流动“做家”:卡车司机筑家实践中的物质、情感与权力

Making-home in the Flow:Materiality,Emotion and Power in the Home-making Practices of Truckers

当前中国社会流动性及现代化的加快助长了人们的乡愁情绪。本文探讨卡车司机在流动劳动中如何筑造家园,缓解乡愁。研究采用深度访谈和田野观察的方法,从物质、情感、权力三个维度分析卡车司机的筑家实践:物质维度,卡车司机通过食物、“灵物”以及各类意义物将驾驶室打造成家园飞地;情感维度,卡车司机与家人形成同时空惯例实现团聚,通过智能媒体提供的影像满足家园的景观想象;权力维度,卡车司机通过家庭对外的代表权以及对内与卡嫂共享权力,共担责任,构建权力区间。研究在提供筑家研究鲜活个案的同时,关注在平台研究火热背景下劳动者的个人生活,呼吁在“剥削-抵抗”思路流行的当下看到其作为“人”在情感方面的需求与能动。

The current acceleration of social mobility and modernization in China has contributed to people's nostalgia.This article explores how truckers make home and alleviate nostalgia in mobile labor.The study used in-depth interviews and field observation to analyse truckers'home-making practices along three dimensions:materiality,emotion and power.In the material dimension,the truckers turn the cab into home enclave through food,“spirits”,and various kinds of meaningful objects;in the emotional dimension,the truckers are reunited with their family by forming a simultaneous space convention,and meet the landscape imagery of the home through image provided by intelligent media;in the power dimension,the truckers construct power zones through representation outside the family and internally by sharing power and responsibility with their trucker's wife.While providing fresh cases of home-making practices research,the study also pays attention to the personal life of laborers under the background of hot platform research,and calls for seeing their emotional needs and dynamics as“human beings” at the current time when the idea of“exploitation-resistance”is popular.