中国城市社区管理与服务的智慧化路径

智慧城市和人本城市建设的浪潮已经触及到了城市的细胞——社区,智慧社区建设已成为未来10多年中国智慧城市发展的关键所在。在社区网格化管理逐步成熟以及城市社区管理逐步信息化的新背景下,本文从中国城市社区管理与服务发展现状及存在问题出发,提出中国城市社区管理与服务智慧化路径:智慧社区建设应以社区动态规划为引导、以社区网格化管理为依托,通过多网格融合和技术标准建立与互融,实现社区服务精细化。特别强调社区规划应突破社区物理空间,并对社区空间进行重新划分,实现行为空间和社会空间意义上的再社区化;进而实现社区网格的科学划分和动态管理,并基于居民时空间行为的模式挖掘和需求分析,提供社区居民行为引导策略。     

The geography of same-sex couples and families in Australia: an empirical review

ABSTRACT

Much has changed since the first mapping of single-sex couples and families from the 2006 Australian census. An increasing willingness to allow their identification in the census has accompanied increasing public acceptance of same-sex couples culminating in significant support for legalising same-sex marriage in a 2017 national survey. Technological advances permit complex cross-tabulations of Australian census data and more detailed characterisations of same-sex couples. New geographies differentiate between male and female couples with children, showing same-sex couples are not just a feature of some inner-city areas, though these remain important, but also of suburban, regional and some rural areas. Drawing on the 2016 census, contemporary geographies of same-sex couples with and without children in Australia and changes over the past decade in Sydney are analysed at a time of increased interest in this demographic.     

The informal Australian city

In recent years, a vibrant literature on urban informality has emerged in urban geography. A key claim of this literature is that informality is not only present in cities in the Global South, and that the concept can be usefully applied to understand important dimensions of urbanisation in cities in the Global North. In this paper, we apply insights from that literature to an examination of informality in Australian cities, as a means of deepening our understanding of changes currently underway in urban governance and politics. Drawing on that literature and our own research into informal practices in Australian cities, we examine the forces that help to produce informality, the diverse forms and agents of informality, the forms of authority that they enact, and their relationship to formal economies, regulations and politics. We use examples of informal housing, informal labour, do-it-yourself music venues, graffiti and its regulation, food foraging, and queer community building in Sydney to illustrate our arguments. We conclude by reflecting on the lessons learnt across these diverse cases for our understanding of urban governance and politics in Australia, and offer an agenda for further research on this issue.     

西方教育地理学研究评述与本土反思

近20 a来,西方教育地理学受马克思主义地理学以及社会文化地理学思想的影响,重新审视教育空间与社会结构的关联,从多维度进一步认识教育空间建构过程中的政治经济与社会文化机制。对西方教育地理学的产生和发展演变进行分析,并尝试从政治经济和社会文化两大视角,总结和归纳当前西方教育地理学研究的主要成果和内容。教育地理学是一门新兴而又发展迅猛的人文地理学分支,但该学科的理论和实证发展尚处于以西方为主导的阶段,强势的西方话语体系还未充分涉及和理解非西方国家背景下的教育现象。当前是非西方国家建构自身教育地理学理论特色,并与西方教育地理学研究展开理论和实践对话的重要机遇和窗口。中国拥有世界规模最大的教育群体,当前社会经济发展的转型和人口结构的改变也进一步塑造了教育空间的多样性和特殊性。总之,加深教育与空间关系的研究,增强教育地理学研究的中西对话,构建中国化的教育地理学研究体系,使教育空间成为考察中国社会经济转型的重要视角,是中国教育地理学研究未来应努力的方向。     

数字地理视角的乡村研究及展望

在数字技术日渐渗透进日常生活世界的过程中,数字技术成为地理学研究关注的对象,地理学研究出现“数字转向”。在以城市为主体的数字地理研究不断涌现之时,乡村也日益融入全球信息与技术网络过程中,数字技术的发展向乡村渗透,乡村的“数字化”研究理应受到重视。数字技术在多个层面影响乡村的发展,从城乡数字鸿沟、乡村重构和后人文主义视角下的身体三个角度梳理数字地理研究背景下数字技术对乡村的影响。城乡数字鸿沟是乡村数字技术研究关注的重点。信息通信技术、数字基础设施等的城乡差异使得城乡数字鸿沟扩大,而乡村的数字化发展有利于推动城乡互联互通,缩减城乡鸿沟。乡村在与数字技术邂逅过程中,日益转变为混杂空间,数字技术重构了乡村性和乡村关系网络。在后人类主义的视域下,数字技术的发展改变了身体的意义。数字技术发展背景下的身体实践能够反映乡村社会中人地关系互动的变化,也深化了对人类主体能动性的认识。呼应地理学的“数字转向”,研究从城乡、乡村和身体尺度思考数字技术与乡村发展的关系,有益于从其相互联系中探索乡村振兴的多元化路径,为乡村研究和乡村振兴提供新的思路。     

制造地理视角下乡村传统工艺类非物质文化遗产的生产实践

随着西方第三次工艺复兴浪潮的兴起,“制造文化”成为西方地理学者关注的新兴话题,而传统工艺制造的具身和物质层面的生产形式也得到关注。论文以传统工艺类非物质文化遗产——贵州安顺石头寨布依族蜡染技艺为例,基于制造地理的理论视角剖析了布依族蜡染的生产实践。研究发现：蜡染生产是一种具身性、物质性、地方性和关系性的实践。在身体、家庭、工坊、社区和线上等不同空间,手工艺人的身体是蜡染生产实践的主体,通过具身练习提升蜡染技能,并充分发挥能动性对产品进行创新,同时制造实践也引发了手工艺人正面或负面的身体体验;蜡染生产流程具有鲜明的物质性特征,物质的活力和能动性引导着手工艺人进行“人与物质”的合作生产;地方自然环境、传统文化等地方要素是蜡染生产的基础和条件,同时蜡染的生产实践又塑造地方的身份和特性;蜡染生产不仅是手工艺人表达自我的创造性实践,同时建构了特定的社会文化关系。研究有助于加强对经济生产实践中的文化维度的关注,为文化经济的理论研究提供了重要实证,同时通过对手工艺人的身体技能、具身体验等方面的关注,也有助于在非遗保护实践中提供更具关怀性的保障措施。     

Domestic temporalities: Nature times in the house-as-home

Studies of domestic temporalities have emphasised the timing of social activities and interactions in the home, including how family members negotiate their use of home spaces and technologies, the impact of flexible work practices on home, and the organisation of care and mothering activities. But home is also shaped by the rhythms and times of nonhumans that inhabit, travel through and are part of the house-as-home; it is further shaped by the environment outside home. Drawing inspiration from recent discussions of nature times the paper explores the more-than-human temporalities of domestic space. It charts the ageing and decay of house structures, the disruption caused by nocturnal animals, and the seasonal cycles of sunlight and plant growth that immediately surround the home, attending to the ways that these events shape everyday experiences of home and homemaking. These times and rhythms are examined through interviews undertaken with people living with uninvited brushtail possums in the ceilings of their homes, interviews and diaries completed by new dog owners, interviews with gardeners, and analysis of popular Australian homemaking magazines. These stories emphasise the dynamic and unfolding nature of the house-as-home as a hybrid timespace produced through an ongoing entwinement of human and nonhuman, living and non-living, culture and nature.     

Property matters: Agricultural restructuring and changing landlord-tenant relationships in England

Little research has been conducted on the restructuring activities of tenant farmers in response to changing tenancy legislation and recent CAP reforms. This paper examines the geography of farm tenancy agreements in England since 1995 and presents some findings from postal and telephone surveys on the possible future business trajectories of tenant farmers and the changing nature of landlord-tenant relationships. A clear north-south divide is identified in terms of farm tenancy agreements and a complex array of different tenancy agreements is demonstrated. The relationships between landlords and tenants are changing and the increasing variety of agreements provides evidence of a more fluid (post-feudal) system of agricultural leases. Nevertheless, high levels of uncertainty and negativity characterise tenant farmers’ views on the impacts of CAP reforms. Crucially, the very identity of a tenant farmer is changing, towards an owner-occupier who rents additional land, and there is an urgent need for more detailed research on the ‘consequential geographies’ of farm property rights and the changing nature of landlord-tenant relationships.     

DISARMING NATURE: CONVERTING MILITARY LANDS TO WILDLIFE REFUGES*

Since 1988 the United States has closed nearly two dozen major military installations and reclassified them as national wildlife refuges. By presenting a case study of one site of military‐to‐wildlife conversion, this article examines the formation of these places and the implications of casting military practices and environmental conservation as compatible activities. As lands where military and environmental attributes can be perceived as inseparable, military‐to‐wildlife sites exemplify hybrid geographies that challenge dualistic notions of nature and society.     

Strategic globalizing centers and sub-network geometries: A social network analysis of multi-scalar energy networks

Over the past three decades, a multitude of studies have examined the relational properties of corporate networks as a proxy for analyzing interurban hierarchies and structures. While this has been important in illuminating the nature of global connectivity, a significant conceptual lacuna exists in understanding how a multi-scalar analysis of interurban networks informs a more complete understanding of the geographies of globalization, and how cities within these networks act as regional globalizing centers. Building upon the theoretical and methodological foundations of ‘world city network’ (WCN) research, this paper investigates the corporate networks of the energy industry as a historic driver of globalization using social network analysis from an Australia geographical perspective. Globally and nationally scaled energy networks derived from the Platts and Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) corporate lists are used to explore the convergence of nationally and globally articulated networks, and identify cities instrumental in the globalization of the national industry sub-networks. These are strategic ‘globalizing centers’ which, in contradistinction to ‘global cities’ or ‘world cities’ as broad classifications, play nuanced roles in anointing industry-specific circuits of capital and information. The analysis of two complementary yet distinct networks provides theoretical insight into how scale plays an integral role in defining/articulating interurban relations.