ultimately, hold a space where the collective engagement with structural violence in its multiple intersecting expressions and the factual complexity of a dialogical pedagogical practice often lead to both moments of productivity and also repressive chaos? What we struggle with in this article, then, including the incidents foregrounded in it, are the complexities of engaging with social justice within the South African higher education context that is constantly grappling with being both the best and the worst example of political imagination.     

论巴斯内特翻译思想中的归化及其他

巴斯内特的翻译思想经历了文学翻译、文化翻译到翻译的文化研究的嬗变。她在文化转向前的文化翻译观集中体现在文化功能对等论,而在此倡导的归化翻译策略还未上升到政治层面的高度。后殖民语境下,针对韦努蒂的异化翻译,巴斯内特给予了有力的回应,并推崇杂糅理论、第三空间理论以及巴西的吃人理论作为解殖的翻译策略。对巴斯内特各个翻译思想发展时期的归化策略研究对当今重新思考翻译策略受益良多。     

论罗斯福的国际托管制度

二战时期,美国就殖民地问题的解决提出了国际托管制度的方案。托管制是殖民主义在新时期的继承和发展,它体现了美国对战后世界秩序的构想和筹划,以及战后美国外交向全球战略的转变。通过对此方案的分析,不但可以使我们认识美国外交政策的特点和实质,同时也可以认识世界殖民主义的性质和机制,也有助于我们深刻地透析和洞察美国广阔和深厚的外交思想传统,更好地从整体上把握和研究美国外交。此外,托管制这一论题既对探讨非殖民化这一宏大的课题具有普遍意义,同时也对丰富20世纪非殖民化研究的内容具有一定的理论价值和学术意义。