“重建附近”:年轻人如何从现实中获得力量?——人类学家项飙访谈(上)

“Rebuilding the Nearby”:How can Young People Gain Strength from Reality?An Interview with Anthropologist Xiang Biao(Part 1)

人类学家项飙提出“附近”的概念,尤其将“重建附近”作为对当下年轻人的一种劝说。《当代青年研究》近日对项飙进行专访,访谈分为上、下两篇发布,上篇访谈讨论了“附近”作为一个概念的缘起、背景、价值和所能扮演的角色。项飙认为,“附近”的概念受到存在主义和实用主义哲学的影响,旨在发展一种“生活的人类学”,希望能使个体在无法改变整体性环境的条件下学会如何处理自己的生活,而“附近”正是解决这一难题的现实的、小的突破口。通过对退出与逃避、生态与功能、“大”与“小”等几对关系的讨论,“附近”希望倡导一种态度,即用生态性的视角重新认识周边和安顿自身,从而能更好地欣赏和理解社会的差异性,以及这种差异性存在的合理性,从中看到它的价值,帮助年轻人可以勇敢地、智慧地为今天看似失控的生活重新找到一个“锚”。

Anthropologist Xiang Biao puts forward the concept of the nearby,especially taking“rebuilding the nearby”as a kind of persuasion for today’s young people.Contemporary Youth Research recently conducted an interview with Xiang Biao,which is divided into two parts.The first part discusses the origin,background,value and role of the nearby as a concept.Xiang Biao believes that this concept is influenced by existentialism and pragmatic philosophy,aiming to develop a sort of“anthropology of life”,hoping to enable individuals to learn how to handle their own lives on the conditions that cannot change the overall environment,and that“rebuilding the nearby”is a realistic,small breakthrough to it.By discussing the difference between withdrawal and escape,ecology and function,and the relationship between“big”and“small”,the approach hopes to advocate an attitude,that is,to re-understand the nearby and settle down itself from the perspective of ecology,so as to better appreciate and understand the social difference and the rationality of the existence of this difference,and see its value from it.And then helping young people can be courageous and wise in seeking an anchor for a life that seems out of control today.