Ethnography of Boat Dwellers' 'Home' between Water and Shore

水岸之间船民“家”的民族志

• 批准号: 2712631
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2712631
• 关键词: Ethnography; Boat; Dwellers; Home; between

This project aims to explore the difference made to culture and society when a community's home moves across ecological zones, from ocean to the land, a phenomenon which speaks to broader environmental, material and geopolitical changes. Based on the ethnography of resettled boat people in Northeast Fujian, China, who are experiencing translocation from living on wooden boats that served as homes for entire communities into concrete-built houses and apartments on land, this research aims to explore the materialities and geopolitics of dwelling, through the paradigm of sensoriness, materials and skill, further understanding of how new attachments to place are forged under resettlement conditions.Viewing the boat as dwelling 'home', this project aims to explore the connections and adaptations between boats, boat dwellers and their surroundings, by searching for how the lived-in world and cultural space was founded upon and enacted by the boat's structure and layout and the environment it inhabited. The research will also explore how people's bodies were shaped in the hydrosocial 'cosmos' and how re-settlement in houses on land has affected such bodily and ontological inhabitations. The research will focus on the material and sensorial qualities associated with the ecological legacy of maritime resource use of former boat dwellers in order to shed light on how communities understand and manage relocation with the sea in mind. The ethnographic account will capture how resettled communities utilize and transform the built environment drawing on ideas and skills derived from processes of amphibious ecology, so as to reimagine the legacy of maritime life in the everyday actions among communities whose resilience has been noted yet not been explained. The research will thus hope to inform and challenge the understanding of 'disembarked' communities that has prevailed in contemporary literature on the subject.

该项目旨在探索当一个社区的家园跨越生态区，从海洋到陆地时，对文化和社会造成的变化，这一现象说明了更广泛的环境、物质和地缘政治变化。中国以闽东北移民船民的民族志为基础，从居住在木船上作为整个社区的家园，迁移到陆上的混凝土房屋和公寓。本研究旨在通过感官、材料和技能的范式，探索居住的物质性和地缘政治，进一步了解移民条件下如何形成新的依恋。本项目将船视为居住的“家”，旨在探索船、船民和周围环境之间的联系和适应。通过探索居住的世界和文化空间是如何建立在船的结构和布局以及它所居住的环境之上的，并由船的结构和布局以及它所居住的环境决定的。这项研究还将探索人们的身体是如何在水生社会的“宇宙”中塑造的，以及在陆地上重新定居的房屋如何影响这些身体和本体论的居住。这项研究将侧重于与前船民利用海洋资源的生态遗产相关的物质和感官品质，以阐明社区如何在考虑到海洋的情况下理解和管理搬迁。民族志记述将记录重新安置的社区如何利用和改造建筑环境，借鉴两栖生态过程中产生的想法和技能，以便重新想象海洋生物在社区日常行动中的遗产，这些社区的复原力尚未得到解释。因此，这项研究将希望对当代文学中盛行的关于这一主题的“上岸”社区的理解提出信息和挑战。