Make, Do, and Mend: Solving Placelessness Through Embodied Environmental Engagement
Make, Do, and Mend: Solving Placelessness Through Embodied Environmental Engagement
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制造、实践和修补：通过具体的环境参与解决无处可归问题
DOI：
10.1007/978-94-007-2825-7_9
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
5.6
通讯作者：
Isis Brook
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Isis Brook
当我们处境的物质和社会结构无助于培育或维持彼此之间以及与自然的那种似乎是健康生活的先决条件的关系时，我们应该如何生活在这样的世界里，这样我们才能拥有丰富的文化和有价值的生活？这一章考察了这样一种说法，即存在补偿利益--例如世界主义和越来越多的自我反省--缓解了在没有地方的环境中过着无人居住的生活的心理和社会问题。然后它提出了解决方案，仅仅通过制造东西，积极地参与东西，特别是通过修补东西，我们就可以重新发现必要的环境美德，重新融入世界的物质结构。为什么这应该奏效，与积极、有目的地与物质领域接触的变革性力量有关。此外，我们甚至可以在当代“稀疏”的空间中做到这一点，使它们成为丰富的地方。
How should we live in the world such that we have culturally enriching and worthwhile lives when the material and social fabric of our situation does nothing to nurture or sustain the kinds of relationships with each other and with nature that would seem to be a prerequisite for a healthy life? This chapter examines the claim that there are compensatory benefits – such as cosmopolitanism and increasing self reflection – that mitigate the psychological and social problems of living un-embedded lives in placeless environments. It then proposes the solution that simply by making things, actively engaging in things and, particularly, by mending things, we can rediscover the necessary environmental virtues to reintegrate ourselves into the material fabric of the world. Why this should work has to do with the transformatory power of active, purposive engagement with the material realm. Moreover, we can do this even in the midst of contemporary ‘thinned out’ spaces to make them into enriching places.