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“All we wanted to do, now that we were back in the world, was forget”: On Remembrance and Forgetting in Julie Otsuka’s novels
Get PDFThis article considers Julie Otsuka’s representations of the World-War-II internment of Japanese Americans in When the Emperor Was Divine (2002) and The Buddha in the Attic (2011) from the perspective of collective remembrance, thus highlighting the interconnectedness of remembrance, forgetting, silence and race. Remembering and forgetting are understood as contingent on one another, and on the ideological currents and countercurrents that affect the construction of collective remembrance. The article argues that the content and form of Otsuka’s novels mediate the cultural silence of the internment. In addition, they illustrate the changing nature of the narrativized remembrance of the internment as accounts of the lived experience of the Japanese Americans who went to camp are being replaced by transgenerationally transmitted, imaginatively recreated memories. The historical silence of the incarceration and its aftermath is sometimes explained in terms of “Japanese culture,” but such a description risks reducing the impact of the racialization of Japanese Americans, and obscuring its effect on resistance. Finally, the analysis demonstrates that in Otsuka’s texts, remembrance of the internment is characterized by a negotiation between repressive erasure and restorative forgetting
From 17th to 18th Party Congress: Implications for Intra-Party Democracy
Get PDFGrowing intra-party pluralism and intensified factional rivalry have pressured the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to adjust the authoritarian official-selection system by resorting to an 'intra-Party democracy' mechanism based on informal polls among influential party officials and retirees. The progress, albeit slow and opaque since the 17th Party Congress in 2007, is increasingly seen as the CPC's only solution to intensified factional rivalry at various levels and the decline of legitimacy associated with the corrupt and inept officialdom. With backroom straw polls setting new norms for the CPC to settle factional infighting over power transfer at the 18th Party Congress, this intra-party democracy procedure has been gradually routinized at both the central and local levels to make the appointment process more consultative and to fend off democratic outcries from the public. In the past few years, cautious but substantial experiments with contested polls have been introduced by CPC's organizational departments to the monolithic political system, in which key party/government officials are facing increasingly competitive voting tests before they can be promoted to higher levels
De stabile frivillige. Betydningen af kapitalressourcer, livsfaser og organisatorisk kontekst for vedvarende frivilligt arbejde
Get PDFJeg fremsætter hypotesen, at stabilt frivilligt arbejde over længere tidsperioder afhænger af de kapitalressourcer der medbringes til arbejdet, den livsfase arbejdet foregår i, samt den organisatoriske kontekst arbejdet udføres inden for. Hypotesen testes ved hjælp af paneldata fra befolk-ningsundersøgelsen af frivilligt arbejde ’04 og ’12. Jeg konkluderer, at selvom enkelte kapitalressourcer og livsfaser har en indflydelse, så er det de organisatoriske forhold, blandt andet medlemskab og arbejdsintensitet, der har den mest entydige indvirkning.
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Erik Petrovski: The Stable Volunteers. The Importance of Capital Resources, Life Phases and Organizational Context for Sustained Volunteer Work
I hypothesize that sustained volunteer work over longer periods of time depends on the capital resources that are brought into the work, the life phase in which the work takes place, and the organizational context in which the work is performed. I test this hypothesis using panel data from the Danish population survey on volunteer work from 2004 and 2012. I conclude that the organizational context of volunteering (including membership and work intensity) has a stronger effect on sustained volunteering than capital resources and life phases.
Keywords: volunteer work, panel data, integrated theory, volunteer dynamics, membership
Subsidization in China's Renewable Energy Sector: Negotiability as the Norm
Get PDFThe Chinese government's decision to push for large-scale build up of renewable energy capacity was followed by a range of industrial policies to support this change of track. Most importantly, various forms of subsidies were launched to support both industries and markets. While important new research has added to our understanding of China's state capitalism by documenting the depth and breadth of subsidies to solar PV manufactures, very little attention has been paid to how subsidies are determined and how companies influence these processes.
This article takes a neo-institutional perspective with the aim of understanding the institutional context for the interplay between companies and Party-state, and the norms established through this interaction. It explores two cases, the biomass and solar industry, and shows how subsidies are perceived as being negotiable. Understanding this negotiability of subsidies as an institutionalized norm helps us understand both an important factor shaping China's renewable energy sector and the wider dynamics of state capitalism in China
Det ægyptiske tempel og bibliotekskatedralen
Get PDFHistorisk tilbageblik I: I videnshistorisk sammenhæng er det vigtigt at sammenholde og sammenligne arkiver, biblioteker og museer. I midten af 1800-tallet opførtes med få års mellemrum to spændende byggerier, nemlig Thorvaldsens Museum og Københavns Universitetsbibliotek i Fiolstræde
Technologies of the Other: Renewing ‘empathy’ between Foucault and psychoanalysis.
Get PDFThis article expands Michel Foucault’s schema of the human ‘technologies’—those of production, signification, power and technologies of the self (Foucault, 1983)—to posit the existence of a fifth technological modality described here as technologies of the other. This refers to techniques and practices that facilitate the autonomy, not of the self, but of another person or persons. The specificity of these techniques of (other) care, I argue, is obscured in Foucault’s work in so far as they are subsumed as a ‘position’ within the technologies of the self, rather than afforded the status of a separate mode of technological practice in their own right. This not only misrecognizes their qualitative difference—the special kind of human ‘making’ they entail—but also allows for the dubious claim of an ‘ontological primacy’ of self-care when this is actually (at least ‘ontogenetically’) preceded by, and dependent upon, prior other-care. As one potential candidate or fragment of this alternative technological lineage, the paper revisits the writings on the psychoanalytic technique of empathy elaborated in the British Independent tradition of Donald Winnicott. It explores how these empathetic techniques engage in an ethics of ‘other-fashioning’—a necessary prelude to the emergence of capacities of autonomous ‘self-fashioning’—and suggests that such empathy can neither be encapsulated fully under the rubric of technologies of the self, nor read as isomorphic with the technologies of power
