Bullets and Boomerangs

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2023-03-29 DOI:10.1215/08992363-10202416

Elliott Prasse-Freeman

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Abstract

Through digital ethnography of the mass uprising against Myanmar's early-2021 military coup, this article considers appeals to “the international community,” in which activists maneuver the simultaneous potential and peril of global entreaties, deploying a double-move of contradictory thrusts: to continue stoking the possibility of international intervention, activists reiterate demands while intensifying their affective content; conversely, they use anticipated failure of those appeals to “boomerang” them back to local publics—making the international a present-but-effaced addressee, they engage in the jouissance of abandonment, coordinate (potentially violent) tactics, shame their enemies, and engage in political debate on the objectives of their ongoing struggle. By retaining the key mediatory role vis-à-vis Myanmar publics, activists enact an alternative relationship with the international, one that invites intervention but is not dependent on it.

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子弹和回旋镖

通过对反对缅甸2021年初军事政变的大规模起义的数字民族志，本文考虑了对“国际社会”的呼吁，其中活动人士同时操纵全球恳求的潜力和危险，部署矛盾的双重行动:继续煽动国际干预的可能性，活动人士重申要求，同时强化其情感内容;相反，他们利用这些诉求的预期失败来“回力”他们回到当地公众——使国际成为现在但被抹去的收听者，他们参与放弃的欢愉，协调(潜在的暴力)策略，羞辱他们的敌人，并就他们正在进行的斗争的目标进行政治辩论。通过保持对-à-vis缅甸公众的关键调解作用，活动人士与国际社会建立了另一种关系，一种邀请干预但不依赖于干预的关系。

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Public Culture Multiple-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

6.70%

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