身份认同是文化和社会研究中一个重要的概念,是指个人在特定的社会文化语境中逐步确定自己在这一社会文化秩序中的个体角色,从而形成完整的自我认知与自我定义。而地方认同则是对某个地方作为社会角色自我感知的一部分的认知,通过地方的意义来形成对个人或社会群体文化与身份的认同。以地方与身份认同作为主要的研究维度,将广州独特的“艺术村”小洲村作为研究对象,探讨城市空间演变背景下,本地村民与艺术家这两类具有不同文化倾向的社会群体基于地方的身份认同,探索艺术家与村民之间在认同上的冲突、断裂与融合。研究剖析了小洲村艺术家及原村民在社区演变的过程中文化身份认同和地方认同形成与变迁的情况,并分析其认同构建的原因和特征。研究的结果显示,小洲村的本地村民与艺术家的地方认同感在本质上看还处在一个消极的割裂与断层的状态,两个社会群体对于地方意义的感知与认同还需要未来进一步的互动与融合。
The research on identity is very important within cultural and social studies. Identity represents the roles that individuals or social groups play within a social and cultural structure. It is connected with self-recog- nition and self-definition. On the other hand, place identity means that the meanings of place are taken as part of self-definition. Through place identity, individuals or social groups understand themselves through the con- structive nature of place as a reference. In this paper, place and identity are exploited as the main axes around which this discussion is embarked. Taking Guangzhou's "Artist Village"--Xiaozhou Village as an example, the evolution of identities of both the local villagers and the newcomer artists is to be understanded, under the con- text of Guangzhou' s urban spatial transformation. In particular, the coexistence, juxtaposition, collision and even conflict between the two groups ' place-based identities are interested in. The research results suggest that there is an apparent status of fragmentation between the place identities of the two social groups. There is no sound proof in support of any progressive sense of place in either group ' S place imagination, in which sense it can be believed that there will still be a long process before the two social groups are fully integrated in, regard of the construction of their place-based identities.