Reflections on a White Discipline     

Laura Pulido 《The Professional geographer》2002,54(1):42-49

Utilizing a partially autobiographical format, this article considers the practice and study of race within geography. I argue that the overwhelmingly white composition of the discipline has very real implications for both individual experiences and our intellectual production and disciplinary culture. I explore these issues by drawing on my own experiences as a Chicana within geography, and by examining the extent to which one area of research, environmental justice, has engaged questions of race and the consequences of that engagement. I conclude with some general remarks on what it might take to significantly diversify geography.  相似文献   

The Spaces of Conservation and Development around Lake Nakuru National Park,Kenya     

Robert Daniels  Thomas J. Bassett 《The Professional geographer》2002,54(4):481-490

Geographically or sociologically defined resource management units, such as buffer zones or community resource management territories, seek to harmonize local land–use practices with protected–area management objectives. The geographically restricted nature of these models often results in simplistic representations of society–nature relations over time and space. Conservation areas are misrepresented as ecologically and socially homogeneous, as well as politically neutral. This study examines the limits of a spatially defined conservation and development project designed around the physical geographical unit of the watershed at Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya. It argues that politically motivated violence that has plagued the area since the early 1990s has severely undermined the suitability of such narrowly defined conservation territories. Specifically, the case study points to the permeability of the Lake Nakuru watershed to national and regional political forces that ultimately constrain participation in conservation activities. The spaces of conservation and development must be enlarged to include these extralocal arenas and processes if environmental problems are to be effectively addressed.  相似文献   

Markets, ethnicity and environment in a vulnerable landscape: the case of small-scale vegetable production on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria, 1991–2001     

Gina Porter  Frances Harris†  Fergus Lyon‡  Jasper Dung§  A A Adepetu§ 《The Geographical journal》2003,169(4):370-381

This paper explores changing socio-environmental interactions in the vegetable producing areas of the Jos Plateau over the decade 1991–2001. It considers the pressures of market forces and ethnic competition and the tensions which arise as interactions between the two are played out in a fragile physical, social and institutional environment. The region has seen a remarkable expansion in irrigated vegetable production, as dry season surveys in 1991 and 2001 attest. Local farmers appear extremely positive in their perceptions of change, pointing not only to expanded production, but also to other improvements, like growing percentages of children in school and improved transport. But behind this rosy view of change there are tensions and a series of unresolved questions which may soon have to be addressed. We examine the changing nature of socio-environmental interactions over the decade and ask whether and how current levels of production can be sustained in the context of a currently largely unregulated production system and growing competition for land. Given the important role of the Plateau as a source of temperate fruit and vegetables in West Africa, these questions have significance far beyond the Plateau region itself.  相似文献   

BELGIAN SETTLEMENT AND SOCIETY IN THE INDIANA RUST BELT*     

SUSAN E. HUME 《Geographical review》2003,93(1):30-50

ABSTRACT. At first glance the industrial city of Mishawaka, near the northern border of Indiana, appears to be ethnically homogeneous. Closer examination, however, reveals the rich ethnic heritage of Mishawaka, as it does in so many other Rust Belt cities from Pittsburgh to Chicago. One of the most fascinating of these immigrant stories is the rise of Belgian Town, on Mishawaka's southwest side. This study examines residential, commercial, and social patterns of this evolving ethnic community during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Although industrial jobs attracted immigrants to the city, creation of a Flemish Catholic church provided the foundation on which to build a tightly knit Belgian community.  相似文献   

The current ethnic panorama in Bulgaria     

Marin Bachvarov 《GeoJournal》1997,43(3):215-224

Although a constant trickle of outmigrants and several larger waves (mostly to Turkey) are characteristic for the modern history of Bulgaria, its ethnic composition was relatively stable. The ethnic Bulgarians are a clear majority, the largest minority groups being in descending order the Turks, Roma (Gypsies), the Muslim Bulgarians and several much smaller groups. The geographical patterns of distribution have been analysed. Over time, the policies of the Bulgarian state towards the minority groups have been varying between benevolence and restriction measures. The ethnocultural communities have worked out moduses of co-existence preventing the escalation of conflicts at the local level.  相似文献   

Minority women’s microenterprises in rural areas of the United States of America: African American,Hispanic American and Native American case studies     

Helen Ruth Aspaas 《GeoJournal》2004,61(3):281-289

Women in many rural areas of the US often engage in small-scale businesses as one of several avenues for contributing to household incomes. In those geographical areas that contain a significant minority population, many of the women's businesses display the cultural diversity of the regions in which they live. Likewise, women's roles as economic providers as well as wives and mothers are reflected in the manner in which they operate their businesses. Candida Brush suggests that women's strategies for operating their businesses are highly integrative because women's business decisions are intertwined with familial responsibilities, household economic demands and desires to contribute to their communities. Hispanic and Native American women in the Four Corners region of southwestern US and African American women in central Virginia participated in interviews in which they responded to numerous short answer and open-ended questions about their businesses and decision-making strategies. From these interviews an image emerges of rural minority business women who are operating their businesses at the nexus of family obligations, economic necessities, cultural ties and with a commitment for serving their communities. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

Koreatown and Korean Small Firms in Los Angeles: Locating in the Ethnic Neighborhoods*     

Dong Ok Lee 《The Professional geographer》1995,47(2):184-195

The locations of Korean firms in Los Angeles reflect spatial segmentation in markets and the provision of labor, in that the ethnic neighborhoods facilitate positive business environments for ethnic small firms. While Korean small businesses serve both community needs and broader local markets, firm locations are closely associated with the residential patterns of some ethnic populations. To address the specificity of firm locations, this paper examines Koreatown using historical sources and recent property development, identifies changes in the locational patterns of Korean firms between 1975 and 1986, and analyzes relationships between business density and density of ethnic populations for zip code areas. The findings of this study indicate that both the development of Koreatown and the presence of ethnic neighborhoods are important influences on the location of Korean businesses.  相似文献   

民族文化旅游产品的体验化设计与创新——以彝族十月太阳历文化园为例     

王婷  明庆忠  李庆雷 《云南地理环境研究》2007,19(6):130-135

体验经济赋予了民族文化旅游产品新的内涵,也促使民族文化旅游产品的体验化设计成为必然.民族文化旅游产品体验化设计应遵循产品独特性、体验主题化、高度参与性、文化真实性的原则,从体验主题的确定、体验氛围营造、体验活动的策划、体验线路的安排和旅游纪念品的设计等5个方面进行.  相似文献   

四川少数民族自治区域旅游开发与贫困缓解   总被引：10，自引：0，他引：10  

何景明  李辉霞  何毓成  李立华 《山地学报》2003,21(4):442-448

四川少数民族自治地区是一个贫困面大、贫困程度深的区域。但它有着非常丰富的自然生态和民俗风情旅游资源,旅游业有着其他产业所无法比拟的资源优势。近年来,旅游业已成为区域新的经济增长点和国民经济的先导产业,将旅游开发与扶贫有机结合应该成为缓解贫困的有效的途径。但旅游扶贫功效的发挥是有条件的,并不是所有的旅游形式都具有同等的扶贫功效。为此文章论述了有利于贫困缓解的旅游发展战略。  相似文献   

论民间法对中国少数民族地区环境法制建设的贡献   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

廖华 《云南地理环境研究》2007,19(5):50-54

创始于西方国家的环境法以工业化和民主政治为基础,在工业化程度不高、民主意识欠缺的少数民族地区开展环境法制建设必须尊重当地少数民族的自治权利及社会的法文化传统,发挥民间法对环境法制建设的贡献.因为民间法作为历史文化遗留有巨大的惯性力量,是实际存在于中国现代社会的有效秩序和规范来源.少数民族地区广泛存在的与环境保护相关的民间法能够成为地方环境立法的来源,帮助人们认同国家环境立法,并且弥补国家环境立法的空白,全面细致地规范人们开发利用环境的行为.  相似文献