RebelEast

2020年7月，哈巴罗夫斯克地区成为普京领导下的俄罗斯新的政治抗议中心。民选的地方州长谢尔盖·福格尔因涉嫌谋杀两名商人而被捕，引发了前所未有的大规模抗议活动，反对克里姆林宫干预当地事务。我的项目通过对俄罗斯远东地区最大的军工基地--共青团的草根社会运动进行民族志研究，探索联邦政府在该地区面临的大规模合法性危机。虽然有丰富的文献记录了远东土著群体的文化习俗以及与韩国、中国和日本的经济跨境交流形式，但对该地区的城市和政治生活仍然研究得很少。利用档案研究、话语分析和对参与不同形式社区组织的KomSomolsk公民的实地调查，我分析了苏联工业化在俄罗斯东部留下的遗产，以及它继续塑造当地居民地区认同的方式。具体地说，我侧重于苏联时期的社会主义伦理如何与古拉格犯罪亚文化的非正式伦理交织在一起，在构建KomSomolsk活动家的政治想象以及他们对联邦中心的态度方面。我的项目对后苏联非正式文化的后果提出了一种新的看法，表明在国家行为者违反不成文的社会契约的背景下，它可以为政治动员提供强大的基础。除了将非正式伦理的政治层面理论化外，我的项目还对当代俄罗斯民众抗议形式的新兴文学做出了贡献，通过打破“沉默的”省份作为普京总统支持基地的刻板印象，并展示了地区动员在挑战克里姆林宫方面所起的关键作用。

In July 2020, the Khabarovsk region emerged as a new center of political protest in Putin's Russia. The arrest of the popularly electedlocal governor Sergei Furgal on murder charges associated with the deaths of two businessmen triggered unprecedentedly largedemonstrations against the Kremlin's intervention in local affairs. My project explores the massive legitimacy crisis the federalgovernment faces in the region through an ethnography of grassroots social movements in Komsomolsk-na-Amure, the largestmilitary-industrial base in the Russian Far East. While there is a rich literature documenting the cultural practices of indigenous groupsof the Far East as well as forms of economic transborder exchange with Korea, China, and Japan, the urban and political life of thisregion remains critically understudied. Drawing on archival research, discourse analysis, and fieldwork with Komsomolsk's citizensengaged in different forms of community organizing, I analyse the legacy of Soviet industrialization in Eastern Russia and ways inwhich it continues to shape the regional identities of local residents. Specifically, I focus on how the socialist ethics of the Sovietperiod intertwine with the informal ethics of the Gulag's criminal subculture, in structuring the political imaginaries of Komsomolsk'sactivists as well as their attitudes towards the federal center. My project offers a novel take on the consequences of the post-Sovietculture of informality by showing that it can provide a powerful basis for political mobilization in contexts where an unwritten socialcontract is violated by state actors. In addition to theorizing the political dimension of the ethics of informality, my project makes acontribution to the emerging literature on forms of popular protest in contemporary Russia by destabilizing the stereotype of the"silent" provinces as the base of President Putin's support and showing the key role regional mobilization plays in challenging theKremlin.