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A Historical-Geographical Identification of East Asia as a Cultural Region

동아시아 문화지역의 역사-지리적 설정

  • Ryu, Je-Hun (Department of Geography, Korea National University of Education)
  • 류제헌 (한국교원대학교 제2대학 지리교육과)
  • Published : 2007.12.31
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Abstract

In East Asia, regional identity can be expected to obtain popular consent more successfully when it is firmly based on historical-geographical reality. This study is an attempt to apply a broadened concept of place to the identification of East Asia as a cultural region. Cultural mixture within places at various scales, rather than cultural integration across those places, would give greater coherence to East Asia as a cultural region. This cultural mixture varies from one place to another, depending on the relative position in power relations. It could appear in the form of either domination or resistance, and even entanglement. The concept of a "mountain as a contested place" is proposed as an experimental effort to search for the basis for cultural identity within East Asia. This concept of place should be extended to the individual studies of such spatial units as houses, gardens, villages and cities. These individual studies, if accumulated, would result in improved theories of East Asia as a region that has a distinct cultural identity in historical-geographical terms.

동아시아의 지역적 정체성은 역사-지리적 실재에 근거할 때 비로소 더욱 성공적으로 대중적 동의를 얻을 것으로 기대된다. 본 연구는 최근에 확대된 장소 개념을 이용하여 동아시아 문화지역의 역사-지리적 설정을 시도하고자 한다. 동아시아 문화지역에 일체성을 부여하는 것은 복수적 장소들이 공유하는 문화적 동질성이 아니라 다양한 공간 규모를 가지는 단일한 장소 내부의 문화적 혼합이다. 문화적 혼합은 지배가 아니면 저항, 그리고 때로는 뒤엉킴의 형태로 표현되는 것이다. "경합 장소로서의 산악"이라는 개념은 동아시아 내부의 문화적 동일성을 탐구하기 위한 실험적 노력의 일환으로 제안되었다. 이러한 장소 개념은 산악을 제외한 다른 공간적 단위-가옥, 정원, 촌락, 도시 등-에 대한 연구들로 확대되어 적용될 필요가 있다. 왜냐하면 이러한 연구들이 축적되면 결국 동아시아가 역사-지리적으로 특정한 문화적 동일성을 가진 장소라는 정의가 구체적으로 가능해질 것이기 때문이다.

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