空间的力量:广场舞的社会文化意义与地方认同效应

广场不仅是健身与娱乐空间,更是具有丰富的社会文化涵义的社会空间。从空间生产与地方认同的视角入手,基于3个广州广场舞社区的案例研究,揭示广场舞对不同群体（本地人和外地人）的不同社会意义以及广场舞对地方与身份认同的影响,研究发现：① 对本地人而言,广场舞具有再造社会主义集体生活与关系的功能,广场发挥了类似单位社区的作用;对外地移民而言,广场舞有助于重建因迁移而断裂的社会关系网络,广场具有类似乡村社区的功能;② 类单位社区和类乡村社区的构建,一定程度上增进了居民的身份认同和地方认同;③ 广场舞群体的身份认同和地方认同的强化,进一步为自治性社区能力建设提供了可能性。

The power of space: Socio-cultural implication of square dancing and its effects of place identity

As a social phenomenon, square dancing has emerged around the world, marking the booming development of public private life. The existing research on square dancing focused on the social survey of square dancers in different cities and regions, the spatial tension and social conflict caused by square dancing, and strategies to guide the healthy development of square dancing. It was rare to study the social and cultural implications of square dancing and its spatial practice from the perspective of social geography. Secondly, relevant studies in a certain sense homogenized the social effects of square dancing. In fact, from the composition of square dancers, square dancing had a huge difference in the construction significance between local people and floating population, which made it vitally necessary to conduct in-depth discussion. In addition, square dancing highly affected the residents' own identity and the identity of their city and community where they lived and stayed. Systematic research on the relationship between square dancing and group identity as well as local identity was extremely rare. Based on this, this study, from the theoretical perspective of production of space and identity of place, by the method of questionnaire and depth interview on Guangzhou's three typical square dancing communities, focused on two core issues, namely, "different significances of square dancing to local people and floating population" and "square dancing's shaping process of self-identity and place identity", and analyzed the social and cultural implications of square dancing. We found that square dancing is not only a fitness and entertainment space, but also a social space with social and cultural meanings. Research findings included: (1) As a way of life and a kind of physical practice, square dancing was gradually changing self-identity of square dancers; (2) Square dancing had different meanings for different groups. For the locals, square dance remade socialist collective life and interrelationship of social space, alleviated the negative effect led by decayed and dissolved unit community. For foreign immigrants, square dancing accelerated local reconstruction of adaptation and social relations, and played vital significance of reshaping local community in their hometown. (3) As an incubator of social relations, square dancing spawned many adjunctive spaces which could reproduce social capital. (4) Square dancing enhanced self-identity and local identity of residents, and provided possibilities for building autonomous communities. The study provided a basis for understanding the transformation of public private life, promoting "people-oriented" urbanization, and consolidating social construction and community development.