Residential Space Differentiation And Communication Restructuring

With the research approach of multi-sited ethnography, the research focuses on residents' living communities of No.3 Mine of B Mining Bureau in S City in X Province, and discusses transition differentiation in residents'living communities and residents' communication restructuring. Based on the traditional research frame of "system-individual", the paper introduces spatial perspective, and mainly discusses 3 issues:(1) After bankruptcy and restructuring of No.3 Mine, residents in the mining area are relocated from courts in the mining area to urban communities. What are the differences of the two residential spaces? What kind of impacts do the different residential spaces have on the residents' communication?(2) S city is a typical coal-resources dependent city that No.3 Mine is located in. What causes the people' residential space differentiation in S city?(3) The residents of No.3 Mine ever lived in the mining area for nearly half a century, who experienced the whole process of the system of danwei, including its development, boom and decline. Danwei consciousness and collective memory that formed in the mining area has been deeply rooted in the residents' heart. What effects does the consciousness and collective memory have on the residents' communication restructuring in the urban communities?The paper covers introduction, text, conclusion and discussion, including the following contents:The introduction describes research progress of the Employer system and urban communities home and abroad, and sets out research issues, research object, research significance, research approach and research frame.The text includes the following:firstly, social background and history narration of pioneering era of No.3 Mine. It introduces establishment and development of No.3 Mine, spatial layout features and interpersonal communication in court of No.3 Mine; secondly, enterprise restructuring and spatial differentiation. It describes relocation and differentiation of residual space for residents after bankruptcy and restructuring under the background of SOE transformation and resource exhaustion; thirdly, differentiation of material space in communities. It introduces differences of fundamental geographical conditions, infrastructures and public space, and discusses influences produced by residents' communication restructuring; fourthly, residents'communication differentiation in the 3 communities. It mainly discusses how a social communication network is formed; fifthly, differentiation of psychological space in the 3 communities. It mainly discusses social belonging senses of residents in the 3 communities.In conclusion and discussions the Author concludes findings in the research, including the following:Firstly, the Author answers the 3 questions proposed in the introduction.(1) Before the bankruptcy and restructuring, No.3 Mine's residential area and production area were connected. The residents formed a tight community in daily life. After the bankruptcy and restructuring, the space structure of mining area changes a lot. The residential area are separated from the production area. The residents moves from the mining area to urban communities, having to face atomization survival in the city and identity cognitive confusion and hesitation.The residents of No.3 Mine who used to belong to the same fate community, gradually becomes divided into NZ, QJ and JL these three urban communities, and their daily life and communication is quite different. The residents' interpersonal relationship network has been destroyed in NZ community, making people have a strong sense of being forsaken. Under the guidance of residents' committees they start difficult self-help action. The residents' personal relationship appears disembedding and formal in QJ community. The residents get together based on interest and have no obvious community attachment. The residents' interaction forms involution mode closely in JL community, the residents having a strong sense of community attachment.(2) The Author summarizes the dynamic mechanism that promotes the evolution of No.3 Mine, discusses the factors that act on the residential space and the residents, and explains why residents in 3 different urban communities communicate completely differently.(3) Danwei consciousness and collective memory that formed in the mining area has far-reaching influence on the residents' adaption to urban life and communication restructuring in the urban communities. But the degree of influence is affected by the following factors:the urban community's physical space(e.g., location and infrastructure)? social space(e.g., the development of social organization, neighborhoods, etc.)?the length of time when the residents living in the mining area and the individual characteristics of the residents (e.g., age, social class, etc.).Secondly, the Author also discusses other findings about urban residential space differentiation and communication in the conclusion part. Including following:(1) The residential space differentiation could be both the product of the urban resource isolation and the group's active isolation.(2) The space is the outcome of people's behavior, and will, in turn, strengthens the reproduction of a certain communication way.(3) The urban residential space differentiation results in serious problem of population in poverty, leading these residents into being separated and excluded and resulting in serious communication problems.Thirdly, the Author discusses the research contributions, shortcomings and future prospects.