THE PRESERVATIONIST PARADOX: MODERNISM, ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE POLITICS OF SPATIAL DIVISION
THE PRESERVATIONIST PARADOX: MODERNISM, ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE POLITICS OF SPATIAL DIVISION
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保护主义悖论:现代主义、环保主义和空间划分政治
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2012
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O. Oerlemans
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O. Oerlemans
According to Latour, the imposition of crude classi ficatory schemes onto complex entities has two main effects: firstly, the classif ications lead social actors to sift the world into the schemes’ simple categories; secondly , underlying relations constantly subvert the schemes’ functioning, resulting in the production of transgressive ‘hybrids’. Thus, classification and entity interact and this interaction shapes both the practice of classification and the world that is cl assified. In this paper we examine the interaction between a scheme of spatial classificat ion and the spaces that are enrolled within the scheme. We show that a division between urban and rural areas was put in place in post-war England in order to protect a ‘vu lnerable’ rural nature from urban advance. However, as soon as it was imposed this di v ion was transgressed by complex socio-economic processes. We assess the res ponse to this transgression by considering the activities of the Council for the P rotection of Rural England [CPRE], an environmental group that played some considerabl part in constructing the urbanrural divide in the first place. We show that the C PRE has responded to the ‘paradox of preservationism’ by placing urban-rural division s in the context of ecological relationships. We illustrate this ‘ecologisation’ o f the modernist divide using the example of housing and we argue that the CPRE’s eco logi al approach illustrates how a new alignment between ‘urban’ and ‘rural’ may her ald a new and more sophisticated form of spatial classification.