新文化地理学中的非表征与再物质化研究进展

文化地理学以往对表征和话语的过度重视,引起了部分学者对“非表征”和“再物质化”的思考,呼吁关注日常生活中即时的、动态和无法被表征捕捉的实践和情绪,并重视物质实体的展演性、流动性、情绪塑造和符号交换的意义,引发和促进了新文化地理学对于情感、身体、实践、展演和日常生活等议题的关注。论文对“非表征”和“再物质化”的概念和核心理论进行了梳理,并对“身份、认同及空间的构建”“情感与空间氛围”“身体与展演及意义”以及“权力与网络”4个相关议题进行了讨论,以期促进国内文化地理学对感知的、即时的和物质性的空间要素进行关注,并对新文化地理研究方法进行创新。

“Non-representational”, “re-materializing” and the research methods of new cultural geography

Because the new cultural geography has been overemphasizing representations, symbols, and discourses, some scholars argue for the deployment of non-representational theory and re-materializing, aiming to shed more lights on everyday life, immanence, practice, and affect, which are transient, progressing, and difficult to be presented by textual representations. The new paradigm also suggests to highlight the performativity, mobility, affective atmospheres, and meanings of symbolic exchange of matters and materiality, thus encouraging new cultural geography to pay more attention on the topics of emotion, body, practice, performance, and everyday life. This article summarizes the general situations and essential concepts of non-representation and re-materializing, and discusses the related issues, including body, identity, and the construction of space; affection and atmosphere of space; body, performance, and its meaning; and power and network. This study tried to attract more attention of Chinese researchers to the embodied, perceived, and immediate geographical elements, and promote innovations in the research methods of new cultural geography.