Anarchisms in the Making

Autor(en)

Felix Ringel

Abstrakt

Recently, new political but also conceptual hopes have been invested in the study of anarchy as a non-prescriptive, native category, proposing a dialogue between actually existing anarchism and the discipline of anthropology. My article contributes to this anthropology of anarchists with an analysis of a specific form of temporal reasoning exhibited in the social, ethical and lifestyle practices of an anarchist group in the East German city of Hoyerswerda. By developing the term ‘creative presentism’, I present these contemporary anarchist practices as an arena of knowledge production in which the postmodern, neoliberal evacuation of the near future – so convincingly detected by Jane Guyer – is significantly challenged by an urge for a different relationship to the future. Anarchist practices thus ethnographically add to the growing anthropology of the future and additionally offer new grounds for a self-reflexive investigation of the role hope and the future play in our own knowledge practices.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Journal

Critique of Anthropology

Band

32

Seiten

173-188

ISSN

0308-275X

Publikationsdatum

2012

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504009 Ethnologie

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/anarchisms-in-the-making(838b8ee6-f9a3-4bec-9924-9e96ab3ed619).html