荐读：Reed, I. A. (2019). Performative State-Formation in the Early American Republic. American Sociological Review, 84(2), 334–367. IntroducationPerformative Dimension有什么用？这篇文章要解决什么问题？ this article argues that state-formation has a performative dimension: the initial accumulation of state power occurs, inpart, through “state by demonstration.” In this dimension of the accumulation of power,the publicity of thewould-be state’s acts of violence and coercion, and the variable interpretation of these acts (including, as part of interpretation, the attribution of such acts to the state), are paramount to a state’s success (or failure) and developing character. If the would-be state is compelling and convincing, tocertain audiences, in its execution of violence on certain targets, then itachieves a certain felicity condition. Reed认
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