Abstract：With the transformation of mode of production and further development of globalization, the rise of neoliberalism and the reform of governance, as well as the "scalar turn" of human geography, politics of scale has become one of the most significant themes of scale study. As scale has been more viewed as an epistemology and "representational trope" than an ontology and social constructed entity, the focus of research on politics of scale has changed from the political construction and reconstruction of scale to the discourses and other strategies deployed by social actors in 1990s. Moreover, effort has been made to integrate different strands of research on politics of scale into a study on "scalar politics". In order to further sort out the above mentioned literature, a framework of "structure-act-actor" has been developed in this paper, which highlights the interplay between scalar structures and the political actors operating in, making use of, and reconstructing these structures or configurations. Based on the framework, three dimensions or strands of current research can be distinguished as follows:1) the political construction and transformation of scalar structures, which focuses on the relativization of scale, the construction of new state space and other rescaling processes; 2) political acts and strategies across scales, which focuses on specific strategies such as jumping scales and scale frames deployed by political actors; and 3) networks of association across scales, which focuses on relations and networks among political actors. In order to further illustrate the relationships and differences among these dimensions, and to reify the above mentioned theories of politics of scale, three case studies from current literature, which include the institutionalization of river basin management in Mongolia, the controversy over environmental justice in St. James, US, and the political initiatives and networks of Norwegian Gas Forum, are chosen and described briefly.
马学广, 李鲁奇. 国外人文地理学尺度政治理论研究进展[J]. 人文地理, 2016, 31(2): 6-12,160.
MA Xue-guang, LI Lu-qi. A REVIEW OF OVERSEAS RESEARCH ON POLITICS OF SCALE IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2016, 31(2): 6-12,160.
