The Geographical Journal articles from March 2006

The Geographical Journal archives from March 2006

Editorial.
March 1, 2006... This has been another year of considerable activity for the Geographical Journal. We had 61 new submissions during the year, which, with the nine papers carried forward from last year, gave us a total of 70 active papers. Of these, 19% were...

Postcolonialism and development: new dialogues?(Editorial)
March 1, 2006... At the outset, it needs to be said that the two editors of this special issue, although both geographers, come from very different conceptual and theoretical backgrounds. Almost by accident, we started working together about six years ago on...

Separated by common ground? Bringing (post)development and (post)colonialism together.
March 1, 2006... Introduction Despite many common concerns and approaches, (post)development and postcolonialism are still surprisingly poorly connected. This paper explores the reasons for this somewhat arms-length relationship and suggests ways of...

An orthodoxy of 'the local': post-colonialism, participation and professionalism in northern Thailand.
March 1, 2006... Introduction Post-colonial critiques have presented fundamental challenges to an altruistic project of international development. Through a post-colonial analysis, relations between West and East, First World and Third World, can be...

Transnational development networks: bringing development and postcolonial approaches into dialogue.
March 1, 2006... Introduction This paper will explore how dialogue between development and postcolonial scholarship might contribute to the theorizing of transnational networks in contemporary development. It does so both in the context of the increasingly...

Subaltern strategies and development practice: urban water privatization in Ghana.
March 1, 2006... Introduction This paper is concerned with subaltern agents in development practice. It argues that despite elite decisionmakers ignoring the voices of citizens, actions of subalterns provide on-the-ground alternatives for development...

Bare life as a development/postcolonial problematic.
March 1, 2006... Finding useful intersections of development studies and postcolonial studies can be a challenge. Development studies is an applied field of social science--managerial in thrust, practical in orientation, and in thrall historically to economic...

Prospects for Pastoralism in Kazakstan and Turkmenistan: From State Farms to Private Flocks.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Prospects for Pastoralism in Kazakstan and Turkmenistan: From State Farms to Private Flocks. Edited by CAROL KERVEN Oxford: Routledge, 2004, 276 pp. [pounds sterling]75.00 ISBN 0 415 30376 1 Whereas research suggests that pastoralists...

World Transport: Policy and Practice. The Earthscan Reader.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... World transport: policy & practice. The Earthscan Reader. Edited by JOHN WHITELEGG and GARY HAQ London: Earthscan, 2003, 301 pp. [pounds sterling]19.95 paperback ISBN 1 85383 851 9 When my brother and I were teenagers, our mother...

A New Deal for Transport.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... A New Deal for Transport. Edited by IAIN DOCHERTY and JON SHAW Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, 280 pp. [pounds sterling]24.99 paperback ISBN 1 4051 0630 1 A New Deal for Transport aims to explain why the Labour government has failed to live...

Tropical Rain Forests: An Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Tropical Rain Forests: An Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison. BY RICHARD PRIMACK and RICHARD CORLETT Oxford: Blackwell, 2005, 319 pp. [pounds sterling]39.99 ISBN 0 632 04512 2 This book attempts to dispel the myth that all rain...

Water for Life.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Water for Life. By JAMES L WESTCOAT, Jr and GILBERT F WHITE Cambridge University Press, 2003, 342 pp. [pounds sterling]27.00 paperback ISBN 0 521 36980 0 Water for Life is an exploration of the competing social and environmental...

Taking Stands: Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Taking Stands: Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities. By MAUREEN G REED London: University of British Columbia Press, 2003, 282 pp. [pounds sterling]64.95 ISBN 0 7748 1017 3 One of the most contentious debates in the...

Climatologie.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Climatologie. By JEAN-PIERRE VIGNEAU Paris: Armand Colin, 2005, 200 pp. [euro]16.00 paperback ISBN 2 200 26759 2 With new technologies and physical models, the mechanics of climate are perceived more and more as a part of physical...

Mountain Geomorphology.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Mountain Geomorphology. Edited by PHILIP N OWENS and OLAV SLAYMAKER London: Arnold, 2005, 313 pp. [pounds sterling]18.99 paperback ISBN 0 340 76417 1 The edited volume is divided into three substantive sections dealing with Historical,...