Visuality, mobility and the cosmopolitan: inhabiting the world from afar.
Visuality, mobility and the cosmopolitan: inhabiting the world from afar.
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10.1111/j.1468-4446.2006.00096.x
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2006-03
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B. Szerszynski;J. Urry
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作者：
B. Szerszynski;J. Urry
在基于本文所讨论的研究的早期出版物（例如Szerszynski和Urry 2002）中，我们认为，一种新兴的世界主义文化，在不同的社会群体中折射成不同的形式，正在被广泛的“平庸的全球主义”所培育-通过媒体和流行文化提供的全球符号和叙事的扩散。在这篇文章中，我们借鉴了这一点和其他实证研究，探讨视觉性，流动性和世界主义之间的关系。首先，我们描述了多种形式的流动性，扩大了人们对更广阔世界的认识和他们比较不同地方的能力。然后，我们图表的变化的作用，视觉在整个历史上发挥了公民身份，注意到公民身份还涉及到一个视觉的转变，从特定的背景和利益缺席。我们探讨了这种转变的一个特定版本--从远处看世界，特别是从太空看地球的图像--注意到这些图像通常意味着权力和异化。然后，我们借鉴了另一个研究项目，地点和视觉，认为转向世界性的关系与地点意味着人类越来越多地居住在他们的世界只是在一个距离。
In earlier publications based on the research discussed in this article (e.g. Szerszynski and Urry 2002), we argued that an emergent culture of cosmopolitanism, refracted into different forms amongst different social groups, was being nurtured by a widespread 'banal globalism'--a proliferation of global symbols and narratives made available through the media and popular culture. In the current article we draw on this and other empirical research to explore the relationship between visuality, mobility and cosmopolitanism. First we describe the multiple forms of mobility that expand people's awareness of the wider world and their capacity to compare different places. We then chart the changing role that visuality has played in citizenship throughout history, noting that citizenship also involves a transformation of vision, an absenting from particular contexts and interests. We explore one particular version of that transformation--seeing the world from afar, especially in the form of images of the earth seen from space--noting how such images conventionally connote both power and alienation. We then draw on another research project, on place and vision, to argue that the shift to a cosmopolitan relationship with place means that humans increasingly inhabit their world only at a distance.