Reconciling Local with Global: New Zealand Muslim Women Articulating Faith in their Lives

This article explores the dynamics of personalised faith in the lives of minority and migrant Muslim women. Research that localises women's understandings of faith contrasts with the considerable literature that focuses on the transnational, politicised character of religion, as well as the discourses that examine religion as a form of gendered patriarchy. This article is a contribution to research that approaches gender and religion from a localised perspective. Drawing on the notion of ‘third space’, this discussion provides ethnographic narratives of Muslim women in New Zealand, focusing on four specific women. Each woman's story illustrates the significance of faith in her life, and demonstrates the unique, and interactive, ways that faith creates new meanings and interpretive possibilities in local contexts, as well as providing emotional solace and a source of coping with wider life stresses.     

Unsettling Spaces: Grassroots Responses to Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women During the Harper Government Years

Abstract

In Canada, Indigenous women and girls are 4.5 times more likely to become victims of homicide than other women. Over the last 30 years, more than 1000 women identified as First Nations, Inuit, or Métis were murdered in Canada, and more than 100 are still missing. However, the Canadian government has not acknowledged the economic, social and environmental colonialism that has allowed this violence to become naturalised. Focusing on activism around the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people in Canada during the years of the Conservative Harper Government, this article examines how these grassroots initiatives challenge Canadian politics, reclaim streets and liminal zones, and make space for sacred commemoration. Specifically, Twitter campaigns, memeing, the REDress Project, and Walking With Our Sisters are studied. Engaging with scholarship that analyses spaces of violence, this article, in turn, discusses how activism can disrupt violence by transforming physical, virtual and affective spaces.     

城市化发展、城市居住空间结构分化与城市农民工居住空间分析——以上海市为例

城市化既是“人口的城市化”,也是“空间的城市化”。随着城市化发展,城市内部空间结构重组明显,社会分层现象明显体现在居住空间分化上,城市居住空间分异程度加剧。通过上海人口城市化的发展历程分析,对城市化进程中的上海市城市居住空间结构演变及特征进行剖析,进而对农民工居住空间演变、特征及存在问题进行分析和研究,并提出相应的对策建议。     

国际大都市的辐射效应研究——法兰克福都市区发展案例

通过德国法兰克福都市区区位与现实空间的描述,在对其经济与产业机构进行分析的基础上,研究着重探讨了法兰克福作为国际金融中心的立体辐射效应、努力打造营商环境的创新发展效应以及会展中心对城市开放的国际化要素能量聚集效应,最后在研究结论中还对该城市辐射力的原动力做了概述。     

Putting Bourdieu to work for class analysis: reflections on some recent contributions

Recent developments in class analysis, particularly associated with so‐called ‘cultural class analysis’; have seen the works of Pierre Bourdieu take centre stage. Apart from the general influence of ‘habitus’ and ‘cultural capital’, some scholars have tried to reconstruct class analysis with concepts drawn from Bourdieu. This involves a theoretical reorientation, away from the conventional concerns of class analysis with property and market relations, towards an emphasis on the multiple forms of capital. Despite the significant potential of these developments, such a reorientation dismisses or neglects the relations of power and domination founded in the economic institutions of capitalism as a crucial element of what class is. Through a critique of some recent attempts by British authors to develop a ‘Bourdieusian’ class theory, the paper reasserts the centrality of the relations of power and domination that used to be the domain of class analysis. The paper suggests some elements central to a reworked class analysis that benefits from the power of Bourdieu's ideas while retaining a perspective on the fundamentals of class relations in capitalism.     

人文地理学与社会学空间研究的比较分析:共识、差异与共同问题

人文地理学和社会学的空间研究是社会空间研究的两种路径。两个学科的空间研究都承认空间的社会性,并以社会和空间的辩证关系作为分析的核心。但两个学科的研究又存在差异,人文地理学本身就是一门空间科学,社会学则是把空间视角纳入社会理论的建构中。学科的共识和差异分别成为社会空间研究理论的建构基础和拓展动力。我们需要注意的是,社会空间探讨存在着诸如社会—空间二元分裂倾向、忽视时间等问题,这些问题阻碍了社会空间研究的发展,亦成为人文地理学和社会学面临的共同难题。     

基于需求的图书馆外围游憩空间设计初探——以河北工程大学图书馆为例

随着图书馆事业的迅速发展,高校在大建图书馆的同时,也非常看重其外围游憩空间的建设,它不仅代表了图书馆的形象,还有着其不可替代的功能,指出了游憩空间的含义、功能,并结合师生的行为特点和需求对图书馆外围游憩空间的建设提出了具体建议,如对图书馆主出入口区、前院、后院、露台及屋顶平台等的设计提出了意见,并以河北工程大学图书馆为例提出了自己的改造意见,希望本文的撰写能为高校图书馆外围游憩空间的建设提供参考.     

Urban Risk Generalization in China: Space and Governance*

As an issue in Chinese urban development, handling urban risk generalization invites reflection on the structural features and internal development of the immediate or potential risks entailed in rapid urbanization across the globe. As part of research on national governance modernization, China has reached a consensus on managing urban risks. A study of spatial theory indicates that urban risk generalization in China is essentially a structural issue arising from an immature system of generalized benefits in urban space rights and interests along with an unbalanced spatial structure, functional disarray and ecological disruption arising from inequitable and unbalanced urban spatial development, readjustment and renovation. As an innovative form of modern urban public management with its target shifting from the pursuit of material things to people-centered development, spatial management enlists actors including government, business, society and citizens to seek a “community of shared spatial interests” with a rational structure, effective functions and an optimized environment at the level of spatial production and interest distribution. We need innovation in the spatial structures, drivers and mechanisms of urban public management and cultural ecology to realize their institutionalization, synthesis and reordering, strategically forestalling and resolving urbanization risks and realizing a spatial governance vision of the scientific, fair and sustainable allocation, growth and renovation of urban space in the risk era.     

北洋政府时期的查禁文学与文学发展空间

北洋政府时期查禁文学（包括艺术）的事件,从档案资料和有关报刊资料记载中发现的重大案例有14起。被查禁的文学艺术作品主要有两类：一类是所谓＂不良小说＂,包括＂宗旨乖谬＂和＂词义淫邪＂者;另一类是所谓＂思想偏激＂的作品。北洋政府时期查禁文学的意图和目的主要是所谓＂通俗教育＂,即针对一般民众的社会道德风俗教育,其中也有抑制新思想新观念的企图,但那一时期政治没有把文学完全当作工具的意图,政治对文学没有进行奴役的打算,政治对文学的介入不是十分急迫,加之北洋政府对社会的管理相对松弛,对文学和文化没有完全控制,因而在客观上形成了20世纪初期文学自由发展的较大空间。     

中国大学毕业生劳动力市场中的同群效应

随着高校毕业生就业制度的改革和高等教育规模的扩大,大量的大学毕业生进入了劳动力市场,这些大学毕业生在劳动力市场的表现是一个值得关注的问题。针对目前国内关于大学生就业等问题的实证文章较少的现状,文章使用2007年中国大学毕业生就业与能力年度调查数据,利用空间计量经济学的方法研究我国大学毕业生劳动力市场中的同群效应。研究的结果发现,在我国大学毕业生劳动力市场中存在着显著的、正向的同群效应,并证实了这种同群效应一部分可由大学生在校期间的各种知识和能力培养的相互影响所解释。