生態農業：農業環境與人文【外國語文學系陳淑卿教授】

論文篇名 英文：Fear and Love in the Tide Country: Affect, Environment, and Encounters in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
中文：又懼又愛在潮鄉：阿米塔‧谷胥《飢餓潮汐》的情動力、環境與交會
期刊名稱 Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
發表年份,卷數,起迄頁數 2018, 44(2), 81-114
作者 Shu-ching Chen*(陳淑卿)
DOI 10.6240/concentric.lit.201809.44(2).0004
中文摘要 本文探討阿米塔‧谷胥《飢餓潮汐》小說中印度桑達班溼地在地主體的環境情動力，並檢視都會主體在體感交會的過程中將在地環境情動力翻譯成可知形式的途徑。本研究援引晚近的情動力理論，協商建構論與解構論，並將討論過程置於生態世界主義聯結的框架裡。我以詭祕的討論開始，以懼與愛做為並存與互補的兩個情動力軸向，剖析溼地特有的社會生態情境如何催生兼具社會情感與動態強度的情動力，藉以超越詭祕的靜態環境描述。本文視在地與都會主體的體感交會為關係性的媒介，通過這個連結與交會，不僅在地主體所經驗的詭秘環境可以被翻譯成可知形式，都會主體的慣性思維與情感也可以藉此轉變，讓遙遠不可見的緩慢暴力進入感官的視野，藉此促發倫理行動。
英文摘要 This paper examines Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Hungry Tide (2004) to explore Ghosh’s dramatization of the affective impacts of a specific environment on local subjects, and the role cosmopolitan subjects play in translating those affects into knowable forms through their embodied and affective encounters with the local. My investigation draws upon recent theories of affect—negotiating between constructive and deconstructive views—and places the discussion in a framework of eco-cosmopolitan connections. By invoking the coexistence of theaffects of fear and love, I seek to move beyond the concept of the uncanny, exploring affect both as emotions and intensity generated by the socio-ecological conditions of the wetlands. I take the affective encounters between the locals and the cosmopolitans as a relational medium through which modes of feeling and knowing on the part of cosmopolitan subjects can be transformed.The uncanny of the environment experienced by the local can also be translated into accessible forms through this medium, bringing into our sensory ken the slow violence that is far away and out of sight and thereby enabling ethical actions.