The Empire of Disgust

R. Sampath
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All known societies exclude and stigmatize one or more minority groups. Frequently these exclusions are underwritten with a rhetoric of disgust: people of a certain group, it is alleged, are filthy, hyper-animal, or not fit to share such facilities as drinking water, food, and public swimming pools with the ‘clean’ and ‘fully human’ majority. But exclusions vary in their scope and also in the specific disgust-ideologies underlying them. In this volume, interdisciplinary scholars from the United States and India present a detailed comparative study of the varieties of prejudice and stigma that pervade contemporary social and political life: prejudice along the axes of caste, race, gender, age, sexual orientation, transgender, disability, religion, and economic class. In examining these forms of stigma and their intersections, the authors present theoretically pluralistic and empirically sensitive accounts that both explain group-based stigma and suggest ways forward. These forward-looking remedies, including group resistance to subordination as well as institutional and legal change, point the way towards a public culture that is informed by our diverse histories of discrimination and therefore equipped to eliminate stigma in all of its multifaceted forms.
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厌恶帝国
所有已知的社会都排斥和污蔑一个或多个少数群体。这些排除在外的行为往往带有厌恶的言辞:据称,某个群体的人很脏,是超级动物,或者不适合与“干净”和“全人类”的大多数人共享饮用水、食物和公共游泳池等设施。但排斥的范围各不相同,其背后的具体厌恶意识形态也各不相同。在本卷中,来自美国和印度的跨学科学者对当代社会和政治生活中普遍存在的各种偏见和污名进行了详细的比较研究:种姓、种族、性别、年龄、性取向、跨性别、残疾、宗教和经济阶级等方面的偏见。在研究这些形式的污名及其交叉点时,作者提出了理论上多元和经验上敏感的解释,既解释了基于群体的污名,又提出了前进的道路。这些前瞻性的补救措施,包括群体对从属关系的抵制以及体制和法律变革,为建立一种以我们不同的歧视历史为基础的公共文化指明了道路,从而有能力消除各种形式的污名。
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