| 英文摘要 |
This article uses Lave and Wenger’s concept of situated learning to explore how the new shrimp farmers of Baisha Village in South Fujian “learned capitalism” without “unlearning” the production of community. I suggest that when villagers turned en masse to rural capitalism, specialized knowledge or skills increased both in economic importance and in social efficacy. I argue that this knowledge circulated within two cycles: a spatial circulation of technical knowledge-PROPERTY, where shrimp farming know-how was inserted into the rural gift economy and share-holding arrangements, and a historical cycle of KNOWLEDGE-property, which was the basis of a local habitus formation and of local distinction. The historical cycle produced the entrepreneurial skills and local expertise that underpinned the success of particular farmers in the village and formed Baisha’s “competitive” edge. The spatial cycle secured rapid access to new forms of production and created a market for Baisha’s products by producing localised knowledge. At the same time, these two cycles produced skills, subject positions, and Baisha’s particular set of social relationships. I suggest that in Baisha continuity and change, and the production of capital and community, necessarily came together as the “community of practice” engaged in the production of its own future. |