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Coexistence 2.0? How interactions between humans and wildlife are mediated in Web 2.0 space 2.0共存?在Web 2.0空间中，人类与野生动物之间的互动是如何中介的

IF 3.1 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum

Pub Date : 2025-12-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104526

Svetoslava Toncheva , Robert Fletcher

The article explores what we term “coexistence 2.0”: the simultaneous separation of people and wildlife in physical space and their reconnection online. Our discussion builds on a growing body of research examining the uptake of web 2.0 platforms by conservation organizations to encourage virtual connection with nature, often characterized as “nature 2.0”. Yet within this prolific nature 2.0 literature, the particular dynamic of coexistence 2.0 has not yet been explicitly highlighted and analysed. To develop our discussion, we introduce and analyze a specific case of human-brown bear conflict, namely the so-called “case of the bear from Belitsa”. This emblematic case of a brown bear attack on a woman occurred in 2021 in the region of the town of Belitsa in Southwest Bulgaria. It was followed by unprecedented flood of public reactions, discussions and activism in support of the bear within the country, a large part of which took place within virtual space. Yet these reactions ironically tended to reinforce the sense that people and wildlife should remain physically separated in ways diametrically opposed to the aim to connect people and wildlife that nature 2.0 pursues. We conclude that peculiar promotion of coexistence 2.0 by various conservation actors thus appears to serve their conservation goals, but also highlights the central paradox embodied in effort to reconnect people with nature while still living at a distance from it.

这篇文章探讨了我们所谓的“共存2.0”：人与野生动物在物理空间的同时分离，以及他们在网络上的重新联系。我们的讨论建立在越来越多的研究基础上，这些研究是关于保护组织使用web 2.0平台来鼓励与自然的虚拟联系，通常被称为“自然2.0”。然而，在这些多产的自然2.0文献中，共存2.0的特殊动态尚未被明确强调和分析。为了展开我们的讨论，我们介绍并分析了一个人类与棕熊冲突的具体案例，即所谓的“Belitsa熊的案例”。这一具有象征意义的棕熊袭击一名妇女的案例发生在2021年保加利亚西南部贝利察镇地区。随后，国内出现了前所未有的公众反应、讨论和行动主义，支持这只熊，其中很大一部分发生在虚拟空间。然而，具有讽刺意味的是，这些反应倾向于强化人与野生动物应该保持物理隔离的感觉，这与自然2.0所追求的将人与野生动物联系起来的目标截然相反。我们得出的结论是，各种保护行动者对共存2.0的特殊促进似乎符合他们的保护目标，但也突出了中心悖论，即努力使人们与自然重新建立联系，同时仍与自然保持距离。

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Peripheral regions becoming wanghong (Internet famous) cities in China? revitalizing city brands via social media platforms 周边地区成为中国网红城市？通过社交媒体平台振兴城市品牌

IF 3.1 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum

Pub Date : 2025-12-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104523

Xiaohui Hu , Tanchen Lin , Di Wu

The nature of city branding is undergoing a fundamental transformation, evolving from a top-down, state-led model into a bottom-up, participatory process. This transformation has been dramatically accelerated by a powerful form of the attention economy, i.e., social media-driven influencer economy (known in China as the wanghong economy), where city brands are increasingly defined and amplified by social media attention. However, the precise mechanisms of this multi-stakeholder interaction in city branding often remain a ‘black box.’ Furthermore, scholarly attention to this phenomenon exhibits a significant core-city bias, consistently overlooking peripheral cities. To address these gaps, this paper presents a qualitative case study of Zibo in China, a peripheral city that recently achieved viral fame as an Internet famous (wanghong) city. It proposes a four-phase value co-creation framework—value recognition, construction, dissemination, and realization. This framework, while empirically derived from the Zibo case, is proposed as holding potential general applicability to elucidate the complex process through which uncoordinated actors align to construct a coherent city brand on social media. In so doing, it makes three theoretical contributions. First, it unpacks the ‘black box’ of multi-stakeholder collaboration in city branding. Second, it confronts the prevalent core-city bias by demonstrating how peripheral cities can leverage social media to overcome structural disadvantages and reshape their city brands. Third, it reconceptualizes city brand value as a dynamic process, specifying how the mobilization of online attention and public engagement empowered by social media could convert a city’s intrinsic attributes and assets into symbolic and tangible value.

城市品牌化的本质正在发生根本性的转变，从自上而下、国家主导的模式演变为自下而上、参与式的过程。一种强大的注意力经济形式极大地加速了这种转变，即社交媒体驱动的网红经济（在中国被称为网红经济），在这种经济中，城市品牌越来越多地被社交媒体的关注所定义和放大。然而，城市品牌中多方利益相关者互动的确切机制往往仍然是一个“黑盒子”。此外，学术界对这一现象的关注显示出一种明显的核心城市偏见，总是忽视外围城市。为了解决这些差距，本文提出了一个定性的案例研究淄博在中国，一个边缘城市，最近取得了病毒式的名声作为网络著名（网红）城市。提出了价值认知、价值构建、价值传播、价值实现四个阶段的价值共创框架。这一框架虽然是从淄博案例中获得的经验，但被认为具有潜在的普遍适用性，可以阐明不协调的行动者在社交媒体上联合起来构建连贯的城市品牌的复杂过程。在此过程中，它做出了三个理论贡献。首先，它打开了城市品牌中多方利益相关者合作的“黑箱”。其次，通过展示外围城市如何利用社交媒体克服结构性劣势，重塑城市品牌，直面普遍存在的核心城市偏见。第三，它将城市品牌价值重新定义为一个动态的过程，具体说明了如何通过社交媒体动员在线关注和公众参与，将城市的内在属性和资产转化为象征性和有形的价值。

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Contested waters: Hydrosocial territories and power dynamics in the landscape of peri-urban Chiang Mai, Thailand 争议水域：泰国清迈近郊城市景观中的水文社会领土和权力动态

IF 3.1 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum

Pub Date : 2025-12-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104457

Jidapa Chayakul , Gert Jan Veldwisch , Bert Bruins , Rutgerd Boelens

The centuries’ old Muang-Fai irrigation systems and their communities in Chiang Mai, Thailand, have undergone rapid landscape changes, mostly from urbanization and uncoordinated development, displacing their traditional land and resource management and creating highly fragmented landscape patterns. While studies have examined these changes, they remain mostly descriptive, overlooking underlying power relations, failing to integrate land use/land cover data, or landscape patterns and the broader ecological consequences for local communities. This paper explains these landscape transformations as struggles between contested hydrosocial territories, where unequal power among human and non-human actors, worldviews, and practices influence infrastructures, ecologies, and livelihoods. Using the lens of Hydrosocial Territory in relation to landscape ecology, this paper examines the Phaya-Kham system as it is variously depicted as (predominantly) an irrigation system, an urban sewage system, a flood control system, or a socio-cultural-spiritual network. Complex social, material, and symbolic dynamics shape the pluriform landscape of the Phaya-Kham network, while certain groups hold more power to materialize their interests, creating profound social-ecological consequences. This paper argues that, rather than merely ecological patchiness or physical changes, landscape fragmentation is a product of contested socio-political projects. Overlay analysis reveals how territories exist as superimposed projects, with conflicting uses and meanings competing for inscription in the same physical space; hereby, infrastructure embeds and enforces territorial claims. By showing how landscape fragmentation in peri-urban Chiang Mai reflects multi-scalar struggles over water, infrastructure, and meaning, the paper reveals the limitations of conventional planning frameworks, transcending their scale-based representations.

泰国清迈有着数百年历史的芒辉灌溉系统及其社区经历了快速的景观变化，主要是由于城市化和不协调发展，取代了传统的土地和资源管理，造成了高度碎片化的景观格局。虽然研究已经检查了这些变化，但它们仍然大多是描述性的，忽视了潜在的权力关系，未能整合土地利用/土地覆盖数据，或景观模式以及对当地社区的更广泛的生态后果。本文将这些景观转变解释为有争议的水文社会领域之间的斗争，其中人类和非人类行动者、世界观和实践之间的不平等权力影响着基础设施、生态和生计。本文利用与景观生态学相关的水文社会领域的镜头，研究了Phaya-Kham系统，因为它被不同地描述为（主要）灌溉系统、城市污水系统、防洪系统或社会文化精神网络。复杂的社会、物质和符号动态塑造了Phaya-Kham网络的多元化景观，而某些群体拥有更大的权力来实现他们的利益，从而产生了深刻的社会生态后果。本文认为，景观破碎化不仅仅是生态补丁或物理变化，而是有争议的社会政治项目的产物。叠加分析揭示了地域如何作为重叠的项目存在，在相同的物理空间中，具有相互冲突的用途和意义。因此，基础设施嵌入和执行领土要求。通过展示清迈近郊的景观破碎化如何反映了在水、基础设施和意义上的多尺度斗争，本文揭示了传统规划框架的局限性，超越了它们基于尺度的表现。

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Community-supported agriculture in Czechia: Value-based embeddedness and contradictions in the current food regime 捷克社区支持农业：当前粮食制度中基于价值的嵌入性和矛盾

IF 3.1 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum

Pub Date : 2025-12-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104521

Veronika Nováčková , Michaela Pixová , Christina Plank

Community-supported agriculture (CSA) is a mode of production and consumption based on values that are largely absent in the dominant, profit-driven food regime. In this paper, we explore CSA initiatives in Czechia by examining their values as different types of ecological, social, economic and spatial embeddedness. Drawing on qualitative research in Prague, we show how these forms of value-based embeddedness intersect and are constrained by the social, material and institutional contradictions of the dominant food regime. We analyse these contradictions through three overarching thematic clusters of core values underpinning CSA initiatives – (1) land and environmental protection; (2) community building, equity and solidarity and (3) ethical consumption of healthy fresh food. By doing so, we highlight struggles surrounding CSA’s potential to scale up and further develop within political-economic and institutional surroundings shaped by capitalism and post-socialist legacies.

社区支持农业（CSA）是一种生产和消费模式，其价值基础在占主导地位的、以利润为导向的粮食制度中基本上是不存在的。在本文中，我们通过考察它们作为不同类型的生态、社会、经济和空间嵌入性的价值来探讨捷克的CSA倡议。利用布拉格的定性研究，我们展示了这些基于价值的嵌入形式是如何相互交叉的，并受到主导食品制度的社会、物质和制度矛盾的制约。我们通过三个总体主题集群来分析这些矛盾，这些核心价值观支撑着CSA的举措：(1)土地和环境保护；(2)社区建设、公平和团结；(3)健康新鲜食品的道德消费。通过这样做，我们强调了围绕CSA在资本主义和后社会主义遗产形成的政治经济和制度环境中扩大和进一步发展的潜力的斗争。

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Reinventing home in the unhomely: children’s and parents’ home-making practices in French asylum accommodation centres 在不寻常的环境中重塑家园：儿童和父母在法国庇护住宿中心的家庭实践

IF 3.1 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum

Pub Date : 2025-12-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104520

Aline Desmas

The article draws on homemaking and home unmaking to analyse, as two sides of the same coin, the institutional strategies used to prevent residents from feeling at home and the spatial tactics both parents and children deploy in French asylum centres. Drawing on a long-term ethnography with families accommodated in these centres, it highlights micro-resistances to unhomeliness which reflects broader restrictive migration policies. In a context of temporary and precarious housing, looking especially at a sense of domesticity allows to observe spatial practices that extend beyond the private sphere and into the collective spaces of the centres. Studying together the parents and the children’s lived experiences, the article shows home unmaking also jeopardises parenting. Yet, feeling at home can be redefined by individual and collective space appropriation tactics. Paying attention to generational gaps eventually emphasises discrepancies between the children’s and their parents’ socio-spatial experiences inside the centres, which reveals a stronger attachment of the children to these places. Children’s perspectives actually renew our understanding of the centres’ geographies and, with them, of the effects of migration policies.

本文利用家政和家政作为同一枚硬币的两面来分析用于防止居民感到宾至如归的制度策略以及父母和儿童在法国庇护中心部署的空间策略。通过对居住在这些中心的家庭的长期民族志研究，报告强调了对无家可归的微观抵制，这反映了更广泛的限制性移民政策。在临时和不稳定的住房环境中，特别关注家庭生活的感觉，可以观察到超越私人领域的空间实践，进入中心的集体空间。通过对父母和孩子生活经历的共同研究，文章表明，家庭解体也会危及育儿。然而，在家的感觉可以通过个人和集体的空间占用策略来重新定义。对代际差距的关注最终强调了儿童和父母在中心内的社会空间体验之间的差异，这揭示了儿童对这些地方的更强烈的依恋。儿童的观点实际上更新了我们对移民中心地理位置的理解，以及对移民政策影响的理解。

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Feeding the enclave: special economic zones, street food vendors and the dynamics of urban economy in Tema, Ghana 为飞地提供食物：经济特区、街头食品摊贩和加纳特马的城市经济动态

IF 3.1 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum

Pub Date : 2025-12-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104522

Kauê Lopes dos Santos, Lívia Cangiano Antipon

This article investigates the everyday interactions between highly capitalized firms operating within the Tema Free Zone (TFZ) in Ghana and low-capital street food vendors working in and around the enclave. Drawing on Milton Santos’s theory of the two circuits of the urban economy, it examines how industrial production and informal food vending are dialectically articulated – functionally interdependent yet structurally asymmetrical. While formal firms in the TFZ operate within export-oriented global circuits, popular food vendors sustain the daily reproduction of industrial labour by providing affordable meals and services under precarious conditions. Based on qualitative fieldwork (interviews and systematic observation), and cartographic documentation, the analysis highlights the vendors’ supply networks, spatial practices, and capacity to mobilize local and regional scales. The study demonstrates that SEZs are not isolated enclaves but hybrid and porous urban formations whose productivity depends on the everyday economies that surround them. By foregrounding these relational dynamics, the article contributes to a non-dualist understanding of urban economies, capturing the intertwined arrangements between economic actors that operate under different forms of organization, and access to capital, labour, and technology within the city.

本文调查了在加纳特马自由区（tma Free Zone， TFZ）运营的高资本公司与在飞地及其周围工作的低资本街头食品摊贩之间的日常互动。借鉴米尔顿·桑托斯关于城市经济两种循环的理论，它考察了工业生产和非正式食品贩卖是如何辩证地联系在一起的——功能上相互依存，但结构上不对称。自由贸易区的正规公司在以出口为导向的全球循环中经营，而受欢迎的食品摊贩在不稳定的条件下提供负担得起的膳食和服务，维持工业劳动力的日常再生产。基于定性的实地调查（访谈和系统观察）和制图文件，分析强调了供应商的供应网络、空间实践以及动员地方和区域尺度的能力。研究表明，经济特区不是孤立的飞地，而是混合的、多孔的城市结构，其生产力取决于其周围的日常经济。通过突出这些关系动态，本文有助于对城市经济的非二元论理解，捕捉在不同组织形式下运作的经济参与者之间的相互交织的安排，以及城市内资本、劳动力和技术的获取。

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Critical contributions of gender perspectives for transformative adaptation planning: A case study from Southern Germany 性别视角对转型适应规划的重要贡献：来自德国南部的案例研究

IF 3.1 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum

Pub Date : 2025-12-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104517

Juliane Frost , Tanja Mölders , Hartmut Fünfgeld

Climate change adaptation decisions profoundly impact resource distribution and future pathways, yet empirical research that critically examines power dynamics and injustices in adaptation processes in the Global North remains limited. We argue that gender perspectives offer a valuable analytical lens to understanding and addressing the politics of adaptation and demonstrate this through a retrospective analysis of a municipal adaptation planning process in Southern Germany. Combining gender perspectives with the trivalent environmental justice framework, we show how municipal adaptation planning in Germany affects and reflects gender relations. The findings point to the androcentric narratives that suppress feminized knowledges and epistemologies as well as to the gendered norms and practices that dominate municipal adaptation planning. Finally, we discuss how these findings can inform transformative adaptation, for example by emphasizing the need for more inclusive participatory methods in adaptation processes.

气候变化适应决策深刻地影响着资源分配和未来路径，然而，批判性地审视全球北方适应过程中的权力动态和不公正现象的实证研究仍然有限。我们认为，性别视角为理解和解决适应政治问题提供了一个有价值的分析视角，并通过对德国南部城市适应规划过程的回顾性分析来证明这一点。结合性别视角和三价环境正义框架，我们展示了德国的城市适应规划如何影响和反映性别关系。研究结果指出，以男性为中心的叙事压制了女性化的知识和认识论，以及主导城市适应规划的性别规范和实践。最后，我们讨论了这些发现如何为变革性适应提供信息，例如强调在适应过程中需要更具包容性的参与性方法。

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Understanding Mosquito Burdens through an Urban Political Ecology of Singapore’s Residential Landscapes 通过新加坡住宅景观的城市政治生态了解蚊子负担

IF 3.1 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum

Pub Date : 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104511

Natacha Aveline-Dubach , Raksha Mahtani

Dengue fever is a pressing threat in tropical regions, where high temperatures and frequent rainfall create ideal breeding grounds for Aedes vectors. This article examines the notion of mosquito burden, defined as the cumulative effects of mosquito density, perceived dengue risk, and the discomfort associated with vector control policies in dengue-endemic countries. Framed within Urban Political Ecology (UPE) and informed by a housing political economy beyond a Marxist lens, the study examines the interrelations between housing provision patterns, public health policies, and mosquito ecologies. It draws on a case study of Singapore’s public housing estates and private condominium enclaves to show how uneven socio-ecological housing conditions produce divergent patterns and intensities of mosquito burden experienced by residents, both between and within residential landscapes. The study employed 100 semi-structured and informal interviews with residents, 15 in-depth interviews with stakeholders engaged in mosquito management in public and private estates, and documentary analysis. The study found that residents of public housing neighborhoods bore a particularly heavy mosquito burden, driven by high perceived exposure to breeding sites in both domestic and peridomestic spaces, compounded by intensive biosecurity measures, hypersurveillance, and the large-scale release of Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes. Low-floor residents bear a disproportionately high burden due to heightened exposure to pests and vector control measures. In contrast, condominium residents experience less vector-related discomfort, with their exclusive lifestyle maintained through minimal state intrusion and privately managed chemical fogging. These disparities underscore the increasing contradictions in state policy that have emerged as Singapore’s economy has matured—between neoliberalised developmentalism and state commitments to housing equity, and between centralised vector control through direct state intervention and more fragmented approaches mediated by condominium management.

登革热在热带地区是一个紧迫的威胁，那里的高温和频繁降雨为伊蚊媒介创造了理想的繁殖地。本文探讨了蚊子负担的概念，定义为蚊子密度的累积效应、感知到的登革热风险以及登革热流行国家与病媒控制政策相关的不适。该研究以城市政治生态学（UPE）为框架，并以马克思主义视角之外的住房政治经济学为依据，考察了住房供应模式、公共卫生政策和蚊子生态之间的相互关系。本文通过对新加坡公共住宅区和私人公寓飞地的案例研究，展示了不平衡的社会生态住房条件如何导致居民在住宅景观之间和住宅景观内经历不同的蚊子负担模式和强度。该研究采用了100次对居民的半结构化和非正式访谈，15次对公共和私人庄园从事蚊子管理的利益相关者的深度访谈，以及文献分析。该研究发现，公共住房社区的居民承受着特别沉重的蚊子负担，原因是人们认为他们高度暴露于家庭和家庭周围的孳生场所，再加上强化的生物安全措施、过度监控和大规模释放携带沃尔巴克氏体的蚊子。由于接触害虫和病媒控制措施增加，低层居民承受了不成比例的沉重负担。相比之下，公寓居民经历的病媒相关的不适较少，他们的独特生活方式通过最小的国家入侵和私人管理的化学雾化来维持。这些差异凸显了随着新加坡经济的成熟，国家政策中出现的越来越多的矛盾——在新自由主义的发展主义和国家对住房公平的承诺之间，在通过国家直接干预的集中病媒控制和通过公寓管理调解的更分散的方法之间。

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‘Precarious’ worlds of work: Geographies of (over)work and (un)certainty amongst permanent employees in the creative economy “不稳定”的工作世界：创意经济中永久雇员（过度）工作和（不）确定性的地理分布

IF 3.1 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum

Pub Date : 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104472

Karenjit Clare

The ‘creative industries’ have acquired a new significance within policy spheres over the last decade. Policy makers ‘discovered’ that these industries were cool, created economic value and offered alleged job opportunities. The key contribution of this paper is to disrupt the positive narratives and instead focus on ‘new’ forms of employment, precarity and uncertainty within London’s advertisement industry for those in permanent employment, and the ways these are embedded in social networks and place. In examining this, the article provides evidence of ‘young’ professionals in white-collar permanent jobs whose fragmented lives still require them to be flexible, maintain their reputation, network, socialise and work long and irregular hours in the ‘global’ city region. Importantly, these results demonstrate how our competitive, service-orientated societies are taking a toll on all individuals, even those with permanent employment.

在过去十年中，“创意产业”在政策领域获得了新的意义。政策制定者“发现”这些行业很酷，创造了经济价值，并提供了所谓的就业机会。本文的关键贡献是打破积极的叙述，而不是专注于“新”形式的就业，不稳定性和不确定性在伦敦广告行业的长期就业，以及这些方式嵌入社会网络和地方。在研究这一点时，文章提供了证据，证明从事白领永久工作的“年轻”专业人士，他们分散的生活仍然要求他们灵活变通，维护自己的声誉，建立网络，社交，在“全球化”的城市地区长时间不规律地工作。重要的是，这些结果表明，我们这个竞争激烈、以服务为导向的社会正在对所有人造成伤害，即使是那些有长期就业机会的人。

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Property knowledge: Controlling the means of prediction and production 属性知识：控制预测和生产的手段

IF 3.1 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum

Pub Date : 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104496

Rachel Weber

Most studies of the financialization of space critique the rentier but overlook the the calculative knowledge practices that inform property capital’s (dis)investment decisions. I fill this gap by conducting a qualitative industry analysis of firms that produce information and future imaginaries for the world’s largest asset managers and real estate investment funds. These firms are part of predictive knowledge infrastructures that generate subscriptions to raw transactions and pricing data, outlooks and sentiment reports, statistical indices, platforms, predictive analytics, and bespoke forecasting advice. Given the barrage of often conflicting information circulated through the media and stratified professional networks, I discuss two mechanisms through which investors attempt to influence future imaginaries: intermediation by professional associations and corporate mergers and acquisitions. I argue that an oligopolistic market structure of predictive data cartels has emerged since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. I then discuss the implications of such restructuring on asset price inflation and counterclaims to the city.

大多数关于空间金融化的研究批评了食利者，但忽视了为房地产资本（非）投资决策提供信息的计算性知识实践。我通过对为全球最大的资产管理公司和房地产投资基金提供信息和未来想象的公司进行定性行业分析，填补了这一空白。这些公司是预测知识基础设施的一部分，为原始交易和定价数据、前景和情绪报告、统计指数、平台、预测分析和定制预测建议提供订阅服务。鉴于媒体和分层的专业网络中传播的经常相互矛盾的信息，我讨论了投资者试图影响未来想象的两种机制：专业协会的中介和公司并购。我认为，自2008年全球金融危机以来，预测数据卡特尔的寡头垄断市场结构已经出现。然后，我讨论了这种重组对资产价格通胀的影响，以及对香港的反诉。

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