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Techniques of production are measured in the structural fabricated metals industry across 35 states of the U.S. between 1964 and 1992. Contrary to life-cycle models and equilibrium-based theories of technology diffusion and competition, production coefficients vary markedly between regions and these differences show little sign of diminishing over time. Further investigation reveals that states...
Using the example of Bristol's 1996 International Festival of the Sea, we argue that in addition to the economic and cultural impacts of such 'Hallmark' tourist spectacles, these events may also have marked social consequences for urban areas. This essay deals with two groups of travellers who were resident in Bristol, but who were forced to leave their camps as the festival-period approached. Latent...
There is a growing interest in the socio-spatial exclusion of 'outsider' human groupings of many different kinds, but the marginalisation of certain populations through their occupational niche in the world of work has rarely been considered in this context. There could be merit in examining more closely the hardships, experiences and voices of many workers whose occupations place them outside of...
For a special edition of Geoforum on socio-spatial exclusion, credit unions unexpectedly have it all--a financial institution currently at the margins of both the economy and society generally, rigid demarcation of boundaries, exclusionary territories and tendencies, power relations, and most excitingly the possibility for a geography of financial inclusion. Whilst most analyses have effectively...
Dr Ben Reitman was a social reformer, hobo, doctor, lover of Emma Goldman and anarchist activist in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1910 he gave a lecture in New York titled S ocial Geography' in which he used a diagram picturing an imaginary peninsular, ocean and archipelago illustrating a series of points relating to the exclusion of a number of groups in...
Negative reactions to the siting of group homes for persons with disabilities have at their center a public intolerance of 'difference'. We can better understand these reactions by exploring the connection between the organization of social space and the structure of the psyche. Drawing from psychoanalytic theory, I suggest that because people internalize social norms as a condition for subjective...
With traditional formalized and authoritarian means of social control--legal punishments, deterrence, compliance--rendering ineffective or insufficient, the effective 'exclusion' of people and behaviors on the basis of a calculus of 'risk' and 'risk management' has emerged as a primary mechanism of social control, under the governing umbrellas of local 'health' and 'safety'. Drawing on examples from...
This paper focuses on recent community protests against female street prostitution in Birmingham and Bradford (UK), where groups of mainly South Asian male campaigners have succeeded in displacing soliciting and kerb-crawling from the inner city districts of Balsall Health and Manningham respectively. Through an examination of the geopolitics of these community protests, and their subsequent impacts...
Contemporary corporate geographies have a strong international dimension. Multi-national companies often require staff to be 'mobile', including a willingness to work abroad, as international assignments can form an integral part of career development for potential senior managers. But, as in the colonial era, today's expatriate workers are mostly male. This paper explores the impact of expatriate...
This paper examines regional office mobility through a case study of Hong Kong and Singapore. The analysis is based on a database combining government-collected statistics in the case of Hong Kong and original survey data in the case of Singapore. These data provide a profile of the regional office population in both centres including parent company nationality, business sector affiliation, geographical...
This paper should be seen as a contribution to the growing body of research on the role and importance of contests centred upon property rights and interests in re-shaping rural localities in Britain. Adopting an action in context perspective, it focuses upon how and why a particular type of institutional landowner--the Oxford College--came to regard its landed property as a commodity. The reasons...
In this paper, we begin to unpack the cultural economies of urban regeneration in a former industrial quarter of a large English city, Nottingham's Lace Market. In this tightly defined urban space, the integration of culture and economic activity has been at the forefront of regeneration, and the area reveals a particular agglomeration of activities based around the production and consumption of...
The Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas is a region characterized by high levels of poverty, indicative of a peripheral area located in the core. Since the 1960s this region has undergone considerable economic change due to industrialization along the Mexican side of the border, a process which is integrally linked to the globalization of the world economy. In this paper, this macroeconomic transformation...
Political scientists have argued that the widely-observed regional variations in British voting behaviour from the 1970s on, and especially in the 1980s, are statistical artefacts only: a properly-specified model incorporating the relevant characteristics and attitudes of voters would identify no significant, let alone substantial, inter-regional variations in party support. This paper contests that...
Some observers of agro-industrial development in the Third World recognize the nation state as an important locus for mediation of conflicts between different social forces but fail to analyze the regulatory mechanisms and their effect on the dynamics of particular agro-industries. This paper proposes an analytical model to study agro-industrial regulation in a national framework. The purpose is...
In this paper I want to consider whether actor-network theory [ANT] gives rise to a new kind of geography, or, perhaps more specifically, a new kind of geographical analysis. The paper therefore seeks to identify the main types of spaces implicated in the typical network configurations found in actor-network studies. Following a review of the ANT literature I conclude that two main spatial types...
This paper examines similarities and differences in the emergence of high-tech enterprise and the growth of associated industry in Cambridgeshire and Oxfordshire since the 1960s. These cases are viewed as instances of a generic phenomenon: the emergence and growth of the science-based 'innovative milieu'. A conceptual scheme drawn from complexity studies is used to introduce explanatory coherence...
Research into the adoption of Environmental Land Management Schemes (ELMS) has typically sought to identify the defining characteristics of participants and the 'barriers to entry' that dissuade others from joining. More recently, attention has focused on the motivation of participants and non-participants in helping to understand patterns of participation. This paper compares the pattern of participation...
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