摘要
新冠肺炎疫情向我们提出了一系列问题:为什么在处理紧急事件时,我们倾向于在“一切正常”和“背水一战”之间大幅度摇摆?为什么应对措施倾向于激烈化?这些措施可能有什么长期影响?本文从人口流动的角度试图对这些问题提出一个假设性解释。文章提出,中国进入了一个超级流动的社会,空前普遍和频繁的流动成为经济运转的基础,也是大量家庭的生计来源。这一超级流动性使得政府难以采取局部的,因人而异的干预,使得全面停止流动成为一个近乎唯一的选择。超级流动性又反过来使得这一干预导致巨大的社会波动。本文提出“流动性聚集”和“陀螺式经济”这两个假设性概念,希望初步勾勒出具有超级流动性社会的基本特征,以开始分析上述问题。
The COVID-19 outbreak in China poses a series of questions:Why did the government swing dramatically between the extremes of“business as usual”and“all-out war”?Why did the governmental response escalate rapidly?And what can be the long-term implications of these radical interventions?This paper explores these questions by focusing on population mobility.The author suggests that China has become a hyper-mobile society.Unprecedentedly widespread and frequent mobility has become a basis of the general economic functioning and of many people’s livelihoods.Hyper-mobility renders it difficult for the governments to intervene in a measured and differentiated way,such as slowing down the mobility of certain groups but not others.A total lockdown is almost the only policy option.However,suppression of mobility creates enormous social disruptions.This article introduces two hypothetical concepts,“mobility-concentration nexus”and“gyro-like economy”,to probe the basic characteristics of a hyper-mobile society.
作者
项飙
Xiang Biao(School of Anthropology,University of Oxford)
出处
《开放时代》
CSSCI
北大核心
2020年第3期53-60,M0004,共9页
Open Times
关键词
超级流动性
流动性聚集
陀螺式经济
紧急政策干预
社会成本
hyper-mobility
mobility-concentration nexus
gyro-like economy
emergency intervention
social disruption
