Oral testimonies from Greek Cypriots who lived through the Greek dictatorship’s 1974 coup d’état on Cyprus and the subsequent Turkish invasion frequently present the narrators as mere pawns in a macro-scale historical drama, having little to no control over or understanding of the broader events unfolding around them. On one level, this rings true, as individual soldiers and civilians were rarely if ever able to dictate or perceive the broader trajectories of the conflict in which they found themselves. Yet this perspective belies the subtler reality that even in chaotic conditions and under deeply restricted circumstances people exercise agency and create spaces, however small, in which to operate as autonomous agents and to shape their own personal trajectories. Whilst they could not leave the chessboard, these ‘pawns’ actively moved themselves here and there, performing microacts that locally refracted official diktats and ideologies in mutable ways. Moreover, in the construction of their testimonies they assert further agency, assembling these microacts into meaningful narratives by placing them within broader historical frameworks.

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“他们在这里和那里移动的棋子”？1974 年塞浦路斯冲突中的微观行为、机动空间和日常机构

经历过希腊独裁政权 1974 年对塞浦路斯的政变和随后的土耳其入侵的希族塞人的口头证词经常将叙述者视为宏观历史剧中的棋子，几乎无法控制或理解更广泛的事件在他们周围展开。在一个层面上，这是正确的，因为单个士兵和平民很少能够支配或感知他们发现自己所处的更广泛的冲突轨迹。然而，这种观点掩盖了一个更微妙的现实，即即使在混乱的条件下和受到严格限制的情况下，人们也会行使能动性并创造空间，无论多么小，在其中作为自主代理人进行运作并塑造自己的个人轨迹。虽然他们无法离开棋盘，这些“棋子”积极地四处移动，以可变的方式执行在当地折射官方命令和意识形态的微动作。此外，在构建他们的证词时，他们主张进一步的代理，通过将这些微观行为置于更广泛的历史框架中，将它们组装成有意义的叙述。