Staging the Orient : counterinsurgency training sites and the U.S. military imagination
Afghanistan ; Army ; Cultural identity ; Cultural studies ; Indiana ; Iraq ; Political geography ; United States of America
This article is a descriptive narrative of the U.S. military's “cultural awareness” training for counterinsurgency doctrine at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center (MUTC) in Indiana. It shows how the “Arab,” “Afghan,” and “culturally sensitive
soldier” are constituted within the U.S. military imagination through the practices and spaces of MUTC. This research argues that cultural awareness must be understood as an instrumental activity through which identities are positioned and habitually put
to use, like tools, to orient strategic and tactical operations in counterinsurgency contexts. It concludes that counterinsurgency training sites such as MUTC are ideal for interrogating how cultural identities acquire a status of serviceability akin
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The bete noir of geographic education : teacher training programs
Education ; Educational programme ; Professional training ; Teaching of geography ; United States of America
In the USA, preservice teacher education differs among the states, lacks effective communication among groups responsible for curricula and teacher training, and has poor interaction between universities that train the teachers and the schools
Opportunistic conservation at former military sites in the United States
Ecological restoration ; Environment ; Military base ; Military site closure ; Nature reserve ; New Hampshire ; Restructuring process ; United States of America ; Wildlife
Recent military base closures and realignments in the United States have opened dozens of former training and testing sites to new uses and priorities, as national wildlife refuges. This paper acknowledges some of the real conservation opportunities
and wildlife goals are shaped or constrained by the lingering presence of prior military uses. Working from case studies and interviews conducted at M2W sites in the United States, this research suggests that opportunistic conservation represents a limited
Aerospatial engineering ; Defence ; Economic impact ; Environment ; Environmental conservation ; Military expenditures ; Military geography ; Political geography ; Security ; United Kingdom
Greater access to information after the Post-Cold War period gives researchers new opportunities to study the environmental, economic and social impacts of military defence. The A. looks at the contribution to change made by pressure groups
and at examples from the UK defence sector. Defence forces are reacting to criticism about negative impacts through a variety of measures including environmental training, site remediation and the use of simulation technology.
Competitiveness ; Enquiry ; Enterprise ; Expertise ; Firm strategy ; Marketing ; Producer services ; Publicity ; Service ; Small and medium sized enterprises ; United Kingdom ; Wales
The paper focuses upon a cross section of services which provide clients with strategic information and expertise: training, market research, and product design. The AA. examine the constraints upon the use of services arising from the location
Training strategy in Scotland: co-ordinating sectoral and local dimensions. Scottish enterprise and Highlands and Islands enterprise: a preliminary assessment and some critical questions for the future
Economic strategy ; Investment ; Organization ; Professional training ; Regional development ; Scotland ; United Kingdom
Pour satisfaire les besoins sectoriels et les besoins locaux en matière de formation professionnelle, il s'avère nécessaire de coordonner les actions des Local Enterprise Companies et des Industry Training Organizations. La deuxième note concerne
Cet ouvrage donne les résultats d'une enquête effectuée par le United Nations Institute for Training and Research auprès d'émigrés et d'étudiants venant des pays du Tiers-Monde et ayant effectué leurs études dans des pays industrialisés. Le
United Nations Institute for Training and Research. (UNITAR), International
Keep costumes out, keep trains in : defining and defending spaces for “good jobs” in a Rust Belt city
Employment ; Partnership ; Private sector ; Public sector ; Unemployment ; United States of America ; Urban economy ; Wage ; Wasteland ; Wisconsin
on relocation decisions varied with the different scales of political engagement and economic mobility involved in each case. In addition, it identifies a common political factor in these decisions that previous research in labor geographies has not emphasized
: the discursive trivialization of a firm’s primary product. In combination, the two cases suggest that future geographic research on economic justice and the agency of labor and its allies needs to attend both to the complex scalar dimensions of geographically
Geographical knowkedge ; Geography ; Job opportunity ; Pedagogy ; Post-modernism ; Practice of geography ; Professional training ; Radical geography ; Research ; Students ; United Kingdom ; United States of America ; University
Allocation and need in the distribution of training budgets: the case of English training and enterprise councils
Allocation ; Economic indicators ; Employment ; Employment policy ; England ; Factor analysis ; Index ; Producer services ; Professional training ; Quality of life ; Regional accounting ; United Kingdom
Typologies of sprawl : investigating United States metropolitan land use patterns
Cluster analysis ; Economic activity ; Land use ; Typology ; United States of America ; Urban development ; Urban sprawl ; Urbanization
that geographic, historic, economic, demographic, and transport variables differentiate land use pattern types. Based on their multidimensional distinctions, this research labels the four types of metropolitan areas: Ascendants, Insulars, Redevelopers
This article investigates patterns of residential and nonresidential land use in an array of extended urban areas, in the United States, using four measures: intensity, compactness, mixing, and core-dominance. Bivariate statistics demonstrates