Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks

Fians, Guilherme

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“…Some adherents orient to Esperanto's pacifist and anti-nationalist genealogy, connected to its early popularity as a means of countering the political violence connected to the rise of European nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Others enter Esperanto through the free software movement, interested in what it can do to facilitate democratic access to and free circulation of information and to the tools to create online discursive spaces out of the reach of corporations; or they enter as self-styled "geeks" interested in the technical capacities of constructed languages and in their ability to facilitate transnational connections (Fians 2021).…”

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Crisis on the terrain of language

Heller

2024

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“…By definition, as Fians (2021) points out, this shared activity in the discursive space of the Internet creates community by requiring the negotiation of rules of engagement: what to talk about, how to talk about it, and with whom to talk.…”

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Crisis on the terrain of language

Heller

2024

anthropologica

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“…Esperanto is neither officially nor customarily spoken anywhere, is hardly taught within educational systems and virtually no one needs to learn it to live abroad or travel. Removed from nation-states and market demands, Esperanto finds its place in feeding non-hegemonic, grassroots political practices by giving voice to those who speak from the margins (Fians, 2021). The language then becomes key to the creation of specific multilingual forums through which progressive activists exchange ideas across borders.…”

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The others’ others: When taking our natives seriously is not enough

Fians

2023

Critique of Anthropology

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Since Malinowski, taking the natives seriously has been a core issue for ethnographers, as this principle encloses two terms nurturing much theoretical debate in sociocultural anthropology: ‘native’ and ‘point of view’. Yet, this entails a parallel issue: aside from taking one’s natives seriously, have anthropologists been taking other anthropologists’ natives equally seriously? The discipline came to take for granted the legitimacy of Others constituted by discourses of race, sex, class, ethnicity and colonialism. However, anthropology seems to continuously marginalize groups – from children and speakers of ‘invented’ languages to UFO witnesses – whose practices are routinely mocked or dismissed as foolish. This article analyzes certain anthropologists and their ethnographies of unsanctioned interlocutors who were cast aside by scholarship. I argue that ‘taking seriously’ must be not only an experiment that builds rapport between individual anthropologists and natives, but also one that makes room for the natives’ viewpoints to flow within the discipline.

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“…Embora a SAT-Amikaro não seja representativa do movimento esperantista mais amplo, seu grupo de debates analisado nesta etnografia não é o único espaço no qual o esperanto ganha expressão em consonância com práticas prefigurativas. Como analiso em outra publicação (Fians 2021), o movimento esperantista tem MANA 29(1): e2023002, 2023 -http://doi.org/10.1590/1678-49442023v29n1e2023002.pt se consolidado recentemente em espaços on-line, se tornando particularmente popular entre jovens poliglotas e geeks apaixonados por tecnologias digitais. Entre estes grupos, o esperanto é frequentemente interpretado a partir da perspectiva dos movimentos de software livre (Coleman 2013).…”

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O que falar em esperanto quer dizer: Revisitando políticas prefigurativas, movimentos sociais e as novas esquerdas

Fians

2023

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Resumo Desde a primeira metade do século XX, um coletivo de esquerda de Paris organiza encontros semanais para debater política a partir de perspectivas progressistas diversas. Curiosamente, esses debates são realizados em esperanto, uma língua construída para combater rivalidades nacionalistas e estimular a comunicação internacional. A partir de uma etnografia desse grupo de debates, este artigo nos convida a repensar a forma como a antropologia tem usado o termo prefiguração como uma categoria classificatória para distinguir as práticas políticas da new left daquelas das velhas esquerdas. Examinando como o esperanto foi historicamente rotulado como um projeto universalista, mostro como a perspectiva da prefiguração nos permite salientar o uso cotidiano desta língua na criação de espaços horizontais de coprodução de conhecimento político entre ativistas. A partir disso, argumento que o uso de prefiguração como um atalho para distinguir e tipificar movimentos sociais não só é etnograficamente contraprodutivo, como também nos leva a negligenciar as convergências que novas e velhas esquerdas muitas vezes buscam construir para enriquecer seus diálogos e suas lutas coletivas.

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Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks

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The others’ others: When taking our natives seriously is not enough

O que falar em esperanto quer dizer: Revisitando políticas prefigurativas, movimentos sociais e as novas esquerdas

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