Shock and subjectivity in the age of globalization

Dados Bibliográficos

AUTOR(ES) Jack R. Friedman
AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, USA,
ANO 2007
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO Anthropological Theory
ISSN 1463-4996
E-ISSN 1741-2641
EDITORA SAGE Publications
DOI 10.1177/1463499607083428
CITAÇÕES 7
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-18
MD5 b9b4a8addeee40678ef4e61becdde2e3

Resumo

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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