INDIVIDUALIZATION OF DIGITAL RURAL PRACTICE AND SPATIAL RECONSTRUCTION:A CASE STUDY OF GUIFENG VILLAGE,GUANGZHOU
WANG Min1,2, PAN Zhi-chao1, ZHONG Qiu-yi1, GUO Da-hao1, LAO Jia-rong1, LIN Xiao-yang1
1. School of Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China; 2. The Center for Asian Geographical Studies, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
Abstract：Digital rural construction strategy has become a key part of rural revitalization of China which has been reconstructing the urban-rural relationship and changing rural residents' lifelong, leading to a new trend of individualization. "Individualization", as an important concept to understand the transformation of social structure, has been used by scholars to study the transformation of urban-rural relationship in China since the reform and opening up in recent years. Based on the individualization theory, taking Guifeng Village in Guangzhou as a case, we used life history interview, field observation, semi-structured interview to analyze how digital technology promotes the transformation of individualization process and its effects on rural spatial reconstruction. The results show that: 1) The development of digital technology provides opportunities for the transformation of the individualization, which no longer follows the city-oriented modernization, but tends to the digital-core modernization; 2) The individualization impacted by digital technology promotes the reconstruction of rural physical and social space as well as the urban-rural relationship. The research not only provides a new insight for digital rural studies from a bottom-up perspective, but also widens the research field of individualization theory. On the practical level, the article helps to provide valuable enlightenment for digital rural development and urban-rural integration.
王敏, 潘志超, 钟秋怡, 郭大豪, 劳家荣, 林晓炀. 个体化数字乡村实践与空间重构：以广州桂峰村为例[J]. 人文地理, 2023, 38(5): 126-134.
WANG Min, PAN Zhi-chao, ZHONG Qiu-yi, GUO Da-hao, LAO Jia-rong, LIN Xiao-yang. INDIVIDUALIZATION OF DIGITAL RURAL PRACTICE AND SPATIAL RECONSTRUCTION:A CASE STUDY OF GUIFENG VILLAGE,GUANGZHOU. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2023, 38(5): 126-134.
