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Research Progress and Insights on Hydraulic Infrastructure from the Perspective of Urban Political Ecology
Received date: 2025-02-25
Revised date: 2025-05-30
Online published: 2025-09-28
Urban infrastructure serves as a crucial vehicle for understanding urban development and spatial transformation and is a central focus of urban political ecology research. However, the complex socio-natural dialectics and sociopolitical processes underlying these infrastructures have received limited attention within the Chinese academic context. This article focuses on urban hydraulic infrastructure, employing a qualitative systematic review and bibliometric analysis to examine 157 English-language articles indexed in the Web of Science database from 1987 to 2024. The findings reveal that international research on urban political ecology has evolved along multiple pathways, primarily encompassing political-economic analysis from a neo-Marxist perspective, micro-political analysis from a post-structuralist perspective, and everyday practice analysis from a post-humanist perspective. Within these analytical frameworks, scholars have explored pressing issues such as the commodification, modernization, and re-naturalization of hydraulic infrastructure, uncovering the complex power dynamics and "informal" governance practices embedded within these processes. These studies also critically examine how capitalism shapes and reinforces unequal access to water-related ecological services and disparities in urban living experiences. The ontological and analytical frameworks developed in international urban political ecology literature offer significant value for understanding the implementation and spatial production processes of hydraulic infrastructure amid the Chinese urbanization. Furthermore, the rich experiences in China—particularly in terms of state-capital relations, state-society interactions, and socio-natural dynamics—hold great potential for advancing and enriching existing theories of urban political ecology.
WANG Yu , XU Ailin . Research Progress and Insights on Hydraulic Infrastructure from the Perspective of Urban Political Ecology[J]. South China Geographical Journal, 2025 , 3(2) : 15 -28 . DOI: 10.20125/j.2097-2245.202502002
图2 1997—2024年城市政治生态学视角下水基础设施研究的国际发表趋势Fig.2 International publication trends in water infrastructure research from the perspective of urban political ecology from 1997 to 2024 |
表1 国际水政治研究关键词热点演变Tab.1 Keyword burst of literature on urban political ecology of water infrastructure |
| 关键词 | 强度 | 起始年 | 结束年 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 政治(politics) | 2.59 | 2001 | 2014 |
| 环境正义(environmental justice) | 1.59 | 2001 | 2013 |
| 城镇化(urbanization) | 1.91 | 2007 | 2013 |
| 政策(policy) | 1.48 | 2007 | 2019 |
| 国家(state) | 1.40 | 2008 | 2012 |
| 私有化(privatization) | 1.70 | 2010 | 2013 |
| 现代性(modernity) | 1.47 | 2010 | 2018 |
| 干旱(drought) | 1.26 | 2011 | 2013 |
| 网络(networks) | 2.55 | 2012 | 2016 |
| 供水(water supply) | 1.80 | 2012 | 2014 |
| 非正规性(informality) | 2.59 | 2015 | 2018 |
| 城市新陈代谢(urban metabolism) | 1.91 | 2015 | 2017 |
| 公民身份(citizenship) | 1.28 | 2015 | 2020 |
| 知识(knowledge) | 2.13 | 2016 | 2017 |
| 日常实践(everyday practices) | 1.18 | 2018 | 2019 |
| 空间(space) | 1.46 | 2019 | 2021 |
| 性别(gender) | 1.24 | 2019 | 2022 |
| 治理(governance) | 2.52 | 2020 | 2024 |
| 气候变化(climate change) | 1.79 | 2021 | 2024 |
| 不平等(inequality) | 2.14 | 2022 | 2024 |
来源:笔者依据文献计量学中的关键词突现(Burst)方法进行统计。 |
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