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O que falar em esperanto quer dizer : revisitando políticas prefigurativas, movimentos sociais e as novas esquerdas

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08/05/2023
Author
Moreira Fians, Guilherme
Funder
The Leverhulme Trust
Grant ID
ORPG-9241
Keywords
Prefiguration
Political activism
Social movements
New left
Esperanto
JC Political theory
PM Hyperborean, Indian, and Artificial languages
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Abstract
Since the first half of the twentieth century, a left-wing collective in Paris has organized weekly meetings to debate politics from different progressive perspectives. Interestingly, these debates are held in Esperanto, a language created to fight nationalist rivalries and stimulate international communication. Based on an ethnography of this debate group, this article invites us to rethink how anthropology has used the term prefiguration as a classificatory category to distinguish the political practices of the new left from those of the old left. Examining how Esperanto has historically been labeled a universalist project, I show how the perspective of prefiguration enables us to highlight the ordinary use of this language in the creation of horizontal spaces for the co-production of political knowledge among activists. From this, I argue that the use of prefiguration as a shortcut to distinguish and typify social movements not only is ethnographically counterproductive, but also entails neglecting the convergences that the new and the old left often seek to build in order to enrich their dialogues and collective struggles.
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Moreira Fians , G 2023 , ' O que falar em esperanto quer dizer : revisitando políticas prefigurativas, movimentos sociais e as novas esquerdas ' , Mana: Estudos de Antropologia Social , vol. 29 , no. 1 , pp. 1-31 . https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-49442023v29n1e2023002.pt
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Mana: Estudos de Antropologia Social
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-49442023v29n1e2023002.pt
ISSN
0104-9313
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2023 Mana. Studies in Anthropology. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Funding: Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2021-215).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/27582

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