The Privileged Few
暫譯: 特權者的少數

Hamilton, Clive, Hamilton, Myra

The Privileged Few
  • 出版商: Polity
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-30
  • 售價: $1,110
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,055
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 240
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 150955971X
  • ISBN-13: 9781509559718

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商品描述

Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful are not only unfair but cause widespread harm, from the everyday slights and humiliations visited on those lower down to the distortions in the labour market when elites use their networks to secure plum jobs, not least in new domains like professional sports.

In this book, Clive Hamilton and Myra Hamilton show that elite privilege is not a mere by-product of wealth but an organising principle for society as a whole. They explore the practices and processes that sustain, legitimise and reproduce elite privilege, and show how we are all implicated in the system, both facilitating it and tolerating its harmful effects.

Building on their original fieldwork and a wide range of other sources, the authors paint a vivid picture of the micropolitics of elite privilege, highlighting in particular the vital role played by exclusive private schools. Ranging across topics as diverse as 'glamour suburbs, ' philanthropy, Rhodes scholarships and super-yachts, The Privileged Few gets beneath attempts at concealment to expose how the elites keep getting away with it.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

男性和白人特權正在減少，但精英特權卻愈加強大。富有和有權勢者所享有的特權不僅不公平，還造成廣泛的傷害，從日常的輕視和羞辱到當精英利用他們的網絡來獲得優越工作的勞動市場扭曲，尤其是在專業體育等新領域中。

在這本書中，Clive Hamilton 和 Myra Hamilton 表示，精英特權並非僅僅是財富的副產品，而是整個社會的組織原則。他們探討了維持、合法化和再生產精英特權的實踐和過程，並展示了我們所有人如何都參與了這個系統，既促進了它，又容忍了其有害的影響。

基於他們的原始田野調查和各種其他來源，作者生動地描繪了精英特權的微觀政治，特別強調了獨家私立學校所扮演的重要角色。涵蓋了從「魅力郊區」、「慈善事業」、羅德獎學金到超級遊艇等多樣主題，The Privileged Few 深入揭示了精英如何逃避責任的嘗試。

作者簡介

Clive Hamilton is Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra. He was the founder and executive director of The Australia Institute, Australia's foremost progressive think tank. He has held various visiting academic positions, including at the University of Oxford, Sciences Po and Yale University. His many books include Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change, Defiant Earth: The fate of humans in the Anthropocene and Hidden Hand: How the Chinese Communist Party is reshaping the world (with Mareike Ohlberg). His opinions have been published in Nature, the New York Times, Le Monde, The Times and the Guardian.

Myra Hamilton is an Associate Professor in Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School. She is a sociologist and social policy scholar with a focus on inequalities arising from gender, age and social disadvantage. A principal concern of her work is inequalities in the sphere of work. Her research explores how public and workplace policies can build equity and wellbeing over the life course.

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克萊夫·漢密爾頓是堪培拉查爾斯·斯圖爾特大學的公共倫理學教授。他是澳大利亞研究所的創始人及執行董事，該所是澳大利亞最具前瞻性的智庫。他曾在牛津大學、法國政治學院（Sciences Po）和耶魯大學等多所學校擔任訪問學者。他的著作包括物種的安魂曲：為什麼我們抵抗氣候變化的真相、反抗的地球：人類在世紀人類世的命運以及隱形之手：中國共產黨如何重塑世界（與馬瑞克·奧爾伯格共同撰寫）。他的觀點曾發表在自然、紐約時報、世界報、泰晤士報和衛報等媒體上。

邁拉·漢密爾頓是悉尼大學商學院的工作與組織研究副教授。她是一位社會學家和社會政策學者，專注於性別、年齡和社會劣勢所引起的不平等。她工作的主要關注點是工作領域中的不平等。她的研究探討公共和工作場所政策如何在整個生命過程中建立公平和福祉。

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