政治地理学中的领域概念辨析

领域是政治地理学的重要概念,但是目前国内对领域的内涵缺乏深入的解读和整理。本文在梳理西方对领域概念的理论探讨的基础上,归纳了理解领域概念的三个主要视角,并基于西方相关理论讨论,提出了领域概念的四个基本属性,即多尺度性、多维性、关系性和生成性。继而,通过对西方领域理论的研究,提出未来中国政治地理学的领域研究应该加强的几个方向。本文对于深化政治地理学领域概念的理解,避免传统认识中的偏见和局限,以及更好地制定领域策略、展开领域研究将起到积极的推动作用。

DECOMPOSING THE CONCEPT OF TERRITORY IN POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

As one of the fundamental concepts in political geography, territory is widely used in not only geographical studies but also disciplines such as international relations, political science and even sociology. However, as pointed by many scholars including Stuart Elden, Robert Sack, Joe Painter and Saskia Sassen, the concept of territory has long been considered as unproblematic and received little rigorous investigation. Based on a systematic review of studies on territory in Anglophone political geography, we summarize three major perspectives to interpret the concept of territory. By combining the Marxist studies on production of space, Foucauldian studies of genealogy and power-technology relation, and our previous studies of scale and production of space, we propose a conceptual framework to interpret the different facets of territory. By critically reading Stuart Elden's works on "birth of territory" and based on his concepts of "quality" and "calculation", we highlight the importance of "quality" to interpret the epistemological territory and propose the term "weighing" to interpret the processes of forming territorial notion and making territorial tactics. This study may not only further the academic understanding of concept of territory in both ancient and contemporary China, but also have important implications for making territorial strategies by Chinese government.