勁旅行腳─地方斗室與星空共享的對話

The Stout Wanderer Hacking Her Way: An Atlas of Twinkling Lights in House and Shining Stars in the Sky

本文由兩部份構成。第一作者回顧其在台灣推行社會變革取徑之行動研究的歷史時機點,並陳述此一地方性(在地性)如何促使歐美心理學範疇中的團體動力, 家族治療與行動科學被變造運用,推動了台灣解嚴後社會運動過程中的社群發展;此一地方性社會運動社群的發展變化了參與者的社會生活方式。「社會運動」從而發揮著一種參與者社會生活發生變化的「激活力」。第 二作者則針對第一作者所發展的一種人們視彼此的家庭為社會田野的共同交流學習的方法(第一作者命名此法 為「斗室星空」),提出她的觀察與分析。第二作者以 「階級、性別與暴力的曝晒」註解了「斗室星空」方法的「解壓縮」作用。「解壓縮」指涉了在參與者彼此參照、共同學習的過程中,家內與家人關係中被多層次社會系統所疊壓的經驗刻痕與印記,得到鬆解的機會,被壓抑噤聲的情感亦得以釋放表達。兩位作者的共同書寫,旨在為地方性知識的發生與產出做出一份記實的討論。

This thesis is comprised of two parts: The first part reviews the historical context in which the researchers have conducted action research of social change approaches in Taiwan. Action research rooted in locality, on one hand, created a paradigm shift toward Euro- American group dynamic theory, family therapy, and action science. On the other hand, research produced practical knowledge that efficiently facilitated the social movement community in Taiwan after the lifting of martial law. Participants of social movements have since adopted a new lifestyle that coincides with more prosperous communities. “Social movements” thereby unleashed an “activating force” that changed the participants’ social lives. The second part of this study observes and analyzes Hsia’s action research approach to family, that is, Hsia’s notion of “tiny room, starry sky.” This approach takes each individual family as a target of field study. While each participant exchanges his/her family story, mutual learning occurs. This part of the study posits that by opening up to issues of class, gender and violence in the family, a single family story can “decompress” the constellation of social lives. In this sense, “decompressing” refers to the co-learning process in which participants share their family stories; sharing unravels family relations threaded with multiple layers of social systems and allows suppressed and silenced emotions to be released and expressed. Finally, the collaboration of the two authors in writing allows for a discussion in documenting the formation and production of local knowledge.