Temple Run Dreams of Migration in the Making of the Political Imagination in Freetown
Temple Run Dreams of Migration in the Making of the Political Imagination in Freetown
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弗里敦政治想象力的《神庙逃亡》中的移民梦想
DOI：
10.1163/18725465-bja10017
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发表时间：
2021
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0.6
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Enria L
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作者：
Enria L
在弗里敦的年轻人中，越来越多的塞拉利昂年轻人通过利比亚前往欧洲的危险旅程的代码是“Temple Run”，这是一款移动的手机游戏，要求玩家在危险的障碍物上逃命。通过民族志的帐户，本文讨论了在弗里敦青年的表达一个独特的政治想象力，他们在一次批评和重新想象他们的关系，国家和维护自己的身份和期望作为塞拉利昂公民的移民梦想的作用。这些叙事植根于忽视和国家暴力的日常经历，但也体现了该地区移民、不安全和权力交接的悠久历史。探讨移民作为话语，从实践中分离，本文展示了移民形象如何成为纳入表达presencerather而不仅仅是渴望缺席和规范的公民意识。
Amongst young people in Freetown, ‘Temple Run’, a mobile phone game that requires the player to run for their life across treacherous obstacles, is used as code for the perilous journey that an increasing number of young Sierra Leoneans made to Europe via Libya. Through ethnographic accounts, the article discusses the role of dreams of migration in Freetown youths’ articulations of a distinctive political imagination through which they at once critique and re-imagine their relation to the state and assert their identity and expectations as Sierra Leonean citizens. These narratives are rooted in everyday experiences of neglect and state violence but also embody a long history in the region of intersections between migration, insecurity, and contestations of power. Exploring migration as discourse, separate from practice, the paper shows how migration imageries become incorporated into expressions ofpresencerather than simply longings forabsenceand into normative ideas of citizenship.