Book Review: Survival for a small planet: the sustainability agenda
Book Review: Survival for a small planet: the sustainability agenda
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书评：小星球的生存：可持续发展议程
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2005
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S. Moser
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南非。他在哈伯马斯的公共传播记述中追求一个主题，即“民主公共领域的活力取决于多元和联合的文化”(第169页)。与欧盟不同的是，南非的政治结构调整以对民主和发展的理解为标志，将参与、国家建设和文化多样性的价值观注入了政策。显然，南非的规模及其最近政治形态的遗产使其成为媒体、民主和公共领域之间关系的适当比较案例研究。与欧盟不同的是，国家尺度继续包含公民身份的有效行使，但它也表明了媒体公民身份政治在多大程度上涉及通过国家尺度流动、围绕国家尺度流动和在国家尺度下流动的空间尺度上的利益表达(第195页)。与欧盟一样，南非的例子仍然是一个悖论。南非的民主化形成于“一方面巩固自由民主机构的官僚代议制做法，另一方面是长期确立的大众参与和大众民主传统的持续重要性之间的紧张关系”(第176页)。在《文化与民主》一书中，巴尼特从地理学的角度对当前围绕时间和空间坐标的辩论进行了批判性的干预，这些辩论体现了新媒体技术对公共生活的影响。“公众”是一个有代表性的实体，这一事实是这些影响的核心，巴尼特对此进行了错综复杂的询问。他的书不是任何想象力的第一年读物，而是主要面向学生、学者和专家，他们在媒体政策问题上的参与超过(不排除)规范性问题。我可以想象这本书找到了广泛的学术受众，但为了在某种程度上界定这一点，对于阅读文化与媒体研究、政治、发展研究以及(当然)地理领域的学生来说，这本书阐述了他们学科的核心概念。
South Africa. He pursues a theme in Habermass account ofpublic communication in which 'the vitality of a democratic public sphere depends on a pluralistic and associational culture' (p. 169). In contrast to the EU, political restructuring in South Africa has been marked by understandings of democracy and development that have infused policy with values of participation, nation-building and cultural diversity. Evidently, a convergence of scale and the legacy of its recent political formation makes South Africa a suitably comparative case study of the relationships between media, democracy and the public sphere. Unlike the EU, the national scale continues to contain the effective exercise of citizenship, but it 'also indicates the extent to which the politics of media citizenship involves the articulation of interests embedded at spatial scales that flow through, around and under the national scale' (p. 195). Like the EU, the South African example remains a paradox. Democratization in South Africa has been shaped by 'a tension between the consolidation of the bureaucratic representative practices ofliberal democratic institutions on the one hand, and the continuing significance of long-established traditions of mass participation and popular democracy on the other' (p. 176). In Culture and democracy, Barnett provides from the vantage point ofgeography a critical intervention in current debates around the time and space coordinates that characterize the influences new media technologies have on public life. The fact of the 'public' being a represented entity is central to those influences, which Barnett interrogates intricately. His book is not a 'first-year' read by any stretch of the imagination, but is addressed primarily to students, academics and specialists whose engagement in matters of media policy exceeds (without excluding) normative questions. I can imagine the book finding a wide academic audience, but, to delimit this somewhat, for students reading in the fields of Cultural and Media Studies, Politics, Development Studies, and (of course) Geography, the book addresses conceptions central to their disciplines.