Strangers At Our Door 英文原版 門口的陌生人:歐洲難民危機（齊格蒙·鮑曼） Zygmunt Bauman

基本信息

By (author) Zygmunt Bauman

Format Paperback | 120 pages

Dimensions 124 x 189 x 10mm | 154g

Publication date 01 Dec 2016

Publisher Polity Press

Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom

Language English

Edition Statement 1. Auflage

ISBN10 1509512179

ISBN13 9781509512171

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內容簡介

Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety precisely because they are unknown. Today we find ourselves confronted with an extreme form of this historical dynamic, as our TV screens and newspapers are filled with accounts of a 'migration crisis', ostensibly overwhelming Europe and portending the collapse of our way of life. This anxious debate has given rise to a veritable 'moral panic' - a feeling of fear spreading among a large number of people that some evil threatens the well-being of society.

In this short book Zygmunt Bauman analyses the origins, contours and impact of this moral panic - he dissects, in short, the present-day migration panic. He shows how politicians have exploited fears and anxieties that have become widespread, especially among those who have already lost so much - the disinherited and the poor. But he argues that the policy of mutual separation, of building walls rather than bridges, is misguided. It may bring some short-term reassurance but it is doomed to fail in the long run. We are faced with a crisis of humanity, and the only exit from this crisis is to recognize our growing interdependence as a species and to find new ways to live together in solidarity and cooperation, amidst strangers who may hold opinions and preferences different from our own.

自戰爭開始以來，來自戰爭暴力和殘酷殘酷生活的難民已經敲響了其他人的大門。對於門後的人們來説，這些不速之客總是陌生人，而陌生人正是因為不為人知而往往會產生恐懼和焦慮。今天，我們發現自己面對着這種歷史動態的*形式，因為我們的電視屏幕和報紙上充斥着“移民危機”，表面上淹沒了歐洲，預示着我們生活方式的崩潰。這場焦慮不安的辯論引起了名副其實的“道德恐慌”-一種恐懼感在許多人中蔓延，其中一些邪惡威脅着社會的福祉。

齊格蒙特·鮑曼（Zygmunt Bauman）在這本簡短的書中分析了這種道德恐慌的起源，輪廓和影響-簡而言之，他剖析了當今的移民恐慌。他展示了政客如何利用已經變得普遍的恐懼和焦慮，尤其是在那些已經喪失瞭如此之多的人中-無繼承者和窮人。但他認為，相互隔離，建牆而不是橋樑的政策是錯誤的。它可能帶來一些短期的保證，但從長遠來看註定要失敗。我們面臨着人類危機，這場危機的*一出路是認識到我們作為一個物種日益增長的相互依存關係，並在可能持有與我們不同的觀點和偏好的陌生人中尋找團結與合作的新方式。 

作者簡介

Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds.

書籍目錄

1. Migration Panic and its (Mis)uses

2. Floating Insecurity in Search of an Anchor

3. On Strongmen's (and Strongwomen's) Trail

4. Together and Crowded

5. Troublesome, Annoying, Unwanted: Inadmissible...

6. Anthropological vs. Time-bound Roots of Hatred