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Recent work within human geography and the social sciences more generally has attempted to explore and theorise the unfavourable gender relations within organizations which continue to produce a disadvantageous position for women. This paper argues that there is a need to implement a more spatially aware epistemology in the production of such theory. It develops a theoretical approach to organizational...
The paper examines the prospects for resource-based development in the Russian Far East. It adopts a critical perspective on the potential for resource-based development by examining problems with Far East resource industries, specifically by looking at the experience of the other resource economies more generally. In particular, it highlights the new geo-economic context for resource development...
As compared to a long tradition of research on industrial change in cities of the developed world, empirical work on the developing world is extremely sparse. This article analyzes the locational dynamics and components of manufacturing change in the Witwatersrand metropolitan region, South Africa's economic heartland. The research period, 1980-1994, encompasses the era of late apartheid and the transition...
In the spirited debate over cross-border migration in Southern Africa there is one issue that has been conspicuously absent: the environment. The issue is raised in this article not because it necessarily deserves to be part of the debate - it will be argued, in fact, that one needs to tread very carefully when drawing any linkages between migration and the environment - but because it has received...
How much basic infrastructure investment - water and sanitation systems, new electricity lines, roads, stormwater drainage, and other services provided at municipal level - can South African society afford? What levels and types of subsidies for recurrent operating and maintenance costs assure that low-income people can meet their basic infrastructural service needs? These questions continue to bedevil...
A critique of South African research on the compound provides a valuable entry point for the analysis of interviews collected over an 18 month period in a South African women's prison. Drawing on the theoretical questions raised in this literature and geographical concepts of the interrelationship of identity and space, the prison is mapped out in terms of the physical space and the signification...
South Africa's new democratic government inherited a system of cross-border migration management rooted in the abusive practices of the past. Under apartheid, employers such as mining companies and white farmers, were exempted from normal immigration legislation. The result was legislation and practices that are in direct conflict with the new government's commitment to transparency, equality, accountability...
Using the filiere or agro-commodity chain framework, this paper examines the organisation and restructuring of South African citrus exports. It argues that the single desk exporter of South African citrus, Outspan International, has exercised considerable market power over citrus production through state regulations and the control of infrastructure for exports. This power has provided the foundation...
South Africa has an enormous backlog in the provision of adequate water supplies to its urban population, which is exacerbated by the growing number of informal urban settlements. International experience in the water and sanitation sector has indicated the importance of demand factors in effective provision of improved water supplies. At the same time growing experience with contingent valuation...
The marketing tagline ''New Asia - Singapore'' represents the positioning statement for Singapore's tourism development in the 1990s and beyond. Singapore is marketed as a city with a contrasting blend of ''Asian cultures'' and modern ''Asian dynamism'', able to satisfy the needs of regional visitors and Western tourists. In this paper, we explore the way local cultures are marketed and reconfigured...
This paper draws upon research which analysed the provision of popular culture for university students in Bristol city centre. The research suggests that the provision is aimed at a cohort of 'traditional' adolescent, middle- and upper-class students based at the University of Bristol. Popular culture provision for these students is undertaken within an infrastructure of student-focused venues which...
The paper explores the likely national, regional and industry level impacts of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) Florence Agreement control measures on agricultural land use and employment in England by the year 2000. Three different modelling approaches were combined, involving a dynamic spreadsheet model of UK milk and beef supply, a linear programming-based model of land use and an employment...
There has been a surge of interest in the geography of children and childhood. With it has come a growing awareness that children form a marginalised and subordinate group in (adult) society. A culture of non-participation by young people is endemic within the United Kingdom. For the most part, young people are provided with few opportunities to engage in discussions about their economic, social and...
This paper, based on 20 years of research and teaching related to urban renewal policies and programs, analyzes the history of planned intervention for the regeneration of distressed residential areas. It divides it into three ''generations'', each with unique policy components, related to the social, economic and political characteristics of its period in history, with different major players, methods...
This paper analyses implementation of Regulation 2078/92/EEC (the 'Agri-environment Regulation') in two selected European Union (EU) member states: Spain as an example of a country that has been relatively slow to respond to the Regulation, and Germany which has been characterised by an enthusiastic response. Building on implementation theory, possible underlying factors influencing differential responses...
Food production per head of population in the sub-Saharan African region is in decline. This paper focuses on a particular sector of food production; rural fruits and vegetables, which are intended for city retail markets through a case study of Dar es Salaam. This paper is part of a wider integrated study of food production, distribution and marketing for the city of Dar es Salaam. The aim of the...
The fate of workers in the face of globalization has been much decried and debated, but usually from the wrong angle. The focus of conventional discussion is almost always on labor markets and the woes of international wage competition. In critical approaches, the miracle of global capital mobility and the power of transnational corporations come in for the most attention, for their presumed role...
The article analyses how the forest industry has utilized Finnish lake and river systems. One river, the Pielisjoki in eastern Finland, is used as an example. For decades the hegemonic position of the forest industry gave it a free hand to exploit the river as a transport route, a source of energy and a sewer. This was challenged by local actors in an environmental conflict in the late 1980s. The...
The village tradestore in rural Papua New Guinea is a physical expression of modernity in the heart of the village and is symbolic of the new economic and social formations associated with incorporation. This paper examines how the village tradestore is positioned in relation to these processes of change by considering the management and operation of several tradestores in the Wosera sub-district,...
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