• Geographical Research
  • Vol. 39, Issue 4, 907 (2020)
Wen GUO1、1 and Zhenfang HUANG2、2
Author Affiliations
  • 1.College of Humanities and Social Development, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
  • 1.南京农业大学人文与社会发展学院,南京 210095
  • 2.College of Geographical Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210046, China
  • 2.南京师范大学地理科学学院,南京 210046
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    DOI: 10.11821/dlyj020181359 Cite this Article
    Wen GUO, Zhenfang HUANG. Tourism and multi-dimensional production and identity construction of the "home" in Zhudi village[J]. Geographical Research, 2020, 39(4): 907 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    In the context of mobility brought about by tourism, capitalization intervention and tourism utilization of the "home" space in traditional ethnic Zhudi village in China have triggered the multi-dimensional production of space, the difference of identity and the vicissitude of human-land relationship of the "home" space of Mosuo people in the village, and also prompted people's reflection on the development of tourism and production of the "home" space in the village in the transitional period to an urgent problem to be concerned and solved. By means of field investigation, participating observation and in-depth interview, this paper studied the multi-dimensional production and identity construction of Mosuo people's "home" space in the study village under the background of tourism. The religious beliefs and the circulation in different periods of Mosuo people in Zhudi village regulate the natural, worldview and moral outlooks of Mosuo villagers in their daily space practice reflecting the self-consistency of spirits and objects and the unity of body and mind. The "home" space of Mosuo people in Zhudi village is systematic, which is reflected in different scales of spatial circles of village outer layer, village layer, home site layer, grandmother's house and body layer. Its spatial order and significance involve abundant natural ecological consciousness and human-land relationship. Structural forces such as capital, power and consumption, which are mediated by tourism, interweave and influence each other, resulting in multi-dimensional production of the traditional space of the Mosuo people's "home" in Zhudi village, bringing about the micro-geospatial relationship of the "home", the social and cultural significance and the geographical remodeling of the human-land relationship, and having the interactive dialectics of multi-dimensional spatial level. With the multi-dimensional production and micro-geographic remodeling of "home" space in the village, the construction of pre-factor identity characterized by humanism and the construction of consequential identity characterized by structuralism and the construction of "intermediate" identity characterized by "value identification, emotional disapproval" and "value disapproval, emotional identification" have emerged. The identity construction of the tourismized practice of home space of Mosuo people implies and reflects the villagers' recognition of "homestead" and "home country". The essence of tourismized "home" space tourism is the practice process of traditional national space capitalization. Ultimately, it is the choice of development path and mode by "locals" in the new era. It is also necessary to adjust the contradiction between "home" space capitalization and development alienation. In addition, the case analysis of the micro-geographic space of "home" in Zhudi village enriches the existing theoretical research achievements of "home" in academic circles.
    Wen GUO, Zhenfang HUANG. Tourism and multi-dimensional production and identity construction of the "home" in Zhudi village[J]. Geographical Research, 2020, 39(4): 907
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