The concept of minority for the study of culture
The concept of minority for the study of culture
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文化研究中的少数群体概念
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2017
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Rimi Khan
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T. Laurie;Rimi Khan
要理解少数群体的概念及其对文化研究的有用性，需要有批判性的工具。这篇文章反映了区分多数人和少数人时所服务的文化和政治目的，以及形成这些分类社会实践的各种历史和智力议程。它首先考察了德勒兹和瓜塔里对未成年人和少数族裔的反社会学改造的概念，然后将注意力转向芝加哥学派受政策驱动的社会学传统，以及这如何影响了澳大利亚移民辩论中反映的当代少数族裔的构建。作为“次要”研究的第三个关键范式，本文重温了文化研究本身对大众的接纳，将其作为围绕“主要”和“次要”社会身份的意义进行政治斗争的场所。最后，我们考虑了在这一次的文化特刊中涉及的一系列变革性的文化实践，并反思了未成年人在将不同的政治项目结合在一起时的效用。未成年人可能会以一系列富有成效的方式想象或构建集体身份，而这种方式并不预期、甚至不希望出现多数派的结局。有人认为，小型化的社会类别会带来实质性的政治和文化工作，同时承认，对少数群体的数字描述既可以隐藏，也可以揭示。
Abstract Critical tools are needed for navigating the concept of minority and its usefulness for the study of culture. This article reflects on the cultural and political purposes that are served when distinguishing between majorities and minorities, and the various historical and intellectual agendas that have shaped these social practices of classification. It begins by examining Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of ‘minor literature’ as an anti-sociological reworking of minor and minority, then turns its attention toward the policy-driven sociological traditions of the Chicago School, and how this has informed the contemporary construction of ‘minorities’ reflected in Australian immigration debates. As a third key paradigm in the study of the ‘minor’, the article revisits cultural studies’ own embrace of the Popular as a site for political struggles over the meanings attached to ‘major’ and ‘minor’ social identities. Finally, we consider the range of transformative cultural practices addressed in this Minor Culture special issue, and reflect on the utility of the minor in holding together disparate political projects. There are a range of ways in which the minor might productively imagine or construct collective identities, in ways that do not anticipate, or even desire, majoritarian endings. It is argued that minoritised social categories do substantive political and cultural work, while acknowledging that numerical descriptions of minorities can hide as much as they reveal.