A Place at the End of a Road: A Yin-Yang Geography

Auteurs-es

  • Judith Farquhar
  • Lili Lai
  • Marshall Kramer

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.3138/anth.59.2.t04

Mots-clés :

communs, théorie Yin-Yang, l'étrange, savoir traditionnel, Chine, l'état

Résumé

Si l'une des tâches des États-nations modernes est de produire des communs ou un univers connu, un monde unique (one-world world) visible par tous, quelle place reste-t-il pour les in-communs? Partant d'une visite en 2014 dans un village qui siégeait jadis en tant que chef-lieu frontalier de la Chine, nous accompagnons James Scott en nous interrogeant à la fois sur ce qu'un État voit et ce qu'il devrait être en mesure de voir. Pour comprendre la (in)visibilité étrange de cet endroit, nous invoquons la théorie Yin-Yang chinoise pour explorer comment l'espace humain se transforme dans le temps, en partie caché par l'ombre du Yin et en partie révélé par l'éclat du Yang. Autrement dit, les in-communs ne sont pas externes au monde unique : ils constituent plutôt un possible monde qui peut se dévoiler partiellement dans un enchevêtrement de lumière et d'ombre en perpétuel changement.

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Farquhar, J., Lai, L., & Kramer, M. (2017). A Place at the End of a Road: A Yin-Yang Geography. Anthropologica, 59(2), 216–227. https://doi.org/10.3138/anth.59.2.t04

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Section Thématique: aux incommuns