Bridging the Chasms: Contemporary Anarchists in the U.S.
Bridging the Chasms: Contemporary Anarchists in the U.S.
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弥合鸿沟：美国当代无政府主义者
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2015
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B. Case
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跨学科的无政府主义者的研究主要集中在著名人物和重大历史事件或有争议的抗议行动和暴力。在世纪的背景下，无政府主义对美国和地球仪各地的社会运动产生了越来越重要的影响，了解无政府主义者如何理解这个标签越来越重要。本文旨在通过无政府主义者自己的话来帮助理解无政府主义的含义。在这项研究中，我采访了来自美国三个城市的22名无政府主义者，了解无政府主义对他们意味着什么，以及他们是否以及如何在日常生活中实践他们的意识形态。我发现，无论受访者的背景或隶属关系如何，他们在几个核心价值观上都高度一致。除了基本的统一性之外，我们还看到了主流理论著作所主张的教派分歧的广泛差异，这两项发现都表明，这种二分法的对抗性框架可能过于简单化。此外，我探讨了一种在采访中经常出现的修辞手段，并将其与普遍存在的边缘感联系起来。这种“边缘性中的边缘性”可能有几个来源，包括朋克音乐和亚文化，我认为这有助于无政府主义者类型之间的不可逾越的概念的延续。
Studies of anarchists across disciplines have largely focused on famous personalities and major historical events or on contentious protest actions and violence. In a 21st century context in which anarchism has an ever more significant influence on social movements in the U.S. and around the globe, understanding how anarchists understand that label is increasingly important. This paper aims to contribute to an understanding of the meaning of anarchism through the words of anarchists themselves. In this study, I interview 22 anarchists from three U.S. cities about what anarchism means to them and about if and how they practice their ideology in their everyday lives. I find a high level of unity around several core values regardless of the interviewees’ backgrounds or affiliations. Beyond that base level of unity, we see extensive variation across the sectarian divisions asserted by dominant theoretical works, both findings suggesting that such dichotomous, antagonistic frameworks may be overly simplistic. In addition, I explore a rhetorical device that appears frequently in the interviews and connect it to a pervasive sense of marginality. This “marginality within marginality” may have several sources, including punk music and subculture, which I argue contribute to the perpetuation of a notion of unbridgeability between types of anarchists.