Church-based social capital, networks and geographical scale: Katrina evacuation, relocation, and recovery in a New Orleans Vietnamese American community

This research examines the role of social capital and networks to explain the evacuation, relocation, and recovery experiences of a Vietnamese American community in New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. As the single largest community institution, the parish church’s complex bonding and bridging social capital and networks proved particularly critical in part because of its historically based ontological security. The process of evacuation, but especially relocation and recovery, was dependent on deploying co-ethnic social capital and networks at a variety of geographical scales. Beyond the local or community scale, extra-local, regional, and national scales of social capital and networks reproduced a spatially redefined Vietnamese American community. Part of the recovery process included constructing discursive place-based collective-action frames to successfully contest a nearby landfill that in turn engendered social capital and networks crossing ethnic boundaries to include the extra-local African American community. Engaging social capital and networks beyond the local geographical scale cultivated a Vietnamese American community with an emergent post-Katrina cultural and political identity.     

青岛旅游商品开发的回顾与前瞻

青岛旅游商品开发拥有辉煌历史，曾经领导全国消费潮流。但从旅游经济产业结构来看，青岛旅游商品开发存在如下问题：缺乏品牌和特色商品，小规模开发与经营，品种和质量有待加强，流通渠道不畅，购物环境不理想和商品的旅游后影响力不强等。提出相应开发对策；政府宏观指导，名企参与开发，丰富品种和特色，完善购物环境，使物流渠道畅通，将市场分类分层，利用节庆造势，周边联合连动和形成购物胜地。     

海洋旅游研究初探

海洋旅游在我国发展迅猛 ,但对海洋旅游的研究明显滞后。就海洋旅游的基本概念、研究范围、特点、开发类型及开发原则等基础理论问题提出了自己粗浅的认识 ,以求引起更多的学者关注这一领域的研究 ,进行更加有益的探讨     

地理信息服务的思索与探讨

GIS正在从传统意义上的地理信息系统向地理信息服务偏移,地理信息服务已成为信息服务业中重要组成部分之一.文中归纳总结了地理信息服务概念、技术体系、服务模式以及我国地理信息服务发展的差距、对策与建议.     

更新观念 立足市场 发挥技术优势 拓展服务领域——奋进中的贵州煤矿地质工程咨询与地质环境监测中心

贵州煤矿地质工程咨询与地质环境监测中心,由于市场定位准确,加强经营管理,树立品牌意识,尊重人才,加大人才培养力度,积极推进人事制度和分配制度改革,完善激励约束机制,使单位经济效益稳步上升,职工收入不断提高。     

Labour markets in transition. The experiences of women in two border regions of East Germany

The political turning point in the former GDR and the transformation processes that have been observed since then have significantly affected economic and social structures in the new Federal States. Gender roles, however, were subjected to even more dramatic changes. Whilst many women experienced the employment policies of the GDR era as beneficial, social researchers often designate them as the losers of unification nowadays. This is largely because the abundance of State support measures for employed women and mothers has been drastically reduced and women as a group have been hit hardest by the crisis on the East German labour market. Using two cases (Mecklenburg-Westpommerania and Thuringia), this paper aims to illustrate the impact of the transformation process on the everyday (working) lives of women. We are particularly concerned with a comparative analysis of how women experience and deal with regional disparities in East Germany. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

中国市场群落发展机制

市场群落的崛起已成为21世纪初中国市场经济发展的新景观，在概述市场群落的基本特点后，揭示其形成和演化的动力机制；继而对单个市场与群落型市场上经营者的行为方式特征进行了比较分析，表明群落型市场具有多方面的竞争优势；指出市场群落的空间扩张还促进了经济国际化与本地化的有机融合发展，同时认为，市场群落持续发展的根本在于保证商人的可持续发展，并提出了相应的对策建议。     

Marxism, Sarcasm, Ethnography: Geographical Fieldnotes from South India

This paper addresses questions of ethnography in geographic fieldwork through research conducted on globalisation and work in Tiruppur, an industrial boomtown in South India. During the last two decades of the twentieth century, Tiruppur town in western Tamilnad State became India's centrepiece in the export of garments made of knitted cloth. This industrial boom has been organised through networks of small firms integrated through intricate subcontracting arrangements controlled by local capital of Gounders from modest agrarian and working‐class origins. In effect, the whole town works like a decentralised factory for the global economy, but with local capital of peasant‐worker origins at the helm. My research explores the historical geographic trajectories linking agrarian and industrial work, and the ways in which these histories are used in the present. In these uses of the past in remaking self and place, I interrogate the self‐presentations of Tiruppur's entrepreneurs, as these “self‐made men” hinge their retrospective narratives of class mobility and industrial success on their propensity to “toil”. This paper explores questions of ethnographic method emerging from a political‐economic context in which globalisation has worked by turning “toil” into capital.     

新疆入境旅游市场竞争态分析

提出旅游业市场竞争态模型，运用此模型可以定量分析、对比旅游市场的现实竞争状态，在此基础上，进行市场研究，确定本地区在旅游高超中的地位，明确现在和未来市场竞争的优势和劣势，为地区旅游业发展规划提供参考依据。应用这一模型，分析了新疆入境旅游的客源市场竞争态及省内各地区目的地市场竞争态。     

国际直接投资变化趋势及对我国引资的思考

国际资本投资特别是对外直接投资的迅速增长，无论是对资本输出国还是对资本吸纳国的经济和社会发展都产生了深刻的影响。以美国为首的发达国家无论是在资本输出还是资本流入中一直都占据重要地位，以新兴市场国家为代表的发展中国家的国际资本投资存在逐渐加强的趋势。从国际资本投资的行业分布特征来看，主要集中在制造业和金融、保险、房地产业，特别是金融、保险和房地产业所占比重持续上升。改革开放以来，外商投资已经成为引发我国经济发展深刻变化的重要因素，外商投资企业成为我国国民经济中的重要组成部分。要进一步抓对全球经济一体化的机会，制定相应的发展战略，促进我国经济的发展。