Progress in Human Geography
An international review of geographical work in the
social sciences and humanities
Volume 23 Number 1 March 1999
Viewpoint
Compare and contrast I
David Newman
The Progress in Human Geography lecture
Places, spaces and Macy's: place-space tensions in the political geography of 7
modernities
Peter}. Taylor
Articles
Is there progress in human geography? The problem of progress in the light 27
of recent work in the philosophy and sociology of science
Keith Bassett
Regional inequality in China 49
Yehua Dennis Wei
Defining an agenda for the geography of children: review and prospect 61
Hugh Matthews and Melanie Limb
Progress reports
Regions on the mind does not equal regions of the mind 91
John Agnew
The relations between geography and history: work in historical geography in 1997 97
Miles Ogborn
History and philosophy of geography 109
Mark Bassin
Geography and ethics: how far should we go? 119
David M. Smith
Book review article
Tuft, E.R. Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative 127
(reviewer: Daniel Dorling)
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Progress in Human Geography
An international review of geographical work in the
social sciences and humanities
Volume 23 Number 2 June 1999
Viewpoint
Knowing where we stand 173
Robin Kearns
Articles
Geographies of sexuality - a review of progress 175
]on Binnie and Gill Valentine
Governing environmental risk: regulation, insurance and moral economy 189
Paul Bennett
Interpretations of sustainable agriculture in the UK 209
Dick Cobb, Paul Dolman and Tim O'Riordan
Strategy and industrial restructuring 236
Susan McGrath-Champ
Classics in human geography revisited
Liwynog Liwyd [Keith Buchanan] 1968: A preliminary contribution to the geographical 253
analysis of a Pooh-scape. IBG Newsletter 6, 54-63.
Ron Johnston
Progress reports
Cultural landscape and ecology II: regions, retrospects, revivals 267
Kent Mathewson
Social geography 282
Ceri Peach
'Man, disease and environmental associations': from medical geography to health 289
inequalities
Michael Hayes
Book reviews
Allmendinger, P. Thatcherism and planning: the case of simplified planning zones 297
(reviewer: Tony Sorensen)
Ayse, O. and Weyland, P., editors. Space, culture and power: new identities in globalizing 298
cities (reviewer: Lily Kong)
Braczyk, H.-J., Cooke, P. and Heidenreich, M. Regional in novation systems 300
(reviewer: Mike Raco)
Brown, P., Flavin, C. and French, H.F., editor. State of the World 1998 301
(reviewer: I.G. Simmons)
Carter, F.W. and Norris, H.T., editors. The changing shape of the Balkans, Crampton, R. 302
and Crampton, B. Atlas of eastern Europe in the twentieth century
(reviewer: A.H. Dawson)
Castells, M. End of millennium (reviewer: Brian J.L. Berry) 304
Chrisman, N. Exploring geographic information systems (reviewer: Neil Stua rt) 305
Cooke, P. and Morgan, K., editors. The associational economy: firms, regions and innovation 307
(reviewer: Steven Pinch)
Dodds, K. Geopolitics in Antarctica: views from th e southern oceanic rim 308
(reviewer: Simon Dalby)
Grano, J.G. Pure geography (reviewer: Tim Unwin) 309
Harrison, B. Lean and mean: the cllanging landscape of corporate power in the age of flexibility 310
(reviewer: Henry Wai-Chung Yeung)
Herod, A., 0 Tuathail, G. and Roberts, S., editors. An unruly world? Globalization, 312
governance and geography (reviewer: Paul R outledge)
Howe, G.M. People, environment, disease and death: a medical geography of Britain 313
throughout the ages (reviewer: lan Rees Jones)
Keil, R., Bell, D., Penz, P. and Fawcett, L., editors. Political ecology: global and local, 314
Peet, R. and Watts, M., editors. Liberation ecologies: environment, development and social
movements (reviewer: Noel Castree)
Kershen, A.J., editor, London: the promised land? Tlie migrant experience in a capital city 316
(reviewer: John Western)
Laulajainen, R. Financial geograplly: a banker's view (reviewer: P.W. Daniels) 317
Low, N. and Gleeson, B. Justice, society and nature: an exploration of political ecology; 318
O'Connor, J. Natural causes: essays in ecological Marxism (reviewer: Raymond L. Bryant)
McKinnon, M., editor, with Bradley, B. and Kirkpatrick, R. New Zealand historical atlas: 320
ko papa tuanuku e takoto nei (reviewer: Ged Martin)
Mitchell, D.O., Ingco, M.D. and Duncan, D.C. The world food outlook 321
(reviewer: Richard Le Heron)
Moore-Gilbert, B„ editor. Writing India 1757-1990 (reviewer: Paul Routledge) 322
Morris, A. Geography and development (reviewer: John Dickenson) 323
Narotzky, S. New directions in economic antfiropology (reviewer: Jamie Peck) 325
Racine, J.-L., editor. Peasant moorings: village ties and mobility rationales in soutfl Indi a 326
(reviewer: Pamela Shurmer-Smith)
Rutheiser, C. Imagineering Atlanta: the politics of place in the city of dreams 327
(reviewer: James 0. Wheeler)
Schmidt, B. Creating or der. Culture as politics in 19th and 20th century South Africa 328
(reviewer: Aletta J. Norval)
Shinagawa, L.H. and Jang, M. Atlas of American diversity (reviewer: Wilbur Zeiinsky) 329
Swinnen, J.F.M., Buckwell, A. and Mathijs, E., editors. Agricultural privatisation, land 330
reform and farm restructuring in central and eastern Europe (reviewer: W.B. Morgan)
Wishart, D.J. An unspeakable sadness: the dispossession of tlie Nebraska Indians 331
(reviewer: G. Malcolm Lewis)
Wright, J.F.R., Goldenberg, S. and Schofield, R., editors. Transcaucasian boundaries 332
(reviewer: Brian W. Beeley)
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VOL. 23, NO. 3, 1999
Articles
Local trajectories in the global economy 335
Nancy Ettlinger
Geographies of environmental intervention in Africa 359
Richard A. Schroeder
The geographies and politics of globalization 379
Philip F. Kelly
Spatializing commodity chains 401
Deborah Leslie and Suzanne Reimer
Classics in human geography revisited
Western,J. 1981: Outcast Cape Town. Commentary 1: Neil Deiuar, 421
Commentary 2: David Simon, Author's response: John Western
Progress reports
Sexing feminist geography 429
Mono Domosh
Otherness, representation and the cultural construction of rurality 437
Jo Little
Political economy I: global crisis, learning and labour 443
Jane Wills
Geography and development: violence and crime as development issues 453
Cathy Mcilwaine
Book reviews
Bell, D. and Valentine, G. Consuming geographies: we are where we eat 465
(reviewer: Alex Hughes)
Bowles, S. and Weisskopf, T.E., editors. Economics and social justice: essays on power, 466
labour and institutional change (reviewer: David M. Smith)
Boyle, P., Halfacree, K. and Robinson, V. Exploring contemporary migration 467
(reviewer: Paul Williamson)
Bryant, R. The political ecology of forestry in Burma 1824-1994 (reviewer: John T. Sidel) 468
Cormack, L.B. Charting an empire: geography at the English universities, 1580-1620 469
(reviewer: Ron Johnston)
Cox, K., editor. Spaces of globalization: reasserting the power of the local 470
(reviewer: Philip F. Kelly)
Crang, M. Cultural geography (reviewers: Miles Ogborn and Alastair Owens) 471
Crush, J., editor, Beyound control: immigration and human rights in a democratic South Africa 472
(reviewer: Richard Black)
Dickon, P. Global shift; Knox, P. and Agnew, J The geograplly of the world economy 474
(reviewer: Kevin R. Cox)
Douglas, M. and Friedmann, J editors. Cities for citizens (reviewer: John Rennie Short) 475
Foote, K.E. ShadoR"ed ground: America's landscapes of violence and tragedy 476
(reviewer: Janice Monk)
Graham, B., editor, in searcll of Ireland (reviewer: WJ. Smyth) 477
Hopkins, T., Wallerstein, I., Casparis, J., Derlugian, G.M., Ikeda, S., Lee, R., 478
Pelizzon, S., Reifer, T., Sudler, J. and Tabak, E The age of transition: trajectory of the
world-system, 1945-2025 (reviewer: Colin Flint)
Jensen-Butler, C., Shachar, A. and Van Weesep, J., editors, European cities in competition 479
(reviewer: Michael Hebbert)
Jorno, K.S. Tigers in trouble: financial governance, liberalisation and crises in east Asia 480
(reviewer: Henry Wai-Chung Young)
King, R. and Black, R., editors. Southern Europe and the new immigrations 481
(reviewer: Ray Hall)
Klak, T., editor, Globalization and neoliberalism: the Caribbean context 483
(reviewer: Robert B. Potter)
Lewis, M.W. and Wigon, K.E. The myth of continents. A critique ofmetageograpfly 484
(reviewer: Peter J . Taylor)
Leyshon, A„ Matless, D. and Revill, G., editors. The place of music 485
(reviewer: Lily Kong)
Light, A. and Smith, J.M., editors. Philosophy and Geography II. The production of public 487
space (reviewer: Loretta Lees)
Miller, D. Capitalism: an etlmographic approach (reviewer: Roger Lee) 489
Moya, J.C. Cousins and strangers: Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 491
(reviewer: David J. Keeling)
Noin, D. and White, P. Paris (reviewer: Eleonore Kofman) 492
Pooley, C. and Turnbull, J. Migration and mobility in Britain since the eigliteentll century 493
(reviewer: Philip N. Jones)
Potter, R.B. and Conway, D., editors. Self-help housing, the poor, and tile state in the 495
Caribbean (reviewer: Janet Henshall Momsen)
Sandercock, L. Towards cosmopolis. Planning for multicultural cities 496
(reviewer: Blair Badcock)
Segre, R., Coyula, M. and Scarpaci, J.L. World Cities: Havana: two faces of the Antillean 499
metropolis (reviewer: Peter 0. Muller)
Simmons, I.G. Huinanity and environment: a cultural ecology (reviewer: Ron Johnston) 500
van der Wusten, H., editor. The urban university and its identity: roots, locations, roles 502
(reviewer: Ron Johnston)