From Cairo to Tottenham: Big Societies, Neoliberal States, Colonial Utopias
From Cairo to Tottenham: Big Societies, Neoliberal States, Colonial Utopias
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从开罗到托特纳姆：大社会、新自由主义国家、殖民乌托邦
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2013
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C. Rooney
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C. Rooney
虽然八月暴动很容易被理解为新自由主义国家的疏忽所引发的爆发，但西方评论家和政治家普遍未能理解埃及革命在多大程度上也应该被理解为反对新自由主义的起义。本文利用文化资源、新闻和社会经济分析来说明，穆巴拉克的埃及可以被理解为大社会的新自由主义形式，特别是封闭式社区。为了证明新自由主义国家对基于治安的安全政策的依赖，本文接着用这些术语分析了骚乱。尽管埃及革命和骚乱有着相似的挫败感来源，但它们截然不同的表现却被解释为不同的情感结构，即尊严和骄傲。最后，一个后殖民的分析框架被引入到本文所考虑的材料中，以显示新自由主义资本主义的殖民结构的持久性。
While the August riots are quite readily understood as an outburst provoked by the negligence of the neoliberal state, there has been a widespread failure amongst Western commentators and politicians to understand the extent to which the Egyptian revolution should also be understood as an uprising against neoliberalism. This essay draws on cultural sources, journalism and socio-economic analyses to make the case that Mubarak’s Egypt could be understood in terms of neoliberal forms of the Big Society, especially, that of the gated community. In demonstrating the reliance of the neoliberal state on security policies based on policing, the essay goes on to analyse the riots in such terms. Even as the Egyptian revolution and the riots shared similar sources of frustration, their quite different manifestations are explained in terms of differing structures of feeling, those of dignity and pride. Finally, a postcolonial framework of analysis is brought to bear on the material considered by the essay to show the persistence of the colonial structures of neoliberal capitalism.