Stress and the ecology of urban experience: Migrant mental lives in central Shanghai
Stress and the ecology of urban experience: Migrant mental lives in central Shanghai
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DOI：
10.1111/tran.12386
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发表时间：
2020-05
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
A. Amin;Lisa Richaud
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作者：
A. Amin;Lisa Richaud
城市研究和流行病学认为，现代城市生活对穷人和新来者的心理健康产生了负面影响，本文根据上海市中心一个社区的民族志，提供了一个不同的解释，那里不稳定的农村移民生活展开。借鉴“经验生态学”的概念来认识城市居住中日常情感和情感紧张的形成，它侧重于在协商城市环境的习惯中形成的主观性，应对不稳定带来的困扰思想和感受。本文认为，在不同的公共场所-一个公共图书馆，一个大型书店，一个咖啡馆-发现是重要的日常空间实践的移民，接地不同程度的成功希望，他们的现在和未来的城市经验的生态。在这样的住所中，对心理健康的压力--移民们一直称之为“压力“（yali）--似乎通过各种形式的缓解、放慢速度和“存在的时刻“得到了缓解，尽管总是以矛盾的方式。在认识到城市生活的日常物质性的同时，本文超越了中国国内移民研究的趋势，从与工作、福利和生活条件相关的结构性劣势中解读移民心理健康结果。从概念上讲，它通过承认生活经验的感觉品质在管理心理状态中的作用，在地理学，社会学和人类学的工作基础上，关注地点的情感共鸣和城市谈判的实践，开辟了新的思维领域。
Responding to claims in urban studies and epidemiology that modern urban living negatively affects the mental health of the poor and newcomers to the city, this paper offers a different account based on an ethnography of a neighbourhood in central Shanghai, where precarious rural migrant lives unfold. Drawing on the concept of “ ecologies of experience ” to recognise the making of everyday sensibilities and affective tensions in urban dwelling, it focuses on subjectivity formed in habits of negotiating the urban environment, in coping with troubled thoughts and feelings posed by precariousness. The paper considers ecologies of experience arising in distinct prosaic locations – a public library, a large bookstore, and a café – found to be important in the everyday spatial practices of migrants, ground-ing to different degrees of success hopes for their present and future in the city. In such dwelling, the stresses to mental health – consistently described by migrants as “ pressure ” ( yali ) – seem to be moderated through varied forms of respite, slowing ‐ down, and “ moments of being, ” though always in ambivalent ways. In recognising the everyday materiality of urban living, the paper looks beyond the tendency in studies of China's internal migration to read off migrant mental health outcomes from structural disadvantages related to work, welfare, and living conditions. Conceptually, it opens new ground in thinking by acknowledging the role of the felt qualities of lived experience in managing mental states, building on work in geography, sociology, and anthropology attentive to the affective resonances of place and to practices of urban negotiation.