2010 NATSA Call for Papers – 肉圓邑

Abstract Submission Deadline: December 31, 2009 (Deadline Extended!)

Main Theme:
China Effect: Securing Taiwan in the Age of Conflicts and Cooperation

Minor Themes:
A). Beyond the Political Economy of Natural Disaster and Calamity: Toward a Humanitarian Recovery and Sustainable Development
B). Reconsidering and Destabilizing the Category of “Minorities”: Civil Society and its Discontents
C). Cultures of Ocean and Land: The Construction of Taiwanese Histories and Identities by Cultural and Creative Industries

更多訊息請見NATSA網站.

“Original Ecology” Performance (2009美國人類學學會年會文章摘要) by 大頭萱

“Original Ecology” Performance: Place-making and Politics of Body in Northwest Yunnan, China

 

“This is a performance acted by soul…Ten strong men from majority nationalities, common farmers from 16 villages, it is the over 500 non-professional dark-skinned performers…They use the most original actions, the most native songs, the most boiling hot sweat, dancing with the heaven, singing with the nature, bringing absolute shock to your hearts.”

 

This is a quotation from a pamphlet introducing an “original ecology” (yuanshengtai) performance in northwest Yunnan, China. According to the words of the pamphlet, an “original ecology” performance is especially characterized by “farmers,” “unprofessional performers,” “native,” and “nature.” “Original ecology” performances have become not only the way for the world to imagine northwest Yunnan, but also the stage for the local farmers, the so-called “unprofessional performers,” to perform their identity as a new way for livelihoods. “Original ecology” performances, therefore, have provided an arena for investigating the relationship between place-making and politics of body in the context of post-socialist development. On the one hand, the image and rhetoric of “original ecology” performance has made the performers of ethnic minorities rearticulate their bodies with the capitalized imagination of a lost utopian society. On the other hand, “original ecology” performance becomes the “embodiment” of a new post-socialist imaginary life, in which ethnic minorities in northwest Yunnan are marching ahead together with the Chinese state into a future of economic well-being and modernity. Therefore, behind this emerging style of performance is a relational process mobilizing “ethnic body” as an essential landscape for place-making of post-socialist development.

客人與服務員的對話（北京）

(1) 三里屯書蟲書吧

書蟲書吧 （北京三里屯）

書蟲書吧被 Beijinger 稱北京最棒的無線網路咖啡店

十二月十四日下午三點多

大師：服務員, 你們網路好像有問題, MSN 和 Google Talk 都用不了, 而且開網頁的速度很慢。

服務員：好的, 我去跟經理說一下, 不過我預期不會有什麼幫助。（痞子揚坐在一旁 OS: 那你可不可以作一些有幫助的事？)

大師：那麼其他客人也有一樣的問題嗎？

服務員：啊？我們這裡的網路向來都是很慢的呀。(痞子揚徹底暈倒)

Landscape under Connections-寫於2009美國人類學學會年會 (肉圓邑)

今年(2009)的美國人類學學會(American Athropological Association,簡稱AAA)年會,肉圓邑以session organizer的身分,寫了以下的Session Abstract,小弟也順便在雞鴨狗狒這兒獻醜了:

AAA 2009 Annual Meeting: Session AbstractLandscape under Connections: Networks and Encounters of Place-Making in East and Southeast Asia

Up until the mid-1970’s, social science in general took landscape as a tangible object “out there” to be empirically accessed, described and researched. At this time, social scientists traced the evolution of landscape by emphasizing reconstruction of the past and privileged the non-urban or pre-industrial sites for landscape studies. Since the 1980’s, looking for more engagement with the wider social context in which cultures are formed and explained, social scientists of landscape studies started conceptualizing landscape as the manifestation of critical sociopolitical issues like difference, inequality, power, exclusion, social stratification, etc. However, this vibrant theoretical ferment of landscape studies has confronted another challenge resulting from the scenarios of multi-scale connections between different actors working with diverse objectives, and a reorientation of studies seems imperative to understand the significance of landscape under current multi-scale connections. Accordingly, incorporating different studies in and of East Asia and Southeast Asia, this session intends to regroup landscape studies by dealing with three related sets of theoretical frameworks:

虛擬人物的真實抗議

2009年7月16日10點59分，IP位址為「222.94.255.*」的網友在中國』百度貼吧魔獸世界』發表了第一個題目為「賈君鵬你媽媽喊你回家吃飯」、內容為RT（意為「如題」）的貼子。過了3分鐘「賈君鵬」在帖子中第6樓出現，並說不回去吃飯，但網友發現此賬號註冊時間為11點02分，是個後註冊ID。後來回貼中賈家「親友」幾乎傾巢而出。還有不少網民借題發揮，衍生出各類二次創作，如將這一句話製作成各類惡搞圖片，或是將其翻譯成各國文字，甚至為賈君鵬以文言立傳。截止第三日7點48分，用電腦在此帖發言，顯示已經達到回貼數上限，此時點擊數為7,818,740，回帖數為302,259，是魔獸世界吧7月第一個超過萬樓的高樓。

[轉寄]: 一人一袋米,支持農民站起來

政府無能又無恥, 救災還得靠自己。友人轉來的消息, 供大家參考:

一人一袋米,支持農民站起來

用您最實際的行動，協助農民重建

一袋米訂購中

我們希望資源能給予真正需要幫助的人

我們只需要

一個看得見的未來

活動緣起

莫拉克颱風的來襲造成台灣農業重創，受災最嚴重的區域均集中在高雄縣與屏東縣的沿海地帶及山區鄉鎮，其中受創最深的首推南部的在地農民，這一群農民耕耘了大半輩子的努力被大水淹沒，連基本居住的基本需求都不能被保障，再次凸顯長久以來城鄉差距的問題。慶幸的是，自風災發生後，民眾自發性的動員，各團體積極投入災區物資募集與救助工作，我們看見了許多溫暖的力量。