Keep Calm and Carry on? Fissure, Perception, and Narrative Contestation Following the Demise of the Crown

IF 3.5 2区 社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI:10.1093/ips/olae042
C Nicolai L Gellwitzki, Anne-Marie Houde, Lauren Rogers, Ben Rosher
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On September 8, 2022, after more than 70 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II passed away. The responses among the public, media, and state institutions to the news were varied, with competing views on the role of the monarchy and the legacy of the queen. The questions this article seeks to answer are (1) how the monarch’s death introduced a fissure into the United Kingdom’s autobiographical narrative and (2) how exactly this moment led on the one hand to efforts to reaffirm the dominant UK autobiographical narrative and on the other to efforts to contest this narrative. In framing this analysis using Gestalt psychology, we theorize the role of perception in subjects’ experience of a fissure as well as their subsequent attempts to manage the ensuing anxieties. We show how perception enables and guides avenues for narrative contestation as well as conservative attempts to (re)establish the predominant autobiographical narrative by exploring how the government and the royal family sought to create a sense of continuity and transfer royal authority onto the next generation while activists attempted to subvert this established narrative to problematize the country’s (post)colonial history and societal inequalities.
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保持冷静,继续前行?王权消亡后的裂痕、感知和叙事争论
2022年9月8日,在位70多年的英国女王伊丽莎白二世去世。公众、媒体和国家机构对这一消息的反应各不相同,对君主制的作用和女王的遗产有不同的看法。本文试图回答的问题是:(1)君主的去世如何给英国的自传体叙事带来了裂缝;(2)这一时刻究竟如何一方面导致了对英国自传体叙事主导地位的重申,另一方面又导致了对这种叙事的质疑。在使用格式塔心理学构建这一分析时,我们将感知在受试者对裂缝的体验以及他们随后试图管理随之而来的焦虑中的作用理论化。我们通过探索政府和王室如何试图创造一种延续性,并将王室权力传递给下一代,而积极分子试图颠覆这种既定的叙事,以使国家(后)殖民历史和社会不平等问题化,展示了感知如何能够引导叙事争论的途径,以及保守派如何试图(重新)建立主导的自传式叙事。
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期刊介绍: International Political Sociology (IPS), responds to the need for more productive collaboration among political sociologists, international relations specialists and sociopolitical theorists. It is especially concerned with challenges arising from contemporary transformations of social, political, and global orders given the statist forms of traditional sociologies and the marginalization of social processes in many approaches to international relations. IPS is committed to theoretical innovation, new modes of empirical research and the geographical and cultural diversification of research beyond the usual circuits of European and North-American scholarship.
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