Rethinking Community: Translation Space as a Departure from Political Community

作者：Shindo Reiko^*

来源：International Political Sociology, 2012, 6(2): 149-164.

DOI：10.1111/j.1749-5687.2012.00156.x

Shindo, Reiko. (2012) Rethinking Community: Translation Space as a Departure from Political Community. International Political Sociology, doi: 10.1111/j.1749-5687.2012.00156.x (C) 2012 International Studies Association In this paper, I explore one way of thinking about political community. Drawing on Jean-Luc Nancys idea of community, I suggest that community is not a full circle, but an open-ended line. Thinking community-as-a-line is to shift our focus from the completed pictures of community to the inception of community. In this way of thinking, community is a shared mode of being. I argue that at the heart of sharing lies translation-communication or translation space where one (singularity) is perpetually ingrained in others (plurality). The subject constantly emerges in relation to others in translation space. I argue that looking at community as a line is a way to avoid the statist boundary, the subject of which is situated either inside or outside. I further argue that the elusive subject in translation space engages in politics through escape.

• 出版日期2012-6