消费地理学研究述评与展望

THE REVIEW AND PROSPECT OF CONSUMPTION GEOGRAPHY

随着全球化与经济一体化的推进,中国社会已经从生产型社会进入消费型社会,生产与消费的关系也逐渐成为地理学绕不开的研究话题。消费活动以超出我们想象的方式将地方与我者、他者联系起来。消费实践如何与在地化的商品实现连接与互动,是作为人文地理学的子学科消费地理学需要回答的问题。消费地理学是通过消费与其他空间相联系的内在逻辑来解释地方中蕴含的复杂含义。本文回顾了消费地理学的源起与研究脉络,借助消费地理学关于消费空间性、主体性、社会性的分析框架回顾了西方消费地理学的研究概况,并梳理了我国消费地理学的学科基础与研究框架,最后提出了从地理学视角解读消费研究热点话题的新思路与研究范式。

With the advance of globalization and economic integration, Chinese society has transferred from a production-oriented society to a consumption-oriented one. The research topic on the new consumption relationship between consumers and place has become more and more prominent in human geography. The consumer activity connects places to ourselves and the others in various unimaginable ways. Consumption geography explains the complex connotations of places through the internal logic of the connection between consumption and other spaces. This article reviews the origin and the systematic development of consumption geography. Our study further reviews the current status of research on consumption geography under the context of the Western world, by means of Mansvelt’s analysis framework of the spatialities, subjectivities, and socialities of consumption. This study also evaluates the subject basis and research framework of consumption geography in China from research across disciplines and time. Finally, this paper proposes a new research paradigm to examine crucial issues in the research of consumption. First, the process of consumption practice, from the local to the global, and across real and virtual spaces, is essential to the formation of locale and daily life, in turn, the local practice on consumption is indispensable: The spatial expression of the geographical location of consumption is uneven, and the place affects the consumption practice and experience.Second, consumption geography focuses on the mutual consultation among substance, symbol, culture, body,place and trade during the process of production, consumption and reproduction, forming a new research paradigm of consumption geography. Third, in Chinese research on consumption, the lifestyle consumption represented by tourism demand is becoming the mainstream topic.