Paradoxes of Place: Pausing Motion in Ancient Italy

当前关于地点、流动性和公民身份的理论为理解个人和社区如何与居住景观中真实和想象的点联系起来，以及人们如何设想和赋予他们居住的地方价值提供了新的手段。在这项研究中，古意大利将通过文本和物质证据来检验，以明确地方的“构建”性质意味着什么，以及其构建机制如何发展和改变社区成员和身份。它将通过研究三个方面来关注公元前最后两个世纪罗马-意大利联合政权的建立：空间和时间的映射；建筑与景观代理；以及公民身份和归属感的调和。我将验证这样一个假设，即在罗马霸权之前普遍存在的对地理位置的流动关系，让位于对地理位置的更大要求。因此，该项目关注人类移徙和边界发展的各个方面，并审查了在人类流动有时是可以接受的，有时是令人讨厌的情况下所提出的挑战。因此，该项目涉及我们自己世界中重要的问题。现代欧洲人越来越多地在融合文化的界面上协商自己的身份，就像几个世纪前古意大利人所做的那样。他们的困境在历史上也很明显，领土争端放大了，文化和社区摩擦又放大了领土争端。在这种情况下，我们的地方感是如何协商和表达的？作为公民和个人，我们如何想象一个地方在我们的生活中会是什么样子？该项目将：(1)如上所述，对古意大利的特殊问题进行详细的历史分析；(2)将这些概念与地理学、人类学和社会学等多个领域的跨学科理论联系起来；(3)在更广泛的历史框架内对这些问题进行背景分析。该项目于去年开始，AHRC奖学金将成为该项目的最后阶段。它将提供至关重要的时间和空间来汇集我对古意大利的实证研究，以及从跨学科研讨会上对地点主题的见解，以及我将于2010年在普林斯顿作为戴维斯研究员与其他历史学家进行的研究。这些研究将在2011年奖学金结束前完成的《地方悖论：古意大利的停顿运动》一书中达到高潮。这项研究将为与艺术家和建筑师的跨学科和跨实践合作奠定基础，以进一步发展思想，并确保研究结果产生最大的影响。这样一个合资企业的申请已经提交给了欧洲研究委员会，题为“替代地点：过去和未来”。它将考虑地方概念在其结构的物理或关系/行为方面具有首要地位的背景之间移动的方式。AHRC奖学金将允许完成研究，为探索史学和概念理论之间的关系提供一种创新的方法，以阐明人类地方经验中的一系列共同问题。

Current theories of place, mobility and citizenship provide new means of understanding how individuals and communities relate to real and imagined points in the inhabited landscape and how people envisage and give value to the places in which they live. In this research, Ancient Italy will be examined through textual and material evidence to make explicit what a 'constructed' nature of place means and how the mechanism of its construction develops and changes community membership and identity. It will focus on the creation of the joint Romano-Italian power in the last two centuries BC by investigating three areas: the mapping of space and time; the agency of architecture and landscape; and the reconciliation of citizenship and belonging. I will test the hypothesis that a fluid relationship to physical locatedness, prevalent prior to Roman hegemony, gave way to one that required greater physical fixity. The project is therefore concerned with aspects of human migration and the development of borders, and it examines the challenges presented by contexts in which human mobility is sometimes acceptable, and sometimes obnoxious. As such the project engages issues of major importance in our own world. Modern Europeans increasingly negotiate their identities on the interface of converging cultures, just as the populations of ancient Italy did centuries ago. Their predicaments are also visible throughout history where territorial disputes amplify, and are amplified by, cultural and communal friction. In such situations, how is our sense of place negotiated and expressed? How do we imagine what a place can be in our lives as citizens and individuals? The project will: (1) provide detailed historical analysis of the particular issues in play in ancient Italy as indicated above; (2) conceptualise these in relation to interdisciplinary theory from several domains including geography, anthropology and sociology; and (3) contextualise these within a wider historic framework. The AHRC fellowship will form the final stage of this project, which was begun last year. It will provide the crucial time and space to bring together my empirical studies on ancient Italy, with insights from the interdisciplinary workshops on the subject of place, and the research which I will be conducting with other historians as a Davis Fellow in Princeton, in 2010. These will culminate in a book on Paradoxes of Place: pausing motion in ancient Italy, which will be completed by the end of the fellowship in 2011. This research will form the foundations for an ongoing interdisciplinary and cross-practice collaboration with artists and architects to develop further the ideas and ensure that the findings have maximum impact. An application for such a venture has already been submitted, to the European Research Council, entitled Alternative Place: past and future. It will consider the way that the concept of place moves between contexts in which either the physical or the relational/performative aspect of its construction have primacy. The AHRC fellowship will allow the completion of research which will offer an innovative methodology for exploring the relationship between historiography and conceptual theory to illuminate a common set of problems in the human experience of place.