Internationalism, temporality and hope

A view from Eastern Europe and the Left

in Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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Petra Rethmann Mc Master University

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https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12265
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socialist internationalism; utopian temporality; hope; Eastern Europe; Left politics
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This article examines the politics of temporality and hope in relation to a political imagination generated by constituencies of an East European Left. In looking in particular at how a socialist‐inspired notion of internationalism may serve as a tool to animate future‐oriented political imaginations, the article also marks an argument for rethinking anthropological and Left historiographical practices, and to consider the affirmative valence of utopian imaginations as a form of critical action.

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Research Article
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11
Keywords:
socialist internationalism; utopian temporality; hope; Eastern Europe; Left politics
Print Publication Date:
01 Nov 2015
Online Publication Date:
01 Nov 2015
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© European Association of Social Anthropologists 2015
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