Possible geographies: a passing encounter in a cafe
Possible geographies: a passing encounter in a cafe
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可能的地理位置：咖啡馆的一次偶然相遇
DOI：
10.1111/j.1475-4762.2006.00712.x
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发表时间：
2006
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影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
C. Philo
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作者：
E. Laurier;C. Philo
非表征理论在人文地理学中的兴起，促使研究人员如何“代表”他们在实地考察中遇到的问题。一个核心问题是，我们陷入了一个无法克服的僵局，一个aporia，因为我们不能分享思想，意义，感受等，以一种忠实于我们对它们的体验的方式，或者同样地，某些壮观或可怕的事件和遭遇逃脱了它们的复述。我们认为，这种不可能性不应该成为退出世界的理由，相反，我们认为，仍然可以对特定的相遇进行细致的描述，在这个过程中，参与其中的民族正在（合理地）进行的情境化的、具身化的意义创造工作，使这些相遇成为它们所是的。这样的工作可能会受到怀疑论的威胁，因为它假设了此时此地至少部分成功的再现的可能性，并依赖于事物的“公正性”。社会生活的学者们，包括怀疑论在内，可以从认真研究任何相遇是如何在没有先验或结构性保证的情况下在生活世界的直接性中展开的中学到很多东西，在生活世界中，相遇是被制造和重新制造的。
The rise of non-representational theory in human geography has prompted searching questions about how researchers might 'represent' what they encounter in their fieldwork. A central problem is that we reach an insurmountable impasse, an aporia, because we cannot share thoughts, meanings, feelings, etc., in a manner faithful to our experience of them or equally that certain spectacular or horrific events and encounters escape their retelling. We argue that this impossibility should not become a warrant for withdrawing from the world, and instead propose that close descriptions can still be offered of particular encounters, attending in the process to the situated, embodied sense-making work being (unavoidably) undertaken by the peoples involved that makes those encounters what they are. Such work may be threatened by scepticism, because it assumes the possibility of representation being at least partially successful, here and now, and relies on the 'just-thisness' of things. Scholars of social life can, scepticism contained, learn much from taking seriously how any encounter unfolds without transcendental or structural guarantee in the immediacy of the life-worlds where it is made and re-made.