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| A REVIEW OF RESEARCHES ON THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE |
| WANG Feng-long, LIU Yun-gang |
| School of Geography Sciences and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China |
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Abstract With the increasing needs for more detailed and comprehensive explanations of current transitions in China and the convergent merging "turns" in geography and sociology, more integrated explorations of social-spatial processes are called for to confront the complicated challenges in China. Under this background, the researches on the production of space are becoming a central issue in Chinese human geography. To make better understanding of previous main researches on the production of space, this paper sorts them out into three main streams and tries to give a brief introduction of the two from macro and micro perspectives. For the macro-researches, capital flows, people and space interaction can partly explains the "special fix", "scalar fix" and "gentrification". For the micro-researches, actors, network and space play important role in the "collective movements" and "everyday life practices". The philosophical researches concern the spatial epistemology, ontology and dialects. This paper focus on the first two streams. Borrowing the ideas from Castells, the authors generalize an analytic framework of the production of space, which contains the processes of territorialization and delocalization of capital flows, social actions and institutional structures. Based on this framework, the authors point out that the research topics, which are suitable for China in the future, should include the "detailed process of capital circuits", the "social movements in the period of China's social transition", the "entrepreneurial governments" and "land use policies, planning and spatial justice".
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Received: 23 September 2010
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2011, Vol. 26 
