'Trauma work' as hindrance to political praxis during democratisation movements
'Trauma work' as hindrance to political praxis during democratisation movements
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“创伤工作”是民主化运动中政治实践的障碍
DOI：
10.1007/s11186-023-09540-5
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发表时间：
2024
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Al Azmeh Z
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作者：
Al Azmeh Z
本文探讨了在民主化运动失败的背景下，从政治实践的重点转移到创伤工作的影响。它探讨了知识分子在暴力和暴行的创伤影响下，将创伤叙事置于其干预核心时出现的各种现象。通过对29名流亡在巴黎和柏林的叙利亚知识分子的文献分析、参与观察和半结构化访谈，本文认为，在极端暴力和创伤的条件下，我们称之为维斯维斯“人民”的一种根本性的嵌入式定位。这导致了先前对“好战的知识分子”的形象沿着以实践为中心的“知识分子的责任”概念的瓦解，最终削弱了他们对国内公众的观念影响，削弱了他们在革命运动中的政治影响和关键作用。
This paper examines the impact of a shift in focus from political praxis to trauma work in the context of a failed democratisation movement. It investigates the various phenomena which emerge when intellectuals, under the traumatic impact of violence and atrocities, place trauma narration at the core of their interventions. Drawing on document analysis, participant observation and semi-structured interviews with twenty nine exiled Syrian intellectuals in Paris and Berlin who had participated in the revolutionary movement of 2011, the paper suggests that an inversion of the normative power structures pertaining to how intellectuals relate to their publics occurs when they adopt, under conditions of extreme violence and trauma, what we call a radically embedded positionality vis-à-vis ‘the people’. This results in the dismantling of previous figurations of the ‘militant intellectual’ along with praxis-focused notions of the ‘responsibility of intellectuals’, ultimately undermining their ideational influence upon domestic publics and weakening their political impact and critical role within a revolutionary movement.