Prefigurative Politics

Fians, Guilherme

doi:10.29164/22prefigpolitics

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“…Em sintonia com isso, esses ativistas tendem a deixar deliberadamente a definição de política em aberto. Ao não definirem política de forma unívoca, eles fazem com que qualquer prática venha a ser potencialmente política (ou politizada), por meio de formas de ativismo que se abstém de institucionalizar ou territorializar causas específicas (Fians 2022).…”

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

Fians

2023

Mana

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

Fians

2023

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“…More recently, attention has been paid to notions of temporality and space (Featherstone, 2010;Juris, 2012;Szolucha, 2016); identity, representation, and political practice (Day & Goddard, 2010;Salman & Assies, 2017); and citizen science (Jalbert et al, 2017). Other authors have emphasized the centrality of prefigurative dynamics, showing the ways in which people carve out alternative spaces in the present, to show how possibilities and change emerge from forms of resistance at different scales (Fians, 2022;Graeber, 2002Graeber, , 2009Krøijer, 2010;Maeckelbergh, 2011;Razsa, 2015;Razsa & Kurnik, 2012). Prefigurative practices of activism explicitly fuse means and ends to bring about desired realities, particularly within groups that foreground direct action and physical protest as ways to establish that "another world is possible" through practicing it (Graeber, 2002, 72).…”

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“Jobbos” and the “wageless life”: Exploring work and responsibility in the anti‐fracking movement in Lancashire, United Kingdom

O'Brien

2022

Economic Anthropology

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Drawing on ethnographic research at an anti-fracking encampment at Preston New Road (PNR) in Lancashire, England, this article explores activists' perceptions of work and responsibility. I examine their protest activities and explore how work is understood, disrupted, and contested; what this means for my interlocutors' engagement with monetary compensation; and how this is reinforced by the extractive nature of the activity they are contesting. I show how through protesting, monitoring, and maintaining a presence on site, interlocutors worked to ethically and materially disentangle themselves from the reality fueled by hydrocarbon extraction. While paid work was deemed ethically problematic in this context, at stake for my interlocutors was the web of relationships in which financial and practical support was received and shared. By drawing on research on activism and dynamics of prefiguration, I show how the work of activism at PNR was predicated on balancing agency with responsibility in a complex and powerful web of responsible relationships. Reconciling agency and responsibility was integral to the ethical orientations on which the anti-fracking community was built and the realities it aspired to create.

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Prototyping and Prefiguring through Law Reform: An Interview with Davina Cooper on the FLaG Sex and Gender Decertification Proposal

Traganou

2023

Design and Culture

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Prefigurative Politics

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Cited by 6 publications

References 17 publications

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

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

“Jobbos” and the “wageless life”: Exploring work and responsibility in the anti‐fracking movement in Lancashire, United Kingdom

Prototyping and Prefiguring through Law Reform: An Interview with Davina Cooper on the FLaG Sex and Gender Decertification Proposal

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