Противоречията на наследствата на „отвътре изключените“: върху един емпиричен казус
Contradictions in the Heritage of the „Excluded from the Inside“: an Empirical Case

Summary/Abstract: Through the prism of an autobiographical narrative written in the years after 1989, the article analyzes the contradictory process of „adhesion“ to socialist society of children with a „faulty family origin“, i.e. children of citizens identified as „enemies of the people“. The texts „Contradictions of Heritage“ (Bourdieu 2008) and „The Excluded from the Inside“ (Bourdieu, Champagne 1997) are used as a perspective for commenting on an extremely specific relationship between habitus and habitat, in which, despite the successful purposeful work for forming dispositions, the children of „enemies of the people“ are refused socialization – i.e. the „dead“ rejects the „living“ that is ready to accept it. The impossibility of building a successful social biographical trajectory is the result of an identification which, insofar as it is made by the system possessing „authority“, is not only an attempt at magical action in the world but is a real performative act which actually becomes a fatum, a destiny, but a negative one, a life in the margin, without opportunities for integration into a society from which, on the other hand, there can be no exit. The article analyses the consequences of what the official authorities considered to be (though this did not actually occur) an „inheritance of the hostile class essence of the father“; as a result of this there could be no correspondence between identity and action. This created problems both for the child and for the authorities, and necessitated for both sides the use of practical mechanisms that would establish such a correspondence. The analysis identifies the practical logic that directed the actions of both sides.

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