南京东路商业步行街消费者行为变化研究——2001年与2007年的比较

本文通过比较2001年与2007年消费者行为数据,揭示出6年间南京东路消费者行为特征的变化。消费者属性的变化主要在于:消费者的年龄年轻化;居住地非本地化;整体收入水平略降低。消费者非空间活动的变化有:观光旅游休闲目的的消费者增多;路上时间明显缩短;消费者总体收入水平升高,但总开支降低;平均消费额降低,零消费比重增大,中高消费比例明显减少,年轻人的平均花费减少。消费者空间活动特征的变化主要在于:主要入口由原来的两个新增为三个;步行街西端总消费额和总人流密集的"三角区"消失,密集中心向中部转移;人均消费额的空间分布呈均质化态势;人均消费最高的地块从专业商店所在地块,转移到百货公司所在地块。本文最后通过变化系统分析图总结了消费者行为变化及其与宏观商业背景变化之间的关系。     

国内外城中村研究进展及展望

从国内和国外两条线回顾城中村相关研究进展。在国内研究综述方面,分别从对城中村现象的认识、城中村形成机制、城中村改造及发展建议三个方面概括各阶段学术界对城中村问题的研究成果;而在国外研究综述方面,按照自助型居住区研究、城中村流动人口居住研究、及城中村土地利用研究三个主题进行文献综述。通过回顾现有研究成果,指出基于城市地理学理论的城中村研究,在理论支撑方面需建立明确和多样的理论体系,在研究内容方面应选择更深层次的议题,在研究方法方面应加强定量研究方法的应用。     

Phoenician–Punic amphorae in northern coastal Etruria: New evidence from Pisa (Italy)

This study outlines the circulation of Phoenician–Punic amphorae in northern coastal Etruria, with a particular focus on Pisa (Italy), where their presence has been attested since the mid-eighth century BCE. A set of specimens from Piazza del Duomo was analysed by minero-petrographic and geochemical techniques. The results were compared with literature data from Mediterranean production areas. The research allowed a better definition of the role of Etruscan Pisa in the frame of commercial and cultural routes in the Mediterranean, specifically in the Tyrrhenian area, also providing the opportunity to review the attestations of Phoenician–Punic amphora on a regional scale.     

The Infrastructures of Internal Colonialism: State,Environment, and Race in Lerma,Mexico

This article explores the relations between infrastructures, labour, and internal colonialism in Lerma, Mexico. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research of two hydraulic projects there, the article argues that infrastructures are productive of the racial, environmental, and political relations that constitute internal colonialism both historically and contemporarily. I show how these infrastructural projects imagined and produced colonial relations between the environment, racialised workers, and the nation-state, and how these colonial logics endure today through infrastructures and the forms of racialised labour that maintain them. In doing so, this article contributes to literature that interrogates the relations between infrastructure and coloniality by focusing on how infrastructural labour makes internal colonialism enduring. The article concludes by reflecting on how the labour practices that make internal colonialism enduring also point to ways of producing infrastructures otherwise.     

Making the emotional connection: transnational eldercare circulation within Sri Lankan-Australian transnational families

The scholarship on care for older parents within transnational families focuses mainly on the experience of unskilled migrants and is presented largely from the perspective of caregivers. Few studies consider the case of affluent, skilled migrants, and their wealthy older parents who also cross borders to visit and provide care for their migrant adult–children. Through Baldassar and Merla’s concept of ‘care circulation’ and the lens of emotional transnationalism, the article illustrates that despite affluent transnational family members’ mobility and access to resources that should facilitate successful circulation of care, care is not easily exchanged at an intimate level. Drawing upon 30 transnational family case studies of skilled migrants residing in Australia and their urban, high to middle-income older parents from Sri Lanka, I argue that older parents construct both caring across distance and in proximity as an attentiveness to their emotional care needs, and the time and effort taken to engage in emotion work; a task that is more challenging for migrant sons than daughters. The article reveals the manner in which gendered care practices both enable and inhibit care circulation between transnational migrants and their older parents.