EVOLUTION AND REVIEW OF "PLACE" IN WESTERN ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY
LIU Xuan-yu1,2, LIU Yun-gang1,3
1. School of Geography & The Center of Administrative Division and Spatial Governance, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China;
2. School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China;
3. Beidou Research Institute, South China Normal University
Abstract Electoral geography is one of the important branches of political geography. It mainly discusses the geographical factors affecting elections and the geographical characteristics of election activities. Although electoral geography has developed around the axiom that place matters, it has not been universally agreed upon by geographers. In recent years, metrological electoral geography has been challenged and revised by the paradigm shift of spatial analysis, and the ontology and epistemology of "place" have undergone new changes. Based on this, this paper reviews the relevant literature on the understanding of "place and politics" in electoral geography from the perspective of social constructivism, summarizes the main research topics and the reasons for the decline of local research, and discusses the response of current research topics to social constructivism theory and the possibility of knowledge spillover. The results show that: 1) The research of social constructivism of electoral geography on place covers three aspects: Contextualized place, structured place and scaled place, which indicates that the construction of place is the concrete social geographical basis for shaping political views and political interaction; 2) The decline of local studies is not only influenced by the negative spillover effect of "community decline", but also related to the nationalization of electoral system and the hegemony of western social science and culture; 3) The issues of "power and space", emotion and feminism, constituent of voters and coalition of partisans, territorial politics and context effect in current elections indicate that local and regional political competition and advantage pattern still exist, and electoral politics is still a historical process based on local structure.
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