Political Philosophy Workshop （Ⅳ）：Public spaces, mediation and scales of visibility
公共空间、调解和受关注度：回顾中国进城务工人员社会形象变迁
Political Philosophy Workshop （Ⅳ）
Organizer: Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai)，Sun Yat-sen University
Topic: Public spaces, mediation and scales of visibility
Speaker: Eric Florence (Associate Professor, University of Liege，Belgium)
Moderator: Jun-Hyeok Kwak (Professor, Sun Yat-sen University)
Venue: No.13 Administrative Building of Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), SYSU
In this paper, I will first elaborate on the very notion of representation as being fundamentally linked to struggles for changes in the social hierarchy. I will question representation in relation with notions of public sphere, of visibility and of arrangements of mediation. What happens when people get together, when they act and speak together? This question is at the heart of Annah Arendt’s understanding of notions of the ‘public sphere’. For Arendt, when « people get together in the form of speech and action » these dynamics precedes the constitution of « the public sphere and of any form of government » (Arendt, Conditions de l’homme moderne). Hence, the very dynamics of the formation of spaces for association and for discussion – is itself an object of struggles revolving over the sites of public expression, over the types of action and the various scales of their visibility – somehow connecting « what is going on both inside and outside these spaces » (Merrifield 2012) – and over the types of categories of language used. In the second part of the paper, drawing on a wide range of sources (popular literature, interviews, etc.) I will review how representations of rural migrant workers have changed in the course of the reform era, tracing the changes in paradigms of representation. I shall document how various modes of cultural practices - popular literature, press accounts, songs – about and by rural migrant workers revolving around ‘dagong’ (打工) have changed from the late 1980s on. I propose to conceive of these cultural practices as constitutive of ‘networks of practices and communities of interpretations’ (Chartier) where identity-making is being shaped and struggled for.
Eric Florence, Researcher at the French Centre for Studies of Contemporary China, CEFC, Hong Kong, eflorence@cefc.com.hk and associate Professor at the University of Liege (Belgium), Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies, http://www.cedem.ulg.ac.be
Political Philosophy Workshop系列第四讲
主办：中山大学哲学系（珠海）
主题：公共空间、调解和受关注度：回顾中国进城务工人员社会形象变迁
主持：郭峻赫（中山大学教授）
时间：2016年12月15日下午16:00
地点：中山大学珠海校区海滨红楼13号哲学系（珠海）行政办公楼106
摘要：
首先我将于本文详尽地阐释社会形象的概念，这是从根本上与改变社会阶级的努力相关联的。我会运用公共领域、受关注度和调解安排的概念对社会形象进行质疑。人们聚在一起、做出行动及进行交谈会带来什么影响？这个问题是汉娜·阿伦特对“公共领域”这一概念的理解核心。阿伦特认为，当“人们以言谈和行动的形式聚在一起”时，这种驱动力的存在先于“公共领域和任何形式的政府”的形成（阿伦特《人的条件》）。因此，这股促使联系和讨论空间形成的驱动力本身就是努力的目标。这一努力是围绕着公共表达场所、行动类型及其受关注度——这在某种程度上将“这些空间内外发生的事情”联系起来（梅里菲尔德，2012）——以及围绕着所使用的语言的类别进行。在本文的第二部分，我将应用各种资料（流行文学，访谈等），回顾在改革过程中进城务工人员形象的变迁，探索形象的示例变化。我将记录自二十世纪八十年代以来，涉及进城务工人员或者由其创作的关于“打工”的文化实践的变迁——大众文学、新闻媒体报道、歌曲。我提议将这些文化实践视为“实践网络和阐释性团体”（夏提尔）的一部分——人们在此形成和追求自身身份。
Eric Florence：法国现代中国研究中心（CEFC）（香港）研究员，邮箱eflorence@cefc.com.hk，兼任列日大学（比利时）种族和移民研究中心副教授，网址http：// www .cedem.ulg.ac.be
