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    STUDIA SOCIOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2014  
         
  Article:   ROMANIAN SOCIOLOGY TODAY: DEATH, GOLD AND THE SQUARE: RHYTHM-ANALYSIS IN A TIME OF PROTESTS.

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  Abstract:  The article discusses the creativities of protest as phenomena of rhythm. Theoretically, I propose translating Cornelius Castoriadis’ regional ontology of selves into a problematique of rhythms. I argue for an artisanal way of using the Castoriadian conceptual pair autonomy/heteronomy, focusing on moments rather than on entire societies. Furthermore, I introduce a notion of concentricity of rhythms that allows us to capture the polyrhythmic complexity of protest situations, which become psychic situations, involving presences, as well as absences, half-absences or spectres. Thus, I aim to contribute to a psychosocial understanding of the creativities of collective action. Finally, I analyse the concentricities of rhythm in a site of protest in Romania. The organisation Alburnus Maior protests against the project of a gold mine based on cyanide technologies. It performs a complicated political choreography, centred on the symbolic pair gold-death. Listening to the rhythms of the square enables a reflection on autonomy, recognition and post-oedipal politics.

Keywords: Cornelius Castoriadis, Henri Lefebvre, rhythm, radical social imaginaries, protest 		 
         
     
         
         
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