The Itinerary to Explore Headwaters of the New Left’s Cultural Studies

Abstract

The 1980s was a period when the academic current for leisure studies led to the birth of the study of sports history. Japan was not a latecomer in this scholarly stream. More significantly, cultural issues were thought not the part of various phenomena in a society, but the key issues for class integration and class strife. After writing my PhD thesis on Pierce Egan, one of the earliest sport journalists influenced by the idea of early radicals in the nineteenth-century Britain, my attention turned over to the question of why the study of sport history was necessary. There was the academic impact inherited from the New Left’s belief that ‘without understanding the state of people’s culture, class issues are unable to be truly comprehended’. The Initiation of sport journalism had a similar destiny. This consequence appears to be a synchroflash between the early radicals’ concern in popular culture in the nineteenth century and the New Left’s interest in cultural studies in the twentieth century. There was an obvious reason why the radical essayists and contemporary academics had to pay attention to the ‘cultural turn’ with critical thinking in a society.     

新形势下高校人文体育意识形态话语权研究*

新媒体时代,意识形态话语权争夺渗透到社会的各个层面.高校人文体育教育面临新情况、呈现新特点.针对该领域的话语权问题,只有抓住关键节点,通过理念创新、制度健全、体系完善等诸多方式,探索突围路径,才能确保主流意识形态话语在人文体育中的主导地位与价值实现.     

从"政府企业家"到"市场企业家"——新常态下西部地区创新发展的策略转变

在中国经济高速增长的过程中,虽然各区域之间的差距始终存在,但缺乏内生动力的西部地区却并未陷入恶性循环,同样保持了较为快速的经济发展.由于市场中具备企业家精神的人才流失,长期以来,西部地区地方政府如企业家般直接干预经济,并依靠自身的企业家精神为区域经济发展引入大项目创新,实现了区域经济持续增长.然而在经济发展新常态下,这种经济发展策略由于政府可调配资源日益匮乏而逐渐失效;通过制度创新激发区域内市场中的企业家精神,从而实现大、中、小规模创新的协同发展,成为西部地区创新发展的策略选择.西部地区地方政府应科学制定发展目标,积极转变职能,通过制度创新更好地让市场发挥资源配置的决定性作用,从而有效激发出区域内的企业家精神.     

Indonesia’s original sin: mass killings and capitalist expansion, 1965–66

Following an aborted coup attempt in October 1965, the Indonesian military organized what turned out to be one of the most horrifying massacres of the twentieth century. More than half a million people were killed while hundreds of thousands of others were detained for years in prison camps throughout the country. There are two major points that this paper attempts to make. First, that the killings are in fact a case of state violence despite of the efforts to make it look like spontaneous violence. Second, that the killings are crucial to the expansion of capitalism in Indonesia. Using Marx’s concept of ‘primitive accumulation’, it attempts to show that the mass killings and arrests, the expropriation of people from their houses and lands, and the elimination of working‐class political formations, are integral parts of an economic strategy of the New Order.     

Business communication as cultural text: Exchange and feedback of promotional video clips

Our research is a response to the need to improve the understanding of the complexity of global professional communication. To investigate the complex cultural interpretations that producers and audiences apply to professional texts, we developed a two-year interactive project. Business students in New Zealand and Israel produced promotional “texts” – video clips to promote a university program – which they exchanged with their counterparts overseas to receive feedback. We adapted models of home-made visual communication and advertising which used the categories of participants, settings, topics, and style, to analyze the eight clips. Emergent findings suggested two more categories – information and language – as important analytical tools. Variables of age, gender, intra- and intercultural differences, and (cultural) context also resulted in student audiences’ multiple interpretations of the texts. The outcomes indicate the need to extend the culture-in-context approach for a “situation focused communication approach,” where the primary focus is a group of producers and their audience as they produce and interpret a professional text. This approach also foregrounds contextual variables and a plural understanding of culture to accommodate the potential for miscommunication of business and professional texts in pluricultural contexts.     

国际体育仲裁裁决的承认与执行

1）国际体育仲裁裁决的承认与执行在初始研究中受到《纽约公约》、《奥林匹克宪章》和国际体育仲裁院《体育仲裁规则》等规定的影响，其间有与国际体育仲裁制度相适应的方面，亦不乏有与其追求的不和谐之处；2）国际商事仲裁实践中各国立法承认与执行纽约公约裁决时所适用的程序规则较难以适用于国际体育仲裁；3）对《国际商事仲裁示范法》精髓的有效运用将有助于国际体育仲裁裁决的承认与执行。     

Regional creative industries policy-making under New Labour

This article analyses creative industries policy in the English regions under New Labour (1997–2010). It examines the ideas behind regional creative industries policies (RCIPs) and their implementation. Focusing on the activities of the English regional development agencies, the primary bodies responsible for the implementation of creative industries policy in the British regions, the article places regional cultural policy during the New Labour period within its broader political, social and economic contexts. It explains and evaluates New Labour's RCIPs, arguing that creative industries policy at the regional level changed over the course of New Labour's three terms of office, becoming increasingly economistic at the expense of a more social democratic vision of regional equality and democracy. We identify three issues that were problematic for New Labour's RCIP: a reliance on the idea of “clusters”, commercialisation and shifting regional governance.     

亚太五国基于亚欧合作的“丝路战略”比较研究

在经济全球化的背景下,中、美、日、韩、俄分别推出各自的基于亚欧经济合作的“丝路战略”,并希望以此为契机带动各自国家经济的发展。各国的“丝路战略”均聚焦于中亚地区,但覆盖范围不同,战略意图和目标也不同。中国的“丝路战略”拟构建战略合作伙伴关系,具有合作共赢的内在价值;美国的“丝路战略”强调其主导的“中亚-阿富汗-南亚”经济体;日本的“丝路战略”谋求在中亚和高加索站住脚跟,实现能源重心转移;俄罗斯的“丝路战略”试图恢复其传统政治影响,由“俄白哈关税同盟”逐渐向“欧亚联盟”过渡;韩国的“丝路战略”意欲通过中亚经济的繁荣寻求能源合作。中国要积极搭建同其他经济体的合作平台,扩大“一带一路”的国际影响力;要加强与中亚国家的联盟,并重视人文交流。     

中国新篮球文化的必要性及其对策的探析

研究把中国的篮球文化置于政治、教育和体育的大环境,围绕篮球文化总体发展情况,打造新篮球文化的必要性,分析了我国篮球文化的特点并提出了相应的对策。     

试从体育邮票的发行看新中国五十七年来的体育热

本文通过新中国所发行体育邮票的统计与分析,对五十七年来体育运动历史的审视和反思,阐述了建国以来所出现的六次体育热与体育邮票的发行二者是互为印讧,不谋而合的。在具体分析体育热的成因与结合体育邮票发行特点时,试图从中探索一些规律性的问题,从而进一步据此对未来的体育热和体育邮票发行作个展望和预测,同时也证明了通过体育邮票这个窗口也是窥视我国体育事业发展的一个有效途径和方法。