{"title":"Crowds, Race, Colonialism: On Resuscitating Classical Crowd Theory","authors":"C. Borch","doi":"10.1353/sor.2023.a901704","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Crowd psychologist Gustave Le Bon is often seen as emblematic of fin-de-siècle crowd theory. Widely read in the 1890s, Le Bon's work was later critiqued for its gendered descriptions and political biases. This essay reconsiders fin-de-siècle crowd theory in light of postcolonial critique and asks whether parts of this tradition merit attention in discussion of crowd action today. While Le Bon's work is based on a racial hierarchy and subscribes to a colonial episteme, the situation is more complex when it comes to sociologists such as Gabriel Tarde and Émile Durkheim. While elements of their work can be subjected to postcolonial critique, their theorization on crowds points to distinctly collective dimensions of crowd action that are important to revive.","PeriodicalId":21868,"journal":{"name":"Social Research: An International Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Social Research: An International Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2023.a901704","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Crowd psychologist Gustave Le Bon is often seen as emblematic of fin-de-siècle crowd theory. Widely read in the 1890s, Le Bon's work was later critiqued for its gendered descriptions and political biases. This essay reconsiders fin-de-siècle crowd theory in light of postcolonial critique and asks whether parts of this tradition merit attention in discussion of crowd action today. While Le Bon's work is based on a racial hierarchy and subscribes to a colonial episteme, the situation is more complex when it comes to sociologists such as Gabriel Tarde and Émile Durkheim. While elements of their work can be subjected to postcolonial critique, their theorization on crowds points to distinctly collective dimensions of crowd action that are important to revive.
摘要:群体心理学家古斯塔夫·勒邦(Gustave Le Bon)常被视为“最终社会主义”群体理论的代表人物。勒庞的作品在19世纪90年代广为阅读，但后来因其性别描述和政治偏见而受到批评。本文从后殖民主义批判的角度重新审视了“自我终结”的群体理论，并询问这一传统的某些部分是否值得在今天的群体行动讨论中得到关注。勒庞的作品以种族等级为基础，认同殖民主义的认知，但在加布里埃尔·塔尔德(Gabriel Tarde)和Émile涂尔干(Durkheim)等社会学家的作品中，情况就更为复杂了。虽然他们的工作元素可以受到后殖民主义的批评，但他们关于群体的理论指出了群体行动的明显集体维度，这对复兴很重要。
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