城乡文化整合的功能定位与路径选择

Urban-Rural Cultural Integration:its functional positioning and future paths

在西方现代化话语体系中,城市和乡村被割裂为城市与乡村对立的二元空间。文化地理学和文化人类学领域的文化整合理念为城乡一体化发展提供了新的思维范式。文化整合的认同、保障和外溢功能对于克服城市文化和乡村文化的缺陷、促进双方可持续发展有着重要意义。目前,我国在城乡文化整合方面存在着大城市、小乡村,形式多、互动少,冲突多、融合少的现象,这既有城乡二元结构方面的原因,也有公共文化服务体系落后和文化贫困方面的原因。为此,要实现城乡文化和谐发展,我们还有很长的路要走,要经历"互动交流——加强共通——差异磨合——自觉创新"的路径,最终形成二元一体的文化格局。

In the West’s modernity discourse,the cities and rural villages stand on opposite sides of a dichotomy.However,the notion of cultural integration in contemporary cultural geography and anthropology has provided new discursive framework for thinking about unified urban-rural development.Functions of identification,safeguard and overflow performed by the idea of cultural integration can greatly assist in overcoming the respective shortcomings of urban and rural cultures,respectively providing impetus for their sustainable development.As of today,China’s rural-urban integration is plagued by a host of problems,such as urban area’s excessive dominance over rural regions,the lack of interaction despite diversity in ways of integration,and more conflicts than assimilation.Some of these problems are structural in root cause;some are due to a general backwardness in public cultural service system and cultural poverty.There is a long way to go before unified integration of rural and urban cultures can be accomplished.The path of future will likely experience the four phases of interaction,reinforced commonality,absorption of differences,and self-conscious innovation.