The Spatial Game Among Capital,Power And Belief In Tourism Field

With the increasing popular tourism activities,people focus more on the current tourism market in Zengcuo'an Village than on the logic of its development,whether theoretically or practically.Besides,most scholars study tourism destination from the perspectives of destination management and tourists' behavior with quantitative methods,but ignore the importance of qualitative research concerning the production of space.Therefore,drawing on long-time fieldwork,this study follows the way of Bourdieu's field theory,and combines capital circuits of Harvey with spatial practices from de Certeau,to explore the spatial game within different space in Zengcuo'an Village.There are some findings:Zengcuo'an tourism field is constructed by capital field,power field and belief field.These three fields keep struggling and capital field wins the game now.So all the groups try their best to transform their recourses into capital.However,they also reproduce their own resources simultaneously.That's why we could see the expansion of capital,the compression of belief and the coordination of power in Zengcuo'an tourism field.But the specificity in China is the insistence of belief,just as the spatial evolution happens in Zeng Ancestors' Temple.Moreover,the individual engages in more complicated spatial game in private space,which shows the power of capital specifically.For instance,the villagers spontaneously develop three tactics in house building to avoid power's control,which are occupying more land,building more storeys,and reconstructing the original room.Further,the spatial games among capital,power and belief in different levels promote the integration of groups and change the local's life.Actually,this study doesn't divide physical space from social space.For one thing,there are spatial compression,expansion and reconstruction.For another,there are social relations and social structures transitions.Analyzing the spatial games in the whole village,as well as among different organizations and individuals,this research makes the macro,meso,and micro views in traditional space studies complement each other.This research shows the logic of tourism development in Zengcuo'an Village,as well as stresses the multiple logic-capital,power and belief in the production of space considering the characteristics of Chinese village under tourism development.Overall,space is the premise,place,medium and product of the spatial game among power,capital and belief.Given the facts in fieldwork,I redefine belief with two dimensions-the belief of ancestor and the belief of god,making belief have more abundant connotations.