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摘要
Since the 1980s enormous changes in Chinese cities have been brought about by dynamic transformation processes resulting from reform and open door policy and rapid economic growth. High rates of in-migration, rapid urban expansion, spatial restructuring of land use patterns and the implementation of flagship-projects particularly characterise the dynamic urbanisation of megacities in China. This paper explores and reflects upon the main transformation processes of a traditional village in the megacity Guangzhou, South China, processes that are linked to the nearby construction of the South Railway Station. Our investigation addresses the issue of how the inhabitants of this village cope emotionally with the restructuring of their living environment, which is anything but straightforward.
The primary aim of this article is to enrich the discourse on emotional geographies by discussing the concept of emotion-focussed coping. Consideration of emotions facilitates understanding of multifaceted and complex man-environment transactions emotions both connect and disconnect people from their living environment and help to explain coping in relationships that seem neither amenable to modification nor controllable by action. In-depth interviews with the inhabitants of the village in Guangzhou and auto-photography reveal that emotion-focussed coping is widely applied to regulate emotional responses to stressful encounters through vigilance, avoidance or by changing the meaning of the man-environment transaction without changing it objectively.
- 出版日期2011
