On the Beach

Q1 Social Sciences

Cultural Politics Pub Date : 2021-03-31 DOI:10.1215/17432197-8797627

J. Beck

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Abstract

Abstract:The phrase "on the beach" originates as naval slang for being between assignments or unemployed and was used as the title for Nevil Shute's bestselling novel of 1957 about the last remaining survivors of a global nuclear conflict as they await their inevitable demise. The novel is about a certain kind of anxious passivity in the face of incomprehensible catastrophe, but it is also a narrative about work and idleness. As such, the idea of being "on the beach" invites consideration of the shore as a liminal space where often conflicting social and existential issues of meaning and purpose are played out. The waves of so-called beach shaming that occurred during the early months of the global coronavirus pandemic have located, yet again, the beach as a key battleground in contemporary cultural politics.

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在海滩上

摘要:“在海滩上”这个短语起源于海军俚语，指的是没有任务或失业，内维尔·舒特1957年的畅销小说《在海滩上》的标题就是这个词，讲述的是一场全球核冲突的最后幸存者等待不可避免的死亡的故事。这部小说讲述的是面对难以理解的灾难时某种焦虑的被动，但它也是关于工作和懒惰的叙述。因此，“在海滩上”的想法让人考虑到海岸是一个有限的空间，在这里经常发生冲突的社会和存在问题的意义和目的。在全球冠状病毒大流行的最初几个月里，所谓的海滩羞耻浪潮再次将海滩定位为当代文化政治的关键战场。

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Cultural Politics Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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1.20

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期刊介绍： Cultural Politics is an international, refereed journal that explores the global character and effects of contemporary culture and politics. Cultural Politics explores precisely what is cultural about politics and what is political about culture. Publishing across the arts, humanities, and social sciences, the journal welcomes articles from different political positions, cultural approaches, and geographical locations. Cultural Politics publishes work that analyzes how cultural identities, agencies and actors, political issues and conflicts, and global media are linked, characterized, examined, and resolved. In so doing, the journal supports the innovative study of established, embryonic, marginalized, or unexplored regions of cultural politics. Cultural Politics, while embodying the interdisciplinary coverage and discursive critical spirit of contemporary cultural studies, emphasizes how cultural theories and practices intersect with and elucidate analyses of political power. The journal invites articles on representation and visual culture; modernism and postmodernism; media, film, and communications; popular and elite art forms; the politics of production and consumption; language; ethics and religion; desire and psychoanalysis; art and aesthetics; the culture industry; technologies; academics and the academy; cities, architecture, and the spatial; global capitalism; Marxism; value and ideology; the military, weaponry, and war; power, authority, and institutions; global governance and democracy; political parties and social movements; human rights; community and cosmopolitanism; transnational activism and change; the global public sphere; the body; identity and performance; heterosexual, transsexual, lesbian, and gay sexualities; race, blackness, whiteness, and ethnicity; the social inequalities of the global and the local; patriarchy, feminism, and gender studies; postcolonialism; and political activism.