Mobilities in Rural Africa: New Connections, New Challenges
Mobilities in Rural Africa: New Connections, New Challenges
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10.1080/00045608.2015.1100056
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发表时间：
2016-01-01
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3.9
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Porter, Gina
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作者：
Porter, Gina
在撒哈拉以南非洲地区，移动性（物理和虚拟）的流动性相互依赖性正在迅速增长：移动的电话网络的显著扩张正在为当地的移动性、运输和接入等式带来一个切实的新的连通性维度。本文借鉴了深入的实地研究，包括与两个群体的共同调查往往处于不利地位，在他们的身体流动性，青年和老年人，解释一些当前的非洲发展和他们的偏离流行的西方为基础的概念化的时空互动（关于空间的灵活性和微观协调的潜力提供了移动的电话）。尽管在非洲，面对面的互动往往具有重要意义，但当个人关系的价值与普遍贫困和不正常、有时非常危险的交通等因素相平衡时，电话替代的潜力似乎比许多西方国家更大。通过使用电话进行更好的距离管理可能与可支配收入非常低的人群或身体行动能力有限的人群（例如残疾、体弱、年龄或性别）密切相关。
Fluid interdependencies of mobility-physical and virtual-are growing rapidly in sub-Saharan Africa: The remarkable expansion of mobile phone networks is bringing a tangible new dimension of connectivity into mobility, transport, and access equations on the ground. This article draws on in-depth field research, including co-investigation with two groups often disadvantaged in their physical mobility, youth and older people, to explicate some current African developments and their departure from prevailing Western-based conceptualizations of space-time interactions (regarding the potential for space-time flexibility and microcoordination afforded by mobile phones). Despite the fact that face-to-face interaction is often of great significance in Africa, when the value attached to personalized relationships is balanced against factors of widespread poverty and irregular, sometimes very dangerous transport, the potential for phone substitution appears greater than in many Western contexts. Better distance management through phone use could be particularly closely associated with populations with very low disposable incomes or those whose physical mobility is limited; for instance, by disability, infirmity, age, or gender.