Reconstruction process and transformation mechanism of ecological characteristic rural space based on Actor-Network Theory:A case study of Lianhu Village in the Qingpu District,Shanghai
Under the background of comprehensively promoting the rural revitalization strategy,China's rural areas have entered a new stage of transformation and development,and the rural space is facing multiple differ-entiation and reconstruction.Taking Lianhu Village in Shanghai as a case,this article explores the spatial re-construction process and transformation mechanism of ecological characteristic villages by using the theoretic-al analysis framework of actor-network.The research found that:The process of rural reconstruction in Lianhu Village has gone through 2 stages:the construction of beautiful villages dominated by the government and the rapid development of home stay dominated by marketization.The construction of beautiful villages was a het-erogeneous network of actors with local governments as the key core.In this stage,Lianhu Village completed the renewal and improvement of the village's infrastructure,realized the comprehensive renovation of the vil-lage environment.The living,ecology and production space of the village has been reconstructed and up-graded.With the change of government planning objectives,the adjustment of fund award and subsidy policies and the impact of market mechanism,the rights and interests of rural governance have been decentralized,and village committees,villagers and other actors have gained more discourse power in independent development.In order to seek more economic benefits,they utilized the village's own advantages to explore development paths.The original network of actors began to re-translate,and Lianhu Village entered a rapid development stage of market-oriented homestay industry.In this stage,the villagers'autonomous management ability was strengthened,and home-stay owners became the new key actors.Foreign subjects and capital were attreacted to enter the village,local cultural tourism resources were tapped,and new eco-cultural tourism industries such as home-stay,tourism agriculture were developed.Lianhu Village has achieved the reconstruction and transform-ation of its economic,social and cultural space.Although its development transformation and spatial recon-struction have achieved some results,they have not yet reached a state of balance.The actor-network driven by the local government and the home-stay place owners as the core actors of the two stages has realized the trans-formation of translation and conversion.The uncertainty of the development process makes the rural space still in dynamic change.The rural spatial reconstruction of Lianhu Village shows the characteristics of transforma-tion of economic functions,restructuring of social structure and evolution of spatial characteristics.We can not only see the"top-down"model of government policy funding support,but also see the"bottom-up"market force led impetus.
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