时 间：2026年1月5日（周一）上午9点-12点
地 点：15-1023
主讲人：魏智武
剑桥大学土地经济系利弗休姆基金会和艾萨克·牛顿基金会青年研究员（Leverhulme Trust and Issac Newton Trust Early Career Fellow），剑桥大学休斯学堂（Hughes Hall）学院院士（Governing Body Fellow），剑桥大学跨学科空间分析实验室（LISA）研究员，牛津大学社会政策与干预系（DSPI）访问学者，独立主持英国利弗休姆青年科研基金（Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship）。他于2024年获得剑桥大学土地经济博士学位（博士论文最高等级“无需修改”通过）。他曾在伦敦政治经济学院国际不平等研究所（III）和地理环境系、剑桥大学嘉治商学院等机构做兼职研究工作，为经济合作与发展组织、亚洲开发银行做政策咨询服务，并在联合国开发计划署人类发展报告办公室、牛津大学国际发展系等机构做学术讲座。他的跨学科研究结合地理人工智能、地理信息系统技术、大数据和因果推断计量方法，来理解全球空间不平等的根源与后果。他是国际区域研究协会（RSA）2025年全球年会开幕式上的青年主旨演讲嘉宾（Early Career Plenary Speaker）、2025年度国际区域科学协会（RSAI）最佳博士论文奖的获得者。
内容摘要：The political consequences of inequality have become a matter of mounting concern. Relative deprivation theory posits that frustration arising from comparisons with proximate reference groups can fuel protests. Yet research has concentrated overwhelmingly on the Global North, notwithstanding the acute wealth disparities experienced by the majority of the world’s population in the Global South. To address this gap, we assemble novel, fine-grained estimates of relative wealth at the 2.4 km by 2.4 km grid level to derive measures of local wealth inequality, which we link to over 645,000 georeferenced protest events recorded from 2014 to 2018. Exploiting variation within subnational regions, we document a robust, positive association between local wealth inequality and protest incidence. We show that the inequality–protest relationship is anchored in individuals’ immediate surroundings. As the spatial radius defining ‘local’ expands, the association weakens, highlighting the primacy of experienced inequality. We also find that the inequality–protest link is mediated by national characteristics. The study advances the social sciences by furnishing novel empirical evidence on the micro-geographic underpinnings of political instability, demonstrating that inequality’s political effects hinge on proximity, local class structure and national institutional environment.
主持人：学院副院长熊芳教授
