Shock and subjectivity in the age of globalization: Marginalization, exclusion, and the problem of resistance.  

Oleh:

Friedman, Jack R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Theory vol. 07 no. 04 (Dec. 2007), page 421.
Topik: abjection ; globalization ; Jiu Valley ; marginalization ; mimesis ; Romania ; shock ; subjectivity
Fulltext: 421.pdf (207.7KB)

Isi artikel

This article considers the nature of ‘shock’ as both an experiential category and as a strategy used in the processes of globalization. I examine the trope of shock in the lives of coal miners in Romania’s Jiu Valley region. The argument contrasts two definitions of shock – the ‘mimetic’ view and the ‘productive’ view (the latter embodied in Ferenczi’s notion of Erschütterung) – and shows that, while the strategic goals of globalizing economic institutions (IMF, World Bank) and empire-building states strive for a ‘productive’ shock, what global processes tend to produce in communities marginalized from global flows is a ‘mimetic’ shock and a ‘shocked subjectivity’.

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