Pub Date : 1998-04-01DOI: 10.1177/147447409800500207
P. Crang
theme ’Making and breaking geographies’. Section 2 asks: ’What difference does geography make?’, examining ways in which geographies constitute social practice. The role of geography in shaping social identity is then examined in Section 3. Next is a consideration of the politics of representation in which essays challenge the old dichotomy between ’real’ objective geography and the fanciful depictions of artists and others. The final section returns attention to the domain of academic geography, re-presenting manifestos by David Harvey and David Stoddart, as well as a closing essay by Mona Domosh in which she foregrounds
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Pub Date : 1998-04-01DOI: 10.1177/147447409800500209
S. Mills
articulated. In the conclusions, a call is made for a ’re-reasoning’ of modernity, articulated not as a market-imperative Western model but as a hybrid and more emancipatory process, using science and indigenous technical knowledge in a less than global space. While the editors are clear that liberation ecology is articulated primarily as a critique (p. 262), some contributors feel more strongly that the move to a different modernity is closer to reality, via social movements or grass-roots contestations. Second, a focus on civil society as the site for meaningful development is founded upon a critique of new developmentalist populism, exemplified by some ’farmer-first’ and ecofeminist approaches. The environmental imaginary
{"title":"Book Reviews : Mapping men and empire: a geography of adventure. By Richard Phillips. London, Routledge. 1997. viii + 208 pp. £45.00, cloth; £14.99, paper. ISBN 0 415 13771 3, cloth; 0 415 13772 1, paper","authors":"S. Mills","doi":"10.1177/147447409800500209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/147447409800500209","url":null,"abstract":"articulated. In the conclusions, a call is made for a ’re-reasoning’ of modernity, articulated not as a market-imperative Western model but as a hybrid and more emancipatory process, using science and indigenous technical knowledge in a less than global space. While the editors are clear that liberation ecology is articulated primarily as a critique (p. 262), some contributors feel more strongly that the move to a different modernity is closer to reality, via social movements or grass-roots contestations. Second, a focus on civil society as the site for meaningful development is founded upon a critique of new developmentalist populism, exemplified by some ’farmer-first’ and ecofeminist approaches. The environmental imaginary","PeriodicalId":199648,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Geographies (formerly Ecumene)","volume":"128 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114255523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1998-04-01DOI: 10.1177/147447409800500212
J. Lemon
tarian usurpation of middle-class cultural prerogatives, is the most engaging, especially since the process of acculturation it documents was not just reflected but constructed by popular imagery and its verbal equivalents: the penny novel, penny Shakespeare, penny cyclopaedias, et al. Maidment’s forays into varied subject-matters are linked by his overarching concern with the possible correlation of technique and message. He asks, early on, whether the artist’s process engraving, lithograph, woodcut effects meaning, and develops this question as a leitmotif. Readers probably will agree that nineteenth-century woodcuts more readily bespeak the lowbrow than do contemporaneous etchings, but some will balk at Maidment’s provocative but tenuous claim for ’the close connection between wood engraving and bourgeois values’ (especially given his puzzling tendency to conflate wood engravings and woodcuts). Developed around the turn of the nineteenth century, wood engravings usually appeared in close conjunction with text, since their dimensions were limited by their source (boxwood sawn across the grain). Citing the ’verbalness of Victorian culture’, Maidment indicates that wood engraving’s usual alliance with prose made it the preferred Victorian medium (in contrast to lithography, invented around the same time, but better suited to independent full-sheet renderings than to text-related vignettes). He details the many uses to which illus-
{"title":"Book Reviews : Civilizations and world systems: studying world-historical change. Edited by Stephen K. Sanderson. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira. 1995. 328 pp. £19.95, cloth; £7.50, paper. ISBN 0 7619 9104 2, cloth; 0 7619 9105 0, paper","authors":"J. Lemon","doi":"10.1177/147447409800500212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/147447409800500212","url":null,"abstract":"tarian usurpation of middle-class cultural prerogatives, is the most engaging, especially since the process of acculturation it documents was not just reflected but constructed by popular imagery and its verbal equivalents: the penny novel, penny Shakespeare, penny cyclopaedias, et al. Maidment’s forays into varied subject-matters are linked by his overarching concern with the possible correlation of technique and message. He asks, early on, whether the artist’s process engraving, lithograph, woodcut effects meaning, and develops this question as a leitmotif. Readers probably will agree that nineteenth-century woodcuts more readily bespeak the lowbrow than do contemporaneous etchings, but some will balk at Maidment’s provocative but tenuous claim for ’the close connection between wood engraving and bourgeois values’ (especially given his puzzling tendency to conflate wood engravings and woodcuts). Developed around the turn of the nineteenth century, wood engravings usually appeared in close conjunction with text, since their dimensions were limited by their source (boxwood sawn across the grain). Citing the ’verbalness of Victorian culture’, Maidment indicates that wood engraving’s usual alliance with prose made it the preferred Victorian medium (in contrast to lithography, invented around the same time, but better suited to independent full-sheet renderings than to text-related vignettes). He details the many uses to which illus-","PeriodicalId":199648,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Geographies (formerly Ecumene)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125420617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1998-04-01DOI: 10.1177/147447409800500208
S. Radcliffe
provide an excellent blend of detailed substantive discussions as well as conceptual critiques, encompassed by introductory and concluding chapters by the editors. The central premise of the collection is that political ecology (a good summary and appraisal of which is provided in the introductory chapter) needs to look to grounded post-structuralist theory in order fully to understand the complex meanings, power relations and contradictions which surround social practices concerning the environment. Although varying in their approach and methods, through this conceptual approach the chapters are clearly engaged in a shared debate as well as addressing a pressing political and social issue namely, environmental change within increasingly market-oriented areas of the South.
{"title":"Book Reviews : Liberation ecologies: environment, development and social movements. Edited by R. Peet and M. Watts. London, Routledge. 1996. xii + 273 pp. £45.00, cloth; £14.99, paper. ISBN 0 415 13361 0, cloth; 0 415 13362 9, paper","authors":"S. Radcliffe","doi":"10.1177/147447409800500208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/147447409800500208","url":null,"abstract":"provide an excellent blend of detailed substantive discussions as well as conceptual critiques, encompassed by introductory and concluding chapters by the editors. The central premise of the collection is that political ecology (a good summary and appraisal of which is provided in the introductory chapter) needs to look to grounded post-structuralist theory in order fully to understand the complex meanings, power relations and contradictions which surround social practices concerning the environment. Although varying in their approach and methods, through this conceptual approach the chapters are clearly engaged in a shared debate as well as addressing a pressing political and social issue namely, environmental change within increasingly market-oriented areas of the South.","PeriodicalId":199648,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Geographies (formerly Ecumene)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121372875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1998-04-01DOI: 10.1177/147447409800500213
A. Eisenschitz
global city after the collision of white, monolithic, place-based working class culture with deindustrialization, neoliberalism, multiculturalism and globalization. It is concerned with how individuals and groups construct their life world, and with their relationship with locality. But the book also aims to go beyond placebased community studies and to recast the sociological concepts that ’were forged for the period of nation-state sociology’ (p. 43). It assumes that, in an age of supranational influences, groups are influenced by non-local phenomena, and that this requires dispensing with such concepts as class, nation and welfare and reconsidering the relation between locality and culture. The book has emerged out of a coordinated research programme on globallocal relations in Wandsworth at the Roehampton Institute, supplemented by studies in four other areas of London. This has the beneficial effect that the
{"title":"Book Reviews : Living the global city: globalisation as local process. Edited by J. Eade. London, Routledge. 1997. xii + 196 pp. £45.00, cloth; £13.99, paper. ISBN 0 415 13886 8, cloth; 0 415 13887 6, paper","authors":"A. Eisenschitz","doi":"10.1177/147447409800500213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/147447409800500213","url":null,"abstract":"global city after the collision of white, monolithic, place-based working class culture with deindustrialization, neoliberalism, multiculturalism and globalization. It is concerned with how individuals and groups construct their life world, and with their relationship with locality. But the book also aims to go beyond placebased community studies and to recast the sociological concepts that ’were forged for the period of nation-state sociology’ (p. 43). It assumes that, in an age of supranational influences, groups are influenced by non-local phenomena, and that this requires dispensing with such concepts as class, nation and welfare and reconsidering the relation between locality and culture. The book has emerged out of a coordinated research programme on globallocal relations in Wandsworth at the Roehampton Institute, supplemented by studies in four other areas of London. This has the beneficial effect that the","PeriodicalId":199648,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Geographies (formerly Ecumene)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130411070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1998-04-01DOI: 10.1177/147447409800500204
P. Parajuli
The semiotic expansion of capital and the resurgence of ecological ethnicities W ith the globalization of the economy, the world has entered an ’ecological phase’ in which capital is naturalized, while simultaneously nature is capitalized. In this phase, whatever was previously considered as ’external’ or off-limits to the market is included as ’internal’. Put simply, if capital is nature, nature is capital too. Saving nature becomes equivalent to ensuring the reproduction of capital. As expressed in the post-Rio environmental discourse, ’the planet as a whole is our capital which must be sustainably managed’. Today, the relationship of capital to nature and humans has acquired a qualitatively different dimension.
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Pub Date : 1998-04-01DOI: 10.1177/147447409800500216
Melanie Wall
cover which depicts an attractive blonde woman (complete with a cut-off top which exposes her tanned midriff and offsets her perky breasts), who is framed by five artfully arranged black children who watch passively as she purposefully strides past an anonymous Third World shack. After reading the 10 essays and the editors’ introduction contained in this collection, I am no closer to comprehending the relevance of this decontextualized image to a book which calls for cultural studies to be grounded in a political reality com-. mitted to understanding the social experiences of culture. Aside from this anomalous snapshot, though, this book includes useful contributions from a number of the discipline’s most prominent scholars addressing the future of cultural studies. The book is divided into two thematic concerns: the four
{"title":"Book Reviews : Back to reality? social experience and cultural studies. Edited by Angela McRobbie. Manchester, Manchester University Press. 1997. viii + 216 pp. £40.00, cloth; £14.99, paper. ISBN 0 7190 4454 5, cloth; 0 7190 4455 3, paper","authors":"Melanie Wall","doi":"10.1177/147447409800500216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/147447409800500216","url":null,"abstract":"cover which depicts an attractive blonde woman (complete with a cut-off top which exposes her tanned midriff and offsets her perky breasts), who is framed by five artfully arranged black children who watch passively as she purposefully strides past an anonymous Third World shack. After reading the 10 essays and the editors’ introduction contained in this collection, I am no closer to comprehending the relevance of this decontextualized image to a book which calls for cultural studies to be grounded in a political reality com-. mitted to understanding the social experiences of culture. Aside from this anomalous snapshot, though, this book includes useful contributions from a number of the discipline’s most prominent scholars addressing the future of cultural studies. The book is divided into two thematic concerns: the four","PeriodicalId":199648,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Geographies (formerly Ecumene)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122714370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1998-04-01DOI: 10.1177/147447409800500206
R. Kearns
book, the accelerated fragmentation of academic knowledge that has occurred since the mid-1960s has made it ’harder to identify the binding logic that is suggested by the word &dquo;discipline&dquo; ’, (p. 460). This edited collection serves as a timely reminder that there are discernible traces of coherence within such diversity. Stephen Daniels and Roger Lee have drawn together 24 essays which are lifted
{"title":"Book Reviews : Exploring human geography: a reader. Edited by S. Daniels and R. Lee. London, Arnold. 1996. vi + 506 pp. £45.00 cloth; £16.99 paper. ISBN 0 340 632135 cloth; 0 340 61429 3 paper","authors":"R. Kearns","doi":"10.1177/147447409800500206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/147447409800500206","url":null,"abstract":"book, the accelerated fragmentation of academic knowledge that has occurred since the mid-1960s has made it ’harder to identify the binding logic that is suggested by the word &dquo;discipline&dquo; ’, (p. 460). This edited collection serves as a timely reminder that there are discernible traces of coherence within such diversity. Stephen Daniels and Roger Lee have drawn together 24 essays which are lifted","PeriodicalId":199648,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Geographies (formerly Ecumene)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131854971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1998-04-01DOI: 10.1177/147447409800500211
J. Sund
Maidment’s book explores popular visual culture in England during the graphic media’s heyday, an era of great technical innovation in which illustrated journals flourished and popular imagery commanded the sort of broad-based audience the electronic media do now. An aficionado and collector of ’prints’ the term he uses to describe a full range of mechanically reproduced renderings, from full-sheet political commentaries to illustrative vignettes for sheet music and novels Maidment seeks to redress their marginalization by art historians. He suggests that art historians are discomfited by modes of rendering that shatter the ’idea of art as the unmediated expression of the artist’s inner life and
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Pub Date : 1998-04-01DOI: 10.1177/147447409800500203
W. Wilder
he social sciences’ recognition, spearheaded by Talcott Parsonsi and Michel Foucault,2 of the degree to which people’s lives have been ’medicalized’ through pursuit of the epidemiological model by science and government has led in turn to an acknowledgement of the examined body as a prime site for human thought and action. For many thinkers today, Foucault has redeemed the faltering Freudian project by unearthing the inner workings of societies and histories through the discourses of culture and their implications for somatic life and meaning. In his essay The body and society, Bryan S. Turner rightly credits Foucault with a salutary inversion of the social forces usually outlined in classical sociological theory, such that power in society, though it can be seen as dangerous and repressive, is also and more consistently -
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