Post-socialism as an experience of distancing and dispossession in rural and transnational Estonia

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Critique of Anthropology Pub Date : 2022-04-20 DOI:10.1177/0308275X221096182

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Abstract

This article brings together two sets of data – from rural Estonia and the Estonian diaspora in the UK – to analyse the themes of dispossession and distancing. The article highlights links between the processes of Othering and the continuing significance of the concepts of socialism and post-socialism as explanatory in relation to emerging hierarchies related to the region. In Estonia, some people and regions still seem to bear the marks of state socialism and face symbolic dispossession, in particular, the rural regions. Rural Estonians experience social dispossession and distance from one another, as well as from their home regions by migrating. With migration to western Europe, people acquire opportunities for taking new control over their own image, thus enabling some renewed symbolic and social worth. However, in the case of the diaspora in the UK, the migrant setting demonstrates how the use of disparaging terminology linked to the post-socialist transformation travels beyond borders, and also how the symbolic dispossession of eastern Europeans arises from the stigma of post-socialism.

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后社会主义：爱沙尼亚农村和跨国地区的疏远和剥夺经历

本文汇集了两组数据——来自爱沙尼亚农村和散居英国的爱沙尼亚人——来分析剥夺和疏远的主题。这篇文章强调了其他进程与社会主义和后社会主义概念的持续意义之间的联系，作为对与该地区相关的新兴等级制度的解释。在爱沙尼亚，一些人和地区似乎仍然带有国家社会主义的标志，并面临象征性的剥夺，尤其是农村地区。爱沙尼亚农村人经历了社会剥夺和彼此之间的距离，以及由于移民而与家乡的距离。随着移民到西欧，人们获得了对自己形象进行新控制的机会，从而实现了一些新的象征和社会价值。然而，就英国的侨民而言，移民环境表明，与后社会主义转型相关的贬损术语的使用是如何跨越国界的，也表明东欧人的象征性剥夺是如何源于后社会主义的耻辱。

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Critique of Anthropology ANTHROPOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Critique of Anthropology is dedicated to the development of anthropology as a discipline that subjects social reality to critical analysis. It publishes academic articles and other materials which contribute to an understanding of the determinants of the human condition, structures of social power, and the construction of ideologies in both contemporary and past human societies from a cross-cultural and socially critical standpoint. Non-sectarian, and embracing a diversity of theoretical and political viewpoints, COA is also committed to the principle that anthropologists cannot and should not seek to avoid taking positions on political and social questions.