The biopolitics of hospitality in Greece: Humanitarianism and the management of refugees
The biopolitics of hospitality in Greece: Humanitarianism and the management of refugees
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希腊热情好客的生命政治：人道主义和难民管理
DOI：
10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01381.x
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
K. Rozakou
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作者：
K. Rozakou
根据我对希腊难民环境的研究，我将人道主义的生物政治与希腊的“好客”概念和社会关系的既定文化图式联系起来。在难民营的人道主义环境中再现了关于好客的主要话语，在那里，寻求庇护者被视为有价值的客人，处于纯粹的生物生活和完全的社会存在之间的中间地带。与此相反，在街上与难民一起工作的志愿者试图通过对好客的颠覆来挑战生物政治权力，通过这种方式，难民被象征性地重新塑造为一个东道主（尽管是一个有争议的东道主）和一个政治主体。
Drawing on my research in refugee settings in Greece, I relate the biopolitics of humanitarianism with the Greek notion of “hospitality” and established cultural schemata of social relations. The dominant discourse on hospitality is reproduced in the humanitarian setting of a camp where asylum seekers are produced as worthy guests, placed in the middle ground between mere biological life and full social existence. Volunteers working with refugees on the street, by contrast, attempt to challenge biopolitical power through the reversal of hospitality, through which the refugee is symbolically reconstituted as a host (though a disputable one) and a political subject.