Living and working in urban working class communities     

Kevin Ward  Colette Fagan 《Geoforum》2007,38(2):312-325

Much has been written on the apparent urban renaissance in UK cities and the new lifestyle arrangements, working time patterns, economic activities and the more general reordering of work and life that appears to accompany it. Certainly, recent decades have witnessed a range of economic, social and cultural changes in the lives of those living and working in cities and surrounding suburbs. Much of the attention in this work has focused on those groups for whom the changes have appeared most profound: the high-income earners returning to live in the city - the gentrifiers - or those who suffer multiple deprivations as a result of economic restructuring. Seemingly absent from many accounts of urban change are those places where, at first glance, the effects of change have been less pronounced: low-income, working class neighbourhoods where most people continue to get by, albeit in the context of a harsher, and less secure political economic context. In light of this apparent silence, this paper draws on interviews from Wythenshawe in South Manchester, to examine how low-income mothers cope, live and labour, in a rapidly changing city, as they perform paid work at the same time as ensuring the social reproduction of the household.  相似文献   

Neo-liberal ruptures: Local political entities and neighbourhood networks in El Alto, Bolivia     

Juan Manuel Arbona 《Geoforum》2007,38(1):127-137

In October 2003, hundreds of thousands of Bolivians took to the streets demanding the resignation of President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. After 20 years of neo-liberal policies - and the failures to improve the living conditions of the majority - the proposal to export natural gas via Chile was taken by the population as yet another step to sustain an unjust political order. Facing a direct challenge by the population the Sánchez de Lozada administration responded with indiscriminate military force. The result was 63 dead and over 300 wounded, which deepened and extended the social rage and eventually forced the resignation of the President. The neo-liberal project - promoted and defended by Sánchez de Lozada - collapsed. The city of El Alto was the epicentre of the challenges to the legitimacy of this political order. This article focuses on the role of local political entities and neighbourhood networks from El Alto in articulating political spaces that challenged the legitimacy of the institutional infrastructure and led to the October 2003 ruptures in the neo-liberal project. Furthermore, I make the case that the particular histories and memories (of “relocalized” miners and indigenous/peasants) that converged in and defined this city were pivotal in the organization of a “political subsoil” that surged to the surface during the October 2003 events.  相似文献   

Negotiating changing livelihoods: The sampan dwellers of Tam Giang Lagoon, Vi?t Nam     

Elsa DaCosta 《Geoforum》2007,38(1):190-206

Central Vi?t Nam is one of the most vulnerable areas in the country to natural disasters. In 1985 a major typhoon hit the Tam Giang Lagoon coastal area in the province of Th?a Tiên-Hu?, Central Vi?t Nam, with severe impacts on the sampan dwellers who lived there on boats and fished for their livelihoods. Since then, the government has attempted to resettle them on land in order to decrease their vulnerability to such events. Consequently, this process has changed the livelihood options as well as the social networks of the sampan dwellers. This study of the resettlement village of Th?y ?i?n analyses the social networks and different forms of social capital being utilised by the resettled sampan dwellers as part of their changing livelihoods and questions whether the social capital formed will indeed lead to a long term decrease in vulnerability. It is found that while bonding and linking social capital have been newly formed, the trust required for bridging social capital formation is still missing, and this in turn is hindering the possibilities of sustainable livelihood formation.  相似文献   

Everyday effects, practices and causal mechanisms of ‘cultural embeddedness’: Learning from Utah’s high tech regional economy     

Al James 《Geoforum》2007,38(2):393-413

In recent years, economic geographers have drawn extensively upon notions of ‘cultural embeddedness’ to explore how spatially variable sets of cultural conventions, norms, values and beliefs shape firms’ innovative performance in dynamic regional economies. However, our understanding of these causal links remains partial, reinforced by an ‘over-territorialised’ conception of cultural embeddedness which sidelines the role of institutional actors operating outside and across the boundaries of ‘the local’. So motivated, this paper offers a theoretically-informed - and theoretically informing - empirical analysis of the high tech regional economy in Salt Lake City, Utah to explore the everyday causal mechanisms, practices and processes - both local and extra-local - through which firms’ cultural embedding within the region is manifested, performed and (un)intentionally (re)produced. In so doing, this paper aims to further our understanding of the constitutive entanglement and complex interweaving of cultural/economic practices, and to contribute to the development of an in-depth empirical corpus of work which compliments the exciting conceptual developments that have largely dominated cultural economic geography over the last decade.  相似文献   

知识经济与科技编辑     

石大明 《成都信息工程学院学报》1998,(4)

以知识经济的特点为背景,论述了知识经济与科技发展的关系,探讨了面对知识经济科技编辑如何处理好基础研究类学术著作、高科技图书与实用普及类图书的出版,以及编辑自身提高等问题。  相似文献   

黄河中游地区农村经济发展战略研究   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1  

任国柱 《地理科学进展》1998,17(3):83-88

黄河中游地区是我国自然条件较差、生态环境脆弱、农村经济基础较薄弱的地区之一,本文对该地区农村经济发展的区位、资源等优势条件和生态环境、科技文化等限制因素进行了分析,对农村经济发展的现状和潜力进行了评价和分析,探讨了今后本区农村经济发展的方向与途径等问题。  相似文献   

重庆市都市区人口、资源、环境与经济系统协调发展探析   总被引：4，自引：1，他引：4  

李孝坤 《云南地理环境研究》2005,17(2):37-41

人口、资源、环境与经济系统的协调是城市经济系统可持续发展的核心．但系统协调度的量化具有高度的复杂性、开放性和不确定性。以重庆市都市区为例，采用协调度模型(公式)计算出1996～2001年各年的协调度值，并结合重庆市实际对协调度进行了等级划分和判识，结果表明：从1996～2001年系统协调度呈现由极不协调到不协调到弱协调的变化趋势，同时也表明系统协调度总体水平尚低。最后提出了促进重庆市都市区系统协调发展的若干对策建议。  相似文献   

城市空间结构演变的空间过程和动力因子分析   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

王开泳  王淑婧  薛佩华 《云南地理环境研究》2004,16(4):65-69

城市空间结构是城市地理学、城市规划学的核心研究内容之一。城市空间结构的演变作为一个十分复杂的社会现象，一直受到各方面学者的关注。通过着重分析城市空间结构演变的主要空间过程：空间竞争、空间演替、空间扩散、空间均衡等，并对这些空间经济过程做出横向分析，讨论城市空间结构与城市经济运行之间的内在联系。分析城市空间结构演变的主要动力因子：包括完善的服务和基础设施、土地集约利用、城市产业的人口需求等集聚因子和环境承载力、级差地租、现代技术的发展等离散因子，从而论证集聚力和离心力的交互作用对城市空间结构演变产生深刻影响。  相似文献   

The non-agricultural economy in post-socialist rural Romania: The insights and perceptions of national, regional and local institutions     

Wilfried Heller 《GeoJournal》1998,46(3):199-205

This study evaluates some aspects of the socio-economic transformation of rural Romania with reference to the views of representative organisations (at national, regional and local levels) and other experts. Interviews conducted in ten communes of nine Romanian counties (‘judete’) focus attention on the advantages and disadvantages of system change experienced since 1989; the most important problems and constraints for future socio-economic change; and appropriate policies and perspectives for development in the immediate future. Wherever appropriate the claims of interviewees are substantiated through reference to statistics, drawn in many cases from Chambers of Commerce & Industry (CCI). Local level representatives presented much more negative views on recent change than their national and regional level counterparts, but all agreed on the crucial problem of capital shortage. Thus while specific programmes to assist rural areas are justified, they cannot fully succeed until the national economy is able to grow more rapidly and attract greater foreign investment. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

包头市水资源系统经济效益分析     

邵景力  崔亚莉  李建萍  茅忠阳  段连钧 《吉林大学学报(地球科学版)》1998,(3)

通过工业资料的统计,获得有关供水效益计算的参数。以效益分析和国民经济评价原理为基础,运用效益分摊系数法对全市工业供水效益分析,用投资净效益率法对现状和２０００年全市水资源系统进行了国民经济评价。结果表明,包头市水资源系统的经济效益明显。  相似文献