Text, time, and travel: temporal pathways of postsocialism and Islam

IF 1.2 2区 社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY
Serkan Yolaçan
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As the concept of postsocialism faces increased scrutiny, there is a call to expand its spatiotemporal scope beyond socialist contexts in order to reclaim its analytical capacity. In Azerbaijan, the quiet resurgence of tezkirahs – biographical anthologies rooted in both the Islamic and Soviet traditions – presents an opportunity to explore how former Soviet citizens can bridge different histories, countries, and cultural traditions to nurture an expansive sense of collective presence and moral dignity after seventy years of communist rule and disconnect. These texts help Azerbaijanis chart their diverse roots in the former imperial domains of Persians, Turks, and Russians and absorb them into their vision of who they once were and could be again. Writers and readers of tezkirahs establish connections to non-socialist pasts and places through what I refer to as temporal pathways, where traversing time becomes a journey to another place, and vice versa. By exploring this spatialized historical sensibility through the capacious ethnographic-textual lens of an Islamic genre, this article sheds fresh light on postsocialist possibilities.

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文本、时间和旅行:后社会主义和伊斯兰教的时间路径
随着 "后社会主义 "概念面临越来越多的审视,人们呼吁将其时空范围扩大到社会主义背景之外,以重新获得其分析能力。在阿塞拜疆,tezkirahs(植根于伊斯兰和苏维埃传统的传记选集)的悄然复兴提供了一个机会,可借以探讨前苏联公民如何在不同的历史、国家和文化传统之间架起桥梁,从而在七十年的共产主义统治和割裂之后培养出一种广泛的集体存在感和道德尊严感。这些文本帮助阿塞拜疆人勾勒出他们在波斯人、土耳其人和俄罗斯人的前帝国领土上的不同根源,并将这些根源融入他们对自己曾经是谁和可能再次成为谁的愿景中。Tezkirahs 的作者和读者通过我所说的 "时间路径 "与非社会主义的过去和地方建立了联系,在这里,穿越时间成为通往另一个地方的旅程,反之亦然。本文通过一种伊斯兰体裁的人种学--文本视角探索这种空间化的历史感,为后社会主义的可能性提供了新的启示。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute is the principal journal of the oldest anthropological organization in the world. It has attracted and inspired some of the world"s greatest thinkers. International in scope, it presents accessible papers aimed at a broad anthropological readership. It is also acclaimed for its extensive book review section, and it publishes a bibliography of books received.
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