Abstract

The practice of “illegal” gold mining in one of Russian Far Eastern settlements is examined. An attempt is made to deconstruct the state as a self-sufficient institution or autonomous actor with the right to regulate, govern, and use force against the population living in a certain territory. It is shown that the bankruptcy of the main enterprise in a particular locality and the feeling of the state’s absence in everyday life under the availability of natural resources have not made the territory get out of control. This is manifested in the categorization of informal practices, where there is a reference to the “normal” order: gold mining should be carried out within the framework of tight control, as opposed to the self-will of the gold rush. The discursive formalization of practices makes it possible to see how an imaginary strong state operates across the boundaries of a local place and in what features the cultural specificity of the construct under study is manifested. This article is based on the results of a series of field studies conducted from 2010 to 2017 in the regions of the Russian Far East.

中文翻译：

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呼吁国家：俄罗斯远东地区的“非法”金矿开采

摘要

审查了在俄罗斯远东定居点之一进行“非法”金矿开采的做法。试图将国家解构为自给自足的机构或自治行为者，有权监管、治理和对生活在特定领土上的人口使用武力。结果表明，特定地区的主要企业破产，以及在自然资源可用的情况下，国家在日常生活中的缺席感并没有使该地区失控。这体现在非正式实践的分类上，其中提到了“正常”秩序：金矿开采应在严格控制的框架内进行，而不是淘金热的任性。实践的话语形式化使我们有可能看到一个想象中的强国如何跨越地方的边界运作，以及所研究的建构的文化特异性表现在哪些特征上。本文基于 2010 年至 2017 年在俄罗斯远东地区进行的一系列实地研究的结果。