女性主义补充视角下拼装地理学的应用探索——以乌干达土地共同所有权的提出与夭折为例

Assemblage geographies have constructed a shared interpretive strategy based on “heterogeneous generated space”and“post-relational ontology”as its basic features. While providing heuristic theories and methodologies as a cutting-edge branch of human geography, its weaknesses, such as descriptive“emptiness”and lack of precision, are inevitably revealed. More strikingly, it loses its focus on the differential workings of power relations by blurring the relative importance of its internal components and the differentiation of power. Feminist theory has opened up new geographic research spaces over the decades and has focused on the fact that assemblage geographies are severely limited in their practical potential by the missing principle of difference. The vertical power relations and structural connotations of feminist principles are innately connected and complementary to assemblage geographies. Within a complementary feminist perspective, this paper categorizes the theoretical frameworks applied by assemblage geographies into“heterogeneous generated space”,“post-relational ontology”, “dynamic and emergent processes”, and“differential relevance and implications of power”. Based on this, using fieldwork in Uganda as empirical material, this paper reveals how Ugandan women's land empowerment pathways are characterized by the basic features of assemblage that shaped the introduction of land co-ownership as an amendment clause to the land bill, and it was the persistence of differential power relations that led to the deletion of this clause when it was finally enacted. Through a dialog between assemblage geography and feminist theory, this paper critically discusses cutting-edge Western theoretical ideas with a view to empirically informing the application of assemblage thinking and adding new explanatory power and applied value to assemblage geographies.