发现边缘人——近年来华中村治研究的转向与拓展

Finding the Marginal People——The Deflection and Expansion of Rural Governance Studies of Central China

近年来,华中村治研究渐渐发生了一些颇具深远意义的转向,他们将之前以乡村精英为主要研究对象拓展到乡村社会边缘人这一素来少为学界所关注的群体。研究者们从村庄社会秩序、乡村治理和国家治理体制等三个层面对上访农民、钉子户、乡村混混等边缘人群进行了系统深入的剖析。这些研究已经从早期的无意识或者意识不够上升到一种明确的学术自觉,成为获得重要学术创新与突破的生长点,并可能为认识和理解中国农村,推进学术积累与传承,增进中国社会学与世界社会科学对话做出新的贡献。

In recent years, some important deflections have happened in rural governance studies in cen tral China. The researchers have expended their studies from rural elites to marginal people who have rarely been paid attention to. They have analyzed the marginal people such as petition farmers, nail house, gansters and so on from three levels of the village social order, rural governance and the state governance system These studies have been changed from the lack of consciousness to a kind of specific academic consciousness. It may make some contributions to acquaint ourselves with the rural society, promote the academic suceeding and increase the dialogue of Chinese social science with the world.