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.     

Creative labor as moral and ethical subjects and its limitation: Creative City Yokohama,Japan

This study aims to reconsider and re-evaluate the rapid circulation of global creative city policy from the viewpoint of its creative workforce by focusing on the case of Yokohama, Japan. To shed light on this workforce’s everyday experiences and labor subjectivity, this investigation draws ideas from recent research trends of “creative labor” from the field of media and cultural studies, sociology of work, and political economy of communication. Based on in-depth interviews and participant observations, this research focuses on how the ethical and moral dimensions of labor subjectivity in creative work are prominently important in explaining Yokohama workers’ everyday living and working experiences as creative labor. Unexpectedly, this study found that these moral and ethical sentiments and actions, which take on the role of retaining their labor motivation, actually limit the development of political subjects who can resist given precarious working conditions and thereby hinder them from building a collective solidarity as “workers.” Thus this investigation concludes that the creative worker’s subjectivity retreats to solely a moral dimension rather than to a political one. Through this finding, this study explores whether the articulation of moral-political and social values in the course of cultural work can evolve from creative workers’ moral and ethical sensitivities and actions.     

美国华盛顿大学研究生培养对交通运输工程学科的借鉴

对美国华盛顿大学研究生培养的特色进行了总结和介绍,按照“如何做研究-研究选题-研究方法-成果展示”四个步骤进行了详细阐述。为提高交通运输工程学科研究生的培养质量,从引入《Transportation Seminar》、学科交叉培养、出国交流、课程设置和面对面讨论5个方面进行了具体讨论,以期为交通运输工程学科研究生培养提供借鉴和参考。     

创意产业链的价值与知识整合研究

创意产业的发展规模和程度已经成为衡量一个国家或城市综合竞争力水平高低的重要标志。虽然创意概念在全球范围内日益升温,创意产业的实践也在不断推进,但国内外对创意产业理论的研究都还落后于实践发展,对产业组织形式、发展模式等理论研究,都还未有成熟的定论。从产业经济学的产业链理论角度,对创意产业的产业链结构进行试探性研究,认为创意产业的产业链结构呈现出网络状特征。并结合模块化理论、"微笑曲线"理论等,从产业链的价值形式和知识形式两个方面,总结了创意产业链整合的实现模式。结果表明,需要通过解构传统价值链、虚拟价值链等方式进行价值整合,并通过知识联盟的组织模式实现知识整合。     

适应知识经济发展 转变企业管理观念

知识经济不仅会对人类的生产方式和生活方式带来深远的影响 ,而且对企业管理观念也将产生深远影响。传统企业必须从 10个方面转变管理观念 ,以迎接知识经济时代的严峻挑战。     

大学英语阅读教学创新三环节

从语言学习的规律来看,英语应用能力的提高是建立在大量的语言输入尤其是大量的阅读基础之上的[1]。所以大学英语阅读教学一直被置于一个非常重要的教学地位。然而,传统的大学英语阅读教学方法已经不能适应当代大学生对英语学习的要求。随着我国加入WTO和经济改革的深入,社会对具有英语实际应用能力的非英语专业大学毕业生的需求日益增加。这就要求大学英语阅读教学不断创新,以培养出更多具有较高英语应用能力的大学毕业生。     

组织文化类型对员工创新行为的作用机理研究

员工创新行为的实现需要环境的支持与个体的努力,文章根据计划行动理论,以个体创新信念为中介,研究组织文化与员工创新行为的关系。首先借助内部整合和外部适应两个维度,将组织文化分为高聚合型、市场导向型、中庸型和层级型等四种不同类型,并在此基础上探讨和分析不同类型的组织文化,通过员工创新自我效能感为中介,对员工创新行为的影响机理。以企业为调查样本,取得有效问卷497套,采用回归与方差分析方法对假设进行验证。研究结果显示:组织文化与员工创新行为存在正向相关关系,员工创造力自我效能感在两者关系中起中介效应;且不同类型的组织文化对员工的创新行为和创造力自我效能感的影响存在显著差异。     

安房直子童话意蕴之探析

日本儿童文学作家安房直子的童话作品除了具有幻想特征之外,更富有深厚的内在意蕴：一方面,她的作品呈现出“爱”的母题的丰富审美形态,如母爱、友爱和对生命之爱等;另一方面,其作品秉承日本传统文化中的“森林思想”,传达出一种人与自然万物和谐共处的生命观念.这两种意蕴使儿童在潜入各种丰富的审美情感体验中心灵变得温柔、坚韧、聪慧、自信与博大,成为儿童读者精神生命健康成长的养料.     

试论学区体育理念的理论和实践价值

学区体育是一种全新的体育形态。学区体育理念对于学术研究和实际工作都有重要的启发意义。作者阐述了学区体育的概念与特征,分析了学区体育理念的主要内容,指出了学区体育的理论和实践价值。     

试论当前体育课教学的缺失

审视当前体育教学自身的教学思想和行为,发现在学生学习掌握运动技术技能与促进体质增强、教师主导作用与对学生刻苦学习锻炼要求、特有教学规律的遵循、合理的必要的运动负荷安排、传统教学方法、严密的课堂教学组织、客观教学评价、体育教师认真负责的敬业精神等方面都与体育教学的健康发展方向存在一定的偏差,出现了一些缺失。这些问题应引起高度重视,及时正视修正,这对推进学校体育教学的进一步健康发展、促进学生体质增强将具有十分重要的意义和作用。