Going Nowhere Fast
Going Nowhere Fast
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2020
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Laurie Parsons
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Sabina Lawreniuk;Laurie Parsons
本书旨在回答一个具有全球重要性的问题：在我们这个日益流动的世界里，不平等是如何持续存在的？这是一个有争议的问题。从巴拉克•奥巴马（Barack Obama）到教皇方济各（Pope Francis），不平等经常被认为是对我们的民主、社会和经济的最大威胁。然而，在这个被一些人称为“移民时代”的时代，机会显然从未像现在这样容易获得。长途和短途运输——从摩托车到飞机——比以往任何时候都可供更多的人使用。更重要的是，身体的流动性只能说明部分问题。电信改变了我们的生活，开创了一个跨地域的时代，在这个时代，人们和社区的行为受到数百甚至数千英里之外的影响。然而，在日益复杂的人员、思想和资本流动中，持续存在的不平等呈现出一种令人不安的静态形象。最贫穷的人往往不受经济活力之风的影响，而那些在一个地方生活得更好的人在另一个地方仍然如此。这是一个古老的故事，与现代的复杂性交织在一起。近几十年来，印度和中国的巨大经济成就重新绘制了全球贫困地图，在国家内部不平等加剧的同时，也促成了国与国之间不平等程度的下降。换句话说，规模很重要，本书旨在说明其中的原因。这本书的八个章节避开了其他人在不平等问题上采用的国际横断面分析，而倾向于对其主题进行深入研究，汇集了十年来在多种背景下的研究，以法医的眼光审视了快速变化的环境中不平等的许多方面。作为世纪之交以来世界上增长最快的经济体之一，本书追踪了柬埔寨“奇迹般”的十年发展，汇集了广泛的数据，证明不平等不是一种经济现象，而是一种“完全的社会事实”，在这种事实中，故事、耻辱、义务和资产结合在一起，将社会结构锁定在了一个位置。
This book sets out to answer a question of global importance: how does inequality persist in our increasingly mobile world? It is a contentious problem. From Barack Obama to Pope Francis, inequality is often referred to as the greatest threat to our democracy, society and economy. Yet in an era some call the ‘age of migration’, opportunity has apparently never been more accessible. Long and short distance transport—from motorbikes to aeroplanes—are available to more people than ever before. What’s more, physical mobility tells only part of the story. Telecommunications have transformed our lives, ushering in an era of translocality, in which the behaviour of people and communities are influenced from hundreds or even thousands of miles apart. Nevertheless, amidst ever more complex flows of people, ideas, and capital, persistent inequality cuts a jarringly static figure. The worst off all too often remain impervious to the winds of economic dynamism, whilst those who were better off in one place remain so in another. This is an age-old story enmeshed in modern complexities. The vast economic successes of India and China have redrawn the map of global poverty in recent decades, contributing to falling inequality between countries even as inequality within countries is on the rise. Scale, in other words, matters and this book sets out to show why. Eschewing the international cross-sectional analysis employed in others on the topic of inequality, in favour of a deep dive approach to its subject, its eight chapters bring together a decade of research across multiple contexts to cast a forensic eye over the many of faces of inequality in a rapidly changing environment. Tracing a “miraculous” decade of development in Cambodia, one of the world’s fastest growing economies since the turn of the millennium, it brings together a broad toolbox of data to make a case for inequality not as an economic phenomenon, but as a ‘total social fact’ in which stories, stigma, obligation, and assets combine to lock social structures in place.