From hope to haunt: digital activism and the cultural politics of hope(lessness) in late-socialism

IF 1.6 3区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-20 DOI:10.1080/09502386.2022.2066146

Giang Nguyen-Thu

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This article explores the formation and diminishment of collective hope in Vietnam by tracing the Facebook-based circulation, intensification, and attenuation of affective engagement with the Đồng Tâm land dispute in Hanoi from April 2017 to September 2020. The dispute enables us to conceptualize online activism as essentially fueled by collective embodiment of hope, understood as temporalized openness toward the ‘not-yet’ that stretches beyond pre-existing agendas. The magnitude of online activism depends not on the network itself but on how new media facilitate an attunement between the public and the latent force of subaltern dissensus. When such connection was disrupted, political hope faded when it was enveloped by endless crises habituated by the network. With implications in Vietnam and beyond, the article highlights hope as a political affect and a political capacity indispensable in social struggles, which enables us to embrace instead of enclosing precarious possibilities of change.

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从希望到困扰:数字激进主义和晚期社会主义的希望(无希望)文化政治

摘要本文探讨了越南集体希望的形成和减弱，通过追踪基于脸书的与越南的情感接触的传播、强化和减弱ồ2017年4月至2020年9月在河内发生的吴土地纠纷。这场争论使我们能够将网络激进主义概念化，认为它本质上是由希望的集体体现所推动的，被理解为对“尚未”的暂时开放，这种开放超越了预先存在的议程。网络激进主义的规模不取决于网络本身，而是取决于新媒体如何促进公众与潜在的持不同政见者之间的协调。当这种联系被破坏时，当政治希望被网络所习惯的无休止的危机所笼罩时，政治希望就破灭了。这篇文章在越南及其他国家都有影响，强调希望是社会斗争中不可或缺的政治影响和政治能力，它使我们能够拥抱而不是封闭不稳定的变革可能性。

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Cultural Studies Multiple-

CiteScore

3.50

自引率

6.70%

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期刊介绍： Cultural Studies is an international journal which explores the relation between cultural practices, everyday life, material, economic, political, geographical and historical contexts. It fosters more open analytic, critical and political conversations by encouraging people to push the dialogue into fresh, uncharted territory. It also aims to intervene in the processes by which the existing techniques, institutions and structures of power are reproduced, resisted and transformed. Cultural Studies understands the term "culture" inclusively rather than exclusively, and publishes essays which encourage significant intellectual and political experimentation, intervention and dialogue.