The category of the nomad has gained a newfound salience in recent decades, ranging from public interest in “digital nomadism” to academic debates about “nomadic theory.” Faced with this upsurge of interest in nomadism, this collective discussion brings together five scholars of diverse theoretical and academic backgrounds to investigate the pasts, presents, and possible futures of the nomad category. The contributions excavate the conditions under which the category first arose in European social and political discourse, explore the historical baggage that this category has carried with it into the twenty-first century, and inquire under what conditions nomadism has come to be regarded as a promising or emancipatory trope. Keeping with the open-ended ethos of international political sociology, the aim of the collective discussion is not to seek conceptual mastery over the category of the nomad, but to foreground the multiple, ambivalent, and often contradictory ways in which this category has been deployed through space and time. More broadly, the collective discussion is an invitation for scholars to explore the international social and political lives of our concepts in a way that destabilizes disciplinary and institutional boundaries.

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游牧民族的土地：探索游牧民族的社会和政治生活


近几十年来，游牧民族这一类别获得了新的突出地位，从公众对“数字游牧主义”的兴趣到关于“游牧理论”的学术辩论。面对人们对游牧民族的兴趣激增，本次集体讨论汇集了五位具有不同理论和学术背景的学者，共同探讨游牧民族的过去、现在和可能的未来。这些贡献挖掘了该类别首次出现在欧洲社会和政治话语中的条件，探讨了该类别在 21 世纪所携带的历史包袱，并询问在什么条件下游牧主义被视为一种有前途或解放的比喻。与国际政治社会学的开放式精神保持一致，集体讨论的目的不是寻求对游牧民族类别的概念掌握，而是突出这一类别在空间和时间中的多重、矛盾且往往相互矛盾的方式。更广泛地说，集体讨论是邀请学者以一种破坏学科和制度界限的方式探索我们概念的国际社会和政治生活。