扭曲的文明:比较东南亚城市及其他地区的礼貌、强迫和羞辱

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Asmus Rungby, Erik Harms
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关于文明的文献在两个阵营的引力作用下游移自如:文明怀疑论者倾向于强调文明作为权力工具的运作方式;对文明持乐观态度的人倾向于强调文明的解放潜力。虽然一些学者试图通过展示文明如何既消极又积极来调和这些观点,但这种理论化倾向于用矛盾心理来描述这种关系。虽然这些方法正确地表明,关于文明的规范性判断在很大程度上是一个视角问题,但这里发展的扭曲文明的概念侧重于行为者被嵌入在文明中的力量的动态变化所困住的方式。对看似不相称的例子的比较表明,这种多向动态不是文化特有的,而是更普遍的。以古晋和西贡的研究为基础,通过比较的方法构建扭曲文明的理论概念,然后将这一概念用于考虑美国和丹麦的例子,本文还扭转了文明学术研究中典型的理论化方向。将后殖民时期的东南亚作为理论的来源,而不是事后的想法,本文的方法使用人类学比较来产生理论,并对使欧美文明轨迹普遍化的假设提出问题。
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Twisted Civility: Comparing Courtesy, Coercion and Shaming in Southeast Asian Cities and Beyond
The literature on civility navigates the gravitational pulls of binary camps: civility sceptics tend to emphasize how it operates as an instrument of power; civility optimists tend to emphasize its emancipatory potentials. While some scholarship has attempted to reconcile these perspectives by showing how civility can be both negative and positive, such theorization tends to describe this relation in terms of ambivalence. While these approaches rightly indicate that normative judgments about civility are largely a matter of perspective, the concept of twisted civility developed here focuses on the ways in which actors become trapped by the dynamic shifts of force embedded within civility. Comparisons across seemingly incommensurate examples suggest that such multidirectional dynamics are not culturally specific but rather more generalizable. Building our theoretical conception of twisted civility from a comparative approach based on research in Kuching and Saigon, and then using the concept to consider examples from the United States and Denmark, this article also reverses the direction of theorizing typically employed in scholarship on civility. Using postcolonial Southeast Asia as the source of theory rather than its afterthought, the method here uses anthropological comparison to generate theory and to problematize assumptions that universalize Euro-American trajectories of civility.
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期刊介绍: TRaNS approaches the study of Southeast Asia by looking at the region as a place that is defined by its diverse and rapidly-changing social context, and as a place that challenges scholars to move beyond conventional ideas of borders and boundedness. TRaNS invites studies of broadly defined trans-national, trans-regional and comparative perspectives. Case studies spanning more than two countries of Southeast Asia and its neighbouring countries/regions are particularly welcomed.
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