The Mobile Politics of Emotions and Social Movement in Oaxaca,Mexico

In light of recent debates between affect and emotions in geography, this article focuses on how the emotional landscape of spatial struggles in Oaxaca articulated people together, thereby generating solidarities and a collective sociality offering the potentiality of interconnection that geographers of affect emphasize. Through an analysis of a women's march, I demonstrate how social movements move people, mobilizing them both physically and emotionally, with effects that go beyond a movement's political demands. Engaging with how emotions do movement‐building work means going beyond a focus on the relational construction of emotions and arguing instead for their collective agency, including their power to transform participants into activists. Highlighting the centrality of spatial struggles and emotions to the shifting, mobile politics of social movements brings into sharp relief the importance of a situated, historical analysis for theorists romanticizing the emancipatory possibilities of a revolutionary transnational articulation between social movements.     

Income Disparity, Time Allocation, and Social Welfare in a System of Cities

The objective of this paper is to examine the formation of specialized cities with multiple types of households in a decentralized system of cities. This is done in a two-sector spatial general-equilibrium model of a closed economy consisting of two groups of labor forces: a continuum of unskilled labor used to produce a food product, and a continuum of skilled labor used in the production of a high-tech product. Cities are formed in this model as a result of investment in public infrastructure. This investment leads to a reduction in commuting cost and consequently to an increase in the time that households can utilize for work and leisure. The paper characterizes the equilibrium solution for a purely specialized system of cities and presents some comparative static results. Moreover, the paper presents an explanation for the variation in city sizes as a result of differences in households' value of time. Finally, the paper analyzes the determinants of income disparity between the two different types of cities and its impacts on social welfare.     

旅游产业发展、价格效应及其社会福利影响

本文针对中国不同旅游目的地旅游产业快速发展与物价高涨的典型事实,将旅游收入、价格效应引入社会福利函数,构建旅游产业发展、价格效应及其社会福利影响的理论模型,对旅游产业发展及其价格效应的社会福利影响进行理论研究显示:旅游产业发展推动其经济增长,从而对旅游目的地社会福利水平的提升带来直接的积极影响,相反,对旅游目的地的价格体系失衡产生显著的消极影响,从而对其社会福利水平的提升带来间接的消极影响.本研究利用中国四大世界双遗产旅游区及其张家界、三亚、阳朔、丽江旅游区的实证资料验证了这种内在影响的存在性,为中国不同地区旅游产业可持续发展的政策制定提供理论与实证依据.     

How Road Traffic Injuries Affect Household Welfare in Cambodia Using the Millennium Development Goals Benchmarks

This paper reveals the welfare costs of traffic injuries in Cambodia at the beginning of a decade in which greater research and resources will be focused on road safety. The results quantify how road traffic injuries affect progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) using survey data from 100 Cambodian households. The median age of the police-reported casualties was 28 years and 68 per cent were male. In terms of poverty (MDG1), injuries resulted in a 21 per cent loss of income for the 542 household residents. The poorest households, and those with a seriously injured resident, were worst affected. Primary education (MDG2) drop-out rates were eight times the province average. The gender (MDG3) income gap widened by 28 per cent, whilewomen bore 88 per cent of the burden of care for the injured. In terms of child health and mortality (MDG4), 31 per cent of respondents reported adeterioration in child health, while 24 per cent of respondents reported a deterioration in maternal health (MDG5). The households reported rates of priority diseases (MDG6) at twice the national average. Environment (MDG7) outcomes included increased wood fuel use and stagnation in improving drinking water access, with no apparent development partnership (MDG8) to address the negative welfare impacts of road traffic injury.     

以圣诞的名义，邂逅美食

不知不觉,2009年即将过去,岁末的最盛大的节日——圣诞节,伴着欢乐圣诞颂如期而至。走在街上,到处洋溢着浓郁的节目气息,各大酒店纷纷换上圣诞新装,挂满彩灯的圣诞树一定是街头最靓丽的风景!你是不是也在期待着参与。这一场盛事呐？那就跟着我们的脚步,去品尝圣诞夜的饕餮吧!     

The Expansion of Emergency Powers: Social Conflict and the Military in Indonesia

The exercise of emergency powers is always controversial. This article identifies the expansion of the type and scope of emergency powers through legislative reform. It does so by examining the Indonesian Law on Social Conflict 2012, which allows a state of social conflict to be declared at the national, regional or local level in response to social conflict, such as conflict between religious or ethnic communities. The deliberate choice of the term “state of social conflict”, rather than “state of emergency”, is an attempt to obscure the nature of these powers. Analysis of these powers and the debate that has ensued suggests that the law expands the types of situation in which powers usually only reserved for an emergency are used, and by delegating this power to local authorities, the law in effect amounts to the expansion of emergency powers. I suggest that this should lead to renewed focus on meaningful limits and checks on the exercise of power during times of emergency.