人道传播:话语与文化结构——一项对西方中心人道主义的考察

Humanitarian Communication: Discourse and Cultural Structures——A Critical Research on Western-centered Humanitarianism

人道主义具有鲜明的西方中心色彩。20世纪初,西方的地方性人道知识上升为全球知识,在西方人道的传播过程中,生成了话语结构和文化结构上的西方中心。人道传播的话语框架解释了西方中心的话语霸权和文化框架,承袭了西方的殖民主义与帝国主义历史,在本质上表现出“西方-非西方”的结构性不平等。从对人道传播的批评与反思出发,以生命传播的理论视域为抵达,作为对人道传播危机的回应,一种剥离宏大情感、呼唤个人情感的新的人道传播模式出现,在一定程度上解决了传统人道传播模式的危机,并实现了人类命运共同体的期待。

Humanitarianism is distinctively western-centered. Since the beginning of the 20th century,the western local humanitarian knowledge has been risen to global knowledge. In the process of the dissemination of western humanitarianism, the western center in discourse structure and cultural structure has been formed. The discourse framework of humanitarian communication explains that the westerncentered discourse hegemony and cultural framework, inherits the history of colonialism and imperialism in the West, and represents the structural inequality of "Western or non-Western" in essence. Starting from the criticism and reflection on humanitarian communication, taking the theoretical horizon of life communication as the arrival, as a response to the crisis of humanitarian communication, a new humanitarian communication mode emerged, which stripped off the grand emotions and called for the involvement of personal emotions. To a certain extent, it solves the crisis of the traditional mode of humanitarian communication, and realizes the expectation of a community of shared future for mankind.