Progress in Human Geography current issue

Gerald Manners (1932--2009)

Clout, H. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

Professor Emeritus Leslie Curry

Maclaren, V., Johnston, R. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

John Harris Paterson MA (Cantab) MA (Wisconsin) (1923--1997)

Werritty, A. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

Human geography and the contextual politics of substantive democratization

Stokke, K. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

Nature, race, and parks: past research and future directions for geographic research

Byrne, J., Wolch, J. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

Geographic research on parks has been wide-ranging but has seldom examined how and why people use parks, leaving these questions to leisure science, which privileges socio-demographic variables over urban socio-spatial explanations (eg, historical, political-economic, and location factors). This article examines recent geographic perspectives on park use, drawing upon environmental justice, cultural landscape, and political ecology paradigms to redirect our attention from park users to a more critical appreciation of the historical, socio-ecological, and political-economic processes that operate through, and in turn shape, park spaces and park-going behaviors. We challenge partial, user-orientated approaches and suggest new directions for geographic research on parks.

Haptic geographies: ethnography, haptic knowledges and sensuous dispositions

Paterson, M. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

This paper is the first overview of the treatment of haptic knowledges in geography, responding to bodily sensations and responses that arise through the embodied researcher. After Crang’s (2003) article on ‘touchy-feely’ methods identifies the dearth of actual touching and embodied feeling in research methods, this article does three things. First, it clarifies the terminology, which is derived from a number of disciplines. Second, it summarizes developments in sensuous ethnographies within cultural geography and anthropology. Third, it suggests pathways to new research on ‘sensuous dispositions’ and non-representational theory. We thereby see just how ‘touchy-feely’ qualitative methods have, or might, become.

On territory, the nation-state and the crisis of the hyphen

Antonsich, M. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

In an epoch of networks, flows and global mobility, the notion of territory as a politico-institutional bounded space needs further investigation. Besides studying territory as a symbolic resource in nationalist discourses, a control device in the hands of the state or a ‘spatial fix’ in the process of capital accumulation and reproduction, geographers should also explore how territory remains implicated in and implicates discourses and practices of societal integration, belonging and loyalty beyond the national rhetoric of ‘one territory, one people’. The article illustrates this argument by focusing on the case of Western Europe.

Complexity, finance, and progress in human geography

Christophers, B. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

This paper reviews recent commentary on and interpretations of the ongoing financial ‘crisis’ unfolding in many western economies. It finds that a central theme of these readings is the twofold argument that modern finance is too complex, and that this complexity is responsible for the crisis. The paper, inspired both by the economist John Galbraith and by the geographer David Harvey, argues against this widespread ascription and scapegoating of complexity. It does so as part of a wider argument that progress in human geography can be fostered through demystification of modern money and finance.

Contemporary geographies of exclusion II: lessons from Iowa

Herbert, S. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

Processes of exclusion both presuppose and reinforce boundaries. Yet the realities of globalization mean that such political and cultural boundaries are regularly and increasingly transgressed. Cross-border traffic is simultaneously encouraged and feared; migrants who are welcomed because of their labor are often shunned because of their difference. Because of the tensions generated by the inevitable co-mingling in everyday space between insiders and outsiders, the politics of immigration regulation are unusually fraught in the contemporary period. For this reason, the line between foreign relations and domestic politics is increasingly blurred. As states become more robust in their boundary enforcement practices, the political plight of migrants becomes more perilous. The recent literature on exclusion understandably emphasizes the politics and practices of immigration policing, with broader lessons that I use this review to elucidate.

Geographies of identity: landscapes of class

Dowling, R. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

Historically class has been less likely than dimensions such as gender or race to come up in geographical discussions of identity as lived experience. In this progress report I document the novel ways in which social scientists have recently explored the discourses shaping, and lived experiences of, class identities in numerous cities and regions across the globe. Theoretically, the progress report identifies the presence of longstanding theories of class (eg, Marx, Bourdieu) alongside experiential and psychic theories, suggesting that there is a new language of class developing in human geography. Empirically, geographical scholarship on class similarly builds upon conventional interests in the transformation and use of urban spaces as elements of processes of class colonization in the west, but also moves beyond these through consideration of processes in the global south. As a result, new means of forging identity politics are suggested, that recognize the contingent yet ever present position of class in the contemporary era.

Cartography: performative, participatory, political

Crampton, J. W. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

This report examines the ways in which mapping is performative, participatory and political. Performativity has received increasing attention from scholars, and cartography is no exception. Interest has shifted from the map as object to mapping as practice. Performativity is a cultural, social and political activity; maps as protest and commentary. The internet both facilitates and shapes popular political activism, but scholars have been slow to grasp amateur political mappings, although analysis of political deployments of mapping in state, territorial and imperial projects remains rich. Finally, some authors suggest that cartography be understood as existence (becoming) rather than essence (fixed ontology).

Rural geography: blurring boundaries and making connections

Woods, M. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

A number of commentaries and articles have been published in recent years reflecting on the nature, history and practice of rural geography. The introspective mood follows a period in which rural geography has been widely considered to have been resurgent, but indicates concerns about the unevenness of progress in rural geography, and about the readiness of the subdiscipline to address new challenges. This article, the first of three progress reports on rural geography, focuses on attempts within these interventions to rethink the boundaries of rural geography and its connections with other fields of study. First, it examines renewed debates on the definition and delimitation of the rural, including efforts to rematerialize the rural. Second, it considers the rejuvenation of work on rural—urban linkages, including concepts of city regions, exurbanization and rurbanity. Third, it discusses the interdisciplinary engagement of rural geographers, including collaboration with physical and natural scientists.

Conzen, M.R.G. 1960: Alnwick, Northumberland: a study in town-plan analysis. Institute of British Geographers Publication 27. London: George Philip

Whitehand, J.W.R., Samuels, I., Conzen, M. P. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

Book review: Atkinson, R. and Blandy, S., editors 2006: Gated communities: international perspectives. Abingdon/New York: Routledge. 192 pp. {pound}75/$140 cloth, {pound}22.50/$39.95 paper. ISBN: 978 0 415 37315 9 cloth, 978 0 415 46379 9 paper

Pine, A. M. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

Book review: Cooke, P. and Lazzeretti, L., editors 2008: Creative cities, cultural clusters and local economic development. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 384 pp. {pound}85 cloth. ISBN: 978 1 84720 268 0

Power, D. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

Book review: Desai, V. and Potter, R., editors 2008: The companion to development studies (second edition). London: Hodder Arnold. 608 pp. {pound}29.99 paper. ISBN: 978 0 3408 8914 5

Bridge, G. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

Book review: Firebaugh, G. 2008: Seven rules for social research. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 272 pp. US$72/{pound}46.50 cloth, US$24.95/{pound}17.95 paper. ISBN: 978 0 691 12546 6 cloth, 978 0 691 13567 0 paper

Castree, N. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

Book review: Nevins, J. and Peluso, N.L., editors 2008: Taking Southeast Asia to market: commodities, nature and people in the neoliberal age. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 304 pp. US$68.50 cloth, US$24.95 paper. ISBN: 978 0 8014 4662 7 cloth, 978 0 8014 7433 0 paper

Yeung, H. W.-c. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

Book review: Pain, R. and Smith, S.J., editors 2008: Fear: critical geopolitics and everyday life. Aldershot: Ashgate. 274 pp. {pound}60 cloth. ISBN: 978 0 7546 4966 3

Dittmer, J. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

Book review: Smith, M. P. and Bakker, M. 2008: Citizenship across borders: the political transnationalism of El Migrante. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 264 pp. US$62.95 cloth, US$21 paper. ISBN: 978 0 8014 4608 5 cloth, 978 0 8014 7390 6 paper

Coleman, M. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

Book review: Stump, R.W . 2008 : The geography of religion: faith, place, and space. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 442 pp. US$69.95, ISBN: 978 0 7425 1080 7

Dijkink, G. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

Referees of papers submitted to PiHG c. 2008--2009

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Erratum

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