On Illegal Spaces

本文依据一个城市违规场所的个案故事,结合作者多年来相关调查的研究积累,探讨当下中国城市社会中各种“违规”、“违法”的空间发生机制,及其对于转型社会所具有的复杂意味。作者借助法律社会学的相关理论作为探索路径,同时以新城市社会学的空间理论为基本的分析工具,以“空间”概念涵盖物质、社会及价值规范等多重空间,通过对由城市各级政府、开发商/动迁组、动迁户、市民、外来民工群体、公共传媒等各种行为主体所建构的“复合的叙事文本”的解读,分析在人们的法律行动中,多元的法资源怎样被运用,“违规”作为城市中共享的社会空间是如何形成的。文章最后讨论在中国当下社会转型过程中,以非正式性为核心要素的灰色地带在国家一社会关系的变动中所起的作用,揭示了“共享的政治文化”正在以道德主义消解法律主义的事实。

Based on a case study and the author's surveys over the years, this paper examines the mechanisms and the complexity of illegal spaces (spaces of breaching regulation) in transitional society of contemporary urban China. The author adopts the relevant theories of sociology of law as exploration approach and uses the space theory from new urban sociology as the fundamental analysis tools. Through the interpretation of complex narrative texts constructed by various subjects including different levels of city government, developers, relocation households, local residents, migrant workers and public media, the author analyzes how diverse legal resources are applied and how "breaching regulation" is formed as the shared social spaces in people's legal action.   Finally, the paper discusses the role of "gray area"-its core element is  informality-in the change  of state-society relationship during China's current process of social transformation, and reveals the fact that shared political culture is digesting legalism with the help of moralism.

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