The Geographical Journal articles from June 2009

The Geographical Journal archives from June 2009

Re-thinking frontiers in Southeast Asia.(Editorial)
June 1, 2009... The frontier has a long tradition in geographical study. Exploration, conquest and the colonial project were all about pushing back the frontier of civilisation, and seeking riches at and beyond the resource frontier. Turner's thesis put...

Finding common ground: relational concepts of land tenure and economy in the oil palm frontier of Papua New Guinea.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Introduction There is growing appreciation within geography of the value of relational concepts of the economy for providing theoretical insights into processes of economic change. Relational perspectives are now influencing research in a...

Policy narratives, landholder engagement, and oil palm expansion on the Malaysian and Indonesian frontiers.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Introduction A remarkable transformation has occurred over recent decades in the frontier areas of Malaysian Borneo and many areas of Indonesia outside Java with the rapid conversion of agricultural lands, fallows, and formerly forested...

Revisiting frontiers as transitional spaces in Thailand.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Introduction: the frontier in Thailand In this paper, I examine three zones of transition under the rubric of frontier in Thailand. The first is the agricultural frontier, but one in which dynamics are significantly different to those I and...

Global-local interactions: socioeconomic and spatial dynamics in Vietnam's coffee frontier.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Introduction During the 1990s, Vietnam progressed from being a relatively insignificant coffee producer to become the world's second largest exporter of coffee and the single largest exporter of the Robusta variety. This extraordinary...

Laos and the making of a 'relational' resource frontier.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Introduction This paper is concerned with the process and the implications of the deepening incorporation of the Southeast Asian country of Lao PDR into global circuits of resource extraction and commodity production. This process is...

Urban China in Transition.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Urban China in Transition. Edited by JOHN R. LOGAN Oxford: Blackwell, 2008, 361 pp. [pounds sterling]19.99 (paperback) ISBN 978 1 4051 6146 6 The transformation of urban China has been dramatic during the last 30 years, since the...

The Slave Ship: A Human History.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... The Slave Ship: A Human History. BY MARCUS REDIKER London: John Murray Publishers, 2007, 434 pp. [pounds sterling]30.00 ISBN 978 0 7195 6302 7 Those familiar with Marcus Rediker's collaborative work with Peter Linebaugh, The many...

The Sustainable Development Paradox: Urban Political Economy in the United States and Europe.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... The Sustainable Development Paradox: Urban Political Economy in the United States and Europe. Edited by ROB KRUECER AND DAVID GIBBS New York: Guilford Press, 2007, 310 pp. US$30.00 (paperback) ISBN 978 1 59385 499 7 It is not...

Backyard: Nature and Culture in Suburban Australia.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Backyard: Nature and Culture in Suburban Australia. BY LESLEY HEAD and PAT MUIR Wollongong NSW: University of Wollongong Press, 2007, 190 pp. A$69.95 ISBN 978 1 920831 51 6 An academic work disguised-beautifully--as a large-format...

Transport Geographies: Mobilities, Flows and Spaces.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Edited by RICHARD KNOWLES, JON SHAW and IAIN DOCHERTY Oxford: Blackwell, 2008, 293 pp. [pounds sterling]18.99 (paperback) ISBN 1 405 15322 9 In recent years, the sub-discipline of transport geography has often been rather unfairly...

Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel. Edited by P N WYSE JACKSON London: The Geological Society of London, Special Publications 287, 2007, 415 pp. [pounds sterling]90.00 ISBN 978 1...

Torvi[eth] i Foroyum i sogu og si[eth]sogu.(Peat in the Faroe Islands in History and Cultural History)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Torvi[eth] i Foroyum i sogu og si[eth]sogu. By PETUR JACOB SIGVARDSEN Torshavn: Forlagi[eth] Bugvin and Fro[eth]skapur (Faroes University Press), Annales Societatis Scientarium Faeroensis Supplementum XLVI, 5 volumes, 2006, 1992 pp....

Function of Soils for Human Societies and the Environment.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Function of Soils for Human Societies and the Environment. Edited by E FROSSARD, WEH BLUM AND B P WARKENTIN London: The Geological Society, 2006, Geological Society Special Publication No. 266, 196 pp. [pounds sterling]75.00 ISBN 978 1...

Patterns in Biodiversity. Spatial Organisation of Biodiversity in the Netherlands.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Patterns in Biodiversity. Spatial Organisation of Biodiversity in the Netherlands. BY MARIEKE A SCHOUTEN Utrecht: Knag/Copernicus Institute, 2007, 152 pp. [euro]20.00 (paperback) ISBN 978 90 6809 403 9 The analysis of biological...

Geomorphology of the Eastern Cape.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Geomorphology of the Eastern Cape (2nd edition). Edited by COLIN A LEWIS Grahamstown, South Africa: NISC, 2008, 188 pp. ZARl 75.00 ISBN 978 1 920033 06 4 The diverse terrain features of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa...

Serpentine Geoecology of Western North America: Soils, Geology, and Vegetation.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Serpentine Geoecology of Western North America: Soils, Geology, and Vegetation. By EARL B ALEXANDER, ROBERT G COLEMAN, TODD KEELER-WOLF and SUSAN P HARRISON Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 512 pp. [pounds sterling]82.00 ISBN 978 0...