Culturalisation and devices: what is culture in cultural economy?

Theorisation of culture is often absent from research on production in the creative and cultural sector. Further, cultural production has been largely untouched by the insights of the cultural economy approach. Culturalisation is a means of addressing the question of what constitutes culture and thus a cultural (economy) approach. It is the process by which culture and cultural production combine in the ‘operationalisation of the real.’ Culturalisation underpins much scholarship in this journal by posing the (economic) real as a problem of definition in order to illustrate the operations involved in its temporary resolution. The implications of this position need further addressing. There is a feedback between culture as a problem of definition and a cultural approach. Devices can interrogate the relationship between processes of cultural definition and the conceptual parameters of a cultural economy approach. Workshopping, projects and events are put forward as cultural devices emerging from a 10-month ethnography of literary performance in Bristol, England. This illustration shows firstly, how culturalisation occurs in a designated cultural sector to contingently realise culture; and secondly, the implicit logic of cultural economy as culturalisation, typified by the device as method, so as to open a debate concerning its implications.     

Between business and morality: cultural politics in independent bookshops in China

ABSTRACT

This article investigates how cultural businesses may facilitate contentious political activity in authoritarian contexts. Existing research in Western liberal democracies has shown the widespread political activism of actors in the cultural and creative industries. Whether such activism exists in authoritarian society, how it may differ in character and form, and what implications this will have for our understanding of relations between business, politics, and culture in authoritarian countries remain to be addressed. Drawing on data collected from 55 ‘independent bookshops’ in China, I illustrate how these organisations perform ‘cultural politics,’ a type of political participation in which actors employ mainly symbolic means to express social and political concerns. The organisations’ economic relations and conditions facilitate their efforts to create spaces in which contentious questions can be raised, sensitive topics explored, and alternative ideas expressed, despite the Chinese state’s political regulation of the cultural sphere. The finding of the economic embeddedness of cultural politics sheds new light on our understanding of the political economy of cultural businesses in contemporary China.     

我国体育用品制造业国际转移的趋势及动力机制——基于全球生产网络视角

我国体育用品制造业国际转移呈现出网络化、多元化、集群化、主动化的新趋势，其动力来源有三点，一是寻求我国体育用品制造业价值链的重构，二是试图跨越后发国家可能面临的价值链固化的"网络陷阱"，三是追逐包括竞争优势和网络权力等隐形收益在内的综合利益最大化。但是，这种自觉行动和主动作为可能受到价值链上端发达国家的阻击。因此，我国体育用品制造业要利用研发设计和品牌营销价值链的发育突破门限效应，积极开展跨境并购和逆向投资活动弥补比较劣势，并逐步回归到研发本土化，利用国内中小体育用品企业构建由自己主导的价值链，以全球布局应对潜在的贸易风险。     

"文革"时期经济体制变动的逻辑嬗变

“革”时期经济体制的变动保持了放权改革的一般逻辑，但创设战备型的体制模型强化了计划的控制，限制了改革的进一步深入。“抓革命，促生产”的制度逻辑安排限定了体制变动的方式，歪曲了体制化观念，对中国的经济体制变动产生了消极的影响。解放体制观念，培育新的制度化，应是当务之急。     

蔬菜栽培课程产学合作教育的实践与思考

选择具有日光温室、塑料大棚、中棚及露地等多种生产方式，蔬菜种类较多，面积较大，种植蔬菜历史较长，交通便利的村寨作为蔬菜栽培课程产学合作教育的基地。把学生分配到农户，每户3～4名学生为一组，与蔬菜生产实际紧密结合，让学生接受培养土的配制，种子处理与播种，苗床管理，定植，田间管理及嫁接育苗等环节的训练。结果表明：学生获得了两个层面的训练。在第一个层面上，学生熟练掌握了蔬菜栽培基本环节的技术要求和要领，动手能力得到明显提高，培养了学生的基本技能；在第二个层面上，学生掌握了蔬菜设施栽培、无公害生产综合配套等高层次技术，培养了学生综合技术应用能力。今后应特别注意学生和生产者(企业或农户)的双向参与，信息的双向传递，学校与生产者(或企业或农户)双赢，以及培养学生创新能力即第三个层面的训练。     

自动装配生产线教学演示系统设计研制

在对国内外同类系统进行分析研究的基础上，结合自动化装配实际工程设计方法，设计研制了一套集多种自动化装配过程于一体的自动化生产线教学演示系统，可用于机电类专业多门课程的教学与实训，为后序开发生产机电一体化，自动装配生产线等领域的教学系统奠定了基础。     

建筑工程专业生产实习教学改革研究

生产实习是建筑工程专业教学过程中的重要环节。文章阐述了生产实习的重要意义，结合生产实习的特点，论述了集中实习与分散实习相结合的教学改革模式。教学实践证明，这一组织形式取得了比较好的教学效果。     

浅谈生产实习与专业课和毕业设计的有机结合

针对专业课学时少，内容多的矛盾，以及本科生毕业设计综合质量不稳定的情况，结合指导专业生产实习的累积的经验，提出把专业课的部分内容向生产实习移植，并在生产实习之前就把毕业设计题目落实到具体学生的观点。介绍了为实现专业课部分内容移植进行的一些探索和体会，阐述了让学生在专业生产实习中获取更多与毕业设计内容直接相关的感性知识的必要性。     

陶瓷过滤机运行主要指标的回归分析

运用描述统计和回归分析的方法,建立了用于判断陶瓷过滤机是否高效运行的2个主要指标之间的回归模型。通过模型分析可知,给料浓度和利用系数之间有较强的线性关系,为提高陶瓷过滤机的过滤效率以及对机器的更新升级提供依据。     

绿色贸易壁垒对纺织品出口的影响和对策分析

随着中国加入WTO以及纺织品配额的取消,“绿色贸易壁垒”这一非关税壁垒逐渐成为发达国家对我国纺织品出口设置的主要贸易障碍。面对这种趋势,我国政府和纺织服装业亟待增强环保意识,采取措施积极应对,以冲破贸易壁垒的限制。