The power to tolerate: contests over Britishness and belonging in East London
The power to tolerate: contests over Britishness and belonging in East London
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容忍的力量：关于东伦敦的英国性和归属感的争论
DOI：
10.1080/00313220600769406
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
G. Wemyss
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作者：
G. Wemyss
Wemyss研究了归属感政治和关键字“宽容”之间的关系。她对“宽容”是一种积极的国家愿望的观点提出了质疑，认为宽容最好被理解为处于“归属等级”顶层的人有条件地克制武力。那些归属等级较高的人有权允许或拒绝容忍那些处于底层的人。在决定谁有权允许或撤销宽容，以及谁成为宽容的主体方面，关于英国性的主流话语是灵活的。Wemyss的论点来自于1993-4年在伦敦东部Tower Hamlets区进行的人种学研究，这段时期的当地政治冲突和暴力仍然在全国范围内产生反响，以及对1689年英国《宽容法案》政治背景的讨论。为了探索宽容 是如何在英国人的主流话语中发挥作用的，本文重点研究了地方和全国媒体的两项民意调查，以及给一家地方报纸的信件。它通过分析两份当地周报对东区历史的描述和对当地孟加拉人话语的 的分析，调查了归属等级的构建及其面临的挑战。
ABSTRACT Wemyss investigates the relationship between the politics of belonging and the keyword ‘tolerance’. She challenges the notion that ‘tolerance’ is a positive national aspiration, arguing that tolerance can be best understood as the conditional withholding of force by those at the top of a ‘hierarchy of belonging’. Those high up that hierarchy of belonging have the power to grant or withhold tolerance from those at the bottom. The dominant discourse about Britishness is flexible in determining both who has the power to grant or withdraw tolerance and who is made the subject of that tolerance. Wemyss's arguments are developed from ethnographic research carried out in the East London borough of Tower Hamlets in 1993–4, a period of local political conflict and violence that continues to have national reverberations, and from a discussion of the political context of the 1689 English Toleration Act. To explore how tolerance works in dominant discourses of Britishness, the article focuses on two opinion polls in the local and national press together with letters to a local newspaper. It investigates the construction of a hierarchy of belonging and the challenges to it through analyses of representations of East End history in two weekly local newspapers and of the discourses of local Bengali people.