Making Space: Social Change, Identity and the Creation of Boundaries in the Central Ecuadorian Andes

Abstract— In rural Latin America, communities and their boundaries are changing due to government intervention, immigration, temporary migration and changing patterns of consumption. This article investigates the conflicts that arise from these changes and the impact they have on the creation of boundaries in a peasant community in the Ecuadorian Andes. It also discusses how the creation of community and household boundaries are linked to ethnic identification during rituals and daily life.     

论小区停车位及车库的归属——兼议对《物权法》第74条规定的理解

《物权法》第74条首次从法律层面,对停车位及车库的归属作出了规定。但是《物权法》没有区分停车位及车库的不同形式,进行类型化的规定。文章针对停车位及车库的权属争议,结合土地使用权分摊规则以及容积率标准,对不同形式的停车位及车库所有权的归属进行了分析,在此基础之上探讨了对《物权法》第74条中"其他场地"和"约定归属"含义的理解。     

"那"文化神话景观与大地伦理的建构

“那”文化中的神话,依照其生长于其上生产方式所赋予意义,它能够表现出壮族等民族的空间展演与时间隐喻的交汇特质,形成了科技理解与生态选择相统一的大地伦理模式,为后现代社会解决生态危机提供了较为现实而又不乏形上指向的文化参考语境。     

空间利用权探析

空间权是指以土地地表之上的一定空间或地表之下的一定地身范围为客体而成立的一种不动产权利。空间利用权是指在土地使用权及其效力所及空间之外,对地表上下一定范围内的空间所享有的排他使用权。     

Valor de uso y espacio urbano: la ciudad como eje central de la conformación política,cultural y simbólica de las sociedades

This article outlines a theoretical proposal intended to understand the concept of use value applied to the study of the city and the urban space, in their origins and development. Based on Henri Lefebvre's views, the main argument of this work is that the city initially arises as use value. According to Bolívar Echeverría and Gilbert Durand approaches, the article claims that use value not only is material, signic and semiotic, but also symbolic. It is argued that the symbolic plays a crucial role in the construction of cities, just as important as economy and politics. A case study is carried out with the aim of suggesting a concurrence of theoretical interpretations ranging from historical materialism to symbolic hermeneutics. The author concludes that the city and the ordering of its urban space are major hubs around which societies are organized.     

Do we need to categorize it? Reflections on constituencies and quotas as tools for negotiating difference in the global food sovereignty convergence space

ABSTRACT

Convergence – as an objective and as a process – designates the coming together of different social actors across strategic, political, ideological, sectoral and geographic divides. In this paper, we analyze the global food sovereignty movement (GFSM) as a convergence space, with a focus on constituencies and quotas as tools to maintain diversity while facilitating convergence. We show how the use of constituencies and quotas has supported two objectives of the GFSM: alliances building and effective direct representation in global policy-making spaces. We conclude by pointing to some convergence challenges the GFSM faces as it expands beyond its agrarian origins.     

A tale of three bridges: agency and agonism in peace building

This article explores agonistic processes of peace, which are situated within and constitutive of different spaces and places. Three contested cities, Sarajevo, Mostar and Vi?egrad in Bosnia-Herzegovina, provide us with local sites where peace and peace building in various forms ‘take place’ as people come together in collective action. Through a close reading of three symbolically and materially important bridges in the towns, we reveal meaning-making processes, as agentive subjects struggle around competing claims in the post-conflict everyday world. The collective, situated and fleeting agency that we explore through the Arendtian notion of ‘space of appearance’ invests space with meaning, belonging and identity. Thus, this article grapples with agonistic peace as it manifests itself in materiality and spatial practices. We use the social and material spaces of the city to locate agency and agonism in peace building as they relate to the conflict legacy in Mostar, Vi?egrad and Sarajevo in order to advance the critical peace research agenda.     

The early 1960s as a cultural space: a microhistory of Ukraine's generation of cultural rebels

This article analyzes the early stage of the Ukrainian “sixtiers” movement as a semi-autonomous space of cultural expression that was tolerated by the authorities and defined, developed, and inhabited by young Ukrainian intellectuals. In contrast to present-day Ukrainian representations of the sixtiers as a force acting in opposition to the Soviet regime, the spatial angle employed here reveals an ambiguous relationship with official institutions. The Ukrainian Komsomol organization in particular appears to be both a controlling and an enabling agent that, together with the Writers' Union, provided meeting venues for the sixtiers until the mid-1960s. This complex symbiotic relationship continued even after some creative youth pioneered the first attempts to claim public space for cultural events without the authorities' permission. The cultural terrain inhabited by young Ukrainian intellectuals was not fully separate from mainstream Soviet Ukrainian culture or in opposition to it, although their vibrant cultural space also reached into a world of non-conformist culture unregulated by the state. A series of government crackdowns beginning in the mid-1960s dramatically shrank this open, ambivalent space of semi-free cultural expression, imposing firm boundaries and forcing intellectuals to make political choices.     

法律空间建构的逻辑演进

近年来,学术界越来越多的学科正在向空间理论研究转向.法律的空间性研究也具有一定学术和应用价值.本文以于法律空间性为研究视角,从三个不同的维度进行逻辑推演:维度构成、作用机制和研究方法.本研究的目的是探索利用抽象的数学模型来建构一个法律空间的可能性,特别是在信息技术高速发展的背景下,借鉴卢曼开创的系统法学方法论,以解释、...     

居住区类型对新生代农民工城市融入影响的实证研究

新生代农民工的城市融入问题是国内学术界重点关注的问题,这一研究综合了纵向和横向两种分化视角。从整体上来说,"空间融合型"新生代农民工的城市融入情况要好于"空间隔离型"新生代农民工。为了实现新生代农民工的城市融入,必须要改变当前新生代农民工在居住空间上与城市居民相互隔离的现状,使新生代农民工与城市居民在居住空间上融合在一起。