海底光缆网络的人文—经济地理学研究展望

Prospect of human-economic geography research of submarine optical cable networks

海底光缆网络是后福特制生产体系下关乎国际电信、社会经济乃至国防安全的关键基础设施。海底光缆网络的人文—经济地理学研究具有前沿性、必要性和迫切性,对学科体系发展和国家政策引导具有重要意义。论文基于文献综述融合海底光缆网络多学科知识并开展系统讨论,形成以下几个基本认识:①海底光缆网络的研究成果较少,但呈加速发展趋势;研究内容以其自身的设施属性为主,并逐渐向其所关联的社会经济部门传导,基于人文—经济地理学的深入讨论将成为未来研究的重要导向。②海底光缆网络的研究可以从交通运输地理学、基础设施地理学、信息与通信地理学和网络空间地理学等多维视角进行展开,促进各细分领域研究的深化与泛化,从而丰富和完善新时期人文—经济地理学的学科体系。③未来海底光缆网络的人文—经济地理学研究应重点关注面向全球互联互通地理研究、区域发展的时空交互机制、地缘政治博弈的新叙事内容以及流空间与世界城市网络体系。

Submarine optical cable network is the key connectivity infrastructure in the post-Fordism production system,which is related to international telecommunications,social economic activities,and national defense and security.Human-economic geography research of submarine optical cable network is cutting-edge and much needed,and is of great significance to the disciplinary development and national policy formulation.Based on a literature review,multidisciplinary knowledge of submarine optical cable network is integrated and systematically discussed in this article.The conclusions are as follows:1)Existing research on submarine optical cable network is relatively few,but such research activities have significantly increased in recent years.The research content is mainly focused on its own facility attributes and gradually spreads to the social and economic sectors that it is associated with.Further discussion based on human-economic geography will become an important direction for future research.2)Submarine optical cable network research is a new field of humaneconomic geography,which can be developed from the multidimensional perspectives of transportation geography,infrastructure geography,information and communication geography,and cyberspace geography,thereby enriching and improving the disciplinary system of human-economic geography in the new era.3)In the future,the research on the human-economic geography of submarine optical cable network should focus on global connectivity oriented geographic research,space-time interaction mechanism of regional development,new narratives of geopolitical issues,and space of flow and world urban network.