From coal to Ukip: the struggle over identity in post-industrial Doncaster
From coal to Ukip: the struggle over identity in post-industrial Doncaster
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从煤炭到英国独立党：后工业时代唐卡斯特的身份斗争
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2016
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Cathrine Thorleifsson
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Cathrine Thorleifsson
本文探讨了后工业城镇唐卡斯特“煤炭民族主义”兴起的当地历史和一系列核心条件。基于民族志、访谈和档案研究，这篇文章展示了唐卡斯特人不仅是新自由主义重组计划和去工业化影响的受害者，而且还努力应对影响他们生活的变化，并赋予其意义。在工业主义解体留下的空间里，新的竞争规模制造项目在意义、记忆和未来上展开。一些社会行动者怀旧地援引过去的工业时代来应对存在的不安全感。一些人呼吁建立失落的帝国或欧盟，而另一些人则转向排他性的英国人作为解决当前困难和不满的办法。英国独立党（Ukip）将2015年的年会战略性地安排在这个白人占多数的工人阶级城镇，利用当地人的焦虑和幻灭感，承诺为采掘业的英国国民确保未来和安全。考察了各种规模制造项目的交集所产生的紧张关系，本文认为，英国民族主义日益高涨的吸引力不能归结为新自由主义的重组，也不能归结为工业主义的遗产，也不能归结为转型或全球移民的途径。正是这些构成了英国独立党党规。
ABSTRACT The article explores the local history and set of conditions central for the rise of “coal nationalism” in the post-industrial town of Doncaster. Based on ethnography, interviews and archival research, the essay shows how Doncastrians were not merely victimized by the effects of neoliberal restructuring programmes and deindustrialization, but strived to cope with and give meaning to the changes affecting their lives. In the space left by the dissolution of industrialism, new competing scale-making projects over meaning, memory and future played out. Several social actors nostalgically invoked the industrial past to cope with existential insecurity. Some called upon the lost empire or the EU, while others turned to exclusionary Englishness as the solution to current hardship and grievances. United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip), strategically locating their annual conference in 2015 in the white-majority working-class town, tapped into local anxieties and disillusionment, promising to secure future and security for British nationals in the extractive industries. Examining the tensions emerging out of the intersection of various scale-making projects, the essay suggests that the rising appeal of English nationalism cannot be reduced to neoliberal restructuring, nor just the legacies of industrialism, nor to the passage of transition or global migration. It is all of these, which in turn constitute the Ukip code.