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"Temporary Couples" among Chinese Migrant Workers in Singapore 新加坡华人农民工中的“临时夫妇”
IF 1.6 4区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.5509/2021942285
Wei Yang
The article examines temporary extramarital cohabitation arrangements between low-wage Chinese female migrants and their male counterparts in Singapore, a phenomenon which is widely referred to by the migrants as becoming a "temporary couple" or "teaming up to have a life." In the simulated households, the men usually shoulder most of the daily expenses for both members, while the women are expected to take care of the men's intimate needs and most of the housework. The vast majority of the women involved in such arrangements are married and migrated for work on their own. This article, based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2016 and 2019, explores how these women perform and understand such temporary intimacies. I first demonstrate that the women enter the relationships as a reaction to the institutional setup that places them in a suspended status, in which they are treated as nothing more than temporary labourers. I then illustrate how the women put the relationship in a state of suspension: they instrumentalize it as a means to maximize savings, and mark it out as a short-term exception that will end abruptly once they leave Singapore. The structurally imposed and self-inflicted conditions of suspension limit the women's agency to an ambiguous private domain that is away from both work and home. Drawing on my long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this article deploys the notion of suspension as a guiding concept to unravel the tensions and moral anxieties that the women experience with their temporary intimacies.
这篇文章研究了低工资的中国女性移民与新加坡男性移民之间的临时婚外同居安排,这种现象被移民广泛称为“临时情侣”或“组队生活”。在模拟家庭中,男性通常承担两个人的大部分日常开支,而女性则需要照顾男性的亲密需求和大部分家务。参与这种安排的绝大多数妇女是已婚的,并为自己的工作而移徙。本文基于2016年至2019年进行的人种学田野调查,探讨了这些女性如何表现和理解这种暂时的亲密关系。我首先证明,女性进入这种关系是对将她们置于暂停地位的制度设置的一种反应,在这种制度设置中,她们只不过被视为临时劳动者。然后,我说明了这些女性是如何将这段关系置于一种暂停状态的:她们将其作为一种最大化储蓄的手段,并将其标记为短期例外,一旦离开新加坡就会突然结束。结构上强加的和自我造成的停职条件将女性的代理限制在一个模糊的私人领域,远离工作和家庭。根据我长期的民族志田野调查,这篇文章将暂停的概念作为一个指导概念,以揭示女性在短暂的亲密关系中所经历的紧张和道德焦虑。
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引用次数: 4
Floating Islands, Frontiers, and Other Boundary Objects on the Edge of Oceania’s Futurity 大洋洲未来边缘的浮岛、边界和其他边界物体
IF 1.6 4区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.5509/2021941123
Alexander Mawyer
Technological advances have challenged numerous social and political domains over recent decades, including the materialities and imaginaries of islands and islandness in Oceania. Since the early 2000s, a plurality of schemes, discourses, politics, anxieties, and hopes have coalesced around the possible construction of artificial islands, referred to as floating islands, floating nations, floating cities, or seasteads, depending on the new islands’ imagined purposes and peoples. If achieved, these new, de novo, islands will contribute to an ongoing regional geopolitical remaking that requires urgent attention. However, in examining floating islands as boundary objects, this article suggests that, even if never realized, they are exceptional points of focus for perceiving and reflecting on the uncanny, disruptive character of capital at work in the contemporary Pacific Islands in tension with multi-state regional policy initiatives for collective governance and sustainable ocean management. Moreover, this article argues that floating islands are not the only “artificial islands” producing tensions between communities, states, and international ocean governance frameworks. Deep-sea concessions for mineral exploitation, the spatialization of high-seas fishing rights, and large- and small-scale conservation zones similarly raise issues of the fixity or fluidity of territoriality, sovereignty, rights of access and restriction to common or uncommon marine spaces and their resources, as well as conflicting imaginaries and ideologies around the ocean and Oceania as an open frontier.
近几十年来,技术进步挑战了许多社会和政治领域,包括大洋洲岛屿和岛屿的物质和想象。自21世纪初以来,根据新岛屿的设想目的和人民,围绕着可能建造的人工岛屿,被称为浮动岛屿、浮动国家、浮动城市或海滨,多种方案、话语、政治、焦虑和希望都融合在一起。如果这些新的、从头开始的岛屿得以实现,将有助于正在进行的需要紧急关注的区域地缘政治重塑。然而,在研究作为边界对象的浮动岛屿时,本文表明,即使从未意识到,它们也是感知和反思当代太平洋岛屿中资本在集体治理和可持续海洋管理方面的多国家区域政策倡议中发挥作用的不可思议的破坏性特征的特殊焦点。此外,本文还认为,浮动岛屿并不是唯一在社区、国家和国际海洋治理框架之间制造紧张关系的“人工岛屿”。深海矿产开发特许权、公海捕鱼权的空间化以及大型和小型保护区同样提出了领土、主权、进入和限制共同或不寻常海洋空间及其资源的权利的固定性或流动性问题,以及围绕海洋和大洋洲作为开放边界的相互冲突的想象和意识形态问题。
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引用次数: 11
Discombobulated Actor-Networks in a Maritime Resource Frontier 海洋资源前沿的无序行动者网络
IF 1.6 4区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.5509/202194197
C. Filer, Jennifer Gabriel, M. Allen
Papua New Guinea’s first deep-sea mining project, once touted as the first of its kind in the world, now appears to be “dead in the water.” The mining company behind it has been liquidated, the mining equipment has been rendered obsolete, and the host government has been made to look foolish for supporting the enterprise. This paper examines the application of two concepts—that of the “resource frontier” and that of the “actornetwork”— to reach an understanding of the history of this apparent failure. By elaborating on the additional concept of a “network junction,” it seeks to show how arguments about the feasibility or fallibility of this particular project, and deep-sea mining proposals more broadly, have been related to arguments about a range of other issues in which scientific and technological uncertainties are associated with environmental and social impacts or environmental and political risks. Instead of seeking to explain the failure of this project by reference to the attributes of a specific type of maritime resource frontier, the paper shows how the articulation of different policy networks creates the appearance of a frontier in which human and nonhuman actors have combined to produce a variety of unpredictable and open-ended outcomes. From this point of view, the history of this project’s failure cannot simply be read as the outcome of a contest between two groups of human actors with clearly defined interests or ideologies, nor does it necessarily spell the end of the policy network in which this project has been embedded.
巴布亚新几内亚的第一个深海采矿项目,曾被吹捧为世界上第一个此类项目,现在似乎“死在水中”。该项目背后的矿业公司已经被清算,采矿设备已经过时,东道国政府支持该企业的行为也显得很愚蠢。本文考察了“资源边界”和“行动者网络”这两个概念的应用,以了解这一明显失败的历史。通过详细阐述“网络连接”的附加概念,它试图展示关于这个特定项目的可行性或易出错性的争论,以及更广泛的深海采矿提案,与一系列其他问题的争论有关,在这些问题中,科学和技术的不确定性与环境和社会影响或环境和政治风险有关。本文没有试图通过参考特定类型的海洋资源边界的属性来解释该项目的失败,而是展示了不同政策网络的衔接如何创造出一种边界的外观,在这种边界中,人类和非人类行为者结合在一起,产生了各种不可预测和开放的结果。从这个角度来看,这个项目失败的历史不能简单地解读为两组具有明确利益或意识形态的人类行为者之间竞争的结果,也不一定意味着这个项目所嵌入的政策网络的终结。
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引用次数: 2
The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary: Terraqueous Territorialization and Māori Marine Environments 克马德克海洋保护区:水陆领土化和Māori海洋环境
IF 1.6 4区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.5509/202194177
Fiona McCormack
This paper interprets the disrupted establishment of the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary, a 620,000 square kilometre marine protection area, as a crucial moment in Pacific frontier making. The development of large-scale protected marine areas is a politically charged frontier tool, in which states garner international recognition and environmental renown by setting aside large swathes of their exclusive economic zones. In the Kermadec Sanctuary, this enclosure hit against an assemblage of Indigenous histories, ecologies, repatriated fishing rights, and privatized fishing quota challenging the oftmarginalized agency of Indigenous people in frontier narratives. This paper argues that three factors are fundamental to untangling this conflict: first, the historical trajectory of terraqueous territorialization in the Kermadec region, second, the post-Treaty of Waitangi settlement dynamics of Maori marine environments, and third, the common ecosystem services model underlying conservation and extraction.
本文将62万平方公里的克马德克海洋保护区(Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary)的中断建立,解读为太平洋拓荒的关键时刻。开发大规模海洋保护区是一种充满政治色彩的前沿工具,各国通过划出大片专属经济区来获得国际认可和环境声誉。在Kermadec保护区,这种圈地与土著历史、生态、遣返的捕鱼权和私有化的捕鱼配额相冲突,挑战了土著人民在边境叙事中被边缘化的代理。本文认为,解决这一冲突的基本因素有三个:第一,Kermadec地区水陆领土化的历史轨迹;第二,《怀唐伊条约》后毛利人海洋环境的定居动态;第三,保护和开采背后的共同生态系统服务模式。
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引用次数: 3
Introduction: The New Scramble for the Pacific: A Frontier Approach 引言:新的太平洋争夺战:前沿方法
IF 1.6 4区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.5509/202194157
Elodie Fache, P. Meur, E. Rodary
Over the last decades, the Pacific Ocean has been the locus of an unequalled rush for space and resources involving intertwined public and corporate interests, external powers, and Pacific Island states and territories. This rush is driven by three intersecting motivations aiming to: (1) exploit marine resources; (2) protect marine biodiversity and mitigate the effects of climate change; and (3) establish sovereignties over marine spaces. In this context, the fluidity of saltwater environments gives rise to specific issues of enforcement, control, and governance. This special issue examines these reconfigurations of/in the Pacific Ocean, stressing potentially conflicting frontier processes, in the light of a structuring tension between trends of ocean grabbing and ocean commoning.
在过去的几十年里,太平洋一直是无与伦比的空间和资源争夺的中心,涉及公共和企业利益、外部力量以及太平洋岛国和领土。这一热潮是由三个相互交叉的动机驱动的,目的是:(1)开发海洋资源;(2)保护海洋生物多样性,减缓气候变化影响;(3)确立海洋空间主权。在这种情况下,咸水环境的流动性产生了具体的执法、控制和治理问题。本期特刊考察了太平洋的这些重新配置,根据海洋攫取趋势和海洋共有趋势之间结构上的紧张关系,强调了可能相互冲突的前沿过程。
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引用次数: 10
Policy-Research Nexus: The Case of Pacific Studies in China 政策研究联系:太平洋研究在中国的案例
IF 1.6 4区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.5509/202194133
Denghua Zhang
China has substantially increased its engagement with Pacific Island countries since 2006, driving heightened geostrategic competition between traditional powers and China in the region. Research on Pacific Island countries by Chinese scholars has grown rapidly in recent years, but this development and its relationship with policy needs are little-known outside China. By analyzing the 129 journal articles published by Chinese scholars on Pacific studies between 2006–2019, with supporting interviews, this research aims to expand the debate on the policy-research nexus, especially in the Chinese context, by introducing Pacific studies in China. It argues that official policy needs have largely shaped Pacific studies in China, and that researchers who seek to influence policy-making tend to find the process slow and indirect. This research will also improve our understanding of Chinese scholars’ intellectual support of China’s Pacific diplomacy on certain topics.
自2006年以来,中国大幅增加了与太平洋岛国的接触,加剧了该地区传统大国与中国之间的地缘战略竞争。近年来,中国学者对太平洋岛国的研究迅速发展,但这一发展及其与政策需求的关系在中国以外鲜为人知。通过分析中国学者在2006-2019年间发表的129篇关于太平洋研究的期刊文章,并辅以访谈,本研究旨在通过介绍中国的太平洋研究,扩大关于政策研究关系的辩论,尤其是在中国背景下。它认为,官方政策需求在很大程度上影响了中国的太平洋研究,而试图影响政策制定的研究人员往往发现这一过程缓慢而间接。这项研究也将增进我们对中国学者在某些议题上对中国太平洋外交的智力支持的理解。
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引用次数: 1
Singapore's Pandemic Election: Opposition Parties and Valence Politics in GE2020 新加坡大流行病选举:反对党与GE2020中的Valence政治
IF 1.6 4区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.5509/2020934759
Kai Ostwald, Steven Oliver
Singapore’s 2020 general election was held amidst the most serious public health and economic crises in the country’s history Despite expectations that these parallel crises would precipitate a flight to safety and result in a strong performance by the dominant People’s Action Party (PAP), the ruling party received its third-lowest popular vote share (61 2 percent) and lowest-ever seat share (89 2 percent) since independence This article engages explanations for the unexpected results and argues that the vote swing against the PAP was enabled by a hitherto largely overlooked factor: the 2020 election included two opposition parties that could credibly compete with the PAP on the valence considerations that drive voting behaviour in Singapore, giving voters a perceived safe alternative to the PAP at the constituency level Quantitative tests support the notion that party credibility—rather than demographic factors, incumbency advantages, Group Representation Constituencies, or assessments of the PAP’s fourthgeneration leaders—best explains variation in the vote swing against the PAP Ultimately, the results suggest that the PAP’s monopoly on party credibility is no longer assured, thus portending greater opposition competitiveness and pressure against the PAP in future elections Nonetheless, the PAP’s dominance remains intact and there is little evidence of a general appetite among the electorate for a non-PAP government, suggesting the likelihood of smaller course corrections rather than major steps towards democratization in the coming years © Pacific Affairs
新加坡2020年大选是在该国历史上最严重的公共卫生和经济危机中举行的。尽管人们预计这些平行的危机会促使人们逃离安全地带,并导致占主导地位的人民行动党(PAP)表现强劲,执政党获得了自独立以来第三低的选票份额(61.2%)和有史以来最低的席位份额(89.2%)推动新加坡投票行为的效价考虑,让选民在选区层面上有一个安全的替代人民行动党的选择定量测试支持这样一种观点,即政党信誉——而不是人口因素、在职优势、团体代表选区,或者对人民行动党第四代领导人的评估——最好地解释了反对人民行动党的选票摇摆的变化。最终,结果表明,人民行动党对政党信誉的垄断不再得到保证,从而预示着在未来的选举中,反对党将面临更大的竞争力和压力。尽管如此,人民行动党的主导地位保持不变,几乎没有证据表明选民对非人民行动党政府有普遍的兴趣,这表明未来几年可能会出现较小的路线调整,而不是朝着民主化迈出重大步伐©太平洋事务
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引用次数: 2
Candidate Selection Reform in South Korea: The Persistence of Exclusive Practices Despite Inclusive Rules 韩国的候选人选拔改革:尽管有包容性的规则,但排他性做法的持续存在
IF 1.6 4区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.5509/2020934735
E. Woo
This paper analyzes how democratization has affected the dynamics of candidate selection in South Korea. After democratization in the late 1980s, it was expected that intra-party democracy would follow. In response to increasing public demand, the major parties adopted primary systems in the early 2000s. Nonetheless, most candidates for the legislature are still nominated by a small number of central party elites without additional ballots in the local branches. To explain the persistence of such exclusive, centralized features of candidate selection, I highlight the limited impact democratization has had on the political environment in which the parties operate. More specifically, since the 1987 democratization process resulted in a compromise agreement established by a small number of party leaders, South Korea retained much of the political legacy from authoritarian times, such as an electoral system advantageous to the major parties and legal provisions restricting electoral campaigns, party activities, and political participation. The continuation of these political institutions makes radical candidate selection reform highly unlikely as the party elites have no incentive to expand and decentralize the selection process. Without significant changes to the political institutions at the national level, the dominance of the central party elite over the final outcome of candidate selection looks likely to continue for the foreseeable future.
本文分析了民主化对韩国候选人选拔动态的影响。在20世纪80年代末的民主化之后,预计党内民主将随之而来。为了应对日益增长的公众需求,主要政党在21世纪初采用了初级制度。尽管如此,大多数立法机构候选人仍然由少数中央政党精英提名,而地方分支机构没有额外的选票。为了解释候选人选拔中这种排他性、集中性特征的持续存在,我强调民主化对政党运作的政治环境影响有限。更具体地说,由于1987年的民主化进程导致少数政党领导人达成妥协协议,韩国保留了独裁时代的大部分政治遗产,例如对主要政党有利的选举制度和限制竞选、政党活动和政治参与的法律规定。这些政治制度的延续使得激进的候选人选拔改革极不可能,因为党内精英没有动力扩大和分散选拔过程。如果国家一级的政治机构没有重大变化,中央政党精英对候选人选拔最终结果的主导地位在可预见的未来可能会继续。
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Migrants, Minorities, and Populism in Southeast Asia Thomas Pepinsky 东南亚的移民、少数民族和民粹主义托马斯·佩平斯基
IF 1.6 4区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.5509/2020933593
Thomas B. Pepinsky
Populists in Southeast Asia generally refrain from invoking anti-migrant and anti-minority sentiments as part of their mobilizational strategies. This differentiates them from "exclusionary" populists in Europe, even though many Southeast Asian countries are diverse societies with long histories of migration and ethnic chauvinism. Because the categories of peoplehood that were set alongside the onset of mass politics at independence remain salient today, they constrain contemporary Asian populists' rhetorical and mobilizational strategies—even in Southeast Asia's diverse societies. The Southeast Asian experience reveals the importance of historical sequence in nationalist mobilization and mass incorporation in shaping popular identity, citizenship, and membership in contemporary populism.
东南亚的民粹主义者通常不会将反移民和反少数民族情绪作为其动员战略的一部分。这将他们与欧洲的“排外”民粹主义者区分开来,尽管许多东南亚国家都是多元化的社会,有着悠久的移民和种族沙文主义历史。由于独立时大众政治开始时所设定的民族类别在今天仍然突出,它们限制了当代亚洲民粹主义者的修辞和动员策略——即使在东南亚多样化的社会中也是如此。东南亚的经验揭示了民族主义动员和大规模融合的历史序列在塑造当代民粹主义的民众身份、公民身份和成员身份方面的重要性。
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Reassessing Cambodia's Patronage System(s) and the End of Competitive Authoritarianism: Electoral Clientelism in the Shadow of Coercion 重新评估柬埔寨的赞助制度和竞争威权主义的终结:高压阴影下的选举庇护主义
IF 1.6 4区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.5509/2020933497
Neil Loughlin
The dominant literature on Cambodian politics over the past two decades suggested that a mixture of elite and mass clientelism had enabled the hegemonic Cambodian People's Party (CPP) to rule via competitive but authoritarian elections, while lessening its previous reliance on repression and violence. Such explanations did not predict the upswing in contestation in the country in 2013 and thereafter. Neither do they account for the crackdown that followed. Following literature that draws attention to the tensions in building and maintaining political coalitions under authoritarianism, and demonstrating the difficulties in maintaining competitive authoritarianism over time, this article draws attention to structural, institutional, and distributional impediments to the CPP leadership in building and maintaining effective reciprocal relations with electoral clients while simultaneously balancing the interests of the military and other elites at the core of the regime. To make its argument, the article compares weaknesses in the CPP's electoral clientelism with the effectiveness of patronage within the security forces, seen through the lens of Cambodia's experience of land dispossession. It shows that an extractive and exclusive political economy privileged the interests of regime insiders over potential mass electoral clients precisely during the same period the CPP was supposed to be securing its hold on power via mass electoral clientelism. This further explains why the regime fell back on repression over reform in response to the upswing in contestation manifest from 2013, and why, despite the failings of its mass patronage project, repression has nevertheless been successful as a strategy for regime survival during a period of heightened popular contestation.
在过去的二十年里,关于柬埔寨政治的主流文献表明,精英和大众裙带主义的混合使得柬埔寨人民党(CPP)能够通过竞争但专制的选举来统治,同时减少了它以前对镇压和暴力的依赖。这样的解释并没有预测到2013年及之后该国竞选活动的上升。他们也没有解释随后的镇压。在关注威权主义下建立和维持政治联盟的紧张关系,并展示随着时间的推移维持竞争性威权主义的困难的文献之后,本文提请注意结构性,制度性,在与选举客户建立和维持有效互惠关系的同时,又要平衡军方和政权核心其他精英的利益,这对菲共领导层来说是一种分配障碍。为了证明自己的观点,文章通过柬埔寨土地被剥夺的经历,将柬埔寨人民党在选举中庇护主义的弱点与安全部队内部庇护的有效性进行了比较。它表明,一种榨取性和排他性的政治经济使政权内部人士的利益凌驾于潜在的群众选举客户之上,而恰恰在同一时期,CPP本应通过群众选举的庇护主义来确保其对权力的控制。这进一步解释了为什么该政权在应对2013年以来的争议上升时,依靠镇压而不是改革,以及为什么尽管其大规模赞助项目失败了,但在公众争议加剧的时期,镇压作为一种政权生存策略仍然是成功的。
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