Prefiguring the State
Prefiguring the State
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预示国家
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2017
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Davina Cooper
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Davina Cooper
寓意政治将手段和目的融为一体，按照人们所希望的方式来表现生活，既是为了体验更好的实践，也是为了推进变革。本文从三个方面对比喻性思维做出了贡献。它探讨了将国家预示为一个概念可能意味着什么；它的灵感来自于历史事件，而不是想象中的未来；并阐述了比喻概念在实践中可以做什么（如果有的话）。我讨论的核心是多元国家——以微观、城市、区域、国家和全球的形式形成。多元国家思维为不同类型的国家创造了空间，但并不一定预示着进步的国家。因此，为了更详细地探讨变革性的左翼国家概念，讨论转向 20 世纪 80 年代的英国市政激进主义。将治理中的这一冒险事件视为一种“思考工具”，一种横向的、日常的、积极主动的和管家式的国家想象就出现了。
Merging means and ends, prefigurative politics perform life as it is wished-for, both to experience better practice and to advance change. This paper contributes to prefigurative thinking in three ways. It explores what it might mean to prefigure the state as a concept; takes its inspiration from a historical episode rather than imagined time ahead; and addresses what, if anything, prefigurative conceptions can do when practiced. Central to my discussion is the plural state—taking shape as micro, city, regional, national and global formations. Plural state thinking makes room for divergent kinds of states but does not necessarily foreground progressive ones. Thus, to explore in more detail a transformative left conception of the state, discussion turns to 1980s British municipal radicalism. Taking up this adventurous episode in governing as a “thinking tool”, an imaginary of the state as horizontal, everyday, activist and stewardly emerges.