In his analysis of the 1956 Hungarian uprising against Soviet control, Georges Devereux argued that social movements exist not because members exhibit attitudinal uniformity but because in the “same” collective act individuals serendipitously find a socially acceptable expression for their worldviews. Any number of individual meanings and motivations come to be “accidentally” actualised alike. Devereux’s insights are pertinent regarding the elective decision in Britain to leave the EU, and more broadly for a social-anthropological approach to stereotypes of “Britishness.” There are certain customary discourses by which social life in Britain is “ego-syntonically” conducted, whose competency represents both a sign of belonging and means to navigate everyday interactions. Six discourses of Britishness of this kind might be identified: class; ethnicity; nationality; islandness; privacy; and football. But one is careful to distinguish between such discourses of Britishness — how it is stereotypically, formulaically, to be “British”; how it is publicly, customarily, to express and take part in “Britishness” — and the diversity of individual identities that inhabit and animate those discourses. Equally, one is careful to distinguish between the kinds of violence or violation that the expression of individual worldviews by way of stereotypic collective discourses might embody: “democratic violence” as against “nihilistic violence.”

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英国和英国脱欧：想象一种本质主义的“英国”意识，并在“英国人”中徘徊

乔治·德弗勒克斯（Georges Devereux）在对1956年匈牙利反对苏维埃控制的起义进行分析时指出，社会运动的存在不是因为成员表现出态度上的统一，而是因为在“相同的”集体行为中，人们偶然地为自己的世界观找到了社会可接受的表达。各种各样的个体含义和动机都会被“偶然地”实现。德弗勒（Devereux）的见解与英国决定退出欧盟的决定有关，更广泛地涉及对“英国性”定型观念的社会人类学方法。在英国，有一些习惯性的话语是“自我”地进行社会生活的，他们的能力既代表归属感，又是驾驭日常互动的手段。可以确定六种关于英国的论述：阶级；种族; 国籍; 孤岛 隐私; 和足球。但是，人们要谨慎地区分这种英国性话语-“英国”是如何刻板地，从惯例上讲是英国人的。在公共场合，习惯上如何表达和参与“英国性”，以及居住在这些话语中并赋予其生气勃勃的个人身份的多样性。同样，人们要谨慎地区分以刻板的集体话语表达个别世界观可能体现的暴力或侵犯类型：“民主暴力”与“虚无主义暴力”。表达和参与“英国性”，以及居住在这些话语中并赋予其生气勃勃的个人身份的多样性。同样，人们要谨慎地区分以刻板的集体话语表达个别世界观可能体现的暴力或侵犯类型：“民主暴力”与“虚无主义暴力”。表达和参与“英国性”，以及居住在这些话语中并赋予其生气勃勃的个人身份的多样性。同样，人们要谨慎地区分以刻板的集体话语表达个别世界观可能体现的暴力或侵犯类型：“民主暴力”与“虚无主义暴力”。