Doing Utopia: Radical utopian communities, mobility, and the body in the early twentieth century

IF 1.7 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Journal of Global History Pub Date : 2023-02-28 DOI:10.1017/s1740022823000037
R. Kramm
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This article analyses communal projects in the first half of the twentieth century. It investigates communes in various places of the non-Western world, including the Tolstoy Farm in South Africa, the Nōson Seinen Sha’s anarchist commune in imperial Japan, and the Rastafarian Pinnacle Commune on Jamaica. At first glance these communes seem completely unrelated as they emerged in distinct cultural and historical contexts. However, bringing them into conversation demonstrates that these communes equally showcase a high degree of integration into global structural transformations of the early twentieth century. Mobility and the body are applied as analytical perspectives to underscore, firstly, the similarity and connectivity of these otherwise very different and distinctive communal projects. Secondly, mobility and the body also illustrate the importance of doing utopia, acknowledging historical experience and practice beyond established analysis of utopia that are too often concerned with mapping utopia’s discursive formation. And finally, this article complements transnational comparative and global connected history by accentuating similarity and the interplay of integration and marginality as analytical tools to narrate a decentred global history.
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做乌托邦:激进的乌托邦社区,流动性和身体在20世纪初
本文分析了20世纪上半叶的公共项目。它调查了非西方世界各个地方的公社,包括南非的托尔斯泰农场,日本帝国时期Nōson塞宁沙的无政府主义公社,以及牙买加的拉斯塔法里派Pinnacle公社。乍一看,这些公社似乎完全不相关,因为它们出现在不同的文化和历史背景下。然而,将它们纳入对话表明,这些公社同样显示出与二十世纪初全球结构变革的高度融合。流动性和身体作为分析的角度来强调,首先,这些非常不同和独特的公共项目的相似性和连通性。其次,流动性和身体也说明了做乌托邦的重要性,承认历史经验和实践超越了对乌托邦的既定分析,这些分析往往涉及描绘乌托邦的话语形成。最后,本文通过强调相似性以及一体化和边缘性的相互作用作为分析工具来叙述非中心化的全球历史,从而补充了跨国比较史和全球联系史。
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期刊介绍: Journal of Global History addresses the main problems of global change over time, together with the diverse histories of globalization. It also examines counter-currents to globalization, including those that have structured other spatial units. The journal seeks to transcend the dichotomy between "the West and the rest", straddle traditional regional boundaries, relate material to cultural and political history, and overcome thematic fragmentation in historiography. The journal also acts as a forum for interdisciplinary conversations across a wide variety of social and natural sciences. Published for London School of Economics and Political Science
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