Bounding difference: Intersectionality and the material production of gender, caste, class and environment in Nepal
Bounding difference: Intersectionality and the material production of gender, caste, class and environment in Nepal
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边界差异：尼泊尔性别、种姓、阶级和环境的交叉性和物质生产
DOI：
10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.03.004
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发表时间：
2011
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
A. Nightingale
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作者：
A. Nightingale
当前人文地理学的理论化引起了人们对空间和社会关系的关注，挑战了依赖固定身份的差异观念，强调了日常生活在社会不平等产生中的重要性。同样，女权主义政治生态学强调了“自然”或“环境”在主体性生产中的作用，这样性别和自然的概念就会相互关联。在本文中，我从这些见解出发，探索性别、种姓和其他社会差异方面的具体表现如何瓦解物质与象征之间的区别。差异的象征思想是通过具体的物质互动产生和表达的。通过这种概念化，我希望推动地理学关于自然和女性主义政治生态学的辩论，探讨如何理解主体性、差异性和社会性质的交叉出现。重要的是，它是通过日常活动（包括森林采伐、农业工作、食物准备和消费）（重新）产生的特定空间、实践和身体的象征意义，所有这些活动都对生态过程和社会差异产生影响。通过日常任务的执行，不仅可以看到性别，种姓和社会差异的观念，而且可以明显地看到超越身体并进入日常生活空间的差异的体现性质。我使用来自尼泊尔农村的民族志证据来探索身体、空间、生态和差异的象征意义之间的界限是如何通过工作和仪式的实践产生和维持的。
Current theorising in human geography draws attention to the relational emergence of space and society, challenging ideas of difference that rely on fixed identities and emphasising the importance of the everyday in the production of social inequalities. Similarly, feminist political ecology has emphasised the role of ‘nature’ or ‘environment’ in the production of subjectivities such that ideas of gender and nature arise in relation to each other. In this paper I build from these insights to explore the ways in which the embodied performance of gender, caste and other aspects of social difference collapse the distinction between the material and the symbolic. Symbolic ideas of difference are produced and expressed through embodied interactions that are firmly material. Through this kind of conceptualisation, I hope to push forward debates in geography on nature and feminist political ecology on how to understand the intersectional emergence of subjectivities, difference and socio-natures. Importantly, it is the symbolic meanings of particular spaces, practices and bodies that are (re)produced through everyday activities including forest harvesting, agricultural work, food preparation and consumption, all of which have consequences for both ecological processes and social difference. Through the performance of everyday tasks, not only are ideas of gender, caste and social difference brought into view, but the embodied nature of difference that extends beyond the body and into the spaces of everyday life is evident. I use ethnographic evidence from rural Nepal to explore the ways in which boundaries between bodies, spaces, ecologies and symbolic meanings of difference are produced and maintained relationally through practices of work and ritual.