跨地方对话与地方重构——从“炼狱”到“天堂”的石门坎

跨地方对话是地方内外系统交流的主要形式和途径,是理解地方意义的重要视角,对地方的建构和再造有独特作用。贵州石门坎大花苗(族)借助基督教会的进入,启动跨地方对话,通过西方生产技术和处世价值观的吸收及民族文化符号的重构,实现民族认同的重生,达成了民族崛起。大花苗(族)自组织能力的提升、地方话语权的获得及主体地位的体现,促使其民族"自我赋权",实现地方意义的重塑。以贵州石门坎为案例,结合地理学相关分支学科的思想进行深入的田野调查,研究跨地方对话对地方认同以及地方意义重构的作用,以期丰富跨地方的学术研究内涵、启迪少数民族文化觉醒,有助于他们能够正确把握并应对越加剧烈的外来文化的冲击。

TRANSLOCAL DYNAMIC AND THE LOCAL RECONSTRUCTION: FROM “PURGATORY” TO “HEAVEN” IN SHIMENKAN

The approach of translocal, which concerns the way of the negotiation between places, is the important lens to understand the ethnic identity and it is also playing an important role in the (re)construction of local social network. In this paper, we attempt to explore the entanglements between translocal dynamics and the construction and reconstruction of ethnic identity and thus the meaning of place. Furthermore, we collected relevant secondary data from laws and regulations at various scales (center government, province government, county government and local town government), and hoped to offer insights into the state's expressed ideologies. In doing so, our theoretical and empirical founding are three fold: 1) a growing geographical body of literature has recently been developing on translocal, but there is few studies in and on China.2) with the help of the Christian missionary, Da Hua Miao ethnic group in Shimenkan, Guizhou initiated the translocal dynamics with western, transformed themselves to the "leading group" from the slavery, consequently achieved the revival by absorbing the western technologies, values and reconstructing the ethnic identity. 3) Plus, The ability of self-organization, the acquisition of the local discourse of power and subject position, reflected the "self-empowerment" of Da Hua Miao ethnic group and drastically reconstructed their sense of place. The significances of this article can be ascribed to 1)introducing the terminology of translocal, 2)uncovering the convoluted relationship between translocal, place and identity, and 3) putting the analysis under the social context of China.