Cloning colonialism: Residential development,transnational aspiration,and the complexities of postcolonial India

Within this article, we discuss/unpack a speculative international property development born out of a license agreement between the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and real estate investment company, Anglo Indian. The proposed building of twelve cloned, MCC branded, cricket communities in India–targeted to the consumption-based lifestyles of India’s new middle class–is addressed within the context relational to the political, economic, and cultural rationalities of postcolonial India, shifting power dynamics within the international cricket formation, and the associated re-colonisation of cricket-related spaces/bodies. Anglo Indian’s proposed communities are understood as part of a complex assemblage of national and global forces and relations (including, but certainly not restricted to): transnational gentrification; urban (re)development; and, revised understandings of historical and geographic connections between places, governance, and the politics of be(long)ing in branded spaces. This analysis explicates how Anglo Indian’s idealized community development offers a literal and figurative space for embodied performance of “glocal competence” for consumption-based identity projects of the new Indian middle-class (Brosius, 2010, p. 13) through the somewhat ironic mobilization of colonial spatial logics and cultural aesthetics.     

基于时空域的全空间数字世界时空对象组织与管理研究

全空间数字世界是在计算机系统中由描述现实/虚拟世界各种实体与要素的时空对象数据所构成的综合数据体,是一种对从宏观到微观的现实/虚拟世界的对象化数据描述。传统GIS对地理空间数据的分块与分层管理方法,无法满足全空间数字世界中复杂、动态、关联的时空对象组织与管理的需要,因此,本文研究提出了一种基于时空域的全空间时空对象组织与管理方法。在分析了全空间数字世界的概念、内容和特点的基础上,提出了时空域的基本概念,明确了时空域的数据组织方式和本质特性;建立了面向时空域的子时空域、时空对象类、对象关系类和时空域时空对象生命周期序列的时空对象数据组织体系和管理方法,并进行了时空域数据的存储与管理实验,验证了基于时空域的全空间时空对象组织与管理方式在管理全空间数字世界中的实用性和可行性,为后续示范应用场景中时空对象的生成与处理、检查与校验、可视化与输出提供底层支撑。