在近期西方地理学"情感转向"的影响下,情感对塑造社会空间的重要性日益体现,从情感的角度对地方性进行解读已成为地方研究一个新的研究视角。本文以经历了城中村改造的岭南水乡村落猎德村为研究对象,探讨本土居民的情感如何建构起地方的意义,以及情感在地方性重构过程中作用机制。研究发现地方性重构不仅是对地方文化景观、符号和文本等一套系统简单的重新构建,更是对情感空间的塑造以及这套系统如何被人从情感上感知和认同。研究认为地理学不应忽视情感在社会文化空间建构中的重要意义。

The notion of Place which has been conceptualized as a particular location that has acquired a set of meanings and attachments, lies at the center of geography's interests. Existing literature has highlighted the significance of emotion in the dynamics of place-restructuring. In line with this argument, this article seeks to investigate the importance of emotion in constructing everyday understandings of place and place-restructuring, drawing on the theories of recently emerging emotional geographies and "emotional turn". Taking the urban regeneration project of urban village Liede as a case, we investigate how emotions construct the meaning of placeness and the dynamics of emotions operating within place-restructuring. Simultaneously, by applying the phenomenological methodology and basing on the perspective that emotions should not be regarded as entirely interiorized subjective mental states, we pay attention to the widely life-world attached with individuals' feelings and emotions. By implementing field observations and the in-depth interviews, we find that, 1) in the specific context of Liede village, placeness was constructed through emotional knowing and geographic imagination of inhabitants; 2) place-making is an emotionally charged process in which inhabitants' emotional response should not be neglected; 3) emotion has become a new form of cultural capital which can be regulated and manipulated for capital accumulation in urban space; 4) we point out a comprehensive understanding of placeness-restructuring: placeness-restructuring should be understood not only in the dimensions of landscape, symbol, and text related to local culture, but also in the way how emotional space is refigured.