The notion that textual, verbal and visual representations of places are more or less accurate depictions of reality has been challenged by cultural geographers and discursive psychologists who regard language as constitutive rather than reflective. This paper builds on this work by demonstrating that constructions of Zimbabwe produced by UK residents from Zimbabwe during life history interviews in 2011 appropriated other representations; were action-orientated; had political consequences; and were orientated to the interactional context in which they were produced. More specifically, I show that the interviewees challenged the ‘narrative of the nation’ promoted by the ruling party and their supporters by producing intertextual constructions of Zimbabwe as a country in crisis; attributed blame for the crisis; and accounted for their presence in the UK.

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津巴布韦危机国家的互文性、行动导向性、政治性和偶然性建构

地方的文本、语言和视觉表现或多或少是对现实的准确描述的观念受到了文化地理学家和话语心理学家的挑战，他们认为语言是构成性的而不是反思性的。本文以这项工作为基础，展示了来自津巴布韦的英国居民在 2011 年的生活史访谈中所制作的津巴布韦结构，适用于其他表征；以行动为导向；产生了政治后果；并且面向它们产生的交互环境。更具体地说，我展示了受访者通过对津巴布韦作为一个危机国家的互文建构，挑战了执政党及其支持者所提倡的“民族叙事”；将危机归咎于责任；