Spatial Embodied Experience and Rhythm Analysis in the Everyday Life of a Traditional Community in a Metropolis: An Auto-Ethnographic Study
Received date: 2022-11-01
Revised date: 2023-02-20
Online published: 2023-12-15
The study of everyday life has gained attention across various disciplines in the context of modernity. This study utilizes Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis to explore the everyday experiences of residents in the Xiguan Community, a historically significant residential area in western Guangzhou undergoing urbanization and tourism development. Adopting an emic perspective, this study employed auto-ethnography to depict the daily rhythms and spatially embodied experiences of the author, a native resident of the Xiguan Community. By incorporating reflective and self-narrative elements and comparing them across generations, this approach provides first-hand knowledge and self-awareness. This research offers an insider's comprehensive understanding of the effects of urbanization and tourism on residents' everyday lives. Informed by Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis, this analysis incorporates spatial and temporal dimensions, with a specific emphasis on residents' experiences of spatial embodiment and their engagement with everyday rhythms. The study reveals two key findings: First, urbanization and the commodification of landscapes have created a constructed "the present" in traditional communities, displacing the meaningful "existence" of everyday life. Certain spaces within these communities have detached from residents' everyday lives, serving urban and tourism purposes, and leading to partial alienation in spatial and temporal dimensions. These spaces represent the simulacra and fragments of residents' everyday lives, lacking subjectivity, temporality, and wholeness. Over time, the "existence" that embodies the meaning of residents' everyday lives has been squeezed out by structural forces such as urban renewal and community tourism. For tourists, these landscapes may serve only as replicas of attractions, devoid of the essence of residents' everyday lives. For the residents, these community spaces have become manifestations of instrumental rationality and commodification. Second, this study highlights that traditional community residents' bodies are disciplined and governed by the instrumental rationality of urban production and the invisible rhythms of the tourism industry. In large cities, the significance of individual bodies in traditional urban communities is often overlooked, as bodies become tools for creating value through work. Individuals adjust their everyday rhythms based on urban settings' production rationality and efficiency priorities. This undermines the bodily rhythms that align with natural cycles and prompts residents to distance themselves from traditional communities. While the older generation in the Xiguan Community experiences overlapping leisure time and shares community spaces, fostering solid social relationships, the younger generation faces longer working hours, extended commuting distances, and more individualized leisure time. As a result, there is a lack of synchronization in leisure rhythms among neighbors. The embodied rhythms of traditional community residents have shifted from a state of harmony with natural rhythms and community spaces to being governed by the instrumental rationality of urban production and invisible rhythms of the tourism industry. This study provides an emic and longitudinal perspective to the investigation of spatial experiences and embodied rhythms in urban and tourism development. The use of auto-ethnography amplifies residents' voices and calls for greater consideration of local daily life. These findings emphasize the importance of incorporating residents' everyday experiences into the planning and development of sustainable communities and tourism.
Aiheng Zhang . Spatial Embodied Experience and Rhythm Analysis in the Everyday Life of a Traditional Community in a Metropolis: An Auto-Ethnographic Study[J]. Tropical Geography, 2023 , 43(12) : 2345 -2358 . DOI: 10.13284/j.cnki.rddl.003784
图1 自我民族志资料收集示意 Fig.1 Diagram of the data collection process |
图 2 龙津西路的骑楼建筑(摄于20世纪90年代)照片来源:荔湾年鉴(荔湾区地方志编撰委员会,2011)。 Fig.2 Arcade building on Longjin West Road (Taken in 1990s) |
图3 1958年荔枝湾初夏 Fig.3 Lychee Bay in early summer 1958 |
1 资料于2020年6—10月在荔湾区志办公室图书资料室收集。
2 恩宁路旧城更新过程中因信息公开不足和公众参与问题,市民大众、专家学者和媒体工作者都积极参与抵抗“大拆改”旧城更新模式的活动中。
3 澳门特别行政区的大三巴牌坊原为圣保禄神学院的大门,但经历数次大火,现在只剩下教堂正门前壁。父母亲以此比喻恩宁路骑楼街只剩下沿路的骑楼,骑楼后的居民建筑在2006—2009年陆续被拆。
4 匿名处理,1986年生,女性。
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