Reorienting Western Theories of Atmospheres: A case study of Feng Shui practices in Taiwan and Northeast England.

重新定位西方大气理论：台湾和英格兰东北部风水实践的案例研究。

• 批准号: 2887881
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2887881
• 关键词: Reorienting; Western; Theories; Atmospheres; case

'Feng Shui' is a popular way of relating to 'qi', or the vital and spiritual power of air. Nearly half of the Chinese population believes in the practice (Zhang et al., 2021). Internationally, the internet and migration have led Feng Shui to become celebrated as "a new popular philosophy uniting East and West, even as a new religion" (Bruun,2003: xxiv). Indeed, today Feng Shui's appeal is truly global and yet also ambiguous and often misunderstood. An authority on the topic concludes that "Feng Shui means different things in different societies and to different people" (Bruun, 2008: 3). By studying Feng Shui practitioners, this project offers a practice-based and place-based approach to understandings of qi as atmosphere. In contrast to the more theoretical and detached conceptualization of air and atmosphere currently popular and dominant in the West, I will be drawing on interviews, videography, repeat photography, and a narrative-based experimental mode of writing to produce a practicebased ethnography of Feng Shui practitioners in my native Taiwan and in Northeast England. To do this, I will be working together with the Feng Shui Society, which is the leading independent Feng Shui registration organisation for Feng Shui consultants in the UK and Europe. In short, my project critically analyzes Western orientalised adaptations of Feng Shui. In so doing, this project problematises knowledge transfer in the context of current debates on atmosphere, while also contributing to practice-based approaches to knowledge production.

“风水”是一种与“气”或空气的生命和精神力量有关的流行方式。近一半的中国人相信这种做法（Zhang et al., 2021）。在国际上，互联网和移民使风水成为“一种团结东西方的新的流行哲学，甚至作为一种新的宗教”（Bruun,2003: xxiv）。事实上，今天风水的吸引力确实是全球性的，但也很模糊，经常被误解。该领域的一位权威人士得出结论，“风水在不同的社会和不同的人身上意味着不同的东西”（Bruun, 2008: 3）。通过研究风水从业者，该项目提供了一种基于实践和基于地点的方法来理解气作为大气。与目前在西方流行和占主导地位的更理论化和分离化的空气和大气概念相反，我将利用采访、录像、重复摄影和基于叙事的实验写作模式，在我的家乡台湾和英格兰东北部制作一份基于实践的风水从业者民族志。为了做到这一点，我将与英国和欧洲领先的独立风水顾问注册机构——风水学会合作。简而言之，我的项目批判性地分析了西方对风水的改编。在这样做的过程中，该项目在当前关于大气的辩论的背景下提出了知识转移的问题，同时也促进了以实践为基础的知识生产方法。