Humanitarianism
Humanitarianism
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人道主义
DOI：
10.1177/1367877910374787
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
K. Tester
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作者：
K. Tester
本文认为，人道主义是当代英国大众文化和政治中值得深入分析的一个主题。人道主义被认为是“社会想象”的一部分，通过这种想象，英国人的概念试图理解世界和英国在其中的地位。对社会想象的承诺是通过“群体魅力”来保证的，这种群体魅力通过断言国家在世界道德进步中的独特重要性将社会主体与之联系在一起。本文认为，人道主义是英国应对后殖民主义危机和作为一个“古老国家”被边缘化的一个主题。讨论的重点是两部电影：电影《奇异恩典》（2007年），重点是19世纪废除奴隶贸易;广播电影《咖啡馆里的女孩》（2005年），这是一部关于消除世界贫穷的传奇电影。有人建议，如果这两部电影受到文化和社会，而不是文本分析，有可能探索为什么人道主义是如此重要的当代想象-和承诺-英国。
This article argues that humanitarianism is a theme in the popular culture and politics of contemporary Britain which repays close analysis. Humanitarianism is identified as a strand of the ‘social imaginary’ through which conceptions of Britishness seek to understand the world and the place of Britain within it. Commitment to the social imaginary is secured through ‘group charisma’ which ties social subjects to it by means of assertions about the unique importance of the nation in the moral improvement of the world. This article identifies humanitarianism as a theme through which Britain deals with postcolonial melancholia and the problems of being an ‘old country’ marginalized in the present. The focus of the discussion is on two films: the cinema release Amazing Grace (2007) which focused on the 19th-century abolition of the slave trade and the broadcast film The Girl in the Café (2005) which was, in its turn, a romance about the eradication of world poverty. It is proposed that if these two films are subjected to cultural and social as opposed to textual analysis it is possible to explore why humanitarianism is so important to contemporary imaginations about — and commitments to — Britain.