The geography of the political party: Lessons from the British Labour Party's experiment with community organising, 2010 to 2015

This paper highlights the geographical contributions made to academic debate about democracy, representation and the role of the political party. It argues that while geographers have made important arguments in relation to the structure and operation of representative democracy, there is scope for paying greater attention to the internal spatial dynamics of the political party. A successful political party requires a balance between the national party machine and its local membership base. This paper draws on research to explore the way in which the British Labour Party sought to renew its local membership base by adopting community organising techniques and establishing a new arms-length organisation, Movement for Change (M4C), between 2010 and 2015. It uses this research material to highlight the importance of the internal balance of power within any political party, and the need for a multi-scalar approach to understanding the successful operation of any political party.     

江苏第三产业内部结构升级趋势分析

本文按第三产业四个层次的划分,对近年来江苏第三产业内部结构的演变过程进行纵向分析和横向分析,通过建立回归分析模型,揭示第三产业比重与第三产业第一、二层次比重的相关关系。在综合分析江苏第三产业内部结构及其变动基础上,运用综合优势指数法对第三产业内部各行业进行比较,进而确定具有发展优势的重点行业,找出第三产业内部结构升级方向,并根据第三产业内部结构升级趋势分析,对运输邮电业、房地产业、教育文化艺术及广播电影电视业、和科学研究和综合技术服务业的发展,提出了一些政策建议。加强第三产业主导行业发展,深入改善内部结构;增强区域第三产业的协调发展;缩小收入差距促进第三产业的发展。     

Heterogeneity of birth-state effects on internal migration

Working in a discrete location choice framework, we develop a model of migration that allows the identification of heterogeneity in state-of-birth effects across states. We employ a novel method for using aggregate data to estimate the role of birth state on migration choices. This approach reveals considerable heterogeneity and some regional clustering in birth-state inertia effects across states, with strong attachments in California, the Southwest, and the upper Midwest. The weakest attachments are in the mountain states and New York.     

深圳市民迁居特征的时空分析

城市发展初期,大量域外劳动力迁入城市,促使城市地域迅速扩张。但当城市发展到一定阶段以后,城市人口的机械增长下降为次要因素,而城市地域内部的人口迁居成为影响城市发展以及内部空间结构变化的主导因素。本文以深圳市民问卷调查所得第一手资料为基础,通过对市民迁移性、迁居空间类型、迁居原因等的时空间分析,得到深圳市民迁居的时空间特征,并指出未来深圳市民迁居的空间趋势,以为城市内部空间结构调整提供参考。     

West African Tradition in the Decoration of Colonial Jamaican Folk Pottery

In the early colonial period, Jamaican slaves manufactured pottery that incorporated traditional West African technology with selected European innovations. Recent examination of Afro-Jamaican wares from the seventeenth-century site of Port Royal suggests that the decorative elements are consistent with those that are in wide use among West African pottery traditions, particularly those of the Gold Coast (Ghana). Stamped designs prevail as the clearest example of this continuity. Potential Amerindian contributions to the Jamaican folk pottery industry during this period are considered and shown to be unlikely. The isolation of decorative traits demonstrates how certain craft elements of West African peoples were transported to the New World and integrated with other cultural traditions. It also corroborates the documentary record pertaining to the geographical origin of Jamaican slaves during the early colonial period.     

A Genetic Approach to the Subdivision of Tropical Soils,Regolith and their Products of Redeposition

A soil classification based on the genetic principles of Russia's Dokuchayev school is proposed for the tropical setting of Cuba. In view of the heavy degradation of the island's original forest and savanna soils, leaving fully developed soil profiles only in a few areas, such a genetic classification of Cuban soils must incorporate both the few fully developed soils proper and the various types of subsoil, consisting both of parent material and of its products of redeposition. The following types of parent material are distinguished: (a) quartz-allitic-ferritic, on acid crystalline rocks; (b) kaol-inite-allitic-ferritic, on schists; (c) zeolitic, on basic volcanics; (d) ferro-zeolitic, on ultrabasics, and (e) terra rossa, on crystalline limestones. These primary types of parent material, developed on crystalline rocks, have their secondary equivalents on sedimentary rocks.     

中日泡沫经济的几个话题

在我国经济发展过程中有很多地方与上世纪80年代的日本经济相似,这使得我们考虑中国经济会不会重蹈日本泡沫经济破灭的覆辙。通过对比分析,我们得出当前中国经济与日本泡沫经济还存在许多不同的地方。我国应该积极借鉴日本泡沫危机的经验教训,一方面努力治愈经济发展中存在的弊病;另一方面积极探索我国经济发展的路径与方向,保持我国经济稳定持续的发展。     

我国实践区际生态补偿机制的困境与措施研究

生态补偿机制作为社会各种群体利益博弈的均衡结果,将对经济和环境不协调的现状进行调整,从而成为构建和谐社会的重要实现机制。我国是世界上开展生态补偿工作较早的国家之一。近年来,中央政府及部分省(市)区对于生态补偿机制进行了积极的探索与实践,取得了一定的经验,形成了许多行之有效的管理手段和工具,体现了生态补偿理论的特征和要求。但在具体的实践中,区域性生态服务的各受益地区往往隶属于不同的行政区划,分属于不同级次的财政,因此,协调处理好区际之间的生态补偿问题实际上要复杂得多。生态补偿作为一种新型环境管理制度,在我国推行还面临着许多困难和制约因素。本文针对目前我国实践区际生态补偿机制中可能面临的困境和问题进行了梳理与分析。并在此基础上,就如何完善我国区际生态补偿机制从制度建设角度提供了相应的对策与措施。     

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.     

A Content Analysis of Imago Mundi, 1935–2010

ABSTRACT

The 592 research articles in the first 62 volumes of Imago Mundi, from 1935 to 2010, are analysed to discern trends in the scholarly approaches, biases and interests of historians of cartography. Particular attention is paid to map historians’ preferred historical periods and topical subjects of study, to their nationalistic tendencies and to the shifting importance of traditional, internal and socio-cultural approaches to map history.