共查询到20条相似文献，搜索用时 31 毫秒
1.
This paper is positioned within current debates on education development and the value of fieldwork as a pathway to fostering a nuanced, sophisticated and empathetic world view among students. Here, we focus on one form of field‐based teaching within geography, that is, intensive field studies courses taught abroad. We draw on our experience as cofacilitators of a six‐week intensive field course conducted in various parts of Thailand. The course we discuss in this paper was focused on teaching students both applied research skills (critical engagement, ethnographic research methods and ethical research practice) and substantive content (the social, cultural, political and economic aspects of Thailand from a geographer's perspective). We argue that the value of field studies lies in the ability of such a course to help students enhance and deepen broad, generalisable skills such as problem solving; ethical research practice; critical engagement with complex social issues; and independent research skills. 相似文献
2.
自然灾害风险与防灾减灾研究的基础是灾区承险体的基本认知,如何对数量庞大、种类繁多的承险体进行科学分类是一直尚未解决的科学问题。在简要回顾国内外研究现状的基础上,本文分析了承险体识别与分类的几个关键问题,包括承险体的基础概念界定、关键问题厘清、分类原则等,根据统计方法、功能用途、基本属性和表现形态的差异,设计了由承险体集、承险体项、承险体类和承险体形式等4个层级组成的分类体系。按照这种分类体系,对区域自然灾害承险体进行了系统划分,形成了7个承险体集、19个承险体项、59个承险体类和若干承险体形式的分类方案。同时,对各类承险体与自然灾害的关系进行了分析,包括容易受害灾种和受灾方式。本研究丰富了自然灾害的理论研究,有利于自然灾害风险评估和防灾减灾工作的开展。 相似文献
3.
Conflating Privilege and Vulnerability: A Reflexive Analysis of Emotions and Positionality in Postgraduate Fieldwork 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Grounded in a self-reflexive, intersectional analysis of positionality, we examine emotions in fieldwork through the autobiographical accounts that we gathered during our postgraduate ethnographic research in the Global South. We show how we, two female early-career geographers, emotionally coped with instances that put us in a vulnerable position due to loneliness, commitment to the field, insistent questioning, violence, and violent threats. We argue that a culture of silence surrounding fieldwork difficulties and their emotional consequences tend to permeate our discipline. We contend that geography departments ought to provide mentorship that takes into account doctoral candidates' different positionalities, conflated vulnerability and privilege, and embodied intersectional axes. This renewed awareness will help not only to reveal possible risks and challenges connected with fieldwork but also ultimately to enrich the overall academic discussions within our discipline. 相似文献
4.
Agencies in the US with oversight for marine renewable energy development idealistically have sought space where this new use might proceed unhindered by other uses. Despite experiential evidence of spatial overlap among existing ocean uses, a lack of documentation made the identification of potential space-use conflicts, communication between existing and potential ocean users, and the design of mitigation exceedingly challenging.We conducted a study along the US Atlantic and Pacific coasts to gather and document available spatial information on existing use through a compilation and organization of geographic information system (GIS) data. Stakeholder group meetings were used to vet the collected spatial data, and ethnographic interviews were conducted to gather knowledge and cultural perspectives. Results show extensive coverage and overlap of existing ocean space uses and provide a visualization of the social and cultural landscape of the ocean that managers can use to determine which stakeholders to engage.Marine resource managers are encouraged to recognize that marine space use is dynamic and multi-dimensional and as such research thereof requires a balance between the efficiency of GIS and the stories captured and told by ethnographic research. There are important linkages within and across fisheries and other uses, communities and interests, and across the land–sea interface. Therefore, it is important to use techniques demonstrated in this research that (1) integrate ethnographic and geospatial data collection and analysis; (2) engage stakeholders throughout the process; and (3) recognize the unique qualities of each geographic location and user group to support sound decision-making. 相似文献
5.
Often researchers position themselves in relation to race, age and gender, but the body is less often discussed as an actual 'instrument of research'. We aim to extend thinking on this point by reflecting on a project we conducted on migrant women and food in New Zealand. We present a vignette as an example of how we used our bodies as 'instruments of research' at a 'shared lunch' attended by new migrants from a range of different countries. At the lunch some combined on their plates spicy dishes such as kimch'i (fermented vegetables) and sweet dishes such as pavlova (a meringue dessert). For others this combination prompted feelings of disgust. We conclude that the body is a primary tool through which all interactions and emotions filter in accessing research subjects and their geographies. 相似文献
6.
Mental health, ethnography and the body 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Hester Parr 《Area》1998,30(1):28-37
Summary Covert ethnographic research materials are used to highlight different individuals' embodied configurations of time and space (in this case people with mental health problems). Research relationships that revolve around body presentation and body movement are then examined. The problematic associations between covert ethnography and feminist methodologies are also addressed. 相似文献
7.
塔克拉玛干沙漠腹地垄间沙粒胶结体的基本特性及研究价值 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
在塔克拉玛干沙漠腹地的部分垄间平沙地中,天然分布有一种特殊物质——沙粒胶结体,其与地表的粗沙和极粗沙呈复区分布,共同构成了覆盖沙面的大颗粒层。实地调查和取样分析表明:沙粒胶结体直径不一,能达到粗沙级、极粗沙级和砾石级(细粒和中砾),最大可达23.5 mm;颗粒形状不规则,质地较硬,手捏不碎;密度为2.51 g·cm-3,略小于砾石和当地沙丘沙;可溶物的pH值呈中性,电导率2.56 mS·cm-1,主要成分为CaSO4。砾石尺度的沙粒胶结体在地表的分布密度可达807粒·m-2,覆盖度2%~3%,由于其尺度和密度与砾石接近,它也应具有与砾石类似的风沙效应。沙粒胶结体也是一种天然固沙材料,研究其形成机制有助于开发新型固沙技术和固沙产品;沙粒胶结体可以抑制沙面风蚀、调节风沙流输沙强度、影响沙丘形态演变,探讨其风沙效应有助于深入认识塔克拉玛干沙漠垄间地的沙面稳定机制。沙粒胶结体的形成应与特殊的地质历史环境背景有关,可以作为沙漠地区历史时期气候变化的一个证据。因此,沙粒胶结体在防沙治沙技术开发、沙漠地区特殊下垫面风沙运动过程、沙漠环境形成演变等方面具有重要的研究价值,值得今后进行深入研究。 相似文献
8.
流域生物地球化学循环与水文耦合过程及其调控机制 总被引：7，自引：3，他引：4
流域生态系统的水文和生物地球化学循环通过水文通量的物理作用紧密耦合,其时空尺度的物质和能量耦合为流域生物地球化学过程的物质平衡和能量流动提供重要基础。通过研究流域尺度生物地球化学循环—水文耦合过程,将更加深刻揭示水循环驱动下陆地—水生生态系统碳氮循环与人类活动及气候系统的生物学、物理学和化学过程的耦合机制。本文综合阐述了流域生态系统的时间、空间以及时间—空间尺度的生物地球化学循环与水文耦合特征,揭示营养元素循环在时间—空间尺度上的耦合特征,通过大气、陆地、河流、河口和海洋系统形成了一个连续体并由水、气体和气溶胶通量进行物理连接;分析流域营养物质的生物地球化学循环与水文耦合过程随着时空尺度在大气—陆地界面、陆地—河流界面以及河口—海洋界面的耦合变异性;最后通过流域生态化学计量特征及水陆交错带对营养物质输出的调控分析耦合过程的生物学调控机制,以提高对流域景观水平的生态水文、生物地球化学和生态动力学的理解。 相似文献
9.
Victoria Guyatt 《New Zealand geographer》2005,61(3):203-212
Abstract: This paper uses Butler's (1990) concept of performativity to explore the constructions of feminine and masculine identities integral to the gendered bodily performance in 'interactive' service economies. The empirical research for this paper is based on Fat Freddie's student pub in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and was collected over an eight-week period using an ethnographic methodology. While Butler argues we 'do' gender, I explore how these 'fabrications' are naturalized, and the effect this has on the division of labour within Fat Freddie's. While these performances are regulatory, they are, however, unstable and alternate subject positionings can be adopted. I discuss how these subject positionings within Fat Freddie's can disrupt dichotomized gendered divisions and hegemonic understandings of appropriate gendered roles and identities. 相似文献
10.
This article analyzes the life trajectories of twelve early-career geographers in relation to their life–work experiences in an increasingly neoliberal academia and its constant demands of hypermobility. Using (auto)ethnographic research methods, it delves into the manifestations and effects of the pervasive myth of the detached, always ready-to-move scholar. We analyze the role of mobility in imaginaries and practices of academia and its close relationship with privilege and precarity. Our findings show how academic work is inescapably located despite the systematic erasure of the bodies, places, and networks that scholars are part of. By taking into account the centrality of place making in academic experience, our conclusions point to more comprehensive ways in which academic mobility can be understood, reflected on as part of geographers’ professional training, and transformed. 相似文献
11.
12.
13.
14.
Andrew D Davies 《Area》2009,41(1):19-25
This paper examines the ability of ethnographic research methods to effectively study spatially extensive political activity. It argues that traditional ethnographic methods of sustained engagement with spatially bounded sites are not adequately suited to dealing with contemporary spatially extensive political movements. It argues that contemporary attempts to bridge this impasse have emphasised a dichotomy between global and local that ignores the connections, disconnections and process that occur between places. The paper argues for a critical ethnography that is based on a relational understanding of space emphasising Gillian Hart's conception of the interconnected nature of the 'site'. Taking a single demonstration against the Beijing 2008 Olympics conducted by UK-based Tibet supporters, it examines how the site of protest was closely linked to a variety of other places. Interrogating the processes of connection and disconnection brought about through the protest creates an ethnographic account that, while partial, develops an engagement with the heterogeneity of contemporary political action. 相似文献
15.
Sarah Moser 《Area》2008,40(3):383-392
Over the past two decades there has been much focus across the social sciences and humanities on issues of positionality. However, in this literature the related issue of personality has not been a consideration despite its profound ability to shape both the research process and product. This paper draws on the wide body of literature on positionality as well as the work of psychologists concerned with understanding personality and emotional intelligence. Through discussion of my fieldwork experiences in Indonesia, I will illustrate some of the limitations of how positionality has been discussed and make a case for further attention to be paid to how personality affects the process of field research and, by extension, the production of knowledge. 相似文献
16.
Sarah Marie Hall 《Area》2009,41(3):263-272
This paper addresses the difficulties and dilemmas that may occur when friendships are formed with participants during an ethnographic research project. The ongoing, reciprocal relationships developed with participants are considered essential in the data collection of ethnography, as an avenue through which research can be carried out. However, while friendships in the field may open new doors to research, they can also create new (ethical) challenges. This paper revisits these issues, alongside research ethics guidelines, using three different scenarios: the negotiation of methods of contact, the maintenance of contact with participants and the sharing of research diaries with participants. From these discussions, two issues arise that may have implications for future ethnographic research: the obstacle of social networking websites and the negotiation of appropriate research ethics when participants become our friends. 相似文献
17.
身体地理学视角下非物质文化遗产的传承与实践 总被引：3，自引：1，他引：3
以人为本体、主体、载体、活体的非物质文化遗产实际上是一种“身体遗产”,身体在非物质文化遗产的形塑中发挥着根基性作用。本文选取展演型非物质文化遗产项目——广州沙涌村鳌鱼舞及其传承人为研究对象,引入身体地理学的理论分析视角,对非物质文化遗产传承人训练与展演的时空过程进行历时性考察,剖析传承人身体技术的形成过程和展演时空中的具身体验,探讨传承人在此过程中身体与感情相互影响的机制。研究发现：① 在训练时空中,传承人利用身体知识衍生出的权力关系主导了特定空间中的规训关系,不同级别的传承人具有不同的知识权力,一定的规训关系由此形成。青少年传承人与成年传承人间的情绪体验均受到规训关系和自身生物特性等多重因素的影响。地方特定的社会文化是规训关系顺利运作的主要原因。② 在展演时空中,身体是传承人多感官体验的核心。传承人通过身体感知特定的展演环境,基于“凝视”与“被凝视”的视觉关系,辅以声音的节奏韵律,与观众建立起了有效的感情交流途径,从而达到主体和客体间的有效互动。传承人的身体是非物质文化遗产得以成功传承和顺利展演的前提与保证,承载了丰厚的地方历史文化,在多主体和多层次的复杂时空网络中占据着中心地位。 相似文献
18.
《The Professional geographer》2013,65(1):76-89
Research traditions exert a powerful influence over the thinking of academic researchers. In population geography an entrenched empiricism and a reluctance to engage in wider debates on theory and method within human geography have resulted in a degree of separate development. Such methodological complacency has, until recently, threatened to undermine population geography's role within the discipline as a whole. Thus the discussion of multi-method research designs is of particular significance because it offers population geographers an opportunity to break out from the confines of a dominant research tradition and participate with other human geographers in an important methodological debate. This paper seeks not only to provide a critical overview of the current debate within population geography (as represented in the preceding papers in this Focus section) but also to extend that debate by raising issues of much more general concern. I argue that there are dangers in drawing the terms of the debate too narrowly. If we are to understand the nature and potential of multi-method research, we must first pose fundamental questions about the interrelationships among methods, data, and research problems. Pragmatic views on the choice of research method are inadequate because they fail to recognise the theory-driven nature of research. Only once we have achieved a better understanding of the philosophical grounding of research strategies will the opportunities afforded by multi-method research be fully realised. 相似文献
19.
On what it takes to be a good geographer 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
Dragos Simandan 《Area》2002,34(3):284-293
This paper argues that, in order to take place, space and scale more seriously in the study of our discipline, we have to complement the pervasive understanding of geography as a tradition of thought or an extended conversation with an understanding of our discipline as a tradition of practice, in which the main focus is on the becoming of geographers. It is argued that the theme of 'what it takes to be a good geographer' is a fertile way to study this process of becoming. The four main advantages of this approach are illustrated empirically in the body of the argument by the author's reflections on his socializing within two very different geographical traditions. 相似文献
20.
B. Z. Foreman 《Basin Research》2014,26(2):225-241
An unusually thick and laterally persistent fluvial sand body crops out at the Paleocene–Eocene boundary within the northern part of the Bighorn Basin in northwest Wyoming, USA. The generation of this ‘Boundary Sandstone’ was previously ascribed to a period of reduced subsidence; however, a new carbon isotope record presented herein shows it to be intimately correlated to the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), an extreme global warming event ca. 56 Ma. This study evaluates the impacts of the PETM on fluvial deposition in the basin by integrating sedimentological data with geochemical, palaeoichnological, and palaeobotanical proxy records. Compared to pre‐ and post‐PETM fluvial sand bodies, the Boundary Sandstone is more highly amalgamated, both vertically and laterally, but shows no changes in lithofacies associations, palaeodispersal directions, palaeoflow depths, or palaeochannel widths. At its thickest, the Boundary Sandstone resides entirely within the main body of the PETM, an ca. 113 kyr time interval when global pCO2 levels and temperatures were at their highest, and local mean annual rainfall low, floodplains well drained and vegetation comparatively sparse. The totality of data sets imply that the Boundary Sandstone is related to the preferential removal of fine‐grained floodplain deposits by either: (i) rapid readjustments in river gradients related to documented short‐term precipitation oscillations or (ii) reductions in the cohesiveness of overbank sediments related to decreased rooting density and water table fluctuations. Hence, short‐term climate perturbations may manifest within large‐scale depositional patterns in ways ostensibly like tectonics. 相似文献