Shifting relationships to place: a relational place-based perspective on SES resilience

Disasters literally and figuratively shake the foundations of place in a community. If place is seen as both a construction of and contributor to identity, then the impact of disasters can result in not only physical displacement but can also fundamentally displace community and individual identity. Despite this, resilience theory, a widely used approach for dealing with disaster, provides little empirical or theoretical background on the role of place in shaping response and recovery from disruption. On 22 February 2011, the ground beneath the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, shook, destabilizing the physical and psychological landscape and displacing the foundations of place identity for many communities. Through the case study of Project Lyttelton, a grassroots community organization close to the epicenter of the 22 February earthquake, this paper seeks to understand and explore the nuances of place and identity, and its role in shaping resilience to such displacing events. We argue that place is an integral component of social systems that requires consideration within resilience frameworks in order for social factors to be properly integrated. From this, we make the case for increased awareness of the connections between these processes and the related consequences for post-disaster realities at both the community and policy level.     

Competing Place Meanings in Complex Landscapes: A Social–Ecological Approach to Unpacking Community Conservation Outcomes on the Wild Coast,South Africa

Despite a general awareness of the social–ecological complexities within which conservation interventions are embedded, approaches to understanding a diversity of local perspectives of heterogeneous landscapes and how they matter for the outcomes of these interventions are seldom demonstrated. We apply a social–ecological approach to exploring the multiple place meanings related to key landscape elements around a proposed community conservation intervention on the Wild Coast, South Africa, by identifying and analyzing three narratives about this impending change. These narratives mobilize competing meanings of the landscape to argue for or against the conservation project. By linking place meanings to locally defined landscape units (ecotopes), we engage multiple interpretations of the heterogeneous and changing landscape to gain a holistic and more inclusive picture of social–ecological landscape processes such as increasing woodlands and field abandonment. The obstruction of this particular intervention indicates the importance of engaging with multiple cultural values of nature.     

知青怀旧旅游情感与行为的关系研究

在20世纪90年代兴起的怀旧旅游热潮背景下,以知青群体为研究对象,基于深入访谈和问卷调查数据,利用SPSS和AMOS软件进行数据处理和分析,揭示出知青怀旧旅游的基本特征;采用因子分析法分别得到怀旧情感、地方依恋和活动偏好3个变量的构成因素,探讨了知青的怀旧情感、地方依恋、活动偏好和旅游意愿之间的关系。结果表明:知青在下乡地的怀旧旅游具有组团特征明显、重游率高、住宿方式较为特殊且与当地居民联系紧密等特征。知青对下乡地的怀旧情感显著且正向影响地方依恋、活动偏好和旅游意愿,而地方依恋对活动偏好和旅游意愿仅有微弱的正向影响。     

民族旅游地居民文化原真性感知对地方依恋的影响——以湖北省恩施土家族苗族自治州为例

从旅游地居民视角出发,选取湖北恩施土家族苗族自治州为调研地,通过问卷调查和结构方程模型分析方法,探讨民族旅游地当地居民文化原真性感知与地方依恋之间的关系。研究表明:文化原真性是民族旅游地居民地方依恋的重要影响因素;地方依恋由地方依赖与地方认同两个维度构成,地方依赖是地方认同的前因变量;居民文化原真性感知对地方依赖与地方认同均产生直接影响,其中对地方依赖的直接影响更显著,对地方认同的影响主要是通过地方依赖间接产生。提升民族旅游地居民文化原真性感知水平有利于建构居民地方依赖和地方认同。     

Cartographies of Stalin: Place,Scale, and Reputational Politics

In this article we explore the spatial variation of support for former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in his home country, Georgia. This research contributes to the literature on reputational politics by highlighting the role of spatial, rather than only social, factors in the construction of public opinion about Stalin. We illustrate how geographic factors impact Georgians' perceptions of the Soviet dictator by examining various aspects of place at various scales—including distance to Gori, Stalin's birthplace, the history of urbanization, and economic and political indices. To this end we map attitudes toward the Soviet dictator and use a multilevel spatial regression technique to explain variance in support for Stalin across forty-seven districts of Georgia. This enables us to explore the impact of place on people's attitudes by examining (1) whether there are local and regional hotspots of Stalin admiration and, if so, (2) what the contextual explanations of these attitudes are.     

Place‐Making Through Beer‐Drinking: A Case Study of Montana's Craft Breweries

Montana's craft brewing industry has grown astronomically in the last few decades and has spawned many breweries with local names and themes. Using Montana's craft breweries as a case study, this paper demonstrates that craft breweries play a significant role in contemporary place‐making. First, brewery and beer names are analyzed to extract several place‐based themes, and it is argued that these perpetuate a particular New West identity for the state. Then, through the lens of tourism and the quest for “authenticity,” surveys of brewery visitors are used to identify the various attractions that drinking craft beer and visiting breweries offer their patrons. Besides the taste of the beer, the local nature of breweries and their community focus prove to be an important draw for brewery visitors and provide the chance to experience the community in a more authentic way, and thus, offer an opportunity to make a meaningful connection with place. This research proves that craft breweries have become an important venue for place‐making, not only in Montana, but in other cities and states with a significant craft‐brewing industry     

广州市高星级酒店地方与无地方的建构及协商

随着交叉学科的发展,人文地理学中"地方"理论已经渗透到旅游研究的各个方面.在现代化与城市化的共同影响下,"无地方(Placelessness)"伴随着地方感的虚无与空间不真实性的发展而产生,并成为了地方研究的另一个视角.以广州市高星级酒店为案例地,采用实地观察,深度访谈,文本分析等方法,在回顾地方和无地方相关理论的基础上,探讨了消费者对现代城市高星级酒店的空间感知和地方情感,分析了地方与无地方在酒店空间中互动的复杂关系.结果指出:① 城市高星级酒店既有因现代技术,行业标准,区位以及资本扩张等原因而呈现的无地方特点,也有因社会功能,品牌特色,"借景"以及经营管理活动等原因而呈现的地方特质,城市高星级酒店具有地方与无地方的双重特性;② 酒店消费者在"他者空间"与"我者空间"中挣扎,对城市高星级酒店有着地方感与无地方感等多元,矛盾的地方情感;③ 城市高星级酒店是一个无地方与地方动态转化的易变空间,其转化机制取决于消费者与酒店空间的互动频次,酒店产品的稳定程度,以及消费者的主观想象与意义赋予等.本研究是对西方语境下地方理论的一种补充,同时也是对"无地方"研究的一种尝试;为转型期中国目前"千城一面",空间同质化等社会现象提供了可供参考的分析框架.     

地名地址数据采集与建库的方法及实现

结合济宁市基础地理信息数据整合及地名地址数据库建设项目介绍了地名地址数据采集方法,并利用先进的自主开发软件程序完成了数据编辑、入库等工作,解决了数据转换、入库数据丢失和错漏的问题,实现了无损转换和无缝衔接,提高了工作效率,为其他地区开展地名地址数据采集和建库工作积累了经验,提供了参考。     

地名地址数据更新方法探讨

地名地址数据是数字城市及智慧城市在建设和运营中不可或缺的基础数据之一,且地名地址数据的有效性、时效性与鲜活性,直接影响城市平台的运营与管理质量。本文主要探讨了当前地名地址数据更新的方法,分析了这些方法的优缺点及适用性;最后,论述地名地址数据更新方法的发展方向,以指导当前地名地址数据的更新工作。     

一种俄语地名专名快速音译方法

为了提高俄语地名翻译效率,本文通过分析俄语语音特点和俄语地名音译规则,构建了俄汉音译对照表,提出了一种俄语地名专名自动快速音译方法。该方法在俄语地名音节切分的基础上,基于正向最大匹配原则,完成切分后子字符串与俄汉音译对照表词条机械匹配,进而实现俄语地名专名音译。经过地名翻译实验,验证了该方法的可行性,对于俄语地名翻译工作具有重要的现实意义。