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Culture as the Co-evolution of Psychic and Social Systems: New Perspectives o…
In this article we contribute a new theoretical perspective to the analysis of the relationship between individual and culture, and the person and the environment. Many hotly debated issues in cultural psychology, such as reification, the discourse of personality traits, and models of part—whole hierarchies are productively addressed. Taking a systems-theoretical approach following Niklas Luhma…
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 213-241
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Commentary: Environment, Behaviour and Communication: The Definitive Answer o…
The attempt to create general theory in social sciences is not new. Reductionism is one of the main problems in this process. Here I analyze the relationship between human, environment, and culture, based on Luhmann’s systems theory and its implications for modern psychology as discussed in Thommen and Wettstein’s (2010) critique of the field. Distinguishing three types of system (biotic, psych…
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 243-251
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Guilt in a Fluid Culture? A View from Positioning Theory
What is the status of guilt as an emotion in postmodern society? According to Zygmunt Bauman, postmodern consumer society supplies a cultural context in which guilt loses in importance. By definition, guilt is connected to a breach in shared rules, but rules and norms have allegedly become fluid today, thereby rendering clear breaches and ensuing guilt rare events. In this article, I provide an…
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 253-266
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Sympathy, Compassion, and Empathy in English and Russian: A Linguistic and Cu…
In this corpus-based study I contribute to the description and analysis of linguistic and cultural variation in the conceptualization of sympathy , compassion, and empathy. On the basis of a contrastive semantic analysis of sympathy, compassion, and empathy in English and their Russian translational equivalents, socuvstvie , sostradanie, and soperezivanie, I demonstrate significant differences …
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 267-285
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Commentary: Framing Sympathy
The expression of emotion takes many forms and their linguistic expression is one of the key ways they are articulated. The study of the semantic fields in which the expression of emotion takes place is in need of an appropriate methodology and a sufficiently broad set of examples. Anna Gladkova’s attempt to use the methodology of Natural Semantic Metalanguage to explore the semantics of certai…
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 287-296
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US Free Trade Agreements and Policy Flexibility: Will New Rules Hinder Indust…
Free trade agreements have become a central feature of many developing countries' growth strategies, encouraged by an evaluation literature that quantifies their positive impact on trade. However, trade gains come at the cost of policy space, particularly when the partner is a developed country, and though this cost has been acknowledged, its impact has not been explored. This article seeks to …
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- Volume 28 Issue 4, July 2010. Pages 387 - 410
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- 09502386
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- Development Policy Review
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Elites, Rent-Cycling and Development: Adjustment to Land Scarcity in Mauritiu…
According to rent-cycling theory, low rent aligns the interests of the elite and the majority in providing public goods and efficiency incentives to promote economic growth, while high rent risks deflecting the elite into self-enriching rent deployment, which distorts the economy and triggers a collapse from which recovery is protracted because rent recipients resist reform. The theory also pre…
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- Volume 28 Issue 4, July 2010. Pages 411 - 433
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The Impacts of Supermarket Procurement on Farming Communities in India: Evide…
The rapid expansion of supermarket retailing, with its impact on farmer communities, represents a contentious part of India's recent economic development. This article reports on three districts of Karnataka, where a survey of 78 farmers supplying fruits and vegetables to Reliance Fresh, a leading supermarket chain, reveals low levels of vertical co-ordination, a lack of written contracts, and …
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- Volume 28 Issue 4, July 2010. Pages 435 - 456
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A Development Delivery Institution for the Tribal Communities: Experience of …
This article examines the varied impacts of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) as a development delivery institution for the tribal communities vis-à-vis other social groups across the Indian States, using the framework of new institutional economics. A number of State-specific, socio-economic institutional factors seem to be responsible for these variations. The article the…
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- Volume 28 Issue 4, July 2010. Pages 457 - 479
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Targeting Cash to Malawi's Ultra-Poor: A Mixed Methods Evaluation
Governments target transfers so that limited resources reach impoverished households; targeting errors therefore indicate inefficiency in resource use and inability to reach the poorest households. This article examines the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Scheme (SCTS), using mixed methods and multiple data sources, including examination of underlying assumptions, the operationalisation of key conc…
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- Volume 28 Issue 4, July 2010. Pages 481 - 502
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The State and the New Society: The Role of the Arts in Singapore Nation-building
This paper takes an historical perspective on the trajectory of Singapore's arts and cultural landscape from 1965 to 2000. It examines the arts and cultural field as an ideological site within which the People's Action Party government constantly sought to reinvent or vision a new society. From harnessing the arts for the task of creating “civilised” and “cultured” citizens immediately after in…
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- Volume 34, Issue 2 June 2010 , pages 131 - 149
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Pontianaks, Ghosts and the Possessed: Female Monstrosity and National Anxiety…
In its self-conscious transformation into a global city with a national culture that strains to include post-industrial values, contemporary Singapore has had to struggle with the repressed anxieties that threaten to return and disrupt its entry into the advanced stages of global capitalism. This article argues that such struggles are ritually performed in a selection of contemporary Singapore …
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- Volume 34, Issue 2 June 2010 , pages 151 - 170
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Singapore FHM: State Values and the Construction of Singaporean Masculinity i…
Transnational magazines have enjoyed enormous success with readers in Singapore in recent years. But what hurdles are faced by these syndicated magazines as they attempt to enter global markets? This article explores the difficulties of meeting audience demands while obeying strictly monitored rules set down by the state. Drawing from initial research into women's lifestyle magazines, this arti…
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- Volume 34, Issue 2 June 2010 , pages 171 - 190
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Sport and the Theatrics of Power in a Postcolonial State: The National Games …
The National Games of 1961 and 1964 transformed the theatrics of state power in postcolonial Laos. While using modern sporting spectacle to promote national unity and progress in a context of Cold War division, the games were also embedded in an existing theatrics of power, which dramatised the status of their founder, General Phoumi Nosavan. The modern motifs of national unity and progress wer…
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- Volume 34, Issue 2 June 2010 , pages 191 - 210
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The Value of Bodies: Deception, Helping and Profiteering in Human Trafficking…
Over the last two decades, increasing attention has been given to trafficking in persons globally. Governments, international organisations and the media generally assume that trafficking is immensely profitable. This paper problematises this assumption in light of ethnographic research within the sex industry along the Thai-Lao border. It argues that the cross-border recruitment of Lao women i…
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- Volume 34, Issue 2 June 2010 , pages 211 - 229
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Informality in the Philippine Civil Service
Philippine political and bureaucratic organisations are usually presented as weak, permeable, distorted and corrupt and, as such, lie some way from a proper condition of formality. There is no question that informal behaviour can and does have a deleterious effect on the civil service and the organisations it staffs. But it is also clear that, within the bureaucracy, there is a deal of positive…
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- Volume 34, Issue 2 June 2010 , pages 231 - 251
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History, Silence and Homelessness in Contemporary Chinese Cinema: Wang Xiaosh…
Set a few years after China's opening to the various forces of globalisation, the film Shanghai Dreams (2005) tells the story of the conflict between Qinghong, a 17 year-old schoolgirl who wishes to remain in her hometown of Guiyang, and her father, Lao Wu, whose dream of returning to his hometown of Shanghai is stirred by reports of the better life others have obtained as a result of Deng Xiao…
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- Volume 34, Issue 1 March 2010 , pages 3 - 18
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Translating Japanese Adult Movies in Taiwan: Transcending the Production-Cons…
This paper is an attempt to reconsider the opposition between consumption and production in social sciences through a detailed analysis of the production of Chinese subtitles for a pirated Japanese adult video (AV) clip in Taiwan. We demonstrate that the way local pirate merchants provide Chinese subtitles is very much guided by the sexual roles of men and women, or what Sahlins calls a cultura…
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- Volume 34, Issue 1 March 2010 , pages 19 - 39
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Culture, Literature and the Contradictions of Socialist Capitalism in Chinese…
Most large Chinese corporations publish e-magazines to which employees are encouraged to contribute on various topics, ranging from management and work issues to creative writing and other creative “cultural” work such as poetry, calligraphy and photography. These e-magazines provide a central venue where employees can learn about what is important to the firm's management. They are one of the …
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- Volume 34, Issue 1 March 2010 , pages 41 - 61
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Fat, Spices, Culture and More: Chinese Food in Postwar Japanese Gastronomic W…
Chinese cooking is popular in contemporary Japan. It is also a favourite subject of gastronomic writings that discuss not only the cooking techniques and ingredients but also the cultural meaning of the cuisine. This paper analyses the central concerns of this literature and points out its broader cultural-political implications. It contends that Japanese writings on Chinese food share a set of…
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- Volume 34, Issue 1 March 2010 , pages 63 - 81
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