以往滨海旅游研究综述大多限于对所涉研究领域的横向分类,缺乏基于特定学科演进视角下的纵向考察。本文从人文地理学空间思想演变视角出发,重新审视和梳理西方滨海旅游研究的脉络。与空间思想流变过程对应的是,西方滨海旅游研究主题也经历了从“滨海旅游地空间模型与演化”到“滨海旅游空间文化解读与社会建构”再到“滨海旅游空间政治与权力景观”的过程,亦即从关注滨海旅游空间的物质性转变到社会性和政治性。借助人文地理学空间思想演变视角,可以厘清滨海旅游研究视角转换的内在逻辑,并能从空间的生产视角重新思考中国滨海旅游的新一轮发展热潮,为国内滨海旅游研究提供新的思路和方向。
From the perspective of ever-changing thoughts on space in human geography, especially taking the analytical framework of changing spatial ideas which was put forward by Ye Chao in the article "The significant turns of thoughts on space in Human Geography" (in HUMAN GEOGRAPHY Vol.27.No.5 2012) as a reference, this article re-examines and discusses the evolution process of western coastal tourism research topics from the late half century. The paper finds out that, as the research paradigms in human geography changing from positivism, humanism, radicalism to postmodern geography, the spatial ideas have undergone four turns, i.e. geometry of space, human spatiality, radical space (production of space), and postrnodern space. With the transformation of research paradigms and the becoming of spatial ideas in human geography, the research themes of western coastal tourism have gone through from "models and evolution of coastal re- sorts' spatial morphology" to "the cultural interpretation and social construction of coastal tourism space", and "the politics of coastal tourism space and landscape of power". Among those themes, the first from perspective of geometry of space mainly explores and analyses the evolution process of land-use patterns and functional structure in coastal resorts, which focuses on the materiality of coastal tourism space. Different from that, the second theme from perspective of human spatiality pays much attention to the sociality of coastal tourism space, scholars at this standpoint always explain and interpret coastal tourism space by semiotic approach, and discuss how they are socially constructed by different stakeholders. And yet, the third theme from perspective of radical space is likely to emphasize the politics of coastal tourism space. Finally, the author points out that one can understand the inherent changing logic of western coastal tourism research by means of the theory of ever-changing thoughts on space in human geography.