Economy,culture and environment: perspectives on the Australian food industry

Intersections between economy, culture and environment pose exciting future challenges for human geography. Part of Griffith Taylor's pioneering role as a geographer was to investigate relationships between these three aspects of human life, although his agenda was that of environmental determinism. This paper considers these intersections as they relate to contemporary geographical studies of restructuring, in particular the emergence of a genuinely global economic system since about 1980. Recent developments in cultural geography argue that geographical analysis of restructuring has been dominated by an economic determinism which has buried other stories which could be told about industrial change. The paper sketches lines of possible dialogue between economic geography and cultural studies, illustrating the argument with examples from restructuring in the Australian food industry. In opening such a dialogue, economic geography would be better placed to return to interactions between economy, culture and environment. In his day, Taylor was not afraid to upset the conventional wisdom about these relationships and this may be one of his most enduring legacies.     

Transformations in resource peripheries: an analysis of the Chilean experience

Building on Hayter et al.'s (2003 ) characterisation of resource peripheries in terms of four institutional dimensions, this article conceptualises four, similar 'transformations' (political, economic, socio-cultural and environmental) intended to evolve this conceptual framework. The case of Chile is analysed in order to ground the analysis, emphasising the structural aspects of its historical experience as a resource periphery. It is clear that the country's condition as a resource periphery has been central to the transformations that have taken place since the early colonial period. In order to illustrate this, the article briefly explores the links between Latin American structuralist and emerging resource periphery accounts. As such, we discuss some of the policy options that might allow the country to move beyond resource periphery status – a goal which is necessary if uneven development in Chile is to be tackled. We conclude that if even and equitable development are goals of geographical analysis then structuralist-informed political-economic work of this nature warrants renewed emphasis.     

地缘结构:理论基础、概念及其分析框架

借鉴哲学及相关学科、学者对结构主义研究的最新进展,特别是社会理论对社会结构、国际关系学对国际社会结构和地理学对空间结构的研究,探讨了地缘结构的理论基础、概念和分析框架。地缘结构的分析框架包括5部分,即作为构成物的结构、作为过程的结构、结构系统、2个层次和2种作用机制;对地缘结构的每部分及不同部分之间的联系以及如何形成单一的整体结构进行阐述;最后对使用地缘结构存在的一些问题和当前的国际形势进行了简单讨论。     

从结构主义到转换生成语法

20世纪极具影响力的两大理论流派--美国结构主义描述性语言学和乔姆斯基的转换生成语法都曾引起现代语言学领域的革命.尽管转换生成语法激烈反对结构主义描述性语言学的语言哲学思想,从方法论的角度来看,转换生成语法和结构主义其实是一脉相承.     

结构主义和解构主义符号哲学导向下的地图视觉艺术

阐述了符号学及其相关的哲学如结构主义、解构主义、格式塔等理论.结构主义的共同倾向在于试图把握研究对象的内在逻辑结构,从深层的结构分析中找出对象的意义;解构主义把语言符号理解为印迹,并认为某一符号是在与其他符号相对立和比较中显出意义;地图设计中对这些理论的思考和运用,使地图设计进入了深层意义的探索.     

Eco-dependency in Latin America

This article develops an argument around the perpetuation of socioeconomic development models based on non-renewable natural resource exploitation, weak management and regulation of renewables and the deterioration in environmental quality across different natural resources. It concludes that the structural constraints pointed out during the 1940–80 period by the dependentistas (advocates of the various theorizations of dependency) and to a lesser extent the cepalista structuralists (policy analysts at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) were alive and well in Latin America in the period 1980–2000. A theoretical case is made for the political economy reading of dependency into the realm of natural resources and environmental issues. It is argued that Latin American history and the region's more contemporary insertion into the global political economy has been determined by its use of natural resources and ongoing degradation of diverse environments. The conclusions emphasize the importance of responding to this historical condition, recognizing the concerns of the structuralists of the 1940s and 1950s and the threats highlighted by the dependentistas in the 1970s, but through the lens of contemporary changes.     

基于全球地方化视角的旅游地演化理论探讨与展望

伴随中国城市化快速推进和国民经济快速发展,旅游已经成为中国社会经济的新兴发展要素和新兴发展动能,不断推动全球化力量与地方化力量在旅游地空间产生联结.已有旅游地演化研究对结构主义等近现代人文地理学的重要研究范式关注不足,缺乏旅游地演化的系统性研究.旅游地是一类特殊的地域空间系统,全球化和地方化是推动旅游地演化的重要力量,...