Brexit, Trump, and "methodological whiteness': on the misrecognition of race and class
Brexit, Trump, and "methodological whiteness': on the misrecognition of race and class
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DOI：
10.1111/1468-4446.12317
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发表时间：
2017-11-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Bhambra, Gurminder K.
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作者：
Bhambra, Gurminder K.
英国脱欧和特朗普竞选活动的言论都以过去的观念为基础，作为当前政治主张的基础。两者都确立了过去是由以白人为代表的国家构成的，其他种族的人已经渗透到其中并获得了不成比例的优势。因此，主要向各地白人观众播放“夺回我们的国家”的强烈主张。这两次运动的政治观点也在那些社会科学分析中得到了呼应，这些分析试图关注“留守者”或“那些在自己的土地上视自己为陌生人”的合法主张。将白人多数政治行动歪曲为更狭义定义的白人工人阶级的行动，有助于使原本可能被视为种族主义的分析合法化。实际上，我认为普遍存在的方法论“白人”扭曲了对英国脱欧和特朗普当选胜利的社会科学解释，在我们对这两种现象的讨论中需要考虑到这一点。
The rhetoric of both the Brexit and Trump campaigns was grounded in conceptions of the past as the basis for political claims in the present. Both established the past as constituted by nations that were represented as white' into which racialized others had insinuated themselves and gained disproportionate advantage. Hence, the resonant claim that was broadcast primarily to white audiences in each place to take our country back'. The politics of both campaigns was also echoed in those social scientific analyses that sought to focus on the legitimate' claims of the left behind' or those who had come to see themselves as strangers in their own land'. The skewing of white majority political action as the action of a more narrowly defined white working class served to legitimize analyses that might otherwise have been regarded as racist. In effect, I argue that a pervasive methodological whiteness' has distorted social scientific accounts of both Brexit and Trump's election victory and that this needs to be taken account of in our discussion of both phenomena.