Negotiating women’s social space: public debates on gender in early modern Kerala,India*     

J. Devika 《Inter-Asia Cultural Studies》2013,14(1):43-61

Abstract

The paper argues that the formation of modern gender identities in early‐twentieth‐century Kerala was deeply implicated in the project of shaping governable subjects who were, at one and the same time ‘free’ and already inserted into modern institutions. Because gender appeared both natural and social, both individualising and general, it seemed to be a superior form of social ordering compared to the pre‐existing order of caste. The actualisation of a superior society ordered by gender was seen to be dependent upon the shaping of the fully‐fledged individuals with strong internalities and well‐developed gendered capacities that would place them in distinct social domains of the public and domestic, as ‘free’ individuals, who, however, were bound together in a complementary relationship. While this model still remains dominant in Kerala, by the 1930s, the public/domestic divide came to be blurred with the rapid spread of disciplinary institutions. Womanhood came to be associated not with a certain domain but with a certain form of power. This legitimated the entry of Malayalee women into public life, undergirded the much‐discussed ‘Kerala Model’ of development, and still holds up the highly ambiguous sort of ‘liberation’ elite Malayalee women have experienced. It has also strongly influenced the specific shape the resistance to patriarchy has taken in Kerala in the twentieth century.  相似文献   

Seoul and the time in motion: urban form and political consciousness     

Hong Kal 《Inter-Asia Cultural Studies》2013,14(3):359-374

Abstract

This paper explores the political effects of the cognitive change in the visual environment of colonial Seoul. It asks how the new urban imagery was perceived by the Korean population. It analyzes the ways in which they experienced urban forms, techniques of advertisement and urban infrastructure such as street‐cars and trains. It argues that the engagement of people with mobility, urban symbols and spectacles in the colonial city had stimulated different ways of seeing and thinking about who they were and what they had become, a new collective identity that is neither a subject of the Chos[obreve]n dynasty nor the Japanese colonial state. This paper demonstrates that colonial Seoul represented not only the technique of Japanese colonial subjugation but also generated a new grammar for imagining new identity and difference. The urban environment of the colonial city reflects not entirely a strategy of the colonizer but a tactic of the colonized in appropriating the different meanings of new social life, which was brought by, but not exclusively under, the control of colonial space and time.  相似文献   

J.B. Priestley,the ‘Modern’ and America     

《Cultural and Social History》2013,10(4):481-494

ABSTRACT

J.B. Priestley has often been seen as representative of a nostalgic Englishness which rejected the modern world and, in the process, embraced anti-Americanism. However, as this article suggests, Priestley had a more complicated relationship with both America and modernity than has been accepted. Focusing on the 1930s, it shows how Priestley travelled widely in the United States and came to admire the democratic and collective aspects of American culture, whilst also developing a critique of what he saw as the lack of individuality and creativity in other elements of the ‘mass' society, anticipating arguments he would develop after 1945.  相似文献   

论肖像画的诞生:一种现代性的视角     

张巧 《美育学刊》2021,(2):78-83

在中西方绘画史上,肖像画发展的程度截然不同,作为西方绘画主要类型的肖像画,在中国绘画史上却没有独立的位置。可以说,“肖像画的诞生”是一个现代性事件,只有足够成熟的现代化社会才能为其提供存在的普遍性条件——自主性精神。通过比较中西肖像画所植根的文化系统,可以展现肖像画作为现代性的文化表征所包含的双重性,它既显示了其所植根的那种普遍性的条件——文化现代性,同时也展示了现代性的自主化精神在艺术中的内在化——审美现代性。可以说,肖像画作为一个特殊的艺术门类,表征了普遍的现代性精神在文化和艺术中的同源共生。  相似文献   

试论大学教师权威面临的困境与出路     

邹小婷 《韩山师范学院学报》2010,31(5):99-103

大学教师权威是大学教育得以实现的基础和保障。受大众传媒、文化变迁以及市场经济的影响,大学教师权威面临着困境。我们认为,在理论上认清大学教师权威的困境之所在,在现实中把握它的实际状况,对于我们建构新时期合理的教师权威有积极意义。  相似文献   

生产现代性批判之剖析     

冷梅 《西南师范大学学报(人文社会科学版)》2007,33(3):112-115

就海德格尔、卢卡其和马克思而言，他们之所以能相遇，是因为他们都有对生产现代性的分析与批判。这些分析与批判对当前的科学发展观、和谐社会的构建具有重大警示作用。生产不能仅仅从财富的增加这一狭义的目标上考虑。在发展生产的同时，应考虑到生产的最终目的是人与自然、人与人的和谐发展，以及社会中每个个体的全面而自由的发展。  相似文献   

对文论建设中“三大基本关系”的再思考     

习传进 《荆州师范学院学报》2007,30(2):48-49,52

民族性与世界性、本土化与全球化、传统性与现代性之间有着复杂的关系，建构一种多元的、多向度的、互动取向的开放性文学批评理论有着相当的重要性和必要性。  相似文献   

后现代主义——一种现代性危机的社会和文化观照     

朱海龙 《湖南师范大学社会科学学报》2007,36(2):92-94,144

从后现代主义这样一种文化和社会现实出发,认为无论人们对后现代主义的理解是多么的泛滥、矛盾与冲突,其形式又是怎样的丰富而让人难以把握,但它无法形成一个统一独立体系.其实质只是现代性危机社会和文化的观照.  相似文献   

地域文化因素在现代包装艺术设计中的现实影响探究     

王斐 《科教文汇》2015,(14)

地域文化特色为现代包装认知提供了可借鉴的理论路向与现实可能。我们对于现代包装艺术设计转型的理解,既不能简单地从艺术角度出发,也不能单纯地停留在视觉层面,而要揭示历史转变过程中现代性的内在悖论,进而为从人文视角进行图像处理提供理论与现实路径。  相似文献   

合理化与生活世界殖民化——从韦伯到哈贝马斯的理性建构之路     

李健 《石家庄学院学报》2011,13(5):31-35

哈贝马斯从"合理化"概念入手,围绕理性建构问题对韦伯的理论局限性和建设性分别进行了揭示,进而提出了一个以"交往理性"包容价值理性和工具理性的理论设想。以此为起点,合理化概念中的理论盲点得到了一定程度的克服。立足于"合理化"与"生活世界殖民化"这两个核心命题的内在逻辑关系,从韦伯到哈贝马斯的理性建构之路也呈现出清晰可见的历史传承性。与此同时,这两个命题所包含的现代性困境及其解决策略,也在交往行为理论的认知框架中得到必要的揭示和说明。  相似文献