家与地方的关系是地方性研究中的关键性命题。人本主义地理学认为地方根植是家的根本属性,批判地理学则从社会建构的角度阐释家与地方的动态关联。在全球化和灾害影响下,家与地方的联结方式不断变动,呈现出异常丰富的多样性。本文从理论脉络入手,对全球化进程中因绅士化引起的家的置换,无家可归与家在他乡,以及离散者的漂移之家等现象进行了分析;并从灾民自我调适行为和灾后重建计划的实施方面,讨论了灾害影响下家的重构与认同问题。相关学科和国际研究在这一领域的快速发展,将为国内社会文化地理学对家的探索创造良好的机遇。

Sense of home is a specific sense of place. As the concept of place is understood as root by humanist geographers, home is perceived to be embedded in place as well which is distinct from the social constriction view by critical geography. The connection to place such as familiarity, attachment, experience plays a significant role on sense of home. Losing, making and remaking home has been a considerable issue in modern society. The imagination of home is intertwined with both nostalgic and trauma. The meaning of place has been gradually degraded due the rapid globalization and thus creates the nostalgic memory of place, the home in particular. Returning home becomes a metaphor of escaping city and modernity. The other aspects of feeling of home, the trauma caused by natural disaster, is much more dramatic. This article investigates home by reviewing the literatures on gentrification, homeless, diaspora, and nature disaster respectively. Middle class create their new home during the process of gentrification while resulting in the displacement of local lower-class residents. Home landscape is power related. Displacement is experience not only by the people."Home but not home" is a common feeling caused by modernity. Living in diaspora has also been paid great attention by scholars who has interest on home, transnational migration in particular. The sense and experience of home by diasporic group diversified by place of origin gender and race which resulting in differentiated strategies of home-making. Nature hazard is another force of disconnecting people and place. Literature has been focused on the reconstruction of home and the struggle for place identity. Home is becoming an important research field in the western academic world. Despite of the abundant studies on home, the research of China is relatively rare though the concept of home occupies a vital position on traditional cultures of China.