Progress in Human Geography recent issues

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

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

Erratum

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:18:40 PST

What are the consequences of the 'spatial turn' for how we understand politics today? A proposed research agenda

The Spaces of Democracy and the Democracy of Space network — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:53:22 PDT

Mapping knowledge controversies: science, democracy and the redistribution of expertise

Whatmore, S. J. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:53:22 PDT

Reflecting on conversations between geography and science and technology studies (STS) over the last 15 years or so, this paper addresses their shared interest in knowledge controversies as generative political events. It explores how such events give rise to new ways of practising relations between science and democracy focusing on the case of environmental knowledge claims and technologies. This exploration interrogates three mobilizations of environmental knowledge controversies that have different implications for redistributing expertise, including that of (social) scientists, in the composition of knowledge polities. The first version sets out to map the language commitments of contributors to a controversy with the aim of enabling interested citizens to trace the ‘partisanship’ of scientific knowledge claims. The second is also a cartographic exercise designed to teach students how to account for the political force of technoscientific controversies by mapping the intense entanglements of scientific knowledge claims with legal, moral, economic and social concerns on the web. The third is concerned less with mapping knowledge controversies from an analytical distance than with an experimental research methodology that sets out to intervene in extant controversies in ways that map researchers’ own knowledge claims into what is at stake.

Ecologies of business education and the geographies of knowledge

Hall, S. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:53:22 PDT

The identification in political and corporate circles of business education as a means of (re)producing highly skilled economic elites has been reflected by growing academic interest in the sector. However, this research predominately studies business education in isolation from other practices of learning. In response, I develop geographical perspectives on knowledge and learning to situate business education within broader landscapes of corporate knowledge circulation, production and learning. Positioning business education as a topic of geographical inquiry in this way is valuable since it fosters a more critical understanding of the role of business education within capitalist space economies.

Geographies of brands and branding

Pike, A. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:53:22 PDT

This paper seeks to elucidate the geographies of brands and branding through interpreting their geographical entanglements. Focusing upon goods and services, it argues, first, that the object of the brand and the process of branding are geographical because they are entangled in inescapable spatial associations. Second, these spatial associations matter because they are geographically differentiated and uneven. Third, geographically entangled brands and branding are closely related to spatially uneven development through the articulation and reinforcement of economic and social inequalities and unequal and competitive sociospatial relations and divisions of labour. Despite their apparent pervasiveness and significance for geographical inquiry, the geographical entanglements of brands and branding have been under-investigated in Geography and hardly recognized and poorly specified in other social science research. A critical account is provided that demonstrates the entangled geographies of brands and branding in their: (1) geographical origins, provenance and sociospatial histories; (2) spatial circuits of value and meaning and uneven development; and (3) territorial and relational spaces and places. Reading the changing forms, extent and nature of the geographical entanglements of brands and branding provides a novel but relatively overlooked window to consider and illustrate the vital spaces at the intersections of economic, social, cultural and political geographies, the tensions between relational and territorial notions of space and place and the politics and limits of brands and branding. Learning from wider social science, the paper demonstrates the importance of geography by projecting more clearly specified and sophisticated treatments of space and place into accounts of brands and branding.

Complexity not collapse: recasting the geographies of homelessness in a 'punitive' age

DeVerteuil, G., May, J., von Mahs, J. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:53:22 PDT

Over the past decade there has been a proliferation of work on homelessness by geographers. Much of this has been framed by the desire to connect discussions of homelessness to wider debates around gentrification, urban restructuring and the politics of public space. Though such work has been helpful in shifting discussions of homelessness into the mainstream geographical literature, too much of it remains narrowly framed within a US metric of knowledge and too closely focused upon the recent punitive turn in urban social policy. Here we advance instead a framework that recognizes the growing multiplicy of homeless geographies in recent years under policies that are better understood as multifaceted and ambivalent rather than only punitive.

Geography and education I: the state of health of Geography in schools

Winter, C. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:53:22 PDT

Geographies of production III: knowledge, cultural economies and work (revisited)

Reimer, S. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:53:22 PDT

The economic geographical literature continues to display a strong continuity of emergent themes. Assessments of knowledge, learning and innovation as well as cultural industries and the cultural economy have continued to attract significant attention. There also has been ongoing interest in work and employment dynamics, with a particular emphasis on the complex ‘intersectionality’ of subjects positioned by class as well as gender, race and other dimensions of identity. The paper concludes with a brief assessment of future directions which the study of geographies of production might take.

Critical geography I: the question of internationalism

Glassman, J. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:53:22 PDT

Obituaries, war, 'corporeal remains', and life: history and philosophy of geography, 2007--2008

Barnes, T. J. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:53:22 PDT

This progress report reviews contributions made to the history and philosophy of geography for the period 2007—2008. The review is divided into four topical areas: obituaries of geographers; the relation of geography to the Second World War and the Cold War; scientific and social experimentation; and non-representational theory.

The terms 'native' and 'alien' -- a biogeographical perspective

Preston, C. D. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:53:22 PDT

The concepts of native and alien species are essential to biogeography. They are fundamental to our understanding of why organisms grow where they do. Many species are easy to allocate to one or other category (eg, New World species in the Old World), although there are also of course doubtful cases. The biogeographical use of the terms as factual descriptions of modes of origin should be distinguished from their use in evaluating species for conservation purposes.

Using the native/alien classification for description not prescription: a response to Christopher Preston

Warren, C. R. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:53:22 PDT

Book review symposium: Duncan, J.S. 2007: In the shadow of the tropics: climate, race and biopower in nineteenth century Ceylon. Aldershot: Ashgate

Arnold, D., Ogborn, M., Duncan, J. S. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:53:22 PDT

Book review: Bradbury, J., editor 2008: Devolution, regionalism and regional development: the UK experience. Abingdon: Routledge. 240 pp. {pound}65 cloth. ISBN: 978 0 415 32361 1

Edwards, J. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:53:22 PDT

Book Reviews: Holden, A. 2007: Environment and tourism (second edition). Abingdon: Routledge. 296 pp. {pound}85 cloth, {pound}20.99 paper. ISBN: 978 0 415 39954 8 cloth, 978 0 415 39955 5 paper

Saarinen, J. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:53:22 PDT

Book review: Jones, R. 2007: People/states/territories: the political geographies of British state transformation. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 232 pp. {pound}55/66 cloth, {pound}24.99/30 paper. ISBN: 978 1 4051 4033 1 cloth, 978 1 4051 4034 8 paper

Agnew, J. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:53:22 PDT

Book review: Jones, R.C., editor 2008: Immigrants outside Megalopolis: ethnic transformation in the heartland. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 332 pp. US$80 cloth. ISBN: 978 0 7391 1919 8

Ellis, M. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:53:22 PDT

Book review: Julios, C. 2008: Contemporary British identity: English language, migrants and public discourse. Aldershot: Ashgate. 210 pp. {pound}55/ US$99.95 cloth. ISBN: 978 0 7546 7158 9. Jones, R. and Fowler, C. 2008: Placing the nation: Aberystwyth and the reproduction of Welsh nationalism. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 224 pp. {pound}16.99/US$35 paper. ISBN: 978 0 7083 2137 9

Graham, B. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:53:22 PDT

Book review: Knowles, R., Shaw, J. and Docherty, I., editors 2008: Transport geographies: mobilities, flows and spaces. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. 320 pp. {pound}62/72/US$99.95 cloth. ISBN: 978 1 4051 5322 5

Adey, P. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:53:22 PDT

Book review: Moore, N. and Whelan, Y., editors 2007: Heritage, memory and the politics of identity: new perspectives on the cultural landscape. Aldershot: Ashgate. 166 pp. {pound}50 cloth. ISBN: 978 0 7546 4008 0

Gruffudd, P. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:53:22 PDT

Book review: Williams, A., editor 2007: Therapeutic landscapes. Aldershot: Ashgate. 400 pp. {pound}55 cloth. ISBN: 978 0 7546 7099 5

Bingley, A. — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:53:22 PDT

The human geography of fire: a research agenda

Pyne, S. J. — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:59:49 PDT

From urban political economy to cultural political economy: rethinking culture and economy in and beyond the urban

Ribera-Fumaz, R. — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:59:49 PDT

Discussions about the culture-economy articulation have occurred largely within the confines of economic geography. In addition, much attention has been diverted into caricaturized discussions over the demise of political economy or the invalidity of culturalist arguments. Moving the argument from inquiry on the `nature' of the economy itself to the transformation of the role of culture and economy in understanding the production of urban form from perspectives based in urban political economy (UPE), this paper focuses on how the challenges posed by the cultural turn have enabled urban political economy to participate constructively in interdisciplinary efforts to reorient political economy in the direction of a critical cultural political economy.

Globalized fear? Towards an emotional geopolitics

Pain, R. — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:59:49 PDT

This paper questions the recent recasting of fear within critical geopolitics. It identifies a widespread metanarrative, `globalized fear', analysis of which lacks grounding and is remote, disembodied and curiously unemotional. A hierarchical scaling of emotions, politics and place overlooks agency, resistance and action. Drawing on feminist scholarship, I call for an emotional geopolitics of fear which connects political processes and everyday emotional topographies in a less hierarchical, more enabling relationship. I employ conscientization as a tool to inform the reconceptualization of global fears within critical geopolitics, and to move forward epistemological practice and our relationship as scholars with social change.

Phase space: geography, relational thinking, and beyond

Jones, M. — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:59:49 PDT

Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning of work on `thinking space relationally'. According to its advocates, relational thinking challenges human geography by insisting on an open-ended, mobile, networked, and actor-centred geographic becoming. The paper discusses the importance of this `relational turn' by positioning it within the lineage of philosophical approaches to space in geography. Following this, it highlights some silences and limits, namely factors that constrain, structure, and connect space. The paper then offers a moderate relationalism by discussing the notion of `phase space'. This acknowledges relationality but insists on the confined, sometimes inertial, and always context-specific nature of geography. Some challenges for this approach are discussed.

Development and geography: anxious times, anemic geographies, and migration

Silvey, R. — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:59:49 PDT

Transportation geography: local challenges, global contexts

Keeling, D. J. — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:59:49 PDT

Geographies of tourism: critical research on capitalism and local livelihoods

Gibson, C. — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:59:49 PDT

Geographies of circulation and exchange: constructions of markets

Berndt, C., Boeckler, M. — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:59:49 PDT

Although markets are at centre stage in capitalist processes of circulation and exchange, they have rarely been made an object of study. In this paper we distinguish three heterodox approaches. (1) Socioeconomics points out that concrete markets cannot be separated from their social context. Markets are dissolved in social networks and socialized. (2) Political economy investigates how the market model is confused for real markets by market participants. The market is represented as a destructive force. (3) Cultural economists point to the practical self-realization of economic knowledge and argue that the abstract market model is performative.

Denis E. Cosgrove (1948--2008)

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:59:49 PDT

Book review: Ashworth, G.J., Graham, B. and Tunbridge, J.E. 2007: Pluralising pasts: heritage, identity and place in multicultural societies. London: Pluto Press. 236 pp. {pound}75 cloth, {pound}19.99 paper. ISBN: 978 0 7453 2286 5 cloth, 978 0 7453 2285 8 paper

Timothy, D. J. — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:59:49 PDT

Book review: Bavo (Bureau for Architectural Theory), editor 2007: Urban politics now: re-imagining democracy in the neoliberal city. Amsterdam: NAi Publishers. 240 pp. 27 paper. ISBN: 978 90 5662 616 7

Gough, J. — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:59:49 PDT

Book review: Cartier, C. and Lew A.A., editors 2005: Seductions of place: geographical perspectives on globalization and touristed landscapes. Abingdon: Routledge. 340 pp. {pound}26.99 paper. ISBN: 978 0 415 19219 4

Perkins, C. — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:59:49 PDT

Book review: Cooke, P., De Laurentis, C., Todling, F. and Trippl, M. 2007: Regional knowledge economies: markets, clusters and innovation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 328 pp. {pound}79.95 cloth, {pound}35 paper. ISBN: 978 1 84542 529 6 cloth, 978 1 84844 524 6 paper

Kitagawa, F. — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:59:49 PDT

Book review: Goonewardena, K., Kipfer, S., Milgrom, R. and Schmid, C., editors 2008: Space, difference, everyday life: reading Henri Lefebvre. Abingdon: Routledge. 329 pp. {pound}60 cloth, {pound}21.99 paper. ISBN: 978 0 415 95459 4 cloth, 978 0 415 95460 0 paper

Charnock, G. — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:59:49 PDT

Book review: Jones, R. and Shaw, B.J., editors 2007: Geographies of Australian heritages. Loving a sunburnt country? Aldershot: Ashgate. 248 pp. {pound}55 cloth. ISBN: 978 0 7546 4858 1. Byrne, D. 2007: Surface collection. Archaeological travels in Southeast Asia. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press. 187 pp. US$72/{pound}47 cloth, US$29.95/{pound}19.99 paper. ISBN: 978 0 7591 1017 5 cloth, 978 0 7591 1018 2 paper

Head, L. — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:59:49 PDT

Book review: King, L.J., editor 2007: North American explorations: ten memoirs of geographers from down under. Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing. xiv + 179 pp. US$21.74/{pound}11.24 paper. ISBN: 978 1 4251 2751 0

Johnston, R. — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:59:49 PDT

Book review: Okereke, C. 2007: Global justice and neoliberal environmental governance: ethics, sustainable development and international cooperation. Abingdon/New York: Routledge. 233 pp. {pound}75/US$150 cloth. ISBN: 978 0 415 41230 8

Ramutsindela, M. — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:59:49 PDT

Book review: Talbot, D. 2007: Regulating the night: race, culture and exclusion in the making of the nighttime economy. Aldershot: Ashgate. 164 pp. {pound}50 cloth. ISBN: 978 0 7546 4752 2

Darling, J. — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:59:49 PDT

Work, life, and creativity among academic geographers

Schuurman, N. — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:57:41 PDT

Genetic technologies and the transformation of the geographies of UK livestock agriculture: a research agenda

Morris, C., Holloway, L. — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:57:41 PDT

This paper presents an agenda for research into the geographies of UK livestock agriculture as these are being reconfigured through the increasing intervention of genetic techniques and technologies. After discussing three particular techniques, four areas of research are identified. The first three relate to different spaces and scales at which the effects of genetic techniques can be examined: the animal body and animal-human relationships; the farm and other rural spaces; and the national and international networks of genetic knowledge-practices relating to livestock. The fourth area outlines an agenda for engaging with Foucault's notion of biopower as a possible means of gaining a theoretical purchase on three key issues which span these three scales: knowledge, power and life. In its reflections on the wider implications of the proposed research the paper aims to speak to a number of audiences within and beyond the discipline.

Travelling landscape-objects

della Dora, V. — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:57:41 PDT

Over the past few years the notion of `landscape as a text' has been increasingly problematized. A number of experiments have been attempted to approach landscape via a revisited phenomenology. Landscape in the sense of graphic pictorial representation, however, has largely remained out of such debates. Reviewing and synthesizing work on landscape, materiality and performance, this article suggests some new directions for study. In particular, it calls for a reconceptualization of visual landscape representations as `travelling landscape-objects': graphic representations embedded in different material supports which physically move through space and time, and thus operate as active media for the circulation of place.

Population and deforestation: why rural migration matters

Carr, D. — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:57:41 PDT

This paper reviews the state of knowledge in, and develops a conceptual model for, researching frontier migration in the developing world with a focus on Latin America. Since only a small fraction moves to forest frontiers, identifying people and place characteristics associated with frontier migration could usefully inform policies aimed at forest conservation and rural development. Yet population scholars train their efforts on urban and international migration while land use/cover change researchers pay scant attention to these migration flows which directly antecede the most salient footprint of human occupation on the earth's surface: the conversion of forest to agricultural land.

Gender and geography: knowledge and activism across the intimately global

Wright, M. W. — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:57:41 PDT

Historical geography 2007--2008: Foucault's avatars -- still in (the) Driver's seat

Mayhew, R. J. — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:57:41 PDT

Political ecology: theorizing scale

Neumann, R. P. — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:57:41 PDT

Population geography: lifecourse matters

Bailey, A. J. — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:57:41 PDT

Wolpert, J. 1970: Departures from the usual environment in locational analysis. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 50, 220--29

Cox, K. R., Wolch, J., Wolpert, J. — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:57:41 PDT

Book review: Aitchison, C., Hopkins, P. and Kwan, M.-P., editors 2007: Geographies of Muslim identities: diaspora, gender and belonging. Aldershot: Ashgate. 208 pp. {pound}50 cloth. ISBN: 978 0 7546 4888 8

Phillips, R. — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:57:41 PDT

Book review: Crampton, J.W. and Elden, S., editors 2007: Space, knowledge and power: Foucault and geography. Aldershot: Ashgate. 377 pp. {pound}60 cloth, {pound}22.50 paper. ISBN: 978 0 7546 4655 6 cloth, 978 0 7546 4655 6 paper

Perkins, C. — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:57:42 PDT

Book review: Getimis, P. and Kafkalas, G. editors 2007: Overcoming fragmentation in Southeast Europe. Spatial development trends and integration potential. Aldershot: Ashgate. 331 pp. {pound}55 cloth. ISBN: 978 0 7546 4796 6

Antonsich, M. — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:57:42 PDT

Book review: Gough, J., Eizenschitz, A. and McCulloch, A. 2005: Spaces of social exclusion. London: Routledge. 288 pp. {pound}95/US$190 cloth, {pound}26.99/US$59.95 paper. ISBN: 978 0 415 28088 4 cloth, 978 0 415 28089 1 paper

Cameron, A. — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:57:42 PDT

Book review: Hewamanne, S. 2007: Stitching identities in a free trade zone: gender and politics in Sri Lanka. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 296 pp. US$59.95/{pound}39 cloth. ISBN: 978 0 8122 4045 0

Ruwanpura, K. N. — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:57:42 PDT

Book review: Kindon, S., Pain, R. and Kesby, M., editors 2007: Participatory action research approaches and methods: connecting people, participation and place. London: Routledge. 288 pp. {pound}75 cloth. ISBN: 978 0 415 40550 8

Hubbard, P. — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:57:42 PDT

Book review: Wilson, J.P. and Fotheringham, A.S., editors 2007: The handbook of geographic information science. Oxford: Blackwell. 634 pp. {pound}60/US$99.95/AU$165.95 cloth, {pound}29.99/ US$54.95/AU$68.95 paper ISBN: 978 1 405 10795 2 cloth, 978 1 405 10796 9 paper

O'Sullivan, D. — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:57:42 PDT