Landscape political ecologies of urban "swiftlet farming' in George Town, Malaysia
Landscape political ecologies of urban "swiftlet farming' in George Town, Malaysia
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DOI：
10.1177/1474474016684128
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发表时间：
2017-07-01
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1.6
通讯作者：
Connolly, Creighton
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作者：
Connolly, Creighton
在以前的政治生态学的参与，文化地理学家一直感兴趣的地方制作和环境健康，自然，环境和景观之间的相互关系，以及它们的相互共同构成，社会建设和竞争的性质。本文透过槟城乔治镇的城市活动家的经验，探讨这些主题，他们参与了抵制金丝燕农场在住宅区的扩散。金丝燕农场一般是由店铺或其他建筑物改建而成，目的是为了收获可食用的金丝燕巢。它们在乔治镇产生了重大争议，因为它们对城市健康、生活质量和有形形式的城市遗产产生了明显的影响。本文旨在探讨透过金丝燕养殖业改变的都市空间，个人如何体验金丝燕养殖的日常景观，以及他们如何参与重塑这些景观。在追踪这场争论的过程中，本文发展了景观政治生态学的概念框架，这使得人们能够更深入地理解城市景观的社会自然生产、转化和重建。这项研究是基于在马来西亚进行的为期6个月的参与性民族志实地考察，其中大部分是与当地利益相关者合作开发的。本文最后反思了这里提出的特定方法如何能够揭示实践和日常生活经验在塑造当代城市环境政治中的作用。
In previous engagements with political ecologies, cultural geographers have been interested in intersections between place making and environmental health, nature, environment and landscape interrelations, and their mutually co-constituted, socially constructed and contested nature. This article explores these themes through the experiences of urban activists in George Town, Penang, who have been involved in resisting the proliferation of swiftlet farms' in residential areas. Swiftlet farms' are typically converted shophouses or other buildings which have been modified for the purpose of harvesting the nests of the edible-nest swiftlet. They have generated significant controversy in George Town given their perceived impacts on urban health, quality of life, and (in)tangible forms of urban heritage. In examining spaces of the city that have been transformed through the swiftlet farming' industry, this article aims to highlight the ways in which individuals experience everyday landscapes of swiftlet farming, and how they might engage in reshaping them. In tracing this controversy, the article develops the conceptual framing of landscape political ecology, which allows for a closer understanding of the socio-natural production, transformation and contestation of urban landscapes. The research is based on 6months of participatory ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Malaysia, much of which was developed in collaboration with local stakeholders. The article concludes with a reflection on how the particular approach set out here can shed important light on the role of praxis and everyday lived experience in shaping contemporary urban environmental politics.