城镇化背景下村落神圣空间政治性的建构——以广州A村宗祠为例

文章以广州某古村落的改造为例,关注宗祠的神圣性建构以及其面对快速的现代化和城市化等世俗力量时的政治响应。通过微观研究,发现:1宗祠政治性来源于其服务村民的世俗功能;2在宗祠受到外界世俗力量的侵占时,村民通过运用特定时空条件来施行"避让但不逃离"的巧妙战术进行抵抗,从而实现自身权力的宣示和表达。本文旨在从日常生活和空间政治性的角度重新认识处于快速城市化进程中的中国乡村神圣空间的政治建构,为中国乡村和城镇化研究提供有益的研究视角。

THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE POLITICS OF VILLAGE'S SACRED SPACE IN THE CONTEXT OF URBANIZATION: A CASE STUDY OF THE ANCESTRAL HALL IN A VILLAGE,GUANGZHOU

Over the past two decades, the ‘new’ geography of religion has kept focusing on the negotiation between sacred and secular spaces. Aiming to reveal the reconstruction of sacredness of sacred space and the tension between sacred and secular in the context of China's rapid social and political transformations, this article took the ancestral hall in A village, a traditional village which is under urban village reconstruction in Guangzhou city, as a case study, analyzing the interrelations between villagers' everyday life and the construction of the political meaning of their sacred space, the ancestral hall. By implementing field observations and the in-depth interviews, we find that, 1) the political nature of the ancestral hall in A village derived from villagers' everyday practices in such sacred space. 2) facing the secular oppression by the local government and a real-estate company, villagers utilized the ‘tactical resistance’ to speak back by carrying out some ‘tricks’ to bring damages to the dominant in the context of specific time-space. Conse. 3) the ’tactical resistance‘ presented both the active political roles that villagers played and their weak positions and limitations in the political negotiation with secular power. 4) in the context of urban village reconstruction, the respect and protection for sacred spaces should be taken into consideration in not only the consequences like restoring or rebuilding specific sacred spaces, but the whole process of the reconstruction.