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Ethnicity and the multicultural city : living with diversity

In the wake of the race disturbances in Oldham, Burnley, and Bradford (Great Britain) in summer 2001, the A. explores the possibilities for intercultural understanding and dialogue. He argues that much of the negotiation of difference occurs
at the very local level. He focuses on sites of cultural exchange and transformation, plural and contested senses of place, and agonistic politics of ethnicity and identity.
2002

Spatial planning as large-scale practical project : the problem of effective governance

The A. reflects upon the effectiveness of networked governance, using the collaborative spatial and environmental planning of Healey as a textbook example. He tries to answer the question of how effectiveness is guaranteed by strategic consensus
2002

Territorial government and flexibility : a critical assessment

The A. examines the claim of the decreased relevance of existing structures of multipurpose territorial government. He points to configurations of governance that usually lead to situations of diffused accountability and limit the field
2002

False antitheses ? Marxism, nature and actor-networks

Taking a non-orthodox Marxist perspective, the A. argues that the actor-network theory critique of political economy approaches to nature is overstated and partly defensible. By distinguishing between different modalities of eco-marxism and ANT, he
2002

Is India part of Asia ?

The A. charts the changing characterization of India, from being virtually synonymous with Asia for centuries to being virtually excluded from the reigning conceptions of Asia. He examines how spatial imaginaries were subverted by the incorporation
2002

Narrating interracial relations and the negotiation of public spaces

The purpose of the paper is to examine the everyday negotiation of public spaces of an African-American man as he participates in interracial (hetero)sexual relations. Employing a narrative approach, the A. highlights the complex interactions
2002

Travelling East as Walter Kurtz : identity, performance, and collaboration in Goa, India

The paper examines the A.'s collaborative critical engagement with two organisations involved in resisting tourism development in Goa. He elicits informations concerning the contravention of Goan environmental laws by hotel developers.
2002

Mapping Schengenland : denaturalizing the border

The A. examines the reorganization of border controls associated with the Schengen process in the European Union and some of its close neighbours. He interprets Schengen as a political moment for genealogical reflection and analysis. It is analyzed
2002

Geografia del turismo alternativo : i backpackers a Bali

A Baskpackers is a particular kind of travellers who chooses not to avail himself of the nowadays perhaps all too popular formula based on organized travels. In fact, he prefers to freely move around the world with a guide book of sole reference
2002

Vyvoj, zvlastnosti a problemy uzemene spravniho cleneni severozapadnich Cech.

The regional geographical comments to the internal territorial division of public administration units (counties and districts) of the North-Western Bohemia. A.identifies group of smaller districts in which he looks one of very problematic result
2002

Ecosocialisation and environmental planning : a Polanyian approach

that concept ecologically sustainable development in the broad flow of social change. The A. sketches a Polanyian approach to environmental planning, foregrounding the concept of ecosocialisation. He moves from a discussion of our present situation through
2002

River sedimentation and channel adjustment of the lower Yellow River as influenced by low discharges and seasonal channel dry-ups

Carrying capacity ; Channel geometry ; China ; Discharge ; Huang He ; Seasonal variation ; Sedimentation ; Stream
2002

As a city besieged : place, Zionism, and the deforestation of Jerusalem

of the forest that the city wants to use for development. He shows that theories of space, place, and resistance must be supplemented with a contextual analysis of the master cultural narratives that form the symbolic grounds of these conflicts.
2002

Feminist visualization : re-envisioning GIS as a method in feminist geographic research

The A. revisits some of the central arguments in the critical discourse from feminist perspectives. He examines whether GIS methods are inherently incompatible with feminist epistemologies through interrogating their connection with positivist
2002

Behind the web store : the organisational and spatial evolution of multichannel retailing in Toronto

The A. examines the organisational evolution of multichannel retailing in Toronto from a geographical perspective. He evaluates the implications of the adoption of business-to-consumer e-commerce technology for six Canadian bricks-and-mortar
2002

The seductions of resistance : power, politics, and a performative style of systems

of a flaw in the theory per se, but rather of a flaw in the conception of systems it operates with. He develops an alternative theory of systems that accounts for social coherence and stratified relations of power through creative forms of social practice
2002

The place of land in Japan's postwar development, and the dynamic of the 1980s real-estate bubble and 1990s banking crisis

The A. argues that landed property was both internal to and constitutive of the social relations that marked the specificity of Japan's postwar capitalism. He suggests that the 1980s real-estate bubble and 1990s banking crisis were specific
2002

Information costs, agglomeration economies and the location of foreign direct investment in China

HE, C.
2002

Community, corruption, landscape : tales from the tree trade

The AA. consider what happened to a tribal villager in Ranchi District, Jharkhand when he sought permission to cut down 10 jack trees on his private land. It is a tale not just of corruption and delays, but also of colluding interests across
2002

Business networks and suppliers' locational choice

The A. examines the circumstances under which proximity is important to assemblers and suppliers in the South Korean auto industry. He analyzes the power relations between the national state, assemblers as the chaebol, and suppliers and offers
2002