عنوان

To sell or not to sell resistance neo-liberal globalization and the aesthetic post-communist subject

کد کشور

IR

شماره

476T

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

کشور محل نشر

IR

عنوان اصلي

To sell or not to sell resistance neo-liberal globalization and the aesthetic post-communist subject

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام ساير پديدآوران

;supervisor: Shapiro, Michael

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Hawai'I at Manoa: United States -- Hawaii

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

: 2011

نام خاص و کميت اثر

218 pages

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

, University of Hawai'I at Manoa: United States -- Hawaii

متن يادداشت

How does one articulate resistance to neoliberal globalization in a post-communist context? In my dissertation I address the ambiguous encounter between the moral and the commercial economy by looking at the ongoing Transylvanian controversy in Rosia Montana. Examining the ambiguity within the discursive practices (re)producing both Rosia Montana (as an object of commodification) and Rosienii (as subjects) in dichotomous representations, I illustrate how selling or preserving land in the new global economy is not a simple 'economic' choice.While the corporate supporters attempt to produce the image of a troubled space in need of aid - thus essentializing what a Rosian means by appealing to a proletarian consciousness of the miner occupation - NGOs are producing the 'Save Rosia Montana' campaign by appealing to a pristine/peasantry essence and to the 'liberal rights' discourse. While a prevailing narrative among the Rosienii is reiterating motifs of sacred spirituality, all these representations are rather unstable and blurred in everyday life. Interviews, personal stories and quotations of media texts will illustrate how Rosienii are seduced by the various ideological discourses attempting to arrest the experience of Rosia and how 'partitioning' their sensible experience is rather contentious. My argument is that resistance is to be viewed aesthetically as it eludes certainty; political subjectivities are mobile and events of subjectification are unstable. The paradoxes of this encounter are important in terms of continuities and similarities between capitalism and the totalitarian experiment of Eastern Europe, making the discourse of 'post-communism' more complicated than it is traditionally presented.On the one hand, one can see the Rosia Montana case as a 'successful social (environmental) movement' not only because it managed to create ways to block the corporation for almost ten years but also because it attracted the support of many people from all over Romania (and elsewhere) who have become interested in the area and (even) visited it: the call had very much to do with the perception that the corporate project is a mockery and that Romanian politicians are profiting out of it. The 2010 HayFest mirrored the desired alternatives for the region: entitled "Rosia Montana, as a Big Stage", it gathered people from all over Romania as well as other countries for workshops, political debates, traditional food-shops, eco-entertainment activities, touristic visits etc. Page4 OnOn the other hand, the 'bread and butter' arguments are widespread too, because of lingering scarcity of (financial) resources; these indeed, make resistance to economic development projects unpalatable. Surely the anxiety and the insecurities Rosienii experience are nothing new in the milieu of human reactions to modernity's disruptions. In the Rosia context, the prevailing feeling is that nothing/no one can offer solutions to ease the pains of these disruptions ('the state is silent and corrupt', 'capitalists only want money in their pocket'). Neither the market nor the state is trusted to address grievances. There is a widespread feeling that either selling of preserving their valuables, they deal with a non-choice.While the formal activism against the corporate project attempts to naturalize its side of the 'truth' in contrast with the 'truth' exposed by the corporation, the differend of Rosia Montana becomes visible in the stories of Rosienii. Reluctant to being called 'activists', their everyday struggle is both reinforcing and subverting the 'truths' of this controversy by introducing the 'variable' of ambiguity. The personal stories reproduced in this dissertation show that both national feelings of rootedness or the support for corporate mining are not forms of closed ideological engagement (of nationalism or neo-liberalism) manipulated towards some programmatic ends. The narratives of people do not simply reveal anti-modern/anti-industrial sentiments just as they do not reveal some blind credulity in the mantra of the market; they do not simply display allegiance to an ideology or another. Self-identification is volatile and unstable. As my interviews will show, there is a strong sense of living the 'drama of uncertainty'. Representation of both the space and identities is fluid: there is no fixed Rosia as a discursive space; 'who is Rosia' and 'who are the Rosieni' is continuously a matter of dispute. There is no intelligible (ideological) discourse to Rosieni's feelings and inner tensions, loyalties being divided and uncertain, contradictory and shifting. Dissensus, rather than consensus, heterogeneity rather than homogeneity characterizes the politics of post-communist Rosia Montana; paying attention to this aesthetic resistance may create free spaces for imagining alternative possibilities.

موضوع مستند نشده

Political science

اصطلاح موضوعی

Neoliberalism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Globalization

اصطلاح موضوعی

Resistance

اصطلاح موضوعی

Postcommunist

اصطلاح موضوعی

Aesthetics

اصطلاح موضوعی

Romania

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Velicu, Irina

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Shapiro, Michael, supervisor

کشور

ایران

تاريخ و ساعت مذاکره و دسترسي

TL255.pdf

وضعیت فهرست نویسی

old catalog

نوع ماده

TL

کد کاربرگه

254359

پیشوند ISBD اعمال شده است

1

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y'