POSTMODERNISM IN ECONOMIC-GEOGRAPHY - METAPHOR AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF ALTERITY
POSTMODERNISM IN ECONOMIC-GEOGRAPHY - METAPHOR AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF ALTERITY
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DOI：
10.1068/d100057
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发表时间：
1992-02-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
CURRY, MR
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作者：
BARNES, TJ;CURRY, MR
从经济地理学贯穿于隐喻的前提出发，本文认为现代主义和后现代主义经济地理学家在其学科范围内对隐喻的语义学处理方式几乎没有什么不同。这一论点是通过考察经济地理学中的“大”隐喻（如引力模型）和“小”隐喻（如那些点缀在个别文章中的隐喻）的使用来说明的。虽然这两个群体在隐喻的使用方面几乎没有语义差异，但在语用上存在差异，即在隐喻用于创建社区的方式及其正面，他性或他性方面。在寻求发展每个人都可以应用的简单方法的过程中，现代主义地理学家提出了一种民主的观点。相反，对于后现代主义经济地理学家来说，理解世界需要一种超越的行为;这种观点是荷马式的或英雄式的，其中世界被分为那些拥有深刻的敏感性来把握复杂性的人，以及那些不能因此仅仅是“他者”的人。
From the premise that economic geography is shot through with metaphors, it is argued that there is very little difference in the way modernist and postmodernist economic geographers semantically approach metaphor within their discipline. This argument is illustrated by examining within economic geography the use both of 'big' metaphors, such as the gravity model, and of 'little' metaphors such as those that pepper individual pieces of writing. Although there are few semantic differences with respect to metaphor use between the two groups, there are pragmatic differences; that is, in the way metaphors are used to create community, and its obverse, otherness or alterity. In their quest to develop foolproof methods that could be applied by everyone, modernist geographers proposed a democratic view. In contrast, for postmodernist economic geographers understanding the world requires an act of transcendence; this view is Homeric or heroic, wherein the world is divided into those who possess the depth of sensitivity to grasp complexity, and those who cannot and are thus merely 'other'.