地理学的特点

现代地理学强调过程与演变的研究,在定量研究方面取得了显著的进步。但在热衷于建立各种模型时,地理学的特点或性质却被忽视,这在国内尤其明显。认识地理学的本质特点,对于学习地理学、发展地理学科和从事地理学研究非常重要。地理学的特点可概括为4方面:即地理学是“研究行星地球表面的科学”、“研究关系的科学”、“强调位置的科学”和“考察分布的科学”。这4个方面缺少任何一方,都不能反映有别于其他任何学科的地理学自身的特点。     

Geography and Planning: Some Perspectives

This paper analyzes the migration of Puerto Rican-born women from the United States to Puerto Rico using longitudinal data. We hypothesize that sojourn length in the United States is a function of both structural (macro-level economic and cultural factors) and behavioral (micro-level life-cycle experiences and personal attributes) variables. We test these hypotheses by estimating a proportional hazards model. The parameter estimates of this model indicate that sojourn length in the United States, and thus the decision to return to Puerto Rico, is a function of wage trends and community characteristics on the mainland plus a number of individual attributes that include education, marriage, and childbirth.     

高校人文地理学教学方法改革新思路

面对21世纪全球化、知识经济和可持续发展的挑战,我国高校人文地理教学应当从当前的形势出发,改进教学方法.本文根据人文地理学学科特点和课程内容,提出了对传统教学方法的改进思路,以便发挥人文地理学在高校人文素质教育中的优势.     

技术型新创企业的地理学研究进展

在辨析技术型新创企业的概念与分类基础上,从技术型新创企业的时空特征及其与区域环境的互动关系出发,梳理技术型新创企业的地理学研究成果。研究结果表明技术型新创企业在空间上更趋于集聚分布,其时空演变并非随机的,而是具有一定的连续累积性和路径依赖性;区域环境影响技术型新创企业的产生与发展,并形成了创业知识溢出理论、创业生态系统理论和区域创业系统理论三大代表性理论成果,而技术型新创企业可以提高区域生产和创新效率,开辟区域增长新路径,是区域创新系统实现动态发展、摆脱路径依赖和锁定的重要机制。同时创业企业家作为能动性主体,也能在一定程度上对区域软环境进行重塑和变革。最后在总结国内外研究进展的基础上,指出当前研究的不足与方向。     

Theorizing and Researching Intersectionality: A Challenge for Feminist Geography*

This article focuses on the concept of intersectionality, which is being used within the wider social sciences by feminists to theorize the relationship between different social categories: gender, race, sexuality, and so forth. Although research within the field of feminist geography has explored particular interconnections such as those between gender and race, the theoretical concept of intersectionality as debated in the wider social sciences has not been addressed. This article attempts to respond to that omission. It begins by tracing the emergence of debates about the interconnections between gender and other identities. It goes on to reflect on attempts to map geometries of oppressions. The emphasis then moves from theorizing intersectionality to questioning how it can be researched in practice by presenting a case study to illustrate intersectionality as lived experience. The conclusion demonstrates the contribution that feminist geography can make to advance the theorization of intersectionality through its appreciation of the significance of space in processes of subject formation. It calls for feminist geography to pay more attention to questions of power and social inequalities.     

Changing Geographies and the Geography of Change: Some Reflections

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography and the 75th anniversary of the teaching of geography in the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, the home of the Journal, this article, based on personal reflections and "objective" academic materials, provides an overview of developments in geography in the Department and Journal. The paper argues that the department's and Journal's"identities", since the post-World War II period, have been shaped by Singapore's changing domestic politics, the changing university academic environment, the personalities and academic interests of heads of the department and the Journa's editors, the state of the changing regional and global political economic environment, and the individual research interests of faculty in the department, and reflects a complex mix of colonial/post-colonial, modern/post-modern, North-South and East-West discourses. While a defined Singapore school of geography has yet to emerge, the article shows that both the department and the Journal have made major strides in meeting the challenges of globalisation and, in the process, have gained international visibility and academic legitimacy. In particular, the Journal has consolidated its position as a major voice for academics in lesser developed countries, its platform for "tropical world" discourse and maintaining its edge in the colonial/post-colonial and modern/post-modern discourses of states within the tropics.     

人居环境:地理学研究面临的一个新课题

从人居环境研究的迫切性和重要性着手 ,论述人居环境与地理学之间的相互关系 ,地理学为人居环境研究服务的途径。     

自然的社会建构：西方人文地理学对自然的再认识

自然的社会建构作为西方人文地理学界对自然的再思考,渐成为理解自然与社会互动的重要理论框架,并逐步成为推动人地和谐、可持续发展研究的新范式。通过梳理自然的社会建构研究理论源起并对西方涉及自然的社会建构的研究文献进行全面梳理发现,自然的社会建构并非单纯指基于建构主义视角考察自然的知识生产或价值与意义,还应该关注自然被生产与形构的商品化过程。现有议题主要聚焦于政治与自然、商品化与自然、社会情感与自然以及日常生活与自然四大方面。在此基础上,进一步提出了国内未来研究需要关注的重要方向。     

知识经济与21世纪中国人文地理学发展

文章由总结前知识经济时代人文地理学发展特点入手,分析了知识经济时代人文地理学学科发展困境;知识经济向人文地理学学科建设提出了信息化,综合化,决策化和持续化的要求;最后重点展望了知识经济时代中国人文地理学学科建设与发展趋向。     

30年来中国地理学综合学术期刊中人文地理学论文载文分析

20世纪80年代以来,中国人文地理学实现了全面复兴。采用文献计量学分析方法,对1980~2010年《地理学报》、《地理科学》和《地理研究》3个中国地理学综合学术期刊所刊载的文献进行统计,以人文地理学论文为对象,分别从载文的时空特点、研究领域、研究方法、研究机构等方面进行综合分析,梳理了中国人文地理学的发展脉络和研究热点,并对后期人文地理学的发展趋势进行了展望。     

基于GIS的探究式自然地理学野外实习平台系统

为更好地在自然地理学野外实践教学中贯彻以学生为本的教学理念,提出利用GIS技术开发探究式自然地理野外实习平台系统。该系统变革了传统的理论验证型和认知型实习模式,提高了学生实习的自主性和能动性。对探究式自然地理实习平台系统需求进行了分析,并根据该需求,对平台系统框架和功能进行了设计,对研制该系统的核心技术进行了深入研究,最后以庐山自然地理野外实习为例,对该系统进行了验证。验证结果表明该平台系统能够提高实习质量,增强学生学习自主性,具有重要的应用推广价值。     

中国历史人文地理学研究进展与展望

回顾过去5年国内历史人文地理学科领域所产生的主要科研成果,说明历史疆域政区、移民史和人口史、城镇和乡村聚落、历史经济地理、历史文化地理、区域历史地理、生态环境史和灾害史以及历史地理信息系统等分支方向,是构成推动国内历史人文地理研究进展的主要动力来源。历史人文地理学科未来的发展方向主要当是在地理学和历史学的共同关照下,进行具有中国特色的学术创造性研究。     

Traces: Philosophy,Interpretation, and Method in Postqualitative Human Geography

This article attempts a double reflection: a methodological interrogation of myself and an autointerrogation of my methodology. Following Ernst Bloch, I structure this reflection around the idea of traces, which are brief, narrative, aphoristic speculations on a particular theme. In this article, I (re)produce my own narrative traces, engaging with and representing several moments of strangeness in my methodological praxis as they are recorded in field notes from prior fieldwork with urban secession movements in black and white communities of Atlanta. Building from Bloch’s hermeneutic, I treat these moments as traces to be pursued, rather than simple social artifacts of the relational, intersubjective activity of research. Finally, I demonstrate how a geographer might develop that which crystallizes in the interpretation of the trace (i.e., through the intentional reconsideration of the uncanny and recurrent moments of everyday experience) toward the methodological worlding of philosophy as a vibrant, reflexive, human praxis. Key Words: Bloch, interpretation, method, postqualitative analysis, praxis.     

全球环境变化研究与人文地理学的参与问题

全球环境变化是当今世界关注的热点问题之一。随着全球环境变化研究的深入,人们更加深刻地认识到全球环境变化不单纯是自然环境系统本身的科学问题,而是包括国际政治、经济和社会人文诸多方面综合的、复杂的问题,所以全球环境变化研究引起了相关学科领域越来越深的参与,愈来愈呈现出自然与人文要素综合集成研究的趋向。过去的科学实践已证明地理学是全球环境变化研究的重要力量。地理学参与全球环境变化研究,不完全归因于它在探讨人类-环境相互作用中具有综合研究的学科特性,部分原因是学科自身发展的需要。本文强调我国人文地理学要积极参与全球环境变化的相关研究,初步讨论了人文地理学要关注的相关理论和实践问题、人文地理学参与的途径及能力建设问题。     

Concept Mapping Strategies: Content,Tools and Assessment for Human Geography

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This article examines the use of concept mapping for formative and summative assessment of northeast Florida middle school students’ knowledge of human geography. The students were participants in an afterschool, academic, college reach-out program that provided opportunities to test concept mapping strategies that support spatial thinking and stimulate interest in human geography. The study documents the use of concept mapping for assessment of seventh graders’ achievement of a specific lesson and for students’ human geography achievement across all implementation grades. Concept mapping results provided insight into aspects of the curriculum and instruction where appropriate modifications could better facilitate meaningful learning.     

The Uncomfortable Classroom: Incorporating Feminist Pedagogy and Political Practice into World Regional Geography

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This paper examines how to incorporate a feminist pedagogy into teaching World Regional Geography in order to empower students to seek social change. This paper also addresses the fragile relationships that develop in the feminist classroom, such as challenging students' inherent prejudices in a safe and comfortable setting.     

Telegraph Messenger Boys: Crossing the Borders between History of Technology and Human Geography

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Historians of telegraphy have traditionally focused on the system-builders who invented wire communications technologies and incorporated them into profit-making enterprises. Geographers of communications have traditionally traced the changes that the telegraph network wrought on the rank-size of cities and the speed of business. Both have ignored the history of the telegraph messenger boys and the “lived geography” of the telegraph network. This article summarizes a study of telegraph messengers as both active components of technological systems and laboring agents within produced urban spaces, bringing together the fields of both history of technology and human geography.

     

Geography is for the Birds: Some Ideas for Using Ornithology in the Elementary Classroom

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This article deals with the topic of birds as a teaching tool for geography. Areas of examination for using birds as a motivating or teaching tool are discussed. A variety of activities are notes, and suggestions for class resources including bird guides, bird calls, international resources, and human resources, are provided.