A Moral Economy of Whiteness: Four Frames of Racializing Discourse
A Moral Economy of Whiteness: Four Frames of Racializing Discourse
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白种人的道德经济：种族化话语的四个框架
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10.4324/9781315723938
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2015
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S. Garner
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《白人的道德经济》提出了一个工作模型，用于通过谈论二十一世纪的移民来理解英国白人进行“种族”的主要方式。基于广泛的实证访谈，史蒂夫·加纳建立了四个重叠的框架，英国白人通过这些框架来理解移民。这包括一种不平等待遇的叙述，其中“平等”是一个“肮脏的词”，因为它被视为将资源重新分配给“不值得”的少数民族、“不融入”的移民和生产力低下的白人的议程。政治正确被视为粘合这一不公平制度的意识形态粘合剂。因此，人们正在从英国风格中退缩，转向更为排外的英国风格。
加纳探讨了这些理解的背景：新自由主义市场理论的主导地位，其中国家不重视反歧视工作。他的结论是，这些框架只有在英国帝国的过去与现在无关、流行和媒体文化中的“种族主义”纯粹成为个人越轨故事的社会世界中才有意义。这本书产生了许多国际比较点，加深了我们对西方对多元文化主义的抵制的理解。它将吸引社会学、社会政策、人类学、政治学、（移民）移民、多元文化主义、民族主义和英国研究的学者和学生。
A Moral Economy of Whiteness presents a working model for understanding the main ways in which white UK people make ‘race’ through talking about immigration in the twenty-first century. Based on extensive empirical interviews, Steve Garner establishes four overlapping frames through which white English people understand immigration. This comprises a narrative of unequal treatment, where ‘equality’ is a ‘dirty word’ because it is seen as an agenda for redistributing resources to ‘undeserving’ ethnic minorities, ‘non-integrating’ migrants and unproductive white people. Political correctness is seen as the ideological glue binding this unfair system. People are thus retreating from Britishness into a more exclusive Englishness.
Garner explores the context of these understandings: the dominance of neoliberal market rationales, in which the State deprioritises anti-discrimination work. He concludes that these frames only make sense in a social world where Britain’s imperial past has no bearing on the present, and where ‘racism’ in popular and media culture becomes purely a story of individual deviancy. This book generates numerous international points of comparison that deepen our understanding of the backlash against multiculturalism in the West. It will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, social policy, anthropology, political science, (im)migration, multiculturalism, nationalism and British studies.