ABSTRACT

The notion of ‘prefigurative politics’ was key to the resurgence of global activist politics that began with protests against the World Trade Organisation in Seattle in 1999. Prefigurative politics attempts to create alternative ways of being and relating within protest spaces and rejects the separation of means from ends. The politics of prefiguration orient protest not towards the realisation of demands in the future, but to the immanent manifestation of relationships and desires. In 2008, the alter-globalisation movement came to Japan when activists protested the G8 Summit meeting in Hokkaido. In the lead up to the mobilisation, local activists and scholars translated a number of alter-globalisation movement texts as they sought to develop a new language to articulate their desires for an alternative form of globalisation and their strategies for achieving it. The term _yojiteki seiji _(予示的政治) was coined as a translation word for ‘prefigurative politics’ and has been taken up by a number of activists and scholars. By examining the processes by which the English concept of ‘prefigurative politics’ became the Japanese _yojiteki seiji_, this paper documents the social networks and rhetorical devices via which new concepts develop in transnational space.

摘要

“比喻政治”的概念是全球激进主义政治复兴的关键，始于1999年在西雅图对世界贸易组织的抗议活动。比喻政治试图在抗议空间内创造替代性的存在和联系方式，并拒绝手段分离。从头到尾。预先配置的政治是针对未来需求的实现而不是对关系和欲望的内在体现的抗议。2008年，当激进主义者抗议北海道八国集团首脑会议时，改变全球化运动来到了日本。在动员之前 当地的激进主义者和学者翻译了许多改变全球化的运动文本，以寻求发展一种新的语言，以表达他们对全球化的另一种形式的渴望以及实现全球化的策略。_yojiteki seiji _（予示的政治）一词是“比喻政治”的翻译词，被许多活动家和学者所接受。通过考察英语中的“比喻性政治”概念成为日语“ yojiteki seiji_”的过程，本文记录了社交网络和修辞手段，通过这些网络和修辞手段，跨国概念得以发展。