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Early State Formation: A Complete Rejection of the Circumscription Theory 早期状态的形成:对委婉语理论的彻底否定
IF 0.3 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.30884/seh/2019.02.09
T. Stocker, Jianyi Xi’ao
We evaluated Carneiro's ‘environmental circumscription’ theory and completely rejected it. It was an insidious ethnocentric prima facie construct. Attempting to develop a viable alternative to early state formation, we focused on food procurement, production and storage. Obviously, large population aggregates (characterizing a state by archaeologists) was only possible because they were in areas of unique abundant wild/renewable food resources, supplemented with agriculture in varying degrees of development. All earliest states followed a pattern of being located near a river mouth entering a sea or ocean. Thus, we propose that such areas produced large amounts of aquatic fauna (mainly fish) and sometimes flora, and these renewable resources helped support sizeable human populations. We label our theory: Unique Resource Constellation Theory (URCT).
我们对卡内罗的“环境界限”理论进行了评价,并完全否定了它。为了开发一种可行的替代早期国家形成的方法,我们专注于食品采购、生产和储存。显然,大规模的人口聚集(考古学家描述了一个国家的特征)之所以可能,是因为它们位于拥有独特丰富的野生/可再生食物资源的地区,并辅以不同程度发展的农业。所有最早的州都遵循一种模式,即位于入海口附近。因此,我们建议,这些地区产生了大量的水生动物(主要是鱼类),有时还产生了植物群,这些可再生资源有助于支持大量的人口。我们将我们的理论称为:独特资源星座理论(URCT)。
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Social Complexity of Pazyrik Culture in Altai, 550–100 BC 公元前550–100年阿尔泰帕日里克文化的社会复杂性
IF 0.3 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.30884/seh/2019.02.04
A. Tishkin, P. Dashkovsky
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Political Complexity in Nomadic Empires of Inner Asia 中亚游牧帝国的政治复杂性
IF 0.3 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.30884/seh/2019.02.05
S. A. Vasyutin
The nomadic empires of Inner Asia are a unique historical phenomenon. Large mountain and steppe territories allowed hundreds of thousands of nomadic families to pursue their economic activities, creating the conditions that led to their integration into big imperial communities. The long border in the South with empire-civilization and world-system center China was one of the major ‘challenges’ for steppe people, the ‘answer’ to which was often the creation of semi-peripheral imperial polities, as only the common military capacity of the Inner Asia stockbreeders guaranteed them at least temporary military and political equality and even supremacy during periods of weakening of the Middle Kingdom. The established opinion on the similarity of the nomadic empires in this region is mostly the result of a long period of research on nomadic economies, social and political structures, and the relations between nomads and China (evolutionism, positivism, Marxism). In the last few decades, the concept of multi-linearity (non-linearity) of sociogenesis and politogenesis has been applied to this field of study, allowing us to focus on the peculiarities of the Inner Asia nomadic empires, creating a solution to the old issues surrounding the nature of the power systems among nomads, the existence or absence of statehood, and the typology of imperial structures according to their level of complexity.
内亚的游牧帝国是一个独特的历史现象。大片的山地和草原允许成千上万的游牧家庭从事他们的经济活动,创造了使他们融入大帝国社区的条件。南方与帝国文明和世界体系中心中国的漫长边界是草原人民面临的主要“挑战”之一,对此的“答案”通常是建立半外围帝国政治,因为只有内部亚洲畜牧业者的共同军事能力才能保证他们至少暂时的军事和政治平等,甚至在中央王国衰落期间拥有霸权。关于该地区游牧帝国相似性的既定观点,主要是对游牧经济、社会政治结构以及游牧民族与中国关系(进化论、实证主义、马克思主义)的长期研究的结果。在过去的几十年里,社会发生和政治发生的多重线性(非线性)概念已被应用于这一研究领域,使我们能够专注于内亚游牧帝国的特点,为围绕游牧民族之间权力系统的性质、国家存在与否以及根据其复杂程度划分帝国结构的类型学等老问题创造解决方案。
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Reconsidering the Issue of Eastern Migrations in Connection with the Artificial Cranial Deformation Practices among the Late Sarmatians 重新考虑与晚期萨尔马西亚人人工颅骨变形实践有关的东方移民问题
IF 0.3 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.30884/seh/2019.02.10
Maria A. Balabanova
The article is devoted to the custom of artificial deformation of skull which was practiced by the early nomads of the late Sarmatian time in the steppe zone of Eastern Europe. The issues of spread, origin and functional load of this custom are being resolved on the basis of the mass paleoanthropological materials from the burial mounds in the Southern Urals, the Lower Volga and the Lower Don region. The data show that the proportion of deformed skulls varies from 50 per cent to 100 per cent while the dating of the complex, where the materials with deformation marks come from, has shown that no gradual penetration occurred in the late Sarmatian society. Due to the fact that the late Sarmatian society had some peculiar features (e.g., children were not buried under the mounds and only part of women had this kind of privilege and also the high injury level of the skeletons caused by hostilities) it is possible to consider that the custom of the artificial deformation was a constant symbol of intra-group solidarity and inter-group cultural differences. One can hardle define the connection between the practice of deformation and such phenomena as fashion and esthetics, since along with the late Sarmatians a large number of settled and nomadic tribes practiced this custom.
本文论述了东欧草原地带萨尔马提亚时代早期游牧民族人工变形头盖骨的习俗。根据乌拉尔南部、伏尔加河下游和顿河下游地区出土的大量古人类资料,对这一习俗的传播、起源和功能负荷等问题进行了探讨。数据显示,变形头骨的比例从50%到100%不等,而对带有变形痕迹的材料来源的复杂结构的年代测定表明,在晚期的萨尔马西亚社会中,头骨并没有逐渐被穿透。由于萨尔马西亚晚期社会有一些特殊的特征(例如,儿童不被埋在土堆下,只有部分妇女有这种特权,而且由于敌对行动造成的骨骼损伤程度很高),可以认为人工变形的习俗是群体内团结和群体间文化差异的持续象征。人们很难界定变形的做法与时尚和美学等现象之间的联系,因为随着晚期的萨尔马西亚人,大量定居和游牧部落都有这种习俗。
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The Idea of Space among the Nomads of Great Steppe 大草原游牧民族的空间观念
IF 0.3 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.30884/seh/2019.02.02
M. Sodnompilova, B. Nanzatov
Nomads were the Mongolic and Turkic peoples that inhabited vast territories of Inner Asia, including natural areas from the desert to the tundra, from highlands to steppe plains. The development of this diverse space is one of the debated issues in the history of nomadic societies, which still remains relevant. A wide range of ecological zones led to the formation of a rich worldview which created mythological, ethnic, and symbolic images of spaces. For each particular natural zone there was formed a particular mechanism for comprehending and developing territories.
游牧民族是居住在内亚广大地区的蒙古和突厥民族,包括从沙漠到苔原,从高地到草原平原的自然区域。这种多样化空间的发展是游牧社会历史上有争议的问题之一,至今仍然具有相关性。广泛的生态区域形成了丰富的世界观,创造了神话、民族和象征性的空间形象。对于每一个特定的自然地带,都形成了理解和开发领土的特定机制。
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On Classification of Revolutions: An Attempt at a New Approach 论革命的分类:一种新方法的尝试
IF 0.3 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.30884/seh/2019.02.13
E. Shults
The article addresses one of the fundamental issues in the theory of revolutions – the problem of classification of revolutions. The existing approaches distinguish revolutions depending on their self-proclaimed mission-theory (formational, modernization, and civilizational) and peculiar features – alleged driving forces, ideological vector, etc. The author proposes to rely in systematization on the phenomenon itself, rather than on the theoretical basis that this phenomenon should correspond to. From our point of view, a comparative analysis of revolutions based on their algorithm allows determining their sort and type. We propose an approach to comparative analysis of revolutions which is based on two criteria related to the subject of research, namely: an algorithm of a revolution (stages, phases, and developmental vector) and the problems it resolves. Based on these principles, the author concludes that there are two sorts of revolutions, each of which is further subdivided into three types. From the very beginning revolutions manifested themselves as a civilization-scale phenomenon and attracted social thought and researchers across the world. With every revolutionary outbreak, the significance of revolutions would increase while the studies of revolutions became more and more relevant. The attempts to comprehend the differences and similarities between revolutions, i.e. to delineate a primary typology, appeared in the early eighteenth century and allowed making conclusions that the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in England was in no way similar to its predecessor of the years 1640−1653. Following the onset of the Great French Revolution in the late eighteenth century, it was observed that it fundamentally differed from the two British and the American revolutions, which, in turn, were strikingly dissimilar from each other (Burke 1852: 366; Burke 1869: 80–81; Guizot 1854: 114–116). Meanwhile, the 1789–1799 events in France started to be referred to as a ‘Great Revolution’ (Burke 1852: 125). Shults / On Classification of Revolutions: An Attempt at a New Approach 245 A classification requires repeated occurrences of the same events which can be and should be compared with each other. Since the Reformation seems to be the most similar event in terms of its significance and scale prior to the first revolutions the latter would inevitably be compared to it, with the Reformation referred to as a religious revolution, and the revolutions in England, America and France, as political revolutions (Comte 1896: 189–190; Guizot 1854: 3; Tocqueville 2011: 19–20). In the 1820–1830s, the ideas concerning political and social revolutions start to emerge in the European social thought, which considered the events related to state takeovers as political revolutions, while state reforms were regarded as social revolutions (Hörmann 2011: 62–65). These approaches were mostly associated with the desire to establish and demonstrate that political revolutions had a neg
这篇文章论述了革命理论中的一个基本问题——革命的分类问题。现有的方法根据革命自称的使命理论(形成、现代化和文明)和特有的特征(所谓的驱动力、意识形态载体等)来区分革命。作者建议依赖于现象本身的系统化,而不是依赖于这种现象应该对应的理论基础,基于它们的算法对革命进行比较分析可以确定它们的种类和类型。我们提出了一种基于与研究主题相关的两个标准的革命比较分析方法,即:革命的算法(阶段、阶段和发展向量)及其解决的问题。基于这些原则,作者得出结论,革命有两种,每种革命又细分为三种类型。从一开始,革命就表现为一种文明规模的现象,并吸引了世界各地的社会思想和研究人员。随着每一次革命的爆发,革命的意义都会增加,而对革命的研究也变得越来越相关。试图理解革命之间的差异和相似之处,即描绘一个主要的类型学,出现在18世纪初,并得出结论,1688年英国的光荣革命与1640年至1653年的前一次革命完全不同。十八世纪末法国大革命爆发后,人们发现它与英国和美国的两次革命有着根本的不同,而这两次革命又有着惊人的不同(Burke 1852:366;Burke 1869:80-81;Guizot 1854:114-116)。与此同时,1789-1799年在法国发生的事件开始被称为“大革命”(Burke 1852:125)。舒尔茨/论革命的分类:一种新方法的尝试245分类需要重复发生相同的事件,这些事件可以而且应该相互比较。由于宗教改革在第一次革命之前的意义和规模上似乎是最相似的事件,因此后者不可避免地会被拿来与之相比,宗教改革被称为宗教革命,而英国、美国和法国的革命则被称为政治革命(1896年:189–190;1854年:3;托克维尔,2011年:19–20)。1820–1830年代,欧洲社会思想中开始出现有关政治和社会革命的思想,认为与国家接管有关的事件是政治革命,而国家改革则被视为社会革命(Hörmann 2011:62-6 5)。这些方法大多与建立和证明政治革命具有负面影响的愿望有关,而通过改革实现的进化进步对国家和民族有利(Burke 1869:80-81;梅斯特2003:40;托克维尔2011:13)。然而,这种方法将革命、定期政变、宗教和内战以及国家改革结合在一起。直到19世纪中期,才有可能将革命作为一种独立现象进行深入研究,因为除了英国、美国和法国的第一次革命外,一股革命浪潮席卷了欧洲:1830年和1848年的法国、1830年的比利时、1847-1848年的瑞士、1808-1814年的西班牙和葡萄牙的革命,1820年至1834年在葡萄牙,1820年至1823年,1834年至1843年,1854年至1856年,1868年至1874年在西班牙,1821年至1829年在希腊,1848年至1849年在德国发生的革命事件,以及1848年以后在意大利发生的事件,当时国家统一进程与革命行动交织在一起。这本书不仅提供了一个定量的组成部分,还提供了同一现象的各种表现形式,这使得我们能够非常有理由地谈论不同类型的革命(不是在类似但根本不同的现象的背景下)。第一次提到不同类型的革命是由卡尔·马克思提出的,他明确指出了其中三种,即:资产阶级革命、无产阶级革命(或共产主义革命)和后来被称为资产阶级民主革命的某种中间类型(即1848–1849年欧洲革命)。对马克思来说,生产方式的转变(后来被称为社会形态)成为革命分类的关键标准。革命将为其利益服务的社会阶层是马克思提出的分类的另一个特征,该分类允许将1848年之前的所有革命归因于资产阶级革命,将巴黎公社归因于无产阶级革命(马克思1977a:161;1977b:66-67;马克思和恩格斯1910年:12-15,29;1977年:380–381)。
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Social Complexity, Inner Asia, and Pastoral Nomadism 社会复杂性、亚洲腹地与田园游牧
IF 0.3 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.30884/seh/2019.02.01
N. Kradin
For many years scholars have interpreted the large polities of pastoral nomads of Inner Asia as having different levels of complexity (pre-state, early state, feudal society, nomadic civilization, etc.). The present article discusses the debates of recent decades within the post-Marxist and postmodern approaches as well as the polemics about the relation between internal and external factors, about the hierarchy and heterarchy, periodization and complexity levels. Many important issues give rise to a new wave of debates. However, there is still no consensus on a number of fundamental issues. We call to a new phase in nomadic studies (nomadology) – the transition from the great theories to the middle-range theories. We also give comments on some articles of the present special section.
多年来,学者们将内亚游牧民族的大型政治解释为具有不同程度的复杂性(前国家,早期国家,封建社会,游牧文明等)。本文讨论了近几十年来在后马克思主义和后现代方法中的争论,以及关于内部和外部因素之间的关系,关于等级和层次,分期和复杂性水平的争论。许多重要问题引起了新一轮的争论。然而,在一些基本问题上仍未达成共识。我们把游牧研究(nomadology)称为一个新阶段——从大理论到中庸理论的过渡。我们还对本期特刊的一些文章作了评论。
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引用次数: 7
What is Right and What is Wrong in the Darwinian Approach to the Study of Religion 在达尔文的宗教研究方法中,什么是对的,什么是错的
IF 0.3 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.30884/seh/2019.02.11
K. Szocik
One of the greatest challenges for the study of cultural evolution is an explanation of processes and mechanisms of transmission of cultural traits. Darwinian approach is a promising and useful research program. However, it is worth asking in what extent Darwinian account can provide appropriate and reliable explanation for origin and transmission of religious components. In this paper we would like to discuss some benefits and weaknesses of this approach for the study of religion. It seems that Darwinian approach fails to explain transmission of acquired traits and non-random variation. We can look for biological benefits provided by religious affiliation when trying to explain it in terms of survival and reproduction. However, we assume that biological evolutionary explanation cannot explain ultimately some unique human traits like religiosity. Biological evolutionary account can explain a number of similarities between humans and nonhuman animals in some basic behavioral patterns (similarity by homology). The focal point is if this approach can provide reliable explanation for specifically human cultural phenomena that only analogically can be found among some social animals, especially social insects, like in the case of mechanism of eusociality. The key idea of our paper is that Darwinian approach to religion might explain only small part of human religiosity, and reliable explanation should combine Darwinian and cultural evolution, and cognitive account.
文化进化研究面临的最大挑战之一是解释文化特征的传播过程和机制。达尔文方法是一个有前途和有用的研究项目。然而,值得一问的是,达尔文的解释在多大程度上可以为宗教成分的起源和传播提供适当和可靠的解释。在本文中,我们将讨论这种方法对宗教研究的一些好处和缺点。达尔文的方法似乎无法解释获得性性状和非随机变异的传递。当我们试图从生存和繁殖的角度来解释宗教信仰时,我们可以寻找宗教信仰提供的生物学上的好处。然而,我们假设生物进化解释最终不能解释一些独特的人类特征,如宗教信仰。生物进化理论可以解释人类和非人类动物在一些基本行为模式上的许多相似之处(同源相似性)。研究的重点是,这种方法是否能够为某些特定的人类文化现象提供可靠的解释,这些现象只能在一些社会性动物,特别是社会性昆虫中类比地找到,比如群居性机制。我们论文的关键思想是,达尔文的宗教方法可能只能解释人类宗教信仰的一小部分,可靠的解释应该将达尔文的文化进化和认知解释结合起来。
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引用次数: 4
The Inadequacy of Post-Development Theory to the Discourse of Development and Social Order in the Global South 后发展理论对全球南方发展与社会秩序话语的不足
IF 0.3 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.30884/seh/2019.02.12
Felix O. Olatunji, Anthony I. Bature
The post-development theorists argue that certain characteristics of the ‘Western’ ways of talking about and representing the non-West should be understood as ideological projections rather than as scientific knowledge about people and places elsewhere. To these theorists, the ways of conceiving and representing development that are closely bound to the North's development agencies and programs reveal more about the selfaffirming ideologies of the Global North than insights into the peoples of the rest of the world. In addition, the post-development scholars take up the position that development has less to do with human improvement and more to do with human control and domination. This theory suggests that societies at the local level should be allowed to pursue their own development path as they perceive it without the influences of global capital and other modern choices, and thus a rejection of the entire paradigm from Eurocentric model and the advocation of new ways of thinking about the non-Western societies. However, this developmental model for the societies of the Global South, especially Africa, is inefficient because it is a kind of cultural relativism, which is capable of veering into fundamentalism and does not allow for mutual borrowing. The thrust of this study lies basically in presenting that a combination of cultural knowledge and Western development theories through an adaptation of post-development model is needed for development and social order in Africa. This means that an all-inclusive model encapsulating life promotion and centred on human should be adopted as a development model for Africa. Social Evolution & History / September 2019 230 A CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF POST-DEVELOPMENT THEORY In the 1990s, the post-development theorists argued against modernization and development for its reductionism, universalism, and ethnocentricity, that is, examining development from the ‘top-bottom’ approach, which identifies that societies of the Global South should borrow essentially from the developed societies. While the post-development theorists proffer the discussion to be seen and examined from the ‘bottom up’ approach as Gilbert Rist writes that, ‘it is recognised that “development” has to be built “from the bottom up”, and that its medium-range objectives may vary from one society to the next’ (Rist 2008). This approach of the post-development theorists lies in the interest not in development alternatives, but in alternatives to development and thus a rejection of the entire paradigm from Eurocentric model and the advocation of new ways of thinking about the non-Western societies. Post-development suggests that we allow societies at the local level to pursue their own development path as they perceive it without the influences of global capital or other modern choices and forces. Post-development theorists like Rist, Escobar, Rahnema, Bawtree, Kothari, and Minogue among others based their discourse on the critical analysis of de
后发展理论家认为,“西方”谈论和代表非西方的方式的某些特征应该被理解为意识形态的投射,而不是关于其他地方的人和地方的科学知识。对这些理论家来说,与北方的发展机构和项目密切相关的构想和表现发展的方式,更多地揭示了全球北方自我肯定的意识形态,而不是对世界其他地区人民的见解。此外,后发展学者认为,发展与人类的进步关系不大,而与人类的控制和支配关系更大。这一理论表明,应该允许地方社会在不受全球资本和其他现代选择影响的情况下,追求自己的发展道路,从而拒绝欧洲中心模式的整个范式,并倡导对非西方社会的新思考方式。然而,这种发展模式对全球南方,特别是非洲的社会来说是低效的,因为它是一种文化相对主义,有可能转向原教旨主义,不允许相互借鉴。本研究的主旨主要在于提出非洲的发展和社会秩序需要通过适应后发展模式将文化知识与西方发展理论相结合。这意味着应采用一种包罗万象的模式,将促进生命和以人为中心作为非洲的发展模式。后发展理论的概念分析在20世纪90年代,后发展理论家反对现代化和发展的还原论,普遍主义和种族中心主义,即从“自上而下”的方法来研究发展,该方法认为全球南方社会应该主要借鉴发达社会。虽然后发展理论家提供了从“自下而上”的方法来看待和检验的讨论,正如吉尔伯特·里斯特(Gilbert Rist)所写的那样,“人们认识到,‘发展’必须‘自下而上’建立,其中期目标可能因社会而异”(里斯特2008)。后发展理论家的这种方法不在于对发展的替代方案感兴趣,而是对发展的替代方案感兴趣,因此拒绝了欧洲中心模式的整个范式,并倡导对非西方社会的新思考方式。后发展意味着,我们允许地方社会在不受全球资本或其他现代选择和力量影响的情况下,按照自己的想法走自己的发展道路。后发展理论家如Rist, Escobar, Rahnema, Bawtree, Kothari和Minogue等人将他们的话语建立在对发展的批判性分析之上。早期的发展理论,如依赖和现代化,通常关注的是阻碍南方社会实现发展的不足之处,而后发展理论则拒绝了整个范式的整体性,并将其斥为神话。他们(后发展理论家)认为,根据西方社会设定的模式,发展基本上是从非西方社会被视为需要现代化的地区的各种缺陷。后发展理论也被描述为“超越发展”和“反发展”,因为它破坏了发展的还原性。里斯特断言,“发展”问题是西方想象的核心。这种增长或进步应该能够无限期地持续下去——这是西方文化与其他文化的根本区别。这一特点既奇怪又现代,它在国家之间造成了一种分歧,这种分歧远远大于历史进程中为证明西方表面上的优越性而形成的分歧(Rist 2008: 254)。根据劳伦·卡普拉斯(Lauren Karplus)的说法,后发展理论家的论点是,传统的发展概念本质上是专制的,执行上是技术官僚的;也就是说,决定什么是发展以及如何实现发展的人通常处于权力地位(Karplus 2014:5) Stefan Andreasson假设“后发展强调了对当地文化的破坏,以及人与其他huOlatunji和自然的联系方式/后发展理论与社会秩序231人与自然世界,他当然是其中不可或缺的一部分,在一个日益商品化、个人主义、竞争以及因此而异化的时代”(Andreasson 2007: 8-9)。 在这里,需要理解发展,而不是像其他发展理论的原则那样,如何提供发展干预措施和尽量减少发展的失败;后发展理论家认为,再多的分析也不能使发展议程取得成功。他们认为,发展的问题不在于如何实施,而在于发展本身是一个有缺陷的概念,应该从关于人类进步的论述中消除。后发展理论家也反对发展对当地或土著文化的影响,因为它在本质和话语上纯粹是种族中心主义和种族主义的,他们说,必须拒绝它,不仅是因为它的结果,还因为它的意图、世界观和心态,用Pieterse的比喻。Jan Pieterse将后发展与另一种发展形式区分开来,并将其视为对主流发展的流动批判,随着后者的转变而改变立场;作为一系列松散相互联系的备选建议和方法;或者作为另一种发展范式,意味着与主流发展在理论上的明确决裂。它可以被视为与当地发展有关,与实地的替代实践有关,或者作为一个整体的制度挑战,以及全球替代方案的一部分(Pieterse 2001: 74)。他提出了一个根本性的问题,反对发展的另一种形式——后发展——它的可替代性有多大?新的替代模型和所谓的主流模型有什么不同,这些模型正在被后发展理论家痛斥?是不是因为方法论、主体和目标不同,替代模型才不同于主流?用尼雷尔的格言来说,另类模式的发展是否就是以人民为中心的、内生的、自力更生的发展?根据Pieterse的分析,“多年来,替代发展已经被主流发展主义的几乎任何形式的批评所加强,并与之相关,如反资本主义、绿色思想、女权主义、生态女权主义、民主化、新社会运动、佛教经济学、文化批评和发展话语的后结构主义分析。”“另类”一般指三个领域——发展的动因、方法和目标或价值。替代发展是公民或“第三体系”政治的领域,鉴于政府(君主或第一体系)和经济力量(商人或第二体系)失败的发展努力,其重要性是显而易见的”(同上:85)。根据Pieterse的说法,这种发展模式应该是内生的,因为它不是从其他社会引进外部模式的问题。这种内生性从内部获取一切,以满足社会进化与历史/ 2019年9月232的发展的各个方面,这将有利于这样的社会或社区的人们。对他来说,自力更生不仅仅是发展的手段,而是发展的目的:发展的目标和价值是从内部产生的(Pieterse 2001: 86)。也就是说,内生观对于后发展具有重要的意义,它被视为一种被解构的西方化模式的替代模式。Peet和Hartwick支持上述主张,即后发展主义拒绝现代发展所产生的思维方式和生活方式,而支持非现代的、通常是非西方的哲学和文化的复兴版本。从这个角度来看,现代西方的发展是破坏性的而不是生产性的,是一种应该抵制而不是欢迎的力量(Peet and Hartwick 2009: 230)。Elliot Siemiatycki在《十字路口的后开发:走向“真正的”开发》中引用了Maiava的分析,即所谓的真正的开发将包括……土著人民决定自己的未来,自信,不受恐吓,而是自由的人民决定他们想做什么,为自己做,行使权力,积极前进,根据自己的优先事项和标准创造更好的生活,改善他们的福祉,就像他们几千年来所做的那样(Siemiatycki 2005: 58)。马修斯·萨利断言:“从后发展理论家的角度来看,问题不在于发展项目执行得不好,需要找到更好的方法来实现它,而是发展的核心假设和思想是有问题的,因此改进的实施不是答案”(马修斯2004:375)。这种模式的问题在于它忽视了现代性的辩证法,正如Pieterse(2001: 110)所补充的那样:“后发展是基于悖论的。” 虽然它显然是发展中广泛批判流的一部分,但它没有考虑到现代性的进步潜力和辩证法——民主化、软实力技术、反思性和可能的回归
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Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1930–2019) 伊曼纽尔·莫里斯·沃勒斯坦(1930–2019)
IF 0.3 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.30884/seh/2019.02.15
C. Chase-Dunn, H. Inoue, T. D. Hall
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