Unlikely hikers? Activism, Instagram, and the queer mobilities of fat hikers, women hiking alone, and hikers of colour
Unlikely hikers? Activism, Instagram, and the queer mobilities of fat hikers, women hiking alone, and hikers of colour
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不太可能徒步旅行者？
作者：
Phiona Stanley
摘要本文调查了一个新生的、主要是在线社区，这些人被称为“不太可能的徒步旅行者”，他们联合起来的前提是，徒步旅行对每个人的身心健康都有好处，而且多样性可以而且应该扩展到包括国家公园在内的户外空间。然而，到目前为止，徒步旅行者在户外媒体、广告和更广泛的社会想象中的表现方式给参与带来了强大的障碍。这篇论文追溯了前英国殖民者殖民地，特别是美国的“户外”的论述来源和定位的意识形态，展示了国家公园如何保持边疆殖民主义的遗产，以及合法的户外人士的默认理解，即必须是白人、健全的人、异性恋和男性。这些遗产随后通过四年的在线人种学数据(2015-2018)进行追溯，包括肥胖徒步旅行者、包括女同性恋在内的单身女性徒步旅行者和有色人种徒步旅行者的多媒体叙事，他们在Instagram上讲述自己的户外经历以及相关的播客、博客和杂志文章。这场讨论是利用霍尔曼·琼斯和哈里斯的酷儿概念和厄里的迁移率范式进行的理论化，并提出作为激进主义和放大的一部分，目的是在学术空间内外探索酷儿的踪迹。
ABSTRACT This paper investigates a nascent, primarily online community of so-called ‘unlikely hikers’, united in the premise that hiking is good for everyone’s mental and physical health and that diversity can and should extend to outdoor spaces including national parks. However, the ways in which hikers have hitherto been represented in outdoors media, advertising, and wider social imaginaries present potent barriers to participation. The paper traces the discursive origins and positioned ideologies of ‘the outdoors’ in former British settler colonies, particularly the USA, showing how national parks maintain legacies of frontier colonialism and default understandings of legitimate outdoorspeople as necessarily White, able-bodied, straight, and male. These legacies are then traced through four years of online ethnographic data (2015–2018), comprising multimedia narratives of fat hikers, solo women hikers including lesbian women, and hikers of colour as they relate their outdoor experiences on Instagram and related podcasts, blogs, and magazine articles. The discussion is theorized using Holman Jones and Harris’s notion of queering and Urry’s mobilities paradigm, and ‘queer mobilities’ is proposed as part of an activism and amplification aimed at queering the trail both within and beyond academic spaces.