Caring for workers' dependents. Gender, class and local state practice in Melbourne
Focusing on child-care provision, but with some reference also to services for aged dependents, the paper describes the community-service practice of two Melbourne municipalities and the class and gender biases they incorporate.
Bangkok ; Daily life ; Inner city ; Large city ; Slum ; Thailand ; Urban geography ; Urban practice ; Urban settlement ; Urban society ; Urban structure
The book is divided into two parts. 1- Krung to global city : the dynamics of transformation ; 2- Making Bangkok : studies in place, practice and representation. The work is an in-depth study of the institutions and the people who shaped the Thai
Epistemology ; Historical geography ; Methodology ; Practice of geography ; Research
He poses three general and related questions. To whom are we addressing our work ? Historical geographers have not in a critical conversation with each other about their own product. What are we to write about ? Historical geographers should share
Competitiveness ; Daily life ; Epistemology ; Human geography ; Practice of geography
The term competitiveness is used as a case study, and the consequences of an unexamined acceptance of the validity and meaning of the term is considered. The article works through two examples of discourse in action, asking to what degree Nike's
competitiveness depends on access to low-cost labour in offshore production sites. The article argues the necessity of analysing ourselves as social and historical actors and assessing the way we work and the way we use language in order to strengthen our research
The aim of the study is to answer the question of whether the new planning culture described in literature has been put into practiced in regional development. The study firstly works out the key aspects of a new planning culture by identifying them
in the relevant literature. Then these aspects are analysed with the help of the authors' empirical works with regards to the practice of regional development. The article concludes with a statement on the actual presence of a new planning culture in the practice
The changing organisation of work in Malaysia's electronics industry
Automation ; Electronics ; Employment ; Exporting industry ; Industry ; Innovation ; Labour ; Malaysia ; Manpower ; Work organization ; Working conditions
for labour increased and unemployment declined, automation raised the need for skill of those hired to work in a sophisticated sector. Management practices changed with the introduction of flexible production techniques.
The work of performativity : staging social justice at the University of Southern California
California ; Conflict ; Labour ; Post-modernism ; Social justice ; Social practice ; Society ; United States of America
strategies employed by food service workers at the University of Southern California in their struggle for a fair work contract and justice on the job.
Knowledge ; Practice of geography ; Production ; Scientific publication ; Spatial division of labour
Researchers in the South are under much greater institutional pressure to demonstrate that their work has international import than is the case for their counterparts in the North. Drawing on past and current writing practices, the paper explores
Geomorphologie als geowissenschaftliche Disziplin. Praktische Erfahrungen, theoretische Moglichkeiten. (Geomorphology as a geoscientifical discipline. Practical experiences, theoretical possibilities)
Questions are discussed with regard to geomorphology as part of the fields of geography and geology, as well as the importance geomorphology has or might have for both disciplines. Using cases the author has worked on, it can be seen that landscape
research should not be carried out without resource to geomorphology. The examples quoted and the conclusions drawn both show what sort of major improvement can be achieved in co-ordinating work between neighbouring disciplines. (l'A.).