In 1967, Howard S. Becker gave a widely discussed and polemical presidential address entitled “Whose Side Are We On?” Here he introduced the idea of the hierarchy of credibility. Briefly reviewing the article, I suggest a little of how the world has moved on since then. The core of my analysis links symbolic interactionism to ideas of narrative power, narrative inequality, and narrative othering, sketching out a frame of generic forms of narrative power: domination, exclusion, negotiation, and resistance. I stress the dynamics of the subordinated standpoint and narrative othering. Drawing from a wide range of empirical examples where these processes are featured, I suggest many of us tacitly work with such ideas in our studies. I end by returning to Becker's question—Whose side are we on?—and answer: the side of humanity. Just what we mean by humanity raises contentious value claims, especially in these posthuman times. But understanding our humanities and the value challenge they pose provides the necessary prerequisite for answering Becker's question. From this, political action can flow, and a politics of humanity can be cultivated.

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“我们在哪一边？” 重访：叙事力，叙事不平等与叙事人类政治

1967年，霍华德·贝克尔（Howard S. Becker）发表了引起广泛讨论和辩论的总统演讲，题为“我们在谁的一面？” 在这里，他介绍了信誉等级的概念。简要回顾这篇文章，我建议从那时起世界如何发展。我分析的核心是将象征性互动主义与叙事能力，叙事不平等和叙事其他概念联系起来，勾勒出叙事能力的一般形式：统治，排斥，谈判和抵抗。我强调从属立场和叙事他人的动态。我从大量经验丰富的例子中汲取了这些过程的特点，我建议我们中的许多人在研究中默认使用这些想法。最后，我回到贝克尔的问题-我们站在谁的一边？-然后回答：人性的一面。我们人类所说的含义引起了有争议的价值主张，尤其是在这些后人类时代。但是了解我们的人文科学及其所带来的价值挑战，为回答贝克尔的问题提供了必要的先决条件。由此，可以采取政治行动，可以培养人类政治。