On the Chemistry of Liberty

IF 0.9 4区社会学 Q2 CULTURAL STUDIES

Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies Pub Date : 2002-02-01 DOI:10.1177/153270860200200108

Diana Mincytė

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Abstract

This essay is an autoethnographic attempt to bring together personal experiences, memories, and historical accounts about the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1944 and the overthrow of the regime by the nationalist movement in 1990. It weaves together visions, recollections, and stories in search for how such abstract notions as freedom, progress, and democracy intersect with "small lives." Its central concern is to understand why social movements, state institutions, and new technologies grow to reproduce social inequalities and, by doing so, fail in their promise to bring freedom to the general population. This essay arrives at the conclusion that there is no universal definition of liberty nor a single institutional means to free the public. It places the agency in the hands of the individual and argues that freedom as such exists only when we negotiate, search, and believe in the possibility for a better world.

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论自由的化学

这篇文章是一篇自我民族志，试图将1944年苏联占领立陶宛和1990年民族主义运动推翻政权的个人经历、记忆和历史叙述结合起来。它将愿景、回忆和故事编织在一起，寻找自由、进步和民主等抽象概念如何与“小生命”交织在一起。它的中心问题是理解为什么社会运动、国家机构和新技术的发展会再现社会不平等，并因此未能兑现给普通民众带来自由的承诺。本文得出的结论是，自由没有一个普遍的定义，也没有一种单一的制度手段来解放公众。它将能动性放在个人手中，并认为只有当我们协商、探索并相信一个更美好世界的可能性时，这样的自由才存在。

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Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies Multiple-

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1.40

自引率

16.70%

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期刊介绍： The mandate for this interdisciplinary, international journal is to move methods talk in cultural studies to the forefront, into the regions of moral, ethical and political discourse. The commitment to imagine a more democratic society has been sa guiding feature of cultural studies from the very beginnnig. Contributors to this journal understand that the discourses of a critical, moral methodology are basic to any effort to re-engage the promise of the social sciences and the humanities for democracy in the 21st Century. We seek works that connect critical emanicipatory theories to new forms of social justice and democratic practice are encouraged.