Place and the Paradox of Modernity
Place and the Paradox of Modernity
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地方与现代性的悖论
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1997
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T. Oakes
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在过去的十年里，地理学家在理论上为地方的概念注入了活力，强调了地方的无界性、历史活力和内在的多重身份。这部作品经常被描述为一种新的构思场所的方式，部分原因是后现代文化和社会理论的兴起以及与之相关的现代主义在学术界的消亡。有人声称，现代主义贬低了作为理解社会变化的相关工具的地位。然而，本文认为，事实上，场所已经成为表现现代性体验的一个特别重要的领域，当代文化地理学中设想的场所概念在19世纪和20世纪的许多文学中都有重要的人文根源。本文通过考察歌德和哈代的作品以及雷蒙德·威廉姆斯的小说，考察了地点表征这一文学传统与学术地理学之间的交集。这些作家清晰地表达了一个没有地方的愿景。
The concept of place has, over the past decade, been invigorated theoretically by geographers emphasizing the unboundedness, historical dynamism, and multiple identities inherent in places. This work is often characterized as a new way of conceiving place, enabled in part by the rise of postmodern cultural and social theory and the related demise of modernism in academia. Modernism, it has been claimed, devalued place as a relevant vehicle for understanding social change. This paper, however, contends that in fact place has been a particularly significant terrain for representing the experience of modernity, and that the conception of place envisioned in contemporary cultural geography has important humanistic roots in much nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. The paper examines the intersections between this literary tradition of place representation and academic geography, examining the work of Goethe and Hardy, and the fiction of Raymond Williams. These writers articulated a vision of place no...