日本聋文化宣言：权力政治、社会不平等与文化再生产

Manifesto of the Deaf Community in Japan: Power Politics, Social Inequality and Cultural Reproduction

1996年日本的聋文化宣言，乃是一篇对聋人进行重新界定的战斗檄文，它宣称残疾人云云，只不过是听人给聋人贴上的标签。聋人并没有把自己看做是残疾人，失去听力本身并不必然意味着痛苦，痛苦更可能来自生活在听人世界与听人相处过程中所受到的种种歧视和偏见，以及基于这些歧视和偏见之上的一厢情愿的意志强加。聋人的世界本是一个完整的世界，聋人与听人语言不同、文化不同，问题的本质不在生理的缺陷而在文化的差异。在把聋人的世界看作是一个完整的世界之意义上来谈论聋教育，教育社会学为分析权力政治、社会不平等、文化再生产等问题提供了新的视角。

Japan’s Manifesto of the Deaf Community in 1966 labeled the deaf as disabled and uttered a biased voice. In real life， compared with the pains from loss of hearing， the deaf community might suffer more from prejudiced views during interpersonal communications and imposed will from people around. The world of the deaf is complete in their mind and the deaf have their own culture and language used for communication. Based upon the above theoretical framework， educational sociology provides new perspectives to further explore education for the deaf and analyze power politics， social inequality and cultural reproduction.