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

该项目旨在探索当一个社区的家园从海洋到陆地跨越生态区时对文化和社会所产生的差异，这一现象涉及更广泛的环境，物质和地缘政治变化。本研究以福建省东北部的移民船民为研究对象，通过对他们的民族志研究，探讨他们居住的物质性和地缘政治，通过感官、材料和技能的范式，进一步了解在重新安置的条件下，新的地方依恋是如何形成的。本项目将船视为居住的“家”，旨在探索船、船居者及其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。这项研究还将探讨人们的身体是如何在水社会的“宇宙”中形成的，以及土地上的房屋重新定居如何影响这种身体和本体论的居住。该研究将侧重于与前船民使用海洋资源的生态遗产相关的物质和感官品质，以阐明社区如何理解和管理搬迁时考虑到海洋。人种学帐户将捕捉重新安置的社区如何利用和改造建筑环境的思想和技能来自两栖生态过程，以便重新想象海洋生活的遗产在日常行动中的社区，其弹性已经注意到尚未解释。因此，这项研究将希望告知和挑战的理解'下船'的社区，流行在当代文学的主题。

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.