Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks: Language Politics, Digital Media and the Making of an International Community
- Автор: Fians Guilherme
- Год: 2022
- Язык: русский
- Жанр: Культурология
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This situation and its unfoldings reveal the scope and limits of Esperantos internationality. In building a community around national diversity, Esperantists establish recognisable and essentialised ideas of what certain nationalities entail and how they are so that, through the cosmopolitan sociabilities taking place in the Universal Congress of Esperanto (as well as in other Esperanto settings), they can over- come simplistic understandings of nationalities and see the complexity of the world through the first-hand experiences of national Others. In this way, classifying national Others as fellow Esperantists partially over- comes the us/them binarism, through the international communication that deliberately constitutes this community as a mosaic of nationalities.
To address the question of how this international community can be anchored in national elements, the answer seems to lie in which national elements are welcomed in the building of Esperantujo. Internationality is built on tension with different features that characterise nations: along these lines, internationality embraces and is made up of nationalities. Yet, unlike internationality, internationalism cannot be constituted of nationalisms, as these tend to be antagonistic projects with contradictory purposes. Whereas national diversity runs above the other elements that constitute Esperantujo, nationalism clashes with the internationalism that prevails among Esperantists.
In many ways, the valorisation of nationalities and the rejection of nationalisms set the tone of the Universal Congresses of Esperanto, as well as of other international events such as the Olympic Games, FIFA World Cups and the United Nations summits. Yet, if there are simi- larities in this sense, there are also clear differences: Esperanto forms a community that resists the end of the annual congresses. In addition, unlike these other events, Esperantujo places every congress participant at the core of the experience of the event, as if they were all athletes competing in the Olympics or government representatives speaking for their countries at the UN summit. As a grassroots community that seeks to involve each participant equally, Esperantujo and its enactments— the Universal Congress being one of them—place every conversation, every shared meal in the congress' canteen, at the core of what makes this community meaningfuclass="underline" the use of Esperanto to communicate national differences through cosmopolitan sociabilities.
In returning to their home countries, the participants of the 2017 Universal Congress of Esperanto would probably have learned something about the language, traditions and musical genres of South Korea, as well as about the political situation of the Korean Peninsula. Likewise, through sharing meals and chatting, some of them also learned about what it means to be a Cuban who emigrated to the United States, or about the Catalan claim for independence—or even about a Brazilian anthropologist who lived and carried out fieldwork in France.
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