Progress in Human Geography current issue

Thinking through work: complex inequalities, constructions of difference and trans-national migrants

McDowell, L. — 2008-07-22

This paper raises questions — rather than providing answers — about the theorization of intersectionality: the complex inequalities that result from connections between gender, class, ethnicity and other dimensions of identity in the making of subjects. I draw on Ong's work on cultural citizenship and notions of subjectification from Foucault and Butler to think through feminist theorizations of intersectionality and the philosophical status of different approaches to complexity and difference. I also address methodological issues. While this is not primarily an empirical paper, I use the example of the labour market position of recent migrants into the UK as an examplar of intersectionality at work.

Spaces of every-night life: for geographies of sleep, sleeping and sleepiness

Kraftl, P., Horton, J. — 2008-07-22

Over one third of most human lives — and hence one third of human geographies — is spent asleep. It is our contention in this paper that human geographers should take sleep, sleeping and sleepiness more seriously as topics for theoretical, empirical and critical research than has hitherto been the case. This paper provides a preliminary indication of potentially fruitful directions for geographical research on sleep, reviewing salient extant work in geography and (especially) in cognate disciplines in order to develop a case for research and enquiry in four domains: sleep and consumption; sleep and health; sleep and difference; sleep and bodily practice. The potential ramifications of `sleepy geographies' for prevailing assumptions habitually underpinning wakeful, cognate geographies (ie, the vast majority of human geographies to date) are also considered.

Industrial ecosystems? The use of tropes in the literature of industrial ecology and eco-industrial parks

McManus, P., Gibbs, D. — 2008-07-22

Industrial ecology is often promoted as a practice to close industrial production loops and reduce waste, thereby making better use of resources and preventing the overuse of raw materials. Eco-industrial parks (EIPs) are the spatial concentrations of businesses that use the by-products of one industrial process as inputs to another. Both sets of practices are based on particular tropes involving nature. This paper explores the use of various tropes in the literature of industrial ecology and EIPs. It highlights the need better to understand the pre-theoretical and theoretical bases of industrial ecology and to increase the potential for practical implementation by applying insights from the literatures of urban planning, social science and economic geography.

Geographical information science: agent-based models

O'Sullivan, D. — 2008-07-22

Cultural geography: non-representational conditions and concerns

Lorimer, H. — 2008-07-22

Political geography: difference, recognition, and the contested terrains of political claims-making

Staeheli, L. A. — 2008-07-22

Peck, J. 1996: Work-place: the social regulation of labor markets. New York: The Guilford Press

Rutherford, T. D., Jessop, B., Peck, J. — 2008-07-22

Book review: Birkmann, J., editor 2006: Measuring vulnerability to natural hazards. Towards disaster resilient societies. New York: United Nations Publications. 550 pages. US$39 paper. ISBN: 978 92 808 1135 3

Hilhorst, D., de Man, R. — 2008-07-22

Book review: Butcher, J. 2007: Ecotourism, NGOs and development: a critical analysis. London: Routledge. 208 pp. {pound}75 cloth. ISBN: 978 0 415 39367 6

Ficklin, L. — 2008-07-22

Book review: Chesters, G. and Welsh, I. 2006: Complexity and social movements: multitudes at the edge of chaos. London: Routledge. 208 pp. {pound}70 cloth, {pound}20 paper. ISBN: 978 0 415 34414 2 cloth, 978 0 415 43974 9 paper; Lipschutz, R.D. 2006: Civil societies and social movements: domestic, transnational, global. Aldershot: Ashgate. 568 pp. {pound}120 cloth. ISBN: 978 0 7546 2633 6

Castree, N. — 2008-07-22

Book review: Coe, N.M., Kelly, P.F. and Yeung, H.W.C. 2007: Economic geography: a contemporary introduction. Oxford: Blackwell. 456 pp. {pound}55 cloth, {pound}19.99 paper. ISBN: 978 1 4051 3215 2 cloth, 978 1 4051 3219 0 paper

Christophers, B. — 2008-07-22

Book review: Peet, R. and Watts, M., editors 2004: Liberation ecologies: environment, development, social movements (second edition). London: Routledge. 464 pp. {pound}110 cloth, {pound}26.99 paper. ISBN: 978 0 415 31235 6 cloth, 978 0 415 31236 3 paper

Bridge, G. — 2008-07-22

Book review: Tvedt, T. 2004: The River Nile in the age of the British. Political ecology and the quest for economic power. London: I.B. Tauris. 480 pp. {pound}55 cloth. ISBN: 978 1 86064 835 9

Sutton, K. — 2008-07-22

Book review: Williams, C.C. 2005: A commodified world? Mapping the limits of capitalism. London: Zed Books. 308 pp. {pound}55 cloth, {pound}19.99 paper. ISBN: 978 1 84277 354 3 cloth, 978 1 84277 355 0 paper

Kent, A. — 2008-07-22