Asian GeographerPub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2019.1701505
Cristian Silva
{"title":"The rural lands of urban sprawl: institutional changes and suburban rurality in Santiago de Chile","authors":"Cristian Silva","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2019.1701505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2019.1701505","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Urban sprawl has been mainly discussed in regard to its negative impacts. However, there is a variety of rural lands that benefit the suburbanization process in social, environmental, economic and political terms. These lands configure a category of rurality rarely considered as part of the urban phenomenon, and usually seen as pending space for further (sub)urbanization. In this sense, planning regimes and institutional changes tend to transform suburban rurality into marketable residential space, triggering reactions of preservation and change. With regard to the capital city of Chile – Santiago – it is argued that the meanings about the “urban”, the “rural” and the “city” become disputable in the light of suburban rurality and problematic as direct antonyms or unequivocal synonyms. It is also demonstrated that despite dramatic institutional changes, suburban rurality can survive over time if it finds support in social organizations and alternative planning rationales. The research in which this paper is based was conducted in five years and included the revision of several leftover interstitial spaces in which suburban rurality emerges as one of the most meaningful categories of suburban space. To gain further understanding on suburban rurality, this paper is based on a qualitative approach – including semi-structured interviews and archival revision of historical documents and policy reports – and focuses on the southern geographical space of the metropolitan area of Santiago de Chile, where most of social housing developments have been located over the last 60 years.","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10225706.2019.1701505","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41663841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian GeographerPub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2019.1703768
Rex J. Rowley
{"title":"Evoking a shifting sense of place in one museum following the 3/11 tsunami in Japan","authors":"Rex J. Rowley","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2019.1703768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2019.1703768","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT On March 11, 2011, Japan experienced the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in that country. A coastal port and fishing city in Miyagi Prefecture, Kesennuma was one of the hardest hit population centers, the waves having destroyed much of the city’s commercial core and nearly all of its low coastal neighborhoods. The wave’s destruction highlighted certain elements of the city’s sense of place and forever changed others. I explore how the Kesennuma Shark Museum reflects ways in which the 3/11 disaster has simultaneously maintained and altered Kesennuma as a place. I analyze the spatiality of the museum and how its narrative evokes a sense of place in the broader community. The case of the Shark Museum is one example of how scholars can use museums to examine sense of place and how it has been impacted by natural disasters. This work represents a unique contribution to cultural geography inquiry into the spatiality of museums, museum experiences, and how such spaces reflect an interaction between people and place.","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10225706.2019.1703768","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44650853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian GeographerPub Date : 2020-05-27DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2020.1768569
S. Wellisch, L. Laš
{"title":"Media discourses of territorial disputes in Japan","authors":"S. Wellisch, L. Laš","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2020.1768569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2020.1768569","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper deconstructs Japanese media discourses of Japan’s territorial disputes in selected newspapers in English – namely The Asahi Shimbun, The Japan News and The Japan Times from 2002 to 2018. Embedded in critical geopolitics, content and discourse analyses were conducted with the lexicostatistical tool AntConc, using articles available in the LexisNexis and Kikozu II Visual databases. The outcomes illustrate that nationalist geopolitical imaginations are popular among all researched newspapers as demonstrated by a strong dominance of solely Japanese toponyms in the discourses as well as a focus on supporting Japan’s obstinate approach rather than promoting solutions.","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10225706.2020.1768569","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44587803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian GeographerPub Date : 2020-05-27DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2020.1768571
H. Lee
{"title":"Historical climate-war nexus in the eyes of geographers","authors":"H. Lee","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2020.1768571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2020.1768571","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Did climate change cause wars in history? While a growing number of quantitative studies (particularly in the field of geography) illustrate the climate-war nexus in pre-industrial societies, there are opposing opinions on the subject. Such conflicting views invite us to reconsider whether the climate-war nexus can be conceptualized as a yes/no dichotomy. This paper seeks to address this issue. I will first recapitulate the key findings of those quantitative studies of geographers that substantiate the significant role of climate deterioration in causing wars. Then I will pinpoint those issues that complicate the conceptualization of the climate-war nexus, indicating that the nexus cannot be taken as a simple yes/no question. Finally, I will propose a research approach that may facilitate a productive interdisciplinary collaboration, perhaps between geographers and historians, to conduct research on the interconnection between climate change and wars in history. I hope that the interpretation of the climate-war nexus can move away from a dichotomy of yes/no, and the multiple dimensions of wars and social resilience to climate change will be thoroughly considered. Also, the advantages of geography and history could be integrated to enrich understanding of the climate-war nexus in history.","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10225706.2020.1768571","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45931098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian GeographerPub Date : 2020-05-27DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2020.1768570
R. Setiadi, A. Artiningsih, M. Sophianingrum, Tegar Satriani
{"title":"The dimension of rural-urban linkage of food security assessment: an Indonesian case study","authors":"R. Setiadi, A. Artiningsih, M. Sophianingrum, Tegar Satriani","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2020.1768570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2020.1768570","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study puts emphasis on a literature review of current theoretical strands in two major fields: food security and rural-urban linkage. It then critically evaluates the relation between these two. It examines the extent to which the preparation of the Food Security Vulnerability Atlas developed by the World Food Programme considers the rural-urban linkage dimension. The linkage and differences between rural and urban characteristics that significantly affect the pillars of food security are explored based on empirical data obtained from two local governments in Central Java Province, Indonesia. This study shows that the dimension of rural-urban linkage has been included in the Food Security Vulnerability Atlas preparation guideline in Indonesia, although the notion of rural-urban linkage is not explicitly mentioned in the guideline. However, translation of such guideline at the municipality and regency government levels is problematic due to a lack of data readiness. Meanwhile, attempts to modify food security indicators to adapt to data availability are somehow not compatible with the notion of rural-urban linkage.","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10225706.2020.1768570","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49374678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian GeographerPub Date : 2020-05-27DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2020.1767423
C. Chung, Jiang Xu, Mengmeng Zhang
{"title":"Geographies of Covid-19: how space and virus shape each other","authors":"C. Chung, Jiang Xu, Mengmeng Zhang","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2020.1767423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2020.1767423","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper contributes to a geographically-informed preliminary assessment of the diverse and uneven immediate impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, and outlines an agenda for geographical studies of its longer term effects. Intrigued by the apparent tendency of an inverse relationship between a country’s health security capacities and Covid-19 mortalities, the paper explores the significance of a range of geographically situated contextual factors in the realms of the economy, governance and culture as mediators of the public health impacts of Covid-19, and questions how these realms may also be reshaped by this viral pandemic. The paper concludes with reflections on the path dependency and state centrality of pandemic response, and the potential post-pandemic reconfiguration of state-market-society relationships.","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10225706.2020.1767423","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41285322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian GeographerPub Date : 2020-05-18DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2020.1765819
Sookyung Park
{"title":"How do therapeutic spaces contribute to repairing human relationships after the MV Sewol shipwreck?","authors":"Sookyung Park","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2020.1765819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2020.1765819","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examines how efforts to establish stable human relationships centered on therapeutic spaces helped a local community cope or adjust after the MV Sewol shipwreck. In the wake of this disaster, various human relationships in the affected community were shattered. The Korean government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) set up seven therapeutic spaces to help people restore these relationships. This paper focuses mainly on NGOs’ therapeutic spaces, which share significant common characteristics. First, each therapeutic space encourages care recipients to divert their attention away from their sense of guilt regarding deaths resulting from the disaster and restore the individual's relationship with themselves through nonverbal activities. Second, the spaces try to recover individuals’ relationships with others through therapeutic encounters and interventions that embody unconditional devotion, sincerity, and understanding for both direct and indirect victims of the shipwreck. Third, these spaces establish a therapeutic network, thereby sharing recipient information and coordinating the integration of each resident. Fourth, these shared spaces created and reinforced a moral framework of reciprocity, dedication, and humanity in the community, thereby enhancing social awareness and empathy. In other words, these spaces forged a healing culture that made Koreans more sensitive to social issues and helped people move in a positive direction.","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10225706.2020.1765819","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45242946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian GeographerPub Date : 2020-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2020.1750440
F. Hu
{"title":"Global city development and urban wage inequality in China","authors":"F. Hu","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2020.1750440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2020.1750440","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study stress-tests the hypothesized relationship between global city status and the level of urban inequality in the context of China’s globalizing cities. Based on a multi-level modelling analysis of the wage effect of Chinese cities’ global connectivity, this study identifies a “global connectivity wage premium” for professional occupations, urban individuals with post-graduate degrees, and producer service workers in Chinese cities, as well as a “global connectivity wage discrimination” for clerks and manual workers, urban individuals with no bachelor degree, and consumer service workers. The results confirm the positive association between the degree of global cityness and the level of wage inequality in globalizing China and suggest the presence of mechanisms specific to the Chinese case that undermine the city-wide spillover effects of high-skilled labor forces in globally oriented sectors. It echoes the recent call for “provincializing” global city studies and highlights an additional source of inequality in relation to China’s unrelenting trajectory toward a rising role in the world city network.","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10225706.2020.1750440","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48806867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian GeographerPub Date : 2020-04-23DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2020.1750441
Delphine, P. Witte, T. Spit
{"title":"Bridging the perception gap? When top-down built megaprojects meet bottom-up perceptions: a case study of Suramadu bridge, Indonesia","authors":"Delphine, P. Witte, T. Spit","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2020.1750441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2020.1750441","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT For the last few decades, the development of mega-infrastructure projects has been high on the agendas of policymakers in Southeast Asia. Despite the potential benefits of such projects, there are also inevitable societal impacts that often lead to protests by local people. In general, most literature on megaprojects focuses solely on managing projects, with limited coverage of local people’s perceptions. This article, however, offers an analytical approach to perception making, adopted from psychology theories, which is then elaborated upon in a quantitative and qualitative empirical setting using the Suramadu cable-stayed bridge in Indonesia as a case study. Our main argument is that perceptions about megaprojects can change as a result of long-term, high-level exposure to such projects. The results imply the need for megaproject development to take people’s perceptions into account to bridge the gap between top-down expected benefits and bottom-up acceptance or rejection by those outside the central power.","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10225706.2020.1750441","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49506810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian GeographerPub Date : 2020-03-30DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2020.1745251
M. Bentley, Jinda Sae-Jung, S. Kaminski, Pavich Kesavawong
{"title":"Documenting the evolution and expansion of surface urban heat in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region, 2000–2019","authors":"M. Bentley, Jinda Sae-Jung, S. Kaminski, Pavich Kesavawong","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2020.1745251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2020.1745251","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The evolution of land surface temperatures (LSTs) within the Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR) is examined with respect to patterns of urbanization from 2000 to 2019. Change detection as well as examinations of five periods within the 20 years yield insights into the spatial patterning of surface urban heat (SUH) within the BMR. Results suggest that the LSTs in portions of the BMR have increased more than 5°C during the 20-year period. The spatial distribution of SUH exhibits a pattern where high LSTs occur outward and primarily westward from the urban core along highways serving as development corridors and related regions of rapid urbanization. Nighttime LSTs have not increased as markedly as daytime; however, several noted “hotspots” have intensified over time and are located in districts along the southern seaboard. The greatest LST increase through the 20-year period is located in the northwest of the Bangkok urban core in Bang Kruai and Mueang Nonthaburi. A close investigation of this area indicates that the LST hotspots are co-located with rapid urban expansion into the area that has been facilitated by the destruction of orchards and other agriculture lands from a flood that occurred in 2011. The significant changes in land cover from orchards and agriculture to urban and built-up have led to the large increases in LSTs within the region.","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10225706.2020.1745251","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45366460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}